Monday 6 November 2017

Who Am I Now?

What have I learned? 

- How to use Photoshop to animate
- How to use Adobe Animate
- Effectiveness of life drawing in conjunction with design
- Timing and Spacing in Animation
- Editing in both adobe premier and after effects

What do I want to learn more about?

- Cell shading 3D models 
- Background and layout
- Fast pace animations
- how to make an animatic using 3d software
- How to accurately portray natural light in a space

5 Strengths

- Character Drawing
- Shadows and shading
- Male proportions
- Fast worker
- Shot framing

5 areas to improve

- Female character design
- Animation in general
- Dynamic drawing
- texture and detail 
- consistency in drawing 

5 Practitioners that make me interested in Animation

- Bruce Timm (Character Design and Storytelling)
- Egoraptor/ Arin Hanson (Peaked my interest in Animation to begin with)
- Phil Bourassa (Inspirational Character design which constantly improves and changes)
- Tyson Hesse (Purely for his incredible opening animation to Sonic Mania) 
-  Studio Yotta (Incredible Storyboards for animations)

5 Resources that Demonstrate My interest

- FIGURE DRAWING For All Its Worth (Book) By Andrew Loomis
- STARTING POINT (Book) Hayao Miyazaki
- Castlevania Animator Spencer Wan (Link to be included)