Olympics 2012

The brief I've been working on for the past month or so is for a 20 second olympics ident for a sport, mine was badminton.

Some Essay Research Videos

For my essay I've been looking at the work of Michel Gondry, two of my favourite of his music videos are The White Stripes- Fell in Love with a Girl and Steriogram- Walkie Talkie Man:

Bird Research Flight Exercise

Some video clips from my mobile phone, pigeons in town, walking, taking off and landing, the second video I found particularly useful in reference for my hand drawn flight animation.

I also put together my photos, in this video, some of these were not so useful as there aren't many close ups of the birds, but the last picture, I used as the starting point for my flight cycle.

Recording and observing was very useful when it came to animating, I had a better understanding of how a bird flies and the structure of their wings.

My basic flight cycle, in flash, I started working hand drawn, but decided to use flash to get the cycle right, because I found it a lot easier to tweak and analyse as I can play it easily while I'm working on it.

Flash Lip-Sync

A joint project, with Hannah, my part is Steve the snake. The brief was for an 'Australian Outback Romantic Drama'.

Pull Stop-Motion

Push - Maya

The brief was for a 10-15 second sequence of a figure, which we were provided with, pushing a large heavy object. I found Maya a lot easier to use this time as I was more familiar with the layout and quite enjoyed this. I feel quite pleased with some parts of the animation; where he moves the crate, although I feel there's still some parts of the movement which don't look natural and could do with some more adjustments...

Push and Pull Research

We started our new module, Action Analysis, on Monday, we have three briefs, the first two I'm working on are Push(Maya) and Pull(Stop Motion).

Before starting the animation I had to research and collect reference material. I started with observing, watching videos on youtube and analysing action. Then I filmed myself pulling a suitcase and pushing my bed across my room:

Although I look like an idiot I find acting out the actions really helped when it came to animating. I was working in Maya over the last week and I found, when you have acted it out yourself, it helps a lot with understanding the movements and key poses , rather than just observing...