I’m really looking forward to giving digital sculpting a go. The classmate I will be sculpting is my friend Lydia. These are the reference photographs I will working from: 11/5/2017: LOST MY SCULPT! Now I understand why you save duplicate files and screenshot your work as you go. I have been working on my head model for… Continue reading Digital Head Sculpt and Retopology
Lydia and I Worked on the sounds and editing to try and make the film better. Some things still need tweaked but overall we think it’s an improvement on the first version.
This is the version of the film shown to our class and tutors on Tuesday, along with this powerpoint presentation. Overall our work was well received but we did get some feedback on what could be improved: ANIMATION It was pointed out that their were some issues with weighting and rigging in the animation, such as… Continue reading Terrence and Lamar – Showing and Feedback
I was worried that I was rusty at life drawing, but I got back into the swing of things OK. We then drew our own character designs using Robert’s 5 minute poses as reference. I’m glad we were drawing him as he has a strong masculine build which was easy to adapt to my character. I… Continue reading Life Drawing 27/4/17 – Thinking outside the Box
I was having difficulty with the character design I was using in these posts – although the proportions and masculine shapes made the design easy to adapt Robert’s poses in life drawing class, the design is overall kind of unwieldy and gave me a lot of trouble when it came to demonstrating animation principles. Even drawing a simple… Continue reading Life Drawing Work Week 10 – Character Design and the 12 Principles of Animation
When developing the setting and characters further, I wanted to look into the facts behind a scientific basis for our designs. I started by looking into different species of octopus, and decided the giant pacific octopus (the largest species) was the best fit for our character Lamar. The giant pacific octopus is found in the northern… Continue reading Terrence and Lamar: Research and Design
Robert is back! I’m glad to be able to draw him again because his poses are very dynamic and fun to draw. For this lesson I started out drawing in conte but wasn’t pleased with how the first few poses turned out so I switched to using colouring pencil for the rest of the 1 minute… Continue reading Life Drawing 30/3/17 – Go Right Ahead
