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In the past I have completed the life drawing tasks with pencil and paper. For this session I decided to try going back to my trusty photoshop and the results made me feel really proud of my abilities! I was able to make a gif with my drawings and this was a nice experience trying… Continue reading Life Drawing | Mary Clare

This session was really fun! I have next to no experience with storyboarding and so it was interesting to see how it’s done by an industry professional. One thing that I found challenging was the short turn-around time, I put so much time into the first few panels that I was rushed for time by… Continue reading Storyboarding | Bianca Ansems

I LOVE CHARACTER DESIGN! The character design session was very fun and informative! I learnt a lot about storytelling through character design and getting feedback on my characters from Bianca was really useful. My background is in illustrating, specifically character art and so I was in my element with this task. I have gone with… Continue reading Character Design | Bianca Ansems

I really like this animation, I think I was challenged a bit by the timing of the bounce and that’s reflected in the first bounce. The squash and stretch was a really fun tool to use to emphasise the movement. I don’t see myself using it much with my work as I prefer to animate… Continue reading Bouncing Character

I believe that my horse could use more work… While I feel that I can draw a horse with relative ease, animating one is an entirely different thing. I struggled with the smaller details in the movement, the head nod was something that seems to disappear as I did the in-betweens. Having a particular style… Continue reading Horse walk cycle

What roles was I given? My tasks included backgrounds, exterior and interior house designs, mood-boards, prop designs and colour pallets. I have been up to date with my work and reached all goals set for me on time. I’ve found this opportunity to be a really nice introduction to working in the industry. I’ve been… Continue reading Work Experience Reflection

So at the moment I’ve been having real look into my enjoyment of the course, and while I have loved my time at CSM I would mostly attribute this to my course-mates, the building and London. Unfortunately the worst part of being here has actually been the animating. If I’m being totally honest with myself… Continue reading Feelings

I enjoyed doing this exercise more than quite a few of the other ones. I found that while challenging, animating the mouth movements was very intuitive. The mouth on the 2D version was much easier to animate, while I found the body acting of the 3D was easier. This is definitely a useful skill to… Continue reading Lip Sync Exercises

I visited Hever Castle for my birthday and got to visit John Guthrie’s collection of miniature houses. In 1989 he commissioned John J. Hodgeson, master English miniaturist furniture maker, to create a number of English Country houses that would reflect the architectural features, furniture, interiors and ways of life through time. The models are within… Continue reading Exhibition: John J. Hodgeson Miniature House Collection

This was an amazing experience in how character is linked to prop and costume. Wes Anderson does a great job of defining character in an almost cartoon way, each character has a distinctive look whilst complimenting each other and working well together visually. Anderson’s compositions are also infamous for being pleasing to the eye and… Continue reading Exhibition: French Dispatch