Michael our tutor had shared this video and I found it very interesting and appropriate. Miyazaki is my favourite animator and through his passion and zeal for life he creates breath-taking animations. I agree with Miyazki's view on artifical intelligence creating animations, theres no life nor any point. Wouldn't animators lose jobs if this were … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence and Miyazaki
Research
PechaKucha Research
Researching what the definition of Pecha Kucha, was simple enough. The hard part will be finding strong content to show and having something interesting to say. This website 'PechaKucha.org' had everything we needed to know, including great examples of Pecha kucha's relating to art and pointers on how to keep things clean and precise etc. … Continue reading PechaKucha Research
Ub Iwerks – Research
For our pecha kucha presentation my group was given Ub Iwerks...what a man. Ub Iwerks was a man of innovation who is often overlooked and forgotten when it comes to Walt Disney's success. Iwerks is responisble for the use of the 'squash and stretch' technique used in animation, he was also a genius inventor; being the … Continue reading Ub Iwerks – Research
Bouncing Balls – Reference for Maya
I had purchased this Cartoon Animation book off amazon and it has got good content in it! It's quite old fashioned, but the older techniques are still used today, even if todays style has changed. One page had a little about the bouncing ball, it was useful seeing how they brought this movement to their … Continue reading Bouncing Balls – Reference for Maya
Drawing the Human Figure – Research
I have been researching into how to correctly measure human proportions as it is something I struggle with when drawing from imagination. I have some images below which I have taken from a great tutorial page on the subject. Here is a link to the page : Drawing Human Figures in CorrectProportions Best thing I … Continue reading Drawing the Human Figure – Research
Animatic Research
I feel a successful animatic should have fluid movement between scenes, as in one scene leads nicely to the next; whilst making sense. The viewer needs to understand what is going on or else there is no point. I think 30 seconds or even less is enough time to provoke a reaction/emotion from the viewer, … Continue reading Animatic Research
Animatic Ideas
The concept of the world : invading race, poach these beautiful/strange sea creatures for their mechanical parts/luminescent skins/pearls/jewels etc... This race have built underwater bases for themselves which are contained within a dome. A lot of creative ideas can come from this. For our animatic I had an idea of timing it to the sound of … Continue reading Animatic Ideas
Pro Storyboarding Research
After some research into professional story-boarding, I have realised just how much time and detail is put into this kind of work. Each scene being thoughtfully worked out, while each panel having great composition and movement. I have included some of Hayao Miyazaki's storyboarding. By storyboarding each of his movies himself; he made sure that every … Continue reading Pro Storyboarding Research
Lighting Reference Research
Conánn had shown us a video relating to 'light fall off' in photography, he also exlained that this information can be taken into Maya when lighting there, and can also be taken into your art in general. I done a bit of research to follow up, although the videos I found were not as well informed … Continue reading Lighting Reference Research
Gesture Drawing
Amazing artists, love these guy's gesture drawings, pro's. I think Alex Woo taught/teaches gesture at Pixar. Matt Jones I think is his student? Take a look at his blog though, reminds me of the type of life drawing Michael was showing us in class. http://mattjonezanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gesture-drawing.html Examples of Alex Woo's style of work ... Nice video by Matt Jones … Continue reading Gesture Drawing
