Josh Oluwasakin

Studying illustration at University of Salford

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You Yoshinari pt 2 ANIMATION

As with his still art, his blend of childish and adult themes carry on into his key animations, he can easily switch between them, or mix them together for something unique.

His visual effects (smoke and explosions) have a distinct feel to them, they always seem to bubble up and form on top of each other, almost like popcorn that doesn't stop popping. It can create for a very interesting light show.

In the top right he showcases some of his amazing weight blending ability, he’s not the most realistic at it, but the way he times his key frames can give you a really good sense of the scale and power of a scene.

The top left has probably my favourite animation style, morphing characters into shapes and objects, he isn't the first to do this, but the detail and flow he gives it makes it such a joy to watch.

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You Yoshinari pt 1 ART

You yoshinari is probably my favorite artist across almost every medium, He does paintings, concept art, and vfx, and is most known for his outstanding key frame animations. But first I’ll just be talking about his still art.

Throughout most of his traditional and digital paintings, you’ll find that they have a lot of very dark lines, his colour compositions are mostly desaturated, which help to really boost a piece when he adds small saturated highlights to parts of them.

The thing I like the most though about his art, especially his character designs, is in how he gradually changes his style depending on the age of the character. The older they are the more realistic features he will give them, and the younger they are the more cartoon-like they will look.

His visual effects always have some elements of fire in them, they always seem to be intertwining and engulfing each other. Combined with the other shapes that complement them, he can give a good visual representation of the fiery effect he wants while making it clear what the shapes actually are.

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Scuttlers Moving Poster

Final Scuttlers Moving poster.

Usually I would have picked a more upbeat track for this moving poster, considering all the noise, the trains, the people, the gangs, and all the chaos going on, but I think the melody brings out a sombre feeling in the scenery that suits my interpretation of the overarching Scuttlers theme.

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The font was tricky to get right, I decided to make it move a tiny bit with the buildings, and to not be too big so that it doesn't take away from the piece.

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Here is the final poster image, I've separated all the layers, ready for after effects editing.

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I increased the height, because I needed even more room, then I also made the brighter tones a bit redder, I liked the colour scheme of my previous poster so I wanted to represent that a bit in here. I think it also conveys the dusty and mill-filled environment gathered from the script.

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After getting a feel for the type of poster I wanted to do, I started sketching out my final one.

A problem I ran into in the previous one was that there was no room for parallax movement, because the painting size was the same as the rendered screen size. so any movement would just end up showing black on the opposite side.

To counter this, this new poster had to be at least 3 times as big, to give me a lot of editing room. that portrait rectangle indicates the actual size of the poster.

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Here I started playing with the layers after separating them.

I tried making a simple parallax animation out of it.

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I started sketching around in photoshop to get a feel for how the poster could turn out, I decided I wanted the colour to be quite desaturated and almost 1 tone.

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While taking all the words I gathered from the script into account, I started sketching out scenery of the imagery that came into my head. It had a very old, factory, noisy, stream-train-like feel to it, with mills everywhere.

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This is what my portfolio page looks like, I plan to keep this orange theme going throughout the website, I feel as though part of the reason I scrapped my last website was because I was trying to go back and forth between clashing colour themes.

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Here are the animations for the sprites, they only change when you hover over them.

I'm going to make them link to other pages on my website and the relevant stream when you click them.

I like how they turned out because I feel they add a bit of my personality to the website.

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Since I took a simpler approach in terms of appearance, I wanted to make the little that was there to stand out and bring a bit of life to the website. So I’ve learned how to make sprites, and I plan to animate all 3 buttons on the homepage.

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This is the homepage design for my new website, it’s much simpler but everything in it is hand drawn.

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Website Restart

I’m not very happy with where I’m at with my current website, I’m thinking of starting again and giving it a more personal style that fits my illustrations, at the moment everything feels too blocky, and since it’s my website I want it to have more personality.

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This is what the actual website we were coding in those two sessions looked like.

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Next was the css, here I learned how to make it all look nice and readable. Choosing fonts, and colours, etc.