Animation Identity

Blog of  'Steven Forbes' a Christian animator concerned with making God known through this medium.

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Good luck checking in at Terminal 1 - make sure you watch the full story. #airportlife #canadacalling (at Dublin Airport - Terminal 1)

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Something's in the pipeline... #WIP #betterthanbeforbes (at Ballynure)

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Guardians of the Galaxy Team-UP #1 variant

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Excellent

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#lazyday #avoteforfreedom

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LOVE THIS: framexframe:

Cartoon Network’s Batman of Shanghai, animation by Wolf Smoke Studio

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Stream of consciousness (New Yorker cover)

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This image of the stream of consciousness resonates with the psychological journal I started last month as part of my qualitative research to help generate a hypothesis surrounding the individuality of the subconscious mind.

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You don’t have enough badges to hit me!

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The final piece. Enjoy and remember to click on the links at the end to continue the story. 

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Roto-scope practise: I was unsure about the method I was using to do my roto-scope animation for this project. In order to test the best methods, I animated this little short as practise. It went a long way to helping me learn a few tricks. 

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The prisoner's dilemma scene - This is the second scene I showed during my final presentation. It happens to be my favourite scene from the entire piece as it brilliantly captures the madness of the drugs. 

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This is my first test at rotoscoping the footage I recorded for this module. I was quite content with the result. 

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 Thought I would link my final presentation that outlines the progress to this point and how I planned to spend the remaining month till hand ins

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These are the images I took to help prep the filming and aid the scripting process. There are a few more detailing the last couple of choices, but they are rather complicated. Plus you can only upload ten images at a time. Also, doesn't look like it uploaded them in chronological order for some reason, I'm sorry for this inconvenience

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So a while back I took some photos to prep scenes and construct storyboards. Then, using those storyboards as a guideline, I was able to script the entire narrative and then film some reference footage. This link contains the first edit of the reference footage - This is just a test to see how the finished animation will be edited together.  During the animation process itself I may use different reference footage as I took numerous shots of each scene to give myself some selection. 

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Currently researching different experiments that could potentially be included in my interactive story.

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Inspiration for stylised art

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So I've decided that I will be animating as if under the influence, this animation gives a great example of how to do this