Exploratory Practices: Project Links

Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOHGQ1AA=/ Statement of Intent: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9PNI-UqC8dHN_Q5wrE2NGOotXpgrZ0w61orzaoAPaM/edit?usp=sharing Proof of concept 1: https://vimeo.com/685644747 Animatic 1: https://vimeo.com/686090353 Proof of concept 2: https://vimeo.com/703421602 Animatic 2: https://vimeo.com/703499404 Rough Animation: https://vimeo.com/715538832 Final Animation: https://vimeo.com/720311201

Exploratory Practices 3

With all the feedback from the second interim, I was ready to begin working on my animation. However, I also had to do the clean-up work for the RCA student as part of Informed Practices: I spent most of my Easter break focusing on that, since learning to use Adobe Animate and matching the student’s …

Exploratory Practices 2

After the first interim, I had a pretty solid idea on where to go next with my project. With a new rough script ready, I began trying to build an animation around it: to enhance and build off of the words, rather than overshadow them. Since one of the main feedbacks from the interim was …

Exploratory Practice 1

In late February, we were given a briefing over the new main project we’d be focusing on until the end of the year: a 1-to-2 minute animation, to be made individually, on a subject that speaks to us. The vastness of the prompt scared me at first: a lack of limits over what to discuss …

Cats and Dogs 3

After presenting our animatic and test animation, we received some helpful feedback from our tutors as well as the people at the Horniman: the most important takeaway was that we needed to firmly establish something within the artstyle to differentiate the scenes happening in the “real world” and the scenes inside the book. To do …

Informed Practice 2

The Monday morning lessons have kept being interesting, bringing in new guests each week and listening to their experiences. The latest guest, Rory WT, was particularly interesting to me, as his projects had an artstyle and direction closer to what I’d be interested in working on someday. The afternoon lessons have been dedicated to understanding …

Toolkit 1: Week 1 and 2

I decided to choose the 2D Animation toolkit as my first choice, as I’m hoping it will help me when animating my Horniman project. The first five weeks will be about the principles of animation, and so far we’ve covered timing/spacing and anticipation. In the first toolkit, we were asked to animate a bouncing ball, …