What is a MAP? A MAP or Multi Animator Project is a project were many animators come together and animate small sections, mostly to a piece of music and is then edited together by the host to create one final video. MAPs often provide a good ground to improve an animators skill set as they …
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Creating Walk, Trot and Run Cycles
In order to further progress my skills, I decided to produce a series of different cycles based on our dog Tottie. Cycles are an important thing to get the hang of as they provide more interesting animation and can also be adapted and changed to better suit the acting of the character portrayed. Walk First …
Day 4 – COTF19
Last night before going to bed I went onto Udemy and looked at a couple of courses in script writing, story boarding and animation. I first worked through the short course in script writing. At first the program that he used was not available any more however I luckily found a quick and free alternative …
Day 3 – COTF19
Today I began to repurpose Muddyclaw’s design to be less of a Wing of Fire oc and to make him easier to animate. First off I took my old design as well as a reference sheet I commissioned from an artist and took the fundamental points of the design into account. I noted where all …
Day 2 – COTF19
Today I didn’t do much for my project. I mostly did some redesigning of a character that I was going to use as my second character. I also put down a final design for the first character and now have the basic idea for the colour scheme of him. I will go into detail and …
Day 1- COTF19
Today I properly began to start my project. I put all the images I found into a Photoshop file and printed it out. I did want it to fit over a spread but in the end I like how it turned out. After this I then began to think of ideas for my idea and …
COTF Project 2019
During my break over summer I have decided to give myself a project in order to hone my 2D animation skills and skills in making an animated short. I know that I have given myself quite a challenge but I feel that I will be able to do it, possibly with integrating 3D for the …
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