The Children’s society is an organisation to develop and focus on supporting children and young people with difficulties, mental health and who have been through abuse. We have been asked to make a 3 min animation based on a recording of one of the children’s experiences. My animation is called Every Step. Every Step is …
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Lucy’s Improv Class
Lucy made us stand around in a circle, then she gave us the first line for a story. Each student then had to add another line to the story. Lucy’s first line was: ” On a street in Rome … ” The next participant said: ”There is pizzeria, and a chef is making pizza dough….” …
Wellcome Collection: Play Well
At the exhibition I had learnt the important significance of play in childhood and across society. I learnt that to play is a role in learning and developing social bonds, resilience and wellbeing. It is also a crucial tool in developing and refining character traits and skills like self – esteem, cooperation and aspects of …
Lip-Synching Blog
We were lectured on the exercise on lip synching. What did I learn? I have been learning how to get our characters to voiceover using the dialogue in a way in which our character is speaking. I learnt that the important thing in lip-synching is by acting it out in a scene with their movements. …
3D Maya Workshop
We were introduced to the 3D software application Maya Autodesk which features complex 3D computer generated character animation and has the benefit in 3D modelling. Our task today was to animate a 3D model of a hunting dog with the use of the rotoscoping demonstration. Roto-scoping was a technique that we were learning about which …
Sound Audio
Week 1: We were given a talk about voice recording at the workshop. Last week we were tutored a list of technical equipment that are acquired for our voices. These equipment included Recorder, Microphones, Wind shield. What we had focused on learning to do was by using the Hand-held sound tracker device to practice recording …
Natural History Museum
We were given an objective to create 5 drawings of objects around the environment, ones that we visualise in the museum, ensuring that we had included parts of the architecture of the walls and the case of the objects. What did you learn? Just by observing an object whilst drawing, I had learnt that it …
William Blake
Born in Soho London, Blake studied poetry with painting. The artists views contemporary art in origin, which depicts his experiences and frustrations in his career. In his work Blake experiments with watercolour designs that tell biblical stories and fantasy narratives. In the late 1780s Blake became passionate in writing poems and visual arts, which made …
Pixelation
What did I learn? We had learnt the understanding of the camera framerate and the pioneering of video editing using pixelation. I learnt to use the technique in filming movements of real live actors posing and moving incrementally, frame by frame ensuring that they are animated on film. The process involved capturing a picture frequently, …
Puppet Animation
I have been building a puppet character using different variation of soft materials. The skills that I have learnt to were building our characters for example wool, wire, fabric and glue. The process of this exercise was by building the head of our figure. Then using the wire to attach on the electrical joints, and …