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November 12th - 16th - Weekly Summary

I feel as though this week highlighted the fact that I need to better pace myself in my working. It’s not as though I wasn’t doing anything at all, I just feel as though the weight of all the projects came down all at once. 

I found that I kept overthinking and constantly retouching my essay. I really struggled to get it within the word limit. I also found it somewhat difficult to clearly define the question of my essay and ended up changing it a few times before completing my essay.

I mainly focused on character design this week and finished up my walk cycle, dynamic pose design sheet and character design sheet. I’m not overly happy with my final character design but I suppose I am happy that It’s over and done with. I’ve found that I’ve been super critical of the lack of distinct value indication in my work and the somewhat plain designs of my characters. I feel as though I began to over analyze them in an attempt to make them work. I’m still not completely sure about the colour palette I selected for my cast and main character but I do feel that it does capture my intended tone of Autumn well.

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This was my finished Dynamics Animation. I feel as though the strongest feature of this animation is the clean line work and consistent form. I do feel however that I didn’t pace this as well as I would have liked too. I feel as though the weight of the bunny is pretty clearly communicated but the effort of the caretaker is now. I also feel like I may have accidentally also included impact in this final product. I feel as though the animation also lacks in anticipation and all of the motions feel very rushed. Sadly, I kept pushing this task off and I feel like the quality has cleary suffered because of it.

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Children’s show cast silhouette comparisons - 

I examined these shows side by side as they all had memorable characters but the silhouettes in each show had various degrees of effectiveness.

I feel as though the silhouettes present in the show Chowder were the strongest out of the three shows because they very distinct, memorable and revealed a lot about the characters.

I felt like Flapjack was a good comparison to Chowder because they were airing around the same time and had to compete with each other from a design standpoint. I feel as though the silhouettes in Flapjack say a lot less about the characters than the ones in Chowder do but they are very memorable especially partnered with the show’s unique animation style.

From a retrospective angle, I feel that the silhouettes found in Foster’s home for Imaginary’s Friends were pretty ineffective in terms of communicating traits of the characters as well as in terms of memorability. I feel like they’re somewhat easily forgettable.

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Character design - Dynamic posing 

Once again, I used a combination of Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint to complete this illustration. I really wanted to highlight the sort of bratty qualities present in my character despite her overall cheery disposition. I feel as though I captured her personality very well although in retrospect I now feel that her posing could have been a bit more dynamic in this piece. I feel as though that’s my second weak spot artistically. 

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November 5th - 9th - Weekly review

This week was again mainly focused on ironing out loose details in the majority of my animations. I tried one more time to redo a pendulum swing on f12 paper but it really did not work so I decided to stick with my first attempt which I feel wasn’t very effective. I also further worked on dynamic exercise.

While writing my character research essay, I found that my biggest struggle was not going over the word limit. I really struggled to condense all the extra reading that I had doing into one essay and feel as though at times I lost sight of the question of my essay. I did end up having to reword my question a few times. I also encountered an issue with my citations in that I hadn’t been writing down the page number for some of the sources and this meant that I had to go back through them very tediously to find the points I was referring to. 

This week I also worked on completing my character model sheet which showed the front, 3/4, side and back view of my character. I once again used a combination of clip studio paint and Photoshop to complete this. I encountered the same issue that I had when I previously did my cast design sheet in that the text stopped working in Photoshop after I worked on the document in clip studio paint but I resolved it in the same fashion that I did the first time by turning the drawing into a png. 

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I attempted to challenge myself by attempting a forward facing walk cycle. I found it really hard to place the passing frames in this animation and was initially going to do the animation at 24fps but I found that the animation worked better at 12fps. 

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Dynamic Excercise - Weight and effort rough draft 

I feel as though I was able to show the range of motion that I wanted to well in this animation.

I found it much easier to keep the features of my animations consistent while working in tv paint even while roughing out my animation. I also found it easier to maintain the scale of the animation. I feel like the main reason for this is the lighbox feature of the program. I would like to attempt animating on f12 paper with a lighbox to see if this is the case.