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Apr 12, 20192 min read
Concept art / Sound Design
Initial drawings, designs and research images showed fairly visceral, gross depictions of eating or food. However, through our interview...
Apr 2, 20192 min read
Interviews
The research allowed us to better understand misophonia as well as what we wanted to get from the interviews. It seemed that the...
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Animating Characters
Initially unsure of how the characters would move, I've found that when I began to animate, the characteristics have come through fairly...
Feb 20, 20191 min read
Research
We decided each of us would take on a different aspect of research. I enjoyed being able to delve into some of the science and academic...
Feb 15, 20192 min read
Refining Designs
Although happy with the colour palette, I wanted to play around with the contrast and line work of the characters. So, I fiddled about...
Feb 13, 20191 min read
Animatic 2
Having talked to Alan previously, I quickly cut a few bits from the previous animatic and refined the timing a little. I feel what I have...
Feb 10, 20191 min read
Planning stage
Our first action as a group was to create a shared ‘google drive’ folder to allow us to share the work and preparation as we went along....
Feb 9, 20191 min read
Animatic
Using my character designs and storyboard, I assembled an animatic in Photoshop to give me a sense of timing and to assess how the...
Feb 5, 20191 min read
Character design
I've taken the final idea that I storyboarded and begun to consider the character design based on the storyboard - without too much...
Feb 3, 20191 min read
Getting Started
We met as a group to discuss our ideas further and decided to focus on Misophonia as a subject for our documentary - for the reasons...
Jan 31, 20191 min read
Storyboarding
Although still not entirely set on a narrative, I constructed a few simple story boards based on a few ideas. The first is a basic...
Jan 25, 20191 min read
Thinking
The broad nature of the brief made it a challenge to pin down one idea straight away and I found I had too many ideas, none of which I...
Jan 25, 20192 min read
Ideas
Having been asked to come up with some subjects for a documentary that I'd like to see made or make myself, I began to think about areas...
Dec 12, 20182 min read
4: Animation & Evaluation
World in a room was daunting in part due to its reliance on Maya – which I ran into several problems with in terms of movement. I found...
Dec 5, 20182 min read
10: Modelling, texturing and Evaluation
By working from the bottom up, I constructed the Praxinoscope in 3Ds Max by stacking simple geometry and making use of modifiers: plenty...
Nov 22, 20181 min read
9: Artist Examples
For a presentation on an example of CGI/3D modelling that I like and one I don't. I've focused on two animations; Mamoon (which I love)...
Nov 15, 20182 min read
8: Research & Design
Following my initial ideas, I began to look further into the Zoetrope - which I'm interested in as a pioneering form of animation; its...
Nov 6, 20181 min read
3: Prop making and Keyframing
Given my time constrictions and eagerness to start shooting, I purchased an easel prop rather than making one, but constructed a...
Oct 27, 20181 min read
2: Animatics
My first animatic is based on the idea of the stop motion man becoming frustrated at his desk while his CGI counterpart dozes at his. I...
Oct 25, 20182 min read
1: Ideas
To begin with, I considered several ideas... The first centred around the two characters struggling with temptation to find out what's on...
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