Category " Digital Animation"

The last term before we break up for summer, scary thought. The majority of our time during this term has (and will be) spent on our final project for the first year. It is a group project this time, so there is extra incentive not to cock it up like my last one. The project involves taking an audio clip of an interview situation and animating to it. The clips are all of local Cornish people...


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The frantic deadline period is over and now I can have room to breathe again. I can now go outside, eat, sleep and draw again. Though most importantly, play video games once again. What the outcome of my work handed in will be like, who knows. Who knew studies could be so time consuming. I can't say any of it lived up to my expectations.  Though it was a good learning period. From reference. I...


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What is that Uncanny Valley people speak of? Quite often you may hear of it referred to in film and gaming magazines, regarding visuals. You may already understand that people try to avoid their work falling into the Uncanny Valley. I will summarize the phenomenon here for you. Essentially the term Uncanny Valley, to quote Wikipedia, is: “A hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans...


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We got an actual Brief for these two walk cycles. Basically we had footage recorded of us pacing up and down doing 'a walk'. I did 'my walk'. It is a pretty casual walk, yet quite quick partly because I have a fairly long stride. Since this was to be a walk cycle, I had to analyze my reference footage carefully to pick out the essential aspects and subtleties (that word doesn't look like it is spelt...


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That goes out to you triathlon obsessed types. The walk cycle is the latest of the 3D exercises we have undertaken. Learning to walk again is actually very interesting, unless you are doing it traditionally frame by frame on paper. At that point for me it is very tedious and frustrating. I am pretty pleased with my 3D walk cycle, hence why I am putting it at the top of this post. Put the nasty stuff...


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The final day at the Bradford Animation Festival of 2008.  Finally, the epic week of sitting down in front of screens and having to watch your back in the streets of Bradford was almost at an end. The morning was an emotional one, with the John Coates Retrospective. It featured interviews with various people he had worked with, including Joanna Quinn and Paul Wells. These were followed by John's...


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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 delivered at much quicker pace. This opened the doors for short films (5 minutes or so) to become...


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