Showreel

I decided to spent today to do my showreel.

• • • PIPELINES AND TECHNIQUES
    •   Talk about the process of the project. Eg Day 1 compared to Day NOW
    • Challenges in the group and how we overcame them eg. Stroyboard – too many ideas, learning to delegate people's strengths
    • Specialist role: Storyboarding
    • Skills: cinematography/storyboarding
    • Production: Clean up, rough animation, background concepting, texturing
    • I'd like to learn more about how colour can affect mood/atmosphere eg The Incredibles
  • COLOR THEORY  
  • Warm vs cool colours – eg The chase, contrast between characters, cold character Demetrius, warm character Lionell
  • Background – Forest blue, purple colours, green – almost horror palette adding blue to balance
• SHAPE LANGUAGE
•  I used soft shapes (chest, body, arms) to apply him as a good guy. I gave him a big chest to suggest heroism.
• I also used sharp shapes (face, eyes, hair, stripes) to suggest some danger, I made these shapes more subtle than the soft shapes so he appears as the good guy, but as the story continues we learn that he is not as good as he seems. I wanted him to look like the good guy from first glance, but as you look closer at his design he looks more torn between good and bad.
• I tried making his eyes look zebra-like
• I used dark blues, and greys to make him look quite “villianious”
  Environment
• LIFE DRAWING
•   I learned to explore different medias in lifedrawing, I tried out line drawing and learnt it helped my obseravtional skills, and to draw what you see and feel rather than draw everything “correctly”. This helped me apply it to my animations, to feel every movement.
• It helped me strengthen my poses for animation, knowing how far apart the legs are and how weight affects the body.
• I learnt how lighting gives different moods to both lifedrawing and animation, if you make the shadows very sharp and dark it gives quite a depressing mood while soft shading gives it a lighter mood. I tried applying this knowledge to my storyboards.