This is more like it, I haven’t ever had to do four legged walks or runs before, so this felt like exciting new ground. I really enjoyed looking into how four legged animals work internally, and how their walks change completely when they move at different paces. For instance, a horse’s regular walk is pretty… Continue reading Quadruped Walk Cycles

I haven’t gotten on well with this assignment at all. I am fine with doing walk cycles of different moods and expressions, and I am pretty confident when it comes to framing and moving a character across the stage, but somehow this one has been causing me a lot of trouble. I feel like it… Continue reading Mood Change Walk

The character acting exercise day was a lot of fun! When they say character exercise they mean it, it was a hell of a workout running around for so long. It does make a really refreshing change to expel all of that energy physically rather than at a desk, and it sort of wakes you… Continue reading Physical Peformance (Part 1)

I love doing character design stuff so I really enjoyed the workshop on it. There is something very liberating about working on a character design that isn’t for a project or really connected to anything else. Admittedly I didn’t break the mould with the character I came up with, I am very partial to nautical… Continue reading Character Design

The puppet workshop was a lot of fun, but the inability to add between frames is a bit daunting when starting out and frustrating. I have done a fair bit of puppet animation in my life, but I had never even considered the reference film function that is available in Dragonframe even though I have… Continue reading Puppet Stuff

Covering more principles this week in the Monday and Tuesday sessions which was fun, I think we were exploring follow through with the bouncy little character on the diving board. Was not especially productive this week, but completed all the tasks. I think I was a little concerned about my presentation on Wednesday, which I… Continue reading More Principles

We have been covering more of the bouncing ball practice which I had done previously in 2018, exploring principles like squash and stretch, follow through etc. I am already quite familiar with the 12 principles but I was glad to have this time to refine my knowledge of squash and stretch which might be the… Continue reading Bounces and Walks

Been ages since I’ve written a blog post! The last blog I had was for my Illustration and Animation course at ARU last year, so hopefully I remember how to do it. So far I don’t have much to document about my workings, as it is only the first week. We’ve been doing a little… Continue reading Getting Started