Kicked off the Friday with the power. The Power of Animation to be exact. Guest spokeswoman Kerry Drumm came in to speak about the power of animation in public information films, from as early as the Second World War, to inform and educate us. Around the war, there was a need for information to be [...]
[Sorry for the delay on Part 2 of the Bradford Animation Festival, a nasty Bradford bug got the better of me. I'm OK now though.]
Day 2, Captain’s log. First activity started at 11am, with a presentation by Oliver Dunn of Natural Motion. Natural Motion are the guys who made a break-through in 3D character animation [...]
I have to say, it was a pretty awesome week. I will do a post for each of the 4 festival days, so check back over the next few days for related articles. We kick started the first day of the Bradford Animation Festival 08 with the Professional Films Official Selection, which we were a [...]
I have not used charcoal in 2 years and I certainly wasn’t complaining. I will use it when I have to, but not if I can help it. Since yesterday’s life drawing session was supposed to be an arty farty one and I had only brought brushes (no paints), then I thought the least I [...]
Just a sample of stuff from the last session of life drawing. Got into a habit of using my A3 sketchbook, because I find it a nice manageable size, though I was politely encouraged to bring A2 from now on. Or else.
The image immediately above is of a sequence of three, 2 minute poses. Supposed [...]
Animation Principles touched on so far:
Timing
Squash and Stretch
Anticipation
Overlap
Performance
Weight was also mentioned, but Andy feels that weight is something taken into consideration when covering the above principles anyway.
Timing
First principle we looked at was timing, using 12 postcards to animate a sequence as previously seen my first digital animation post. Timing comes with practice, [...]
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