Week 7 – Walk Cycles
The 7th week of this course focused primarily on walk cycles, specifically human walk cycles. Steve went through various approaches… Read More »
Week 6 – Maya Again and Character Designing
This week was spent learning about character designing and Maya. Having been on the course for 6 weeks at this… Read More »
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
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 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]
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
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
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
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
I can’t say I was quite expecting the first two weeks to go the way they happened, but then that’s… Read More »