It took me many more weeks to decide which topic to dedicate my essay to than most others. I looked at different aspects of animation that included inbetweens and the history of it, but none of these topics grabbed me enough to want to write about. When talking to Johny to get advice about how […]
This week we explored peoples Statement of Intents as well as a more in depth look at how to write one; beyond this we were shown In Design – something I needed desperately needed due to having no experience with the software. I felt a little lost with doing the Statement of Intent as I’d […]
This lecture was filled with information this week. We were set our final task for the end of the module as well as having two separate talks from the library; one about research and finding reliable resources and the other about using our Library Search engine available through Blackboard. While I expected to be bored […]
YouTube is a place that many people spend most of their time. Television is gradually becoming more and more unpopular due to online streaming services, and one of the biggest is YouTube. It is a unique platform where anybody can create content to reach a wide audience across the world. I’m part of that audience, […]
As a class we visited the Manchester Art Gallery. We were tasked with finding 3 paintings or pieces of art that really attracted us to it and to write what we liked about it. Very dark with bright red splashes – stark contrast. Different brush strokes. It still looks like a war is happening – […]
A group of us from Animation class visited the Manchester Animation Festival on Wednesday 16th. We went to watch the Student Films (Block 2) to get an idea of the type of competition we’d face in our third year of University, and let’s just say we have a lot to live up to. 10 films […]
Me and Chloe recently visited the Manchester Museum for inspiration on animation. We went to create a blog about it and gather visual documentation. We weren’t exactly sure what we were expecting to find, but we had a few hours to kill before the Animation Festival on Wednesday so we decided to explore. The museum […]
In this weeks session of animation context we were given a task on GIGO and the research funnel as well as the 360 challenge. The research funnel refers to a method of research where you funnel your information. You begin by having broad and general research on a topic – in this case an area […]
For the last week of Animation Context we were given the task to create a piece of art based on the word we did the presentation for – mine being Tabula rasa. The above picture shows that piece. I made it out of Plasticine and it shows a human brain on the front of […]
In our fourth instalment of Animation Context we were tasked with something called ‘Expert in the Room’. That is to research a topic or word and produce deep research into it, into it’s origins, the idea in use and then subsequently creating a presentation for the class. When I first Googled my word to begin […]
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