Victor's Cool Animation Blog

The simulated work experience did not go especially smoothly for me at first, but I did manage to produce some work for a second-year student in the end. The student I was paired with initially, Alex, did not really have anything for me to do since he was still in very early stages of production.… Continue reading Simulated Work Experience

I was quite cross at the mood change walk for a while, because I had great difficulty coming up with a satisfying solution to the brief. I probably tried it three or four different ways, and still wasn’t happy with the results or what the finished project would end up looking like. Finally, after discussing… Continue reading Return to Mood Change Walk

So far throughout the course, I think I have done a pretty good job as one of the course representatives. The meeting today was very encouraging, as it sounds like there is solid progress being made by staff in getting us some more room to work in. I think some of my peers on the… Continue reading Course Rep Reflection

Nothing particularly noteworthy occurred in this session, but I just wanted to make an entry to say how lovely Ko is and how nice it was to chat to her. This was my first time interacting with her, and I thought she was really sweet and seemed genuinely interested in what I had been up… Continue reading Personal Tutorial with Ko

This was a really fun workshop day, and Lucy was great. I have not been formally taught storytelling, but I was already familiar with a lot of what she discussed with us. Nonetheless, it was great talking about how stories are constructed with arcs, and how characters often fit into archetypes. For some reason, my… Continue reading Storytelling Workshop with Lucy Lill

I have not been as dedicated to my blog as I should have been so far, and I think that is a bit of a shame. If nothing else, this would be a fun thing to look back on in the future to remember my time at UAL. I think I will schedule some blog… Continue reading Blog Reflection

For the recorded lip sync, a group of friends and I decided it would be fun to collaborate in a distinct way, where we would make our lip sync recordings in a similar theme to one another and then string them together later. I suggested we do a prisoner line up where we each state… Continue reading Recorded Lip Sync

I am a bit out of practice when it comes to 2D lip sync since I have been doing a lot of it in 3D lately, so it was a lot of fun to come back to after quite a while. On my last course, our introduction to lip sync was quite similar, where we… Continue reading Given Lip Sync

Being a frill necked lizard for three hours was a lot of fun, but I can still feel the neck ache even as I write this. I think the approach of imitating whatever it is that you are drawing is very effective, and often find myself making faces as I draw to capture how expressions… Continue reading Physical Performance (Part 2)

I feel I might have gotten a bit off-topic with this task even though it started a bit more straight forward. My fatal flaw is overcomplicating these tasks which are intended to be more simple introductions to these principles. Whilst this loop started out a bit more zoomed out, I felt it would be much… Continue reading Body Acting