Animate!

This one is a really nice story plus its beautiful. I liked how they made inanimate objects move and show personality, although I wont really be doing that in my project.

Its a really cute animation, I love the style of the environments and the colour palette.

We followed up our lesson on walk cycles with a run cycle. There was more focus on follow through and secondary movement this lesson as well as a more in depth look at how to use the graph editor to smooth the animation.

I really like the character designs and the way that the nun character moves, I want to exaggerate the movement of my character though not quite to the same degree.

Maya classes are back! We have started this term with some animation which is great. The first class was looking at a basic walk cycle. This is the final result (if the video is working properly now?):
Learning a bit more about the graph editor was very useful too as I feel like I always neglect it somewhat when I animate. I really enjoyed getting back into animation after not doing much of it last term. This semester will be fairly animation heavy which is good. I'm going to try and do some 11 second clubs alongside Going Live and developing my final project if I have time.

I found this video "Contre Temps", by Jérémi Boutelet, Thibaud Clergue, Gaël Megherbi, Tristan Ménard, Camille Perrin and Lucas Veber at Supinfocom Arles (website here: contretemps-lefilm.com, vimeo account here: https://vimeo.com/user12172525), while I was watching a selection of animated shorts on youtube. 
Its the aesthetic of this film that I find particularly inspiring. I really like the atmosphere of the whole piece too. The painted look of the environments and props are sort of similar to the look I would like to achieve for my own project. Watching this short has given me a lot more inspiration regarding how far I can push the look of my film, As I continue developing the ideas for my film I will also do some texturing tests, hopefully being able to see what my final film could look like will help me to decide what I want to show, if that makes sense.

We're back! So we started this semester by getting the brief for our Going Live project from Axis animation. The brief is to take the audio from a something like the Jeremy Kyle show and create an animation with it. We had our first group meeting about the project today to brainstorm initial ideas. We are going to develop these for a week before sending a few ideas off to Axis to see what they think.