Fun with Brushes

Experimenting with brushes with a reckless abandon for anything legible, just playing around.

Pulling and pushing value practice.

Finished, but not Happy

I've finished my animation, but i'm not proud of it, I didn't get to lip sync ,nor did I get to use alot of what I learned in animation.

It frustrates me that It spent me so much time getting to this stage, I feel it needs alot more polish but it's finished and relatively consistent.

In hind sight I wished I stayed with my original pirate story, and drawn alot of it, but im still not very comfortable with drawing alot with consistancy, I plan to draw alot more in the holidays with our stress relieved, but doing anything other than resting with maximum hours in class has made my 'passion' time avoid drawing to much. Instead i've been working on the DND RPG im starting with my class mates, Im hoping it'll be a good resource for alot of us.

Thankyou for being excellent tutors, and I apologise for being an sub optimal student, this year has been rough for alot of people, and having not really drawn seriously in years, and not drawn consistantly in like.. 10 years (since graphics in highschool) it's been tough. But im' getting there.

Almost finished

Finishing the colouring of the last shot background!

So close to being finished.

Stop Motion Progress

Week 1 Production

We managed to find alot of materials though salvaging local recycling that businesses put out on the road at night, we also managed to aquire the Hesian cloth and various other cardboard / paper materials through Vaughn's requisition form and process.

We were mostly focused on planning and scale at this phase to work out our starting point.

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Week 3 Production:

We managed to get all of our cardboard in to start work, unfortunately i'm by myself so im processing the cardboard and experimenting with building types to make it easier for the team later.

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Week 4-5 Production:

Knowing our scale we're working on props to give an interesting background to the animation.

The robot is mostly finished.

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Buildings have been finished, but the robot has hit a hitch, losing it's legs, we're having to improvise to work out how to effectively give it the same presence, Reuben is using a hover platform approach and it is working well. Having no gluesticks left, and the $2 shop ones dont fit or get hot enough, is a real toll on production but we're working out things through folding / slits, using aperture wire to hold things together and masking tape.

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The environment is ready to go, we've worked out that the Hesian cloth works excellently as a as a base and everything is together able to be filmed.

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Reuben and I are ready to Film, I got out the camera, but unfortunately our area is now locked.

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Reuben managed to find David to unlock our area, we started filming but having issues with making the camera film at a set light in manual mode, not much was filmed but Reuben and I know what we need to do.

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Reuben and I are back, worked out how to take pictures in the low light on manual, needed to lower ISO and increase the aperture. Entire filming is complete in this one day.

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Editing now, me and Reuben are hard at work getting this finished.

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Reuben is finishing off the project with sound and Title Sequences.