Animation – Story Research and Development

Animated shorts I looked at – Lava The Blue Umbrella The Present Paperman Lava – Lava is a musical piece, about a lonely volcano who sings every day, in the hope of finding love, he does this for years, and eventually, a female volcano from under the sea hears the singing, and wants to join in, […]

Lesson 52 – Developing the Bouncy Ball Animation

In this lesson, we had to create an animation where a bouncy ball would interact with another object and change direction or velocity because of it. I decided to have the bouncy ball bounce against a plank to wood and because of that, change direction and slow down. First I used my previous animation and deleted […]

Lesson 51 – Sound Design – Understanding how Sound is used in Films and Producing our own Tracks

In sound design, we looked at elements of sound that we would need to take into consideration for our animations, we looked at mixing, tempo, pitch and sound effects such as reverb and echo along with analysing a clip from transformers to see how the sounds changes based on whats happening visually. Once we had […]

Protected: Lesson 50 – Understanding the Principles of Animation and Animating a bouncing ball

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Lesson 49 – Art and Design – Using Acrylics to Paint Fruit

In today’s art lesson, we started off by studying some colour theory and learning a little about how colours combine and also how they can be separated into groups such as warm and cold. We also looked at the colour wheel and how some colours such as complementary colours (red and green) go together well. […]

Lesson 48 – Creating and Animating a Simple Rig in After Effects

In today’s lesson, we covered some basic animation but this time, with a little more purpose, instead of animation just some shapes across a screen, we had to create a character rig, using two arms and parenting to create realistic arm movements. We started off by creating one arm using 2 solids, a green one that was 25×400 […]

Lesson 47 – Creating an Animation Styles Mood Board and Beginning to Develop Character for Animation

In today’s lesson, we were planning to finish the Eadweard Muybridge, but, I had already completed that at home, as a result, I moved on to creating a mood board of different 2D animation styles to find inspiration for the aesthetic I might want my animation to have. I looked online for many different styles, such as anime, […]

Audio Terminology

Music – It presents many roles and purposes within modern media to invoke emotion for the audience. Title music – The title music is the main theme for the movie, it might play when something major is happening that progresses the plot or to signify the importance of a moment, this music generally has the biggest presence […]

Lesson 46 – Learning the Basics of After Effects

Today in the lesson, we started to produce our very first and very basic animation in After Effects, we had to animate 3 squares moving in different ways, one going across both the x and y-axis, one going across the y-axis and one going across the x-axis. We started off by creating a set of […]

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