Strike a Pose

In this task we are required to strike a pose for 20 minutes for the others in the group and spend that time to do a more detailed sketch of the model. This practice has improved my ability of find the balance and where human's weight lies when they stand still. It also improve how I interpret a life drawing, which is from the whole body and work towards the details in each part of the body.

Like a Puppet on a String

Like a puppet on a string, we are supposed to express the squash and stretch of the body, producing a series of poses with each held for 10 sec. As for media I used coloured chalks, fine markers.Theses two materials are suitable for quick sketches like this, as it flows fast on the paper and create nice texture. I did the bottom one overlapping all the poses together trying to make the movement and the stretch of the body more obvious.

Rhythm is a Dancer

This requires us to show the flow of the body when making a continuous movement. I did both of these two set of sketches by coloured chalk, but some of the other ones in other materials as well.In both of the two our model made a turn around during the movement, which is a good example if we are presenting the flow of the body.I found it's very hard to capture the shape during only 10 seconds, therefore I used the simplest style I could.

Ah, Push it!

In our group we did two set of pushing poses, these are two of the sketches I did, both of them are pushing against the table, but one with the body facing us and the other one with back facing us. I found it extremely interested to observe the muscles of human body when pushing or pulling stuff. If in animation, the principle's of animation would be considered as well, such as squash and stretch when giving force.

Environmental Storytelling:3 Scenes

Sketches of environments during a few times out of the college.The first scene is in Leeds University where I found it's a urban scene compare to the other ones. The internal scene is in Costa Coffee which would be a great example of interacting with characters, as it is a social environment. The other external scene is the Leeds Art Gallery in the town centre, it remains the elder architecture style than the other scenes.

Environmental Storytelling:The Last Door

The last door is a video game that is presented in an pixel animation way, it is successful on various aspects, and the environmental storytelling especially stands out. Although it is in a pixel style, the environments are drawn in a delicate standard. The style is not only limited to this dark tone but some lighter ones and black&white as well.

Environmental Storytelling:Paprika

Paprika is an animation produced by Satoshi Kon, it is a abstract animation with a clear story line. One of the aspects I love about this film is the environments of it. For example in the top screen shot, it is an urban city style background, but with tons of random other elements, which makes the scene a collides between the objects and the environment. This is also demonstrate in the bottom shots. It was done in a realistic style, but it collaborate well with the characters and other elements within the animation, and the environment itself has narrative as well. 

Environmental Storytelling:External&Internal

I chose a few scenes which include both internal and external scenes, which I found has contrast between themselves, such as ancient and urban, wide and narrow.

Set, Series, Sequence:Narrative

The first idea came to my mind was a spinning wheel falls off from the bike and rolls away itself. But I found it less interesting and it could be too short for 6-12 panels of frames in the storyboard, therefore came up with another idea of a character riding a old fashioned bike, and he falls on the ground because the bike was stuck on a piece of rock on the ground.

Set, Series, Sequence:Storyboard

The story board of the short narrative produced based on the set drawings.

Set, Series, Sequence:Production

One of the series of 12 images.

I used dots in this drawing to draw both the lines and the shadows. I think it is an very interesting texture of producing drawings, and I can imagine produce animation with the style would create lots of inspiration. Below is a image that's done in similar way, with more delicate shadows.

Set, Series, Sequence:Colours

With these two series of drawing, I used coloured markers. The left one I used the three contrasting colours in order to make it capture attention and to stands out from the white background. As for the other one I used only one colour instead of mixing colours, as I think it gives a cleaner outcome and contrast with the background as well.

I am not extremely sensitive at colours, and I need to try out more collaboration with colours in my drawings.

Set, Series, Sequence:Materials

Certain parts of this piece of paper were cut out, which are the gaps between the wires of a wheel. I used to do some paper crafting, and this simple way of cutting parts out of the paper  still work well with a dark background or a contrasting background depending on the colour of the paper. I think this way of producing pieces can be applied with 2D stop-motions, especially for the background.

Character Modelling

During the wood work shop induction, I made this wooden model from the character I designed for the previous study task. I decided to use loose parts of her body because it is easier to be posed due to the structure of my character.The shapes of each of the part of the body was cut out first, and sanded individually. Sand papers were applied to create the uneven parts on her body such as the hair and the texture on her dress.

Set, Series, Sequence:Set to Series

During the production of the set of 24 drawings, I found this my favourite drawing and decided to produce the series of 12 drawings based on this one. Considering the similarity and difference, I think I could produce the drawings with different media, colours and shapes.

Set, Series, Sequence:Characters

The engagement of characters to objects came to my mind during the production,it is another way of presenting the object, or the word, which is "wheel". In the first one I only included the low part of the character's body, as it is enough for the drawing or otherwise it might occupy too much space rather than pointing the wheel out. In the second one, I decided that a little girl could make an interesting interaction within the wheel itself, and it can keep the whole drawing within a circle as well.

Set, Series, Sequence:Similarity

Similarities and differences in the set of drawings were always considered. In these three drawings I produced, they are all wheels of cars, but with different colours, quantities, textures, which I tried to show by using different media: marker pens for the left two and pencil for the right one; use different colours and draw the shadows with different methods.

You Spin Me Right Round:Animation

The animation of the turning around of the captain character, it is in 12fps and she has been spin around for four times.

Set, Series, Sequence:Wheel

The word I picked is "wheel", after a few scribbles of ideas I began to make some drawings to response to this word. Wheel can represents many things, and it does not need to be in its normal position, therefore makes the object more interesting.

You Spin Me Right Round

In this study task I need to animate the character to turn around for four times, and each round is 12 drawings, which each of the drawing turns 20 degrees compare to the previous drawing. I used blue pencil to roughly scribbled out the height and the shape of the character on each of the 12 papers, and did the character in solid HB pencil, therefore the dragon frame wouldn't capture the blue lines and just the character itself.