Saturday 8 October 2016

Life Drawings

These drawings were photographed on my phone so sorry for the low quality images.









Friday 30 September 2016

Minor Project- New Post in Collaborative Blog

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Collaborative Project- Joint Blog

Just leaving the link to the joint blog for mine and Julien's final year project. Please follow the blog to see our progress over the year.

                                                                    
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Thursday 14 July 2016

Hand Drawn Animation in Photoshop Sped Up- Rough Squash and Stretch Test

There's a tutorial by the artist and animator Aaron Blaise about creating a squash and stretch effect for character animation. This is my very rough attempt at creating one for a character I made up. I made this in Photohshop and recorded it to see how long it would take me and to look back over any mistakes I made.             

The tutorial can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vsp2Z1IIy4

In the tutorial Aaron Blaise is using TVPaint as his animation software, but seeing that I don't have that and I don't really like using Flash, I went for Photoshop and created this very short piece in there.


Over all this took me around forty minutes to complete, and the video editing took a further thirty minutes to do.
             
                        

Sunday 10 July 2016

Castle on a Cloud- Animation Lip Sync Test

I wanted to try out some lip syncing and fancied using Photoshop to animate on again. This is very basic blocking out of a short clip of animation, which I could take ahead further and improve. For now I've left it too late in the day to add more onto it, and I might get another sound bite to work from for tomorrow. Sound bite is from the 11 Second Club.

               
     
                   

Saturday 9 July 2016

Experimenting in Photoshop: Grey Scale to Colour

I came across a tutorial on how to colour black and white drawings. I wanted to try it as I had never tried rendering a drawing like this and I like the look it creates as it reminds me of book illustrations. 

The link to the tutorial is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurMZ97uLKM

I really like how this image has turned out and hope to use this technique in the future.

Sketch 

Clean up lines 

Grey scale (longest part, took around 7-8 hours for me)

Soft light colour layer with out grey scale underneath

Final image