Major Project: Bathroom Animation Scenes

Some of the scenes for the Bathroom part of my film describing the fate of Mr Plimsoll's wife. There is some issues with the textures and the lighting in the bathroom set that need a go over to make sharper and less noticeable, to achieve a watercolour aesthetic showed in the backgrounds in 1930s cartoons. I also need to add a spotlight effect to the axe and fridge scenes so that it reflects what is shown in the animatic more faithfully.

CG Artist Toolkit Animation: Posing Max- Baseball Batter

The Timing of the Animation still needs a little tweaking but the general layout for the poses and the in betweens are sorted.

Animated Showreel Version 2

Showreel Final from Katie Lima on Vimeo.

Animatic Showreel

Showreel from Katie Lima on Vimeo.

Animation: Animating on Photoshop

Due to me leaving my memory stick at home, I wasn't able to do my lip sync animation. So instead I looked at the work of Alex Grigg, the maker of the short film Phantom Limb, and watched his tutorial for animating in Photoshop. I like the results of animating in Photoshop as the limitations and the way that it is like a hybrid between Flash, Aftereffects and Photoshop makes it very interesting and fun to use.

Animation: Sinister Watering Can Concepts and Storyboard

Fig 1: Sinister Watering Can Concepts

Fig 2: Storyboarding: Hiding Spots Concepts

Fig 3: Storyboarding: Concept for End of Scene with Sinister Watering Can

Maya Tutorials: Animation 1: Intro to Character Animation

Bouncing Ball: On the Spot

Settle and Rest

Secondary Action and Overlay

Squash and Stretch



Flash- Lemon Cake WIP

Animation based on my Nan's Lemon Cake that she made a few days ago. For this I used motion tween and frame by frame animations.

Animation: Flash Animation using Reference Images 2

Continuation of my animation from last week, adding and altering the frames.

Animation: Flash Animation Using Reference Images

 

Work in Progress animation by tracing the drawings I drew in a Life Drawing Session 2 weeks back as the key frame and drawing in the in-betweens in Flash.

Animation: Symbols, Tweening and Adding Symbols

Turning my animation of the horse into a symbol and then applying a tween was very easy to do for me, and while I still need to improve on the horse's movement, it is amusing to see it fly by in a hurricane. To add to this, I might add additional objects that are swept up into the hurricane, and maybe animate the hurricane so that it spins.

Animation: Bouncing Ball- Bouncing Horse

Fig 1: Bouncing Ball with Secondary Action

Fig 2: Adding the Frames of the horse

Fig 3: Repeated the Frames of the horse

Fig 4: Coloured the horse in and fixed some of its anatomy for more fluidity

While it still needs a bit more work put into it, especially with the horse's legs, this is my animation of the bouncing ball to character so far. After fixing this up and making him flow better with his movements and with his pacing, I shall make a background for him, perhaps doing it in Photoshop as it has a wider range of brushes.

After Effects: Paralex Test

While I'm not the best at using After Effects I did enjoy making this. Apart from some issues with trying to get the right render size for uploading on here, everything went pretty smoothly and it was relatively easy to make.

Animation: Bouncing Ball and Secondary Action

While the object was rather easy to animate, I had computer trouble regarding Flash hating the brush, pencil and eraser tool with a passion so I had less time to make the animation. Therefore I plan on working on it more but I'm happy with how it turned out despite having a shorter time to do the sequence. I especially want to sort out the movement of the red ball as is bounces up towards the end and make the looping flow better.

Fig 1: Without Secondary Action

Fig 2: With Secondary Action

Animation: Morphing

This an animation I did of myself turning into a carrot and then turning into a lion. I really enjoyed making the animation, it's been a while since I used Flash like this so it was refreshing to do something like this after a while of not using the program in ages.