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I have been working with a second year student to assist on her graduate film. One of the things I was asked to do was create some animations of fish for Sophie’s opening scene. The film is set in an … Continue reading →

Twin’s Paradise a 2020 short film, about twin tennis stars Darcy and Marcy struggle with their inner demons on the eve of a big championship. Victoria Vincent, the director has such a unique animation style that this film always sticks … Continue reading →

Yesterday I visited the David Hockney exhibit at Lightroom as it was very close to the studios. I am a big fan of Hockney and when I was in high school and learning about art for the first time he … Continue reading →

We are creating two lip syncs this term. The first being a lip sync which we recorded the audio for in the film and tv studios. We paired up with another student who didn’t speak the same language. This is … Continue reading →

This term we were asked to create a number of new animation exercises meant to test our understanding of movement, timing and all the animation principles. Character choice – Mimi – Kaori Watanabe I chose to animate Kaori’s character design … Continue reading →

Whilst at uni this term we watched O’ Black Hole three times as part of different units as they used it as examples for good characters, amazing design and narrative storytelling. Having seen it a couple of times now and … Continue reading →

This week is reading week, so I’ve been busy trying to catch up on all the edits I needed to make to my assignments. I had a lot of feedback from the formative assessment in December and all through January, … Continue reading →

This week we were working on the facial acting exercise as part of the end of term submissions. Compared to last weeks body acting exercise this is entirely focused on the facial expressions and how the movement matches those. I … Continue reading →

Having made about 5 different examples for this exercise and getting different feedback (both good and bad), I decided to fully start again and take all the feedback I received into consideration and create a new one. I focused on … Continue reading →

Today we got the chance to have a workshop/induction into how to use the audio booths and software to record high quality sounds for our films. This was a really interesting experience as it was something I’ve been curious about … Continue reading →