Week 5 – Lift, Push, and Personal Films

Week 5 - Lift, Push, and Personal Films

This week, we returned to more physics-based exercises, looking at how we can convey a sense of heaviness when animating… Read More »

Yuval Haker – Covid Loop

Yuval Haker - Covid Loop

Another film I discovered at the Factual Animation Film Festival was Yuval Haker’s 2020 animated short film called Covid Loop…. Read More »

Week 4 – Exaggeration, 3D and Life Drawing

Week  4 - Exaggeration, 3D and Life Drawing

Week 4 of the character animation course has finished, and here’s the result of my work since. Before the week… Read More »

Magda Kreps – I want to be bored [Animated Documentary]

Magda Kreps - I want to be bored [Animated Documentary]

Upon the recommendation of my tutor, Shaun Clark, I looked at the Factual Animation Film Festival, a festival that showcases… Read More »

Andy Glynne: Animation from a Documentary Filmmaking Perspective

Andy Glynne: Animation from a Documentary Filmmaking Perspective

To round up the last of my presentation posts, I’ll be discussing a filmmaker’s work who’s caught my eye in… Read More »

Week 3: Bouncing Balls, Follow Through and Personal Character Designs

Week 3: Bouncing Balls, Follow Through and Personal Character Designs

This week, we spent our studio time animating more bouncing balls but also started looking into follow through: the movement… Read More »

Animated Documentaries: The appeal of faking reality

Animated Documentaries: The appeal of faking reality

I’ve been constantly discussing the idea of reality: what is it about the degree of reality portrayed in filmmaking that… Read More »

Week 1 and 2: Physics and Life Drawing

Week 1 and 2: Physics and Life Drawing

I can’t say I was quite expecting the first two weeks to go the way they happened, but then that’s… Read More »

Researching into Spectatorship and Reality

Researching into Spectatorship and Reality

For my presentation, I’ve settled on researching the ideas of “spectatorship” and how it concerns animation and the design choices… Read More »

Sun and Moon Studios: Adapting Lost Television

Sun and Moon Studios: Adapting Lost Television

Whilst looking for inspiration and looking at animators/studios based in the UK, I came across Sun and Moon studios, a… Read More »