Attempt at photorealism

My attempt at a photorealistic eye, courtesy of Mark Crilley check out his youtube channel if your into your art and animation. I added some some colour around the eye, thought it gave a nice effect.

Pre 1900 animation

The first moving images would have been seen using a Phenakistoscope, which was created by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau 1832. It was a English photographer and moving image enthusiast Eadward Muybridge that produced this wonderful peace of motion picture using the same method in 1893

Film making

3ft of film stock to scratch into, to make into a short expressive, and imaginative film

Walking man sequence

Just completed all 12 drawings, thought I would test myself and give him a sword :)

This is the complete walking sequence, I repeated it a few times so that you can see the full motion. I think it looks good for a first attempt however there are some minor mistakes but ones that can be remedied over time. I think that the transition between the steps needs to flow smoother which will probably mean adding additional in-betweens. The limbs are also too jelly-like and I think would look better if the angles were a little sharper when hitting the ground.

Shot and developed some photos the traditional way

I developed the photos using liquids in the dark room, I found that feathers give the best results

A series of interesting 2 minute drawings

These peculiar looking silhouettes are the result of a 2 minute drawing session which involved us drawing the same life model in various poses using various different techniques. For some we had to draw the model from memory, with the lights turned off. We had to draw him without taking our hand off the paper, using our alternate hand, starting from the bottom and working our way up and we also had to switch with each other and complete each others work.

Ink Butterfly

Tried messing around with coloured inks, to get some different results. I like how the colours add depth to the picture, the lighter colours appearing further away while the darker colours remain in the foreground.

Results of messing around with ink

Although incredibly creepy I like how it has came out. Not too sure about the weird moth thing in the bottom right corner

2 minute drawing sessions

We were first asked to draw an animated character of ourselves then to draw the other students as the rotated there heads, so we could see the difficulties drawing at different angles.

Preparation for my first life drawing class

Started this drawing of my grandad a while ago, thought it was about time I finished it :)

The little girl and the snowman

This is part of the throw and catch sequence that started at the beginning of the week. Although the pencil is quite faint you can still see the full motion.

Fine art selfie with the gang :)

Messing around with inks, brushes, sticks and straws to make beautiful artwork

Our story made out of pictures, see if you can guess the story first before reading our interpretation of it. Lets see how close people can get..

The story reads; On a cloudy day in the north of Great Britain it became dark, a man sat on a bench and started to question his marriage when he hit a wall. So he had an idea to go out dancing and drink cocktails. He realised shortly after that he was a lot taller then his friends and decided to climb a tree. When he got to the top he felt ok, so decided to take a selfie with his camera, he then slipped and fell down. He then became seriously ill and died, his death was a mystery.

Just watched and dissected the matrix, it was interesting to break the film down into act's and sequences. It makes it easy to see the most important parts and makes the dramatic questions that change the film very obvious.

So at the end of the first act when Neo is faced with a life changing decision, whether he should take the blue pill or the red pill. You can understand the lecturers face palm when the random chinese girl at the back of the class asked if the pinnacle of the first act of the matrix was when Neo saw the girls tattoo...sigh

The long road to creating my animation

Day 1.

Learning how to structure a simple throw and catch sequence. Didn't realise how many frames it would take for just five seconds of film. However I'm pleased with the results :)