The joy of lipsync

First go at lipsync and I love it!

Normally we would be given a sound clip to animate to but this time we were given the freedom to choose a phrase

AND

we also have to animate the correct British sign language to it.

Genius idea.

During the process of animating I also found out that a girl in my class who is deaf actually found she could understand more of what was going in old exaggerated animations than the simplistic animation we tend to see today.

It made me think, why don't we have animated cartoons (not just for kids) that sign while talking.

Its not like the actions will be distracting from the plot or anything in fact it could even make the emotions more exciting.

If more animations like this exist, it could make it easier for everyone to enjoy films or series 

together without feeling isolated or different.

Just a thought.

Understanding the rhythm

 We had the wonderful opportunity to sketch contemporary dancers at the university.

I've always wanted to do this but never got the chance to.

We've also been told we can come back when we want to sketch more!

It was hard to capture the fast movements but trying to capture the energy through gesture drawing was really exciting.

Sketching with my new ink brush pen was also perfect for it.

Was a bit messy but I think the heavy strokes emphasized the weight and shadows nicely.

Concept art/Background designs

I love my group.

Our Penryn project is coming along really well.

We've got our final storyboard and have begun our next step.

For me that is background designs and layouts.

Feeling confident on my backgrounds but will have see out my layouts turn out.

Movement and cloth observations

Life drawings from a previous session

Atmospheric backgrounds

Worked on Photoshop but wanted to achieve a sort of watercolour texture to the drawing.

Also red trees are beautiful attention grabbers.

Love how the red leaves seem to bleed into the sunlight.

Working on my depth of field and colour palette. 

Trees and light and...stuff

Experimenting with cool and warm tones.

Probably not the best background for animation but I'm having fun anyways.