AARRRGH

:( Im currently feeling rubbish, all the work I have done is refusing to open and its making everything incredibly frustrating.

I need to use flash/after effect and premier, but being unable to use these programmes at home is really going to hinder any chance I have of getting this thing finished. Im also now really worried about getting my rough cut done, I wont be able to put in any animation I have done if I cant get the files open. ARRGH.

I f worse comes to worse, im going to have to simply use shots of my story board in place of the animation until I can sort out this mess.

wish me luck!

Hi Hi

Hello.

So my animation is a ment for a game, so ive decided to make the beginning even more like all the wonderful flash games I waste so much time on on Newgrounds :) heres a few screen shots

let me know what you think. :) The actual animation Im doing for this is kinda like a prelude to the game. (which ill make one day....) kind of like final fantasy and such. most games have an animated intro.

Cheers.

Recent going ons.

Hello.

So we're in our final term SCAREY. anyways. new stuff. Im still working on my animation and its coming together verrrry slowly.. im not going to lie and say its a piece of cake because to me, animating is one of those things I find really hard to do, so once this piece is finally finished (hopefully in a few weeks) ill be more than happy.

DREAMWEAVER: I recently signed up to do an intensive dreamweaver workshop with my uni, its a course over about 6 weeks with an exam at the end, on how to build websites from scratch, the first lesson I had was the past friday, 7 hours of knowledge went into my brain that day!, I actually surprised my self, and found Dreamweaver a very nice tool to work with, the only thing I found difficult was keepiing folders in specific places, if dreamweaver couldnt find something, it wouldnt open it... but I guess Ill have to work on it. :) At the end of the workshop after the exam Ill get an recognised adobe qualification certificate for dreamweaver cs4. which is great, only thing is If i wanted the certificate to remain valid Id have to resit it everytime they brought out a new dreamweaver, but anyway... Im sure it will help me immensly in the future, just opening up a few more doors and so on.

MENTOR.: We all got asssigned a mentor for this term to help us learn what its like to be in the industry. My mentor is called Tom Evans, hes a free lance animator/designer and seems great.
we have emailed a few times and his emails have been very insightful into the life of a free lance animator, its also been very interesting learning about how other people get into the industry and what made them decide to take the paths they did, Hopefully Ill learn a lot more about Tom in the next few weeks and Id like to be able to take what he teaches me with me into what ever work place I end up in :) check out his website http://www.tomwe.com

bye bye for now x

Innovation Project

2D animation is the most traditional form of animation, hand drawn and cell animation has developed with technology such as Flash and Toon Boom, making animations faster to produce and opening up a whole new way of producing animation to animators.

What makes programmes such as Flash valuable to animators is the fact that files can cross over into over digital programmes such as After Effects to add even more exciting dimensions to their work.

IN this project I hope to add a darker atmosphere to my 2d animation using after effects to help me create effects such as fog, various lighting and shadows. Even though Flash is a powerful tool I hope to achieve a darker looking animation, something I dont think I can acheive through Flash alone.
Using After Effects gives me a chance to turn 2D objects into 3D objects which allows me to set them up on different planes letting me add a certain depth to my work.







This Video from Ruggero Tomasino shows just what after effects can do to create a completely different atmosphere to a piece of footage.