With our final brief set for creative play myself, Maddie and Rowena began on the Ideation phase of our project. We took a piece of A2 paper, divided it into sections for each of us to write ideas down and compared them as we worked. We spent multiple hours working on this, all keeping the […]
In this weeks session of creative play were were given the opportunity to re-visit rapid prototyping. Many visitors were in the building, so we were tasked with designing quick sets and characters to produce a 40 minute animation on the ground floor for viewers to watch. The design process took up the morning while we […]
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 […]
Foley is the art of audio replacement in film and TV. Foley artists create all the diegetic sounds, from clothes rustling, footsteps and even sound effects for unusual things – like sci-fi movies and the alien noise or the lightsaber from Star Wars. It’s a highly creative art form that forces you to really think […]
This week of creative play focused on lighting and green screening. The first half of the day started with the group being split into two. One group started the morning with green screening, the group I was in started in lighting and we reversed roles in the afternoon. I was extremely excited and looking forward […]
This week we entered a darkened room with a few sandpits of light. My intuition told me to wave my hand over it (as designed by the artist), and as I did it made the sand animate. I played around with these for a while and learnt about the process it took to create it, […]
This week we had Christine Charnock – a UX Designer from the BBC – come in and give a presentation with some tasks for the class to complete throughout the day. The theme for this session was ‘Ideation’, which is the way ideas or concepts are formed. We used lots of different quick-fire methods to […]
TZ on the left, me in the middle and Archie on the right Last Thursday we were put into teams of 4 including a member from digital media to design and create 2 structures. The task was designed with a quick turn-around in mind and involved making a tower to hold an egg (the taller […]
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