Thursday, 30 April 2015

Ideas for Animation



This is a very basic design for Guan Yu's horse he is often depicted as riding a horse into battle, one of his main claims to fame is when he rode through thousands of warriors to kill one man. As such I thought it would be key for him to have one.


This is a basic concept for Guan Yu himself. He is shown wearing green robes and having a pole arm a tall as himself. As well as an impressive beard, the one drawn here is not impressive.


A very very basic set of thumbnail sketches showing roughly were I want to take my animation.


A more detailed drawing of Guan Yu. This is what I will base my main character on.


These thumbnail sketches show the start of my animation where I just wanted to have clashes as apposed to swords straight away.


These are some more thumbnail sketches where I went back and made the start make more sense to me.


This is where I was looking at Han dynasty warriors and seeing how they would look in the animation (Guan Yu is from the Han dynasty).

12 Principles of Animation

We had to learn main principles of animation of which there are 12 which are:

Timing and Spacing


Anticipation

Straight Ahead/Pose to Pose


Arcs


Follow-through and Overlapping actions


Staging 


Slow ins and outs


Secondary Action


Exaggeration


Squash and Stretch


Solid Drawing


Appeal

We need to make sure to remember these to make our animations up to scratch.

Monday, 20 April 2015

Review of Essay: Essay 1 Has the Internet Improved or Damaged Our Social and Personal Relationships?

I found the essay to be rather vapid, I didn't find it enthralling at all. It had some good points in what the author was explaining, but at the same time I found it hard to follow. I found myself quickly becoming uninterested in points, as some just seemed to be over explored, while others not explored enough. The punctuation and spelling is all over the place while mostly good there are moments that don't have the correct spelling or punctuation. Overall I think that the essay has good points but is lacking in the way it is explained.