E4 ident

A little bit late with posting this one up i know but here is my E4 ident.

Birthcard Aagje Oprins

I was mainly interested in this short animation for the characters involved and the movement. I think it shows you can get a personality across of a character without any facial expression and i do think this animation shows that. I also like the shapes used to create the characters and shape is something im trying to focus on and experiment with when drawing up characters.

http://vimeo.com/27526865

Studio killers

I have decided to post up this video as i think it is a great example of animation fitting to music and setting the feel of a song. It also shows importance of camera moves including position and speed in which it needs to move. All this in mind the animation itself is very good and i can appreciate the difficulty in creating a successful music video.

Brock O' Lee

Whilst looking through short animations which were viewed on the berlin trip i came across this clip from peppermelon which i really enjoyed especially the character design and face animation.

pixilation

As part of the contextual studies module we watched a few examples of  a pixilation animation which is a technique in which film makers and animators take a sequence of frame by frame images of live action footage to create a there a bouts stop motion effect, this technique is very effective as it helps real life characters within films interact with stop motion characters.
This technique also creates a wierd and wonderful look to the animation, an example of this is the film 'The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb'.


After watching a presentation about pixilation we were given the task of making our own pixilation short so here it is.

Rigging 3d character

I created a 3d character which we were then told to rig and create a walk cycle for. here is a few screen shots i took of my character and techniques i used.

Final 3 weeks

3 weeks left so just getting things to do noted down so i am more prepared to what needs to be completed.

- Contextual studies essay

- Model sheet completed

- 3d character completed