New Ways of Looking ... Evaluation ...

Maya Animation ... Cling research ...

Just a quick illustration to help me with my animation ... it shows where the pivot points if you like are and where my word should 'cling' to the other element. Hands and feet ... 'c' and the 'g' will act as them!

Life Drawing...contour drawing

I found that i really enjoyed contour drawings ... this is where you use one contunous line to express what you see...and as we were not allowed to look at the paper you are more focused on what you are seeing! I think this is very important and will help my hopefully progress with my drawings and future work.

I found this contour drawing by a blind person!! I think this is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the way the pencil looks like it has never left the page ... if you had drawn this in a normal fashion you would not have created the outlines and patterns around the creases of your hands and detail around the nails! LOVE IT! I would love to create a short animation in this style which i will keep in mind when i get my future briefs.

Life Drawing

I loved our life drawing class last week and i wanted to look further into it and how it could be used to help with our course and preferably animation!

This is an example of someone else's life drawing (no one famous possibly another student) but the reason

i wanted to include it in my blog is the fact that in a way it connotes movement even though each drawing is very different you can almost imagine the character moving around the page!

The one to the right shows a students work that it looking at the gesture and posture of a persons full body and limbs...we did a similar exercise where we had only a minute to draw what we saw and within that minute you have to capture the form and structure of the person! I think it helps to look at reality before you being to animate ... clearly your animation may be over exaggerated but it has been inspired by the real world therefore i think its very important to look carefully and closely at the movement and structure of your chosen character and environment before animating!!

Type ... Eurotrip opening sequence ...

I thought this was a very interesting theme to use as a opening sequence as it follows the safety booklets you would find on an aeroplane ... the type and animation connotes travel which is the theme than runs through out the film!! Type and image in a title sequence give you a short insight into what the film is going to be about! Also in this it takes the safety images and gives them a comical and crude edge to show that the film is upbeat and of the comedy genre! I didn't really realise how much you can read about a film within a title sequence!

Typography ... David Carson

David Carson breaks the rules of using type especially

when kerning is concerned ... i love his use of jumbled text and simple colour schemes .... his work appears fairly simple but looks busy and full of life!

Lighting ... Advertising ... Posters ...

I looked at many horror film posters and i have noticed that many of them encompass lighting that is lit from below...this is used to make things appear more sinister and create an enigma leave you wondering what lies within the darkness.