Trees used in IDI animation

These are the trees which I created  in Photoshop and used in my animations.

IDI Awards Final Animation

The Category I chose for the IDI Awards is Fashion Design. The message that I was trying to get across in my twelve second animation was that design is constantly changing, just like the seasons. Seasons also strongly affect Fashion because the clothing needs to suit the weather conditions...well in most cases anyway. I didn't want the character to just walk through the trees I wanted the trees to pass her, mostly just to suggest the time of the seasons passing. I had a lot of technical difficulties because my laptop was really......really slow and couldn't handle After Effects.

The Music was done by Nathan Walsh.

 

 

 

Here was my first try:

 

 

I am not sure if my second try was any better or worse but here it is anyway.

  

 

 

 

I drew the characters by hand and then scanned them and coloured them in on Photoshop. I then Imported them into Flash. The snowflakes, leaves and butterfly were also done on Flash and were later imported into After Effects. I created the rest of the animation  in 2.5 D on After Effects which was a pain because I had never done something like that before. It is not perfect but I learnt from it.

Happy After Halloween!!!!

Good Animation Book

I found this book in my college library and I thought it contained much useful information and had many good tips. I didn't get to read it all but from what I have read I would definitely recommend it.It explaines everything from pre-productions, animations, recording up to promoting yourself. I will borrow it again in the near future to read over it again

Here is a picture of what the cover looks like:

IDI Storyboard

Today we had to hand up our story boards. Only after I saved the image did I noticed that I spelled Fashion wrong so I apologise for that. This time I wanted to try making the storyboard on a program rather than drawing it by hand just to learn more about Photoshop. I did draw the figure by hand though and then scanned her in. I might change her though in the final animation.

The message that I'm trying to get across is that Design is constantly changing, just like the Seasons. I just so happened to pick Fashion because Fashion is constantly changing not only in general but also due to the seasons. (Not that I like Fashion or anything. In fact I hate it). Because the animation is only 12 seconds long there is no point in changing angles so I am sticking to the one point perspective.

Camilla D'Errico- Illustrator and Comic Artist

Camilla D'Errico is half Italian and half Canadian. She created various paintings and comics.

I noticed that many of her images include female figures (mostly nude) biting into something and having some kind of animal,insect around them or fruits. Despite the subject of the image being kind of weird sometimes the style she draws in is beautiful. Even when she uses oil  it all just looks like it was kind of done using water colour and I personally love water colour. Her style looks refreshing, new and unique. I like her work.

The image above was done using oil just like the other three images underneath.

Here are three of her acrylic works which some of them look like they were done using a pen:

Here is one of her images done using ink:

The two next images were done digitally:

I came across the artist through this picture in a book and I found her unique style interesting and made me want to look at more of her works.

 Camilla D'Errico also works with others to make comics but also self-publishes her own series, such as: Tanpopo, Helmetgirls and Burn.

The image on the right shows one of her 3D works.



I added a link where more of her amazing art work can be seen:




http://www.camilladerrico.com/art-camilla-derrico-gallery-painting.html

The Richard Balzer Collection

http://dickbalzer.tumblr.com/


All it is in this collection are still images drawn on a circular page that is then attached to this wheel thing that spins and makes it look like the images are moving. I think it's a simpler effective way to make mini animations and I might try it out my self some day.

My tutor send us a link to this and I completely forgot about this method of animation. When I was younger I saw something like this in a german museum but it was more like cut out images of figures rather than everything just on one page and the figures were attached to a stick that went around like a carousel.