4th Year

May 10, 20211 min read

Promotional Material

I've had a bit of time to cut together a trailer and make a poster. I'll probably be uploading these to the grad show website, since the...

Apr 27, 20211 min read

Papery animation

Managed to get my hands on a camera to shoot my stop motion sections and I'm quite happy with how they've turned out. Although the...

Apr 17, 20211 min read

Weeks 11-13

Here’s my progress to date! I’ve made a few slight changes and progressed quite a bit with the animation: Minor continuity things like...

Mar 28, 20212 min read

Week 10

Managed to get the end section animated this week! It's still subject to some change; I'm undecided whether to finish with hair filling...

Mar 21, 20211 min read

week 9

Finally finished the transition to the more fantastical section this week and have moved onto animating the end section. I've decided to...

Mar 14, 20211 min read

week 8

Work in progress for this week. I've had a few other commitments, so have been a bit slower than hoped - but I'm just pulling together...

Mar 7, 20211 min read

week 7

Another export of work in progress! I've cut one of the shots (and shortened a couple others) from the animatic because I'm starting to...

Feb 28, 20211 min read

Week 6

The week's work in progress. This time with some music! The video below has been exported with a rough track created by Carla Sayer and...

Feb 21, 20211 min read

Formative

Here's my work in progress so far: Pretty happy, just need to slow down the first mirror shot a bit. Ambitiously aiming to get the first...

Feb 14, 20211 min read

Week 5

I did a few minor character revisions this week - the details are virtually the same but I think I've managed to make her look a bit less...

Feb 7, 20211 min read

Week 4

Work in progress so far! Relatively happy given that it's the first proper week of animating (I've started more or less in chronological...

Jan 29, 20211 min read

Week 2/3: background-ing

I've more or less finished with my backgrounds! I might do a simple scrolling animation of the clouds outside the window... otherwise...

Jan 22, 20211 min read

Week 1(semester 2): planning

Now pretty happy with what I'm aiming for, I think it's time I started planning for production. So I put together some spreadsheets to...

Dec 6, 20201 min read

11. Final Animatic

I drew out the beats of the middle section and put them on my wall so I could arrange and rearrange them - and added some shots in as I...

Dec 6, 20202 min read

11. Final test shots

This test shot is meant to be of production quality - there are a few things I would change, but I'm overall happy with the method and...

Nov 26, 20202 min read

10. More Animatic

This week so far I've been working on my animatic again. I've got the final section done and am quite happy with it as a satisfying...

Nov 22, 20202 min read

9. Testing & Chatting

This week, alongside working on my animatic I attempted a test transition between 'normal' paper to my deckled edge paper. I kind of...

Nov 15, 20202 min read

8/9. Animatic

Week 8 hasn't been especially productive as I've been focusing on the dissertation formative - but I've turned the first, intro section...

Nov 6, 20202 min read

7. Testing

Some animated sketches... I'd like to really take advantage of the possibilities of metamorphosis in my animation (like Nichola said), so...

Nov 1, 20202 min read

6/7 Making Paper

In our flat we have a couple of drawers that until now have been filled with various letters and bills and scraps of paper. Recycling it...