I have seen a huge improvement in character design and storyboarding over this year but I can also seen a big need to improve my animation skills as well. However, over this year, I have definitely come to realise that I excel more in pre-production than actual production and this is the area I want to focus on more.
Saturday, 30 March 2019
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Character Design Challenge - Alebrijes
I entered the Character Design Challenge for their 51st challenge: Alebrijes.
Alebrijes originate from Mexico and they're actually a relatively new addition to Mexican culture. First created by Pedro Linares as sculptures of non-existent animals that he saw in his dreams; a donkey with butterfly wings, a rooster with bull-horns, etc. The whole idea of alebrijes is that they can be whatever you imagine them to be and that they are sort of your spirit animal when you pass over to the afterlife.
I decided to combine two of my favourite animals to create my own alebrije; a wolf and a deer and then I decided to mix in eagle wings as well.
Initial sketch
I tried to go for a realistic wolf look but it looked really strange with the unnatural colour palette:
I decided to go extremely cute and simple instead:
And I toned down the colour palette to compliment the style better.
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Study 9: Collective Enterpise
My team was formed of; Cara, Jess, Rhys and myself.
We decided to create a collective that focused on finding work for freelancers, particularly animation freelancers and artists. As we are all wanting to focus on pre-production and that it is hard to find work for such freelancers.
I did research into how to start a company, looking into studio spaces in Leeds, Wakefield and Manchester, as well as software necessities, desktop computers and laptops.
We also created a website for our collective; "The Hungry Artist Collective"
Logo designed by Rhys.
I really like the idea of this collective and I would like to explore this idea more.
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