animation
I recently graduated with first class honours; however there are some things which if I had known from before starting the year, would have made my life far easier and myself more satisfied of the final product. Here are some tips for you budding students. This post is mainly for Teesside people, but I suspect…
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Talking to a friend recently about how ridiculous learning animation really is, we figured out a few things.
Read MoreThis was made for a presentation we had to do in front of a 100 or more people. Originally I used Inception music, but for the internet I replaced it with a more subtle (yet very beautiful) track and light purple background instead of the original black.
We got pretty good apraise for what was presented so far, and we found out that all the other teams were at a similar production stage as us – which was a bit of a relief, although it doesn’t dismiss the fact that we still have a lot of work ahead.
Anyway, this video just briefly shows what we’ve done so far. Not all of it is there actually, and also it doesn’t really do justice to all the man hours that have been put in to the project by us five guys. Nevertheless –
I created this video for a friend, but perhaps it will help a few others too.
Tween Machine is a little script that helps you create breakdowns. The video shows you how to install and use it.
The comedic short film I’ve been working on since December.
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Eric is a living legend in the animation world. He is most known for his spectacular work on the Genie in Aladdin (seriously, watch this YouTube clip. I forgot how insane the genie is, and hence how incredibly well animated he is). Eric started young, in his words, “no bit of paper, sketchbook or drawing pad was safe” when he was a kid. All of it was used to make animation. He even showed us stuff he did when he was 14, and most of it was better than a lot of work I’ve seen in this uni.
Read MoreThis is something I made for one of the modules on my course. Don't ask how I came up with it.
We had to make an animation involving a black dog, in the literal, metaphorical or whatever sense we wanted. The catch was that we had to use After Effects to make it.
My solution was to paint everything in photoshop and import it all into After Effects. I then moved them around the timeline and added sound and music. Voila, I created a really crude animation.
I really had no idea why we were forced to use After Effects for this – it’s not at all a tool for animation.
Fun piece to do nevertheless, and hopefully enjoyable to watch although you may not understand what’s going on until the end.
