During my first year on the MA Character Animation course, I have done a few life drawing classes through the last eight months from October 2012 to June 2013. I did not had the time to upload them during term time, mow I have time to spare, it is the right time to uploaded them.
October-November 2012
November-December 2012
March 2013
April 2013
June 2013
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For this project is lip Syncing, this time is two different animation. One lip sync is randomly picked from the British Library sound achieve from the speech from Lord of the Rings creature J. R. R. Tolkien. And the other lip syncing is our choice.
For the J. R. R. Tolkien audio, my audio was: “one of my friends Hue”
I started off and got an x-sheet put the speech down I which frames I need to animate the audio.
Afterwards, I created the character in Adobe Illustrator.
After I completed designing of the character in Illustrator, I went into After Affects to do the animation.
After I placed the lips are placed in the animation, I exported the animation for feedback.
For feedback, I needed to make the chin to move more with the vowel characters and play more with the shape of the eyes. Got back into After Effects and emended the problems which need to fix.
After more feedback, I need to slow dow the pace of the lips, so the audience will know what his is saying.
For my personal lip sync, I used the Budd’s speech from Kill Bill 2 were he says:
“That woman, deserves her revenge and… we deserve to die. But then again, so does she.”
So I started off with the x-sheet put the speech down.
Then I gone into Adobe Audition to tidy up the audio. Then afterwards, once again I gone into Illustrator to create the character.
After the character was created I gone into Flash to do the animation.
Got some feedback, I needed to slow down the pace of the lips and also silhouette the teeth and keep the rabbits front teeth throughout the animation for the animation below for the finish product.
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Second post of Fashion fall animation.
Day 6: 28/1/13
I showed off my rough edit, three things I need to improve on, one was make the crack sign more larger, the other was make the fall faster and thirdly add another frame for the impact when she hit the floor
Day 6: 28/1/13, Day 7: 29/1/13 and Day 8: 30/1/13
After this, I went back onto the light-box to draw the whole of the animation with a few cheap blue biro’s instead of using a blue pencil, which will give an edgy style to my animation.
This took around three days to draw the whole animation. After I drawn all of these I scanned them into Photoshop. However I wasn’t satisfied with the last few frames with the laugh. I felt that the head needed to move more. So therefore I jumped back onto the light-box re-edit the last few frames, then re-scanned into Photoshop.
Day 9: 31/1/13, Day 10: 1/2/13 and Day 11: 2/2/13
After all the images were scanned in, I went back into Photoshop and retouched the images and delete the backgrounds which had white in. After this was complete, I took all the images into Flash and place all the images onto the timeline. After that was done, I exported the movie as a quicktime file. Here is the animation below of the final piece.
Overall, great challenge to do within in two weeks to animate.
Bye.
A Fashion animation journal, week one
We were given two weeks to animate a short five to ten second piece related to fashion. My task was to show a catwalk model takes a step a step and her heel breaks, she falls over and reacts.
Day 1: 21/01/13
I Started off going into Youtube, looking at catwalk model falling over to get some ideas done.
Then after that was done I started off developing the character. Someone reckoned my character look familiar to Spanish actress Rossy be Palma looks.
Day 2: 22/01/13
After I got an idea what the character will look like, I gone to rough storyboards, to show what the story will be.
Day 3: 23/01/13
After I done the storyboards, I went to the light-box and draw down a few model walk cycles of the model in rough form.
Day 4: 24/01/13 and Day 5: 25/01/13
Then once again I went back onto a light-box and this time I draw down the keyframes in pencil. After that was finished scanned into Photoshop, then put into Flash for the rough keyframes below.
Part 2 soon. Bye.
Fifth week on my MA Character Animation course. This week was how to animated a pull or a push and I went for a pull animation this week. I started off with a subject to film, so I will have something to animate with later on.
Then, I jumped onto a light box and then use the Flipbook program on the mac, to drawn down the frames to test if the pull worked well and looked if it’s right.
Then I went back onto a light box and try another pull. Then gone onto Flipbook on the mac, to drawn down the key-frames to test if the pull worked well and placed right before I drawn down the in-between to complete the drawn drawing down.
I decided that to continue with the pull to add the in-between frames that were missing. And needed to drawn in as this animation below show.
Then I gone into Adobe Flash and try to do this exercise once again with the pull. I partly traced/Rotoscop the model who was in my first video above. I added colour to give it a abstract/loose fill.
Overall, I felt this exercise worked than the lift exercise in my opinion. Because, I easily understand how to animate a pull rather than how to do a lift in an animation. Overall better week. End of that exercise.
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My major announcement is that I am back at University doing a MA (Masters degree) in Character Animation somewhere in a London University for the next two years. So therefore, I am continuing the Website/blog for the next two years at least, the first proper post will be ready in a few days time. But, for now.
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Jonathan Hurlock 