...and I took 300 photos
A blog to collect and show my work and work that has inspired me during my first year studying animation at UWE.
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Round Robins
For the last three weeks we've been doing a rotation of workshops; Impact and Legibility, Under Camera and Maya. For each of these we had to make a 10 second piece of work.
Impact and Legibility:
My first workshop, we had to create a still image which communicates a key word or feeling, using arranged objects.
This is my final image:
Under Camera:
I think this was my favourite workshop we tried out plasticine, oil on glass, sand on glass and cut paper. The brief was to create an abstract animation, mostly 50% white and 50% black.
I decided to use cut paper for my piece and just played around a bit, I based the 10 second piece on a circle, which continues rotating throughout whilst the segments do various transformations...
Maya:
I found Maya pretty confusing at first but it was fun to have a go at. The brief was to make a simple animation with two distinct shapes that have different personalities. I have the small shiny sphere which is the young/lively/annoying one whilst the big one is slow and a bit of a bully who decides to squash the little one. I was quite pleased with the outcome of this, with a little bit of help from Tom, the squash was improved from my first attempt.
Impact and Legibility:
My first workshop, we had to create a still image which communicates a key word or feeling, using arranged objects.
This is my final image:
My first thoughts were that I wanted to go to the park to take my photo and Brandon Hill because I'd been here a few times recently and I really love the view from the top...
I think the feelings I was thinking about in this picture are loneliness or missing, I think the viewer should wonder who the coat, suitcase and shoes belong to and where is the person. I don't know, I like to leave it open to interpretation, so people can make up their own story or character.
Under Camera:
I think this was my favourite workshop we tried out plasticine, oil on glass, sand on glass and cut paper. The brief was to create an abstract animation, mostly 50% white and 50% black.
I decided to use cut paper for my piece and just played around a bit, I based the 10 second piece on a circle, which continues rotating throughout whilst the segments do various transformations...
Cut paper final -
I found Maya pretty confusing at first but it was fun to have a go at. The brief was to make a simple animation with two distinct shapes that have different personalities. I have the small shiny sphere which is the young/lively/annoying one whilst the big one is slow and a bit of a bully who decides to squash the little one. I was quite pleased with the outcome of this, with a little bit of help from Tom, the squash was improved from my first attempt.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Saturday, 2 October 2010
First Work at UWE
I've just finished my first proper week studying animation at UWE, our first brief was to create a few 12 frame cycles for a zoetrope:
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