Happy Halloween, Chums!

Try not to rot your teeth! Or brains. Whatever.

The Great Experiment- Premiere!

Hey chums!

Remember when I helped animate something involving this?

And this?

Well, it's finally online for your viewing pleasure!

Knock yourselves out! Although don't... actually knock yourselves out. Srsly guys.

Reflect or Forget!

So I haven’t really done much in terms of reflection this year. Oops.

Despair not, though. As practice for my research, proposal, presentation and dissertation, I shall reflect on some of the work I have done the previous week. Here we have two experiments, one being a logo for a friend’s business card and the other an asset/style experiment for Stina’s project.

Kat’s logo

Well I suppose it’s technically more of a design for the card but the intention is to represent Kat’s talent of floor managing and set design. In order to portray this effectively, given the simple style shown, I used a small set and camera as reference and created the set using shapes and gradients. The changing colours give a sense of shading and also makes it less flat to look at, more visually pleasing. I’m quite happy with this as my skills are more in character design and so designing a logo/card design was quite different for me.  It has given me the chance to try something different and expand my skills, which will be extremely useful- people won’t just want characters created.

Asset/style concept for Stina’s brief

Rachel and I are working on the projections for Stina’s brief, which will be shown on the wall and floor as her dancers perform. Due to the music and tone of the music and dance, we’re intending to keep a rather grungy style, with outdoors settings, graffiti, city backdrop and so on. As you can see, I have used the shapes again to create a lamppost. This started as showing Rachel how quickly I could create an asset (10-20 minutes if anyone’s interested) and then, due to my inability to leave a lamppost hanging in midair, I took the chance to create a background and a potential tone for the animation. This is a potential idea that may or may not change, depending on whether Stina is happy with it or not. We’re also trying out various simplistic styles (the way the light is portrayed was Rachel’s idea, I hasten to add) and want to add in some rotoscoping if we are able. So technically this one is a work in progress. There will be more to show soon.

So hopefully that’s decent enough development and reflection. I need to practice that sort of thing after all. And I might as well do a basic weekly plan, just like the good old foundation degree Animation days.

Tomorrow
I have an academic writing class and a lecture that day but with the amount of time I have between after said lecture and getting the train, I hope to get cracking on some proposal planning, as I am falling a bit behind on that. By the end of the night, I hope to have most of the plan done.

Wednesday
Today Rachel and I are planning on showing Stina the ideas/assets we have so far so she can tell us whether or not she’s happy with them and then plan the next ideas accordingly.

Thursday
I’m not sure if we need to be in today or not, I know we have a few people coming in to talk to us but I’m not aware of whether or not they’ll be particularly useful to the digital studying types like myself.  I’ll look into it. If we don’t have to, I’ll probably get crackin’ on some research. Although I’d like to organise it better than this. But my brain is mush right now and I am le tired.

Also, I might rewrite the plans at some point once I get a chance to read the timetable plan Rachel set out for us while working on Stina’s project. I should be able to read it on the Mac but I can’t do anything productive right now, I might break something.

So I’m off for a kip. Wake me in a few decades hours.

Pugs and Posters

OK so I got some new weird and wonderful things to share with you today. If you haven't noticed the invasion of doodlepugs on the blog title, well... you need to come here more often. But here they are in a nice row as well for your convenience.

Look at all the Muffins! Aren't they cute

And here, you'll see the new Crumbs teaser poster, complete with new title design AND a new character! Meet Jay. He's... quite an interesting character. More on him as the story progresses.

And HERE we have a whole new project that will be more experimental. It's a concept that I'll hopefully put into better detail once I've developed it more. But after some character sketches, I couldn't resist making a teaser poster.

If you have any comments or advice on the posters, please share them with me; I'd love to hear!

Sketches, Doodles and Scribbles

Because I'm afraid to say I don't have much in terms of finished and/or coloured artwork to share juuuust yet. I'll get to it though, I intend to do some autumn themed pictures at some point. Maybe break out the pens for the first time in forever.

I've been very busy with quite a number of things, such as planning the Crumbs webcomic project, taking classes in dissertation writing, looking into some college animation projects, performing for a tap show from Sunday night till tomorrow and rehearsing for a play I'm involved in. It;s quite a bit that I've taken on and I need to find a way to organise everything and get stuff done. I certainly don't intend to let this blog fall by the wayside either. I assure you I'll update you all with everything art and animation related from me!

But for now, all I have are some sketches and doodles I did when I had spare time or was bored of taking notes. Or just bored. There are more but these ones are my favourites.

I'm hoping that I'll get more organised soon. Kat told me that she might be able to get me a diary so I can organise stuff better, which can only be useful. And then you'll all see super amazing progress from me and you'll be all like "Gee, that Emma sure is swell!"

... well, maybe not. But at least I'll be more productive. I also intend to rearrange the blog as well, get rid of some tabs and/or redo old ones. I want a tab specifically showing my progress into developing the webcomic, which will be portrayed through vlogs, research, sketches, colour experiments and all sorts. I want to document it all, from the initial ideas to website development to the finished comic. Let me know if you think that'll be a good idea! Personally I think vlogs will help me organise my thoughts better than scribbling them down. I'll probably just make them unlisted videos on YouTube though and only link them on this blog.

Well, I hope you enjoy the sketches and if you have any questions about my project or have some opinions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share!

A Tad Excited

You know when you've got scraps of things you want to work on and then you get inspired and it all falls into place?

Yeah. That's happened to me.

I'm gonna get right to work on some concept art right this second. I am beyond excited to start working on this.

And I mean it. This one has nothing to do with pigeons. So if you're tired of them little shits, you'll be all over this like yellow on a banana!