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Splash Damage is a London-based video game development company that was founded in 2001. The company has developed several critically acclaimed games, including Dirty Bomb, Gears of War 4, and several games in the Wolfenstein series. Splash Damage is known for its expertise in multiplayer game design, and has worked on several popular multiplayer games.… Continue reading Splash Damage

As an animator, there are many ways I can promote my work and get the word out to potential clients or employers. One way is to create a portfolio of my work that showcases my skills and experience. By sharing my portfolio with others, I can demonstrate my abilities and attract new opportunities.In addition to… Continue reading Ways of Promoting

As an animator, submitting my work to film festivals can be a great way to gain exposure, build my reputation in the industry, and potentially attract new clients or job opportunities. However, the process of submitting an animation to a film festival can be complex and time-consuming, and requires careful planning and attention to detail.The… Continue reading Festivals

I was working with a first-year student on a project to create 3D character designs for my animation. It was a simulated work experience that allowed me to gain valuable experience working with a team member on a project. Throughout the project, I was impressed with the student’s professionalism and work ethic. She was consistently… Continue reading Simulated work experience

When it comes to finding a job in 3D animation, I believe that my experience in character animation has prepared me well. Through my character animation course, I have gained a strong understanding of the principles of animation, including timing, spacing, and weight. I have also developed my skills in 3D animation software such as… Continue reading Moving forward

We paid a visit to this animation studio where we were shown around the studio and how it works. We were shown a presentation of the kind of work the studio produces and the speaker answered question we had for them. They use freelancers as well as employ artists and provide animation videos in advertising,… Continue reading Researching industry roles

Backgrounds This video shows what entails in the job role of a background artist. It explains all the details of the job and what to expect. They talk about how when working that within the job there could be miscommunications with the project. As not everyone vision is the same so the client could visualise… Continue reading Researching industry roles

Animator I watched this video to show me what goes on more in the day of the life of an animator. This shows how much work is involved in the life of an animator and in making an animation.

Compositing I watched this video to give me more insight on what goes on in the job role and it gives more of a visual idea of what the role holds. This job role, in my opinion, looks fun – adding the finishing touches and making sure everything looks better at the end however it… Continue reading Researching industry roles

Through my research in the roles backgrounds, compositing and animator. I would like to work in either the games industry or working with animated movies. I would like to work with Activision, Pixar or Disney. If I had to relocate as some of these jobs in other countries, I would.

Backgrounds artist From what I have researched about background artist that it is used to describe a person who uses traditional or digital artistic skills to design the backgrounds for animations, films, video games or other visual story telling platforms. Animation background artist jobs are often divided into two types: 2D artists and 3D artists.… Continue reading Researching roles

My experience with working with the 2nd year on her animated movie was good. The 2nd year reached out to me through email soon after we were partnered up and arranged a zoom meeting with me. During the meeting she presented her work, what its about and we also went through the animatic on what… Continue reading Simulated Work experience

Meena was created by a team in Unicef which included the indian cartoonist Ram Mohan. The series teaches children on different topics such as health, abuse and freedom from exploitation. One of the characters in this series ‘Raju’, a parrot, was previously a monkey but to cater to their audience they decided that it would… Continue reading Meena – Unicef

Robert Bradbrook (born 1965) is an English filmmaker and animator. He began his career as a cartographer before turning to making films. He received a Masters in Art degree in Electronics and Graphics from Coventry University. His films include Home Road Movies, which is said to be largely autobiographical. Home Road Movies was nominated as Best Animated Short at the 55th British Academy Film Awards and received the… Continue reading Robert Bradbrook

With this task, I decided to record myself saying the joke ‘What do you call a bear that has no teeth? … A gummy bear…’ With this audio I am thinking to create a bear character who says this and then pulls out teeth or I could have gummy bears on the screen.

Here, I will post my life drawings:

I created bouncing characters using TVPaint, the characters required 4 key frames for this move. I created a penguin, lion, monster and a chicken. I really enjoyed animating these characters, with this movement, as it made me more aware of what body parts would be moving and how the dimensions of the character would warp… Continue reading Bouncing characters

I made a stop motion video with Dragonframe by using a puppet and recreating the motion of the puppet lifting a heavy object. I created 8 key positions and the movements for the puppet had to be quite open which I struggled with at first. Afterwards, I added extra movements within them to make the… Continue reading Stop motion

Observing Rolling different balls Here, we rolled differerent round objects off a slope observing how they moved and hit the ground. We noticed how the ball moved along the slope whether it sped up or not, the water balloon was quite interesting as it warped it’s shaped going down. We also noticed whether the ball… Continue reading Rolling ball

Movement psychology is a tool through which you can consciously decide what ‘story’ your character is portraying in any given moment. The practice of Movement Psychology opens us up to the many psycho/physical possibilities that exist within us. Laban theory Motion factors Elements Description Weight Light or strong Does this character have a ‘light’ or… Continue reading Movement Psychology

Escape from prison: Penguin Edition Produced and directed by Muneera, Shilpi, Juao, Victor. For our first assignment we are tasked to produce a short film structured into three components: Introduce the character Problem Solution/end We were put into groups of 4, using objects we brought into the studio from home. We made adjustments to our… Continue reading Short Film

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