LAUAN504 - Documentary Weekly Blog

I have been working on creating more backgrounds. I have created three more in the duration of this week.






Iceni Village:




Destroyed Village (Night):



References:

Iceni army (Walk-cycle):

Early Concepts:





Empty:




Full:





References:




What went well:

- Very good and diverse lighting. Well structured scene composition
- Good development and concepts.
- Good use of character assets.

What to improve:

- Tidier shading.

LAUAN504 - Documentary Weekly Blog

I have begun creating a Roman turn-around sheet and some backgrounds for our project.

Roman Turn-around sheet:

In addition to this, I have also created some Iceni warriors based on the turnaround sheet created by Emily Mullis.

Iceni Warriors:

All of them have different variations in hair colour, style and tattoos.

Backgrounds:

Moonlit Sky:

Iceni lands:

What went well?

- Consistent with the overall style set by the director.

- Nice colouring and lighting.

- Well posed characters.

What to improve?

- Perspective on the Roman character. 

LAUAN504 - Documentary Weekly Blog

For our project, we are going to be created a documentary of Boudicca and her conflict against the Romans. For the first week of this project, I created some concept art, mood boards and researched various different things about the Roman Empire.

Mood Boards:









Roman Concept Art:




I also created a gantt chart for my group.


Gantt chart:

LAUAN504 - Final Submission

For the final submission of my D&AD new bloods award competition, I have created a few JPG slides showing our idea and our development, as well as a short video showing off the animations we did as examples for the final animated advert video.

JPEG slides:
















Video of Animation Examples:




What went well:
- Organised and well thought out idea.
- Plenty of slides showing our idea and development.

What to improve:
- More animated scenes.
- More examples of advertisements.

LAUAN504 - Competition - Weekly Journal

Over this week I have been working on various things, including a poster, as well as some animation for our submission.

Posters:

I created these posters as part of our submissions, as I believe that they could be used as a secondary advertisement. These drawings are part of the animation that I have created.

Animated scene:




This is one of the final animation examples that would be shown in the animated advert.

Social media ad example:


For this video, I photo shopped a tweet to look like Burger King's official twitter account to show what it would look like to post an add of this design. I then composited my animation onto the photo shopped image.



What went well:

- Good use of colours.
- Good timing on animation
- Good backgrounds and compositing.

What to improve:

- Consistent line art.
- Focus on creating more in-between frames.

LAUAN504 - Weekly Blog.

For this week, I had been creating backgrounds for the various animated scenes and illustrative posters.

What went well:

- Bright and vivid colours fit for a comic book style illustration.

- Creative use of colours relating to the burger king colour palette.

What to improve:

- Tidier line art.

- Bolder line art 

- Consistency in line width.

LAUAN502 - Studio Brief 3

For my collective presentation, I have been gathering research for our presentation. Specifically, I have been looking at different banks that could be used for our business, as well as pay rates for our collective.

At the beginning I created a list of various things that we would need to consider when making our collective:




Then I began researching what I needed to look at:





After researching this, we have split up the different roles we will be taking when creating the presentation, which can be seen below:





We will be discussing this in further detail in person.

LAUAN502 - Competition Ideas

For my competition assignment I am going to be doing the Loopdeloop competition:



I have decided to do a loopdeloop animation with the theme being tomatoes, specifically tomatoes being used in the Tomatina festival in Spain. I have been researching and making mood boards for this animation.

My original idea was to create an animation of a truck with people throwing tomatoes from the back.



However, I believe this would be too complicated for the amount of time I have, so I am going to create an animation of someone making 'snow angels' in a pool of tomato mush, similar to one of the images on the mood board.

LAUAN502 - Study Task 6

For this study task I will discuss my strengths, weaknesses and what threats I may face for each.

SWOT Analysis Table:



From my own perception and my colleagues perception, I seem to be good at being a team player, good at writing stories, and being friendly with others. However, I seem to be too reserved and solitary sometimes, so it might be a good idea to try and open up and spend time with people more.

I also seem to be good at making backgrounds and characters, as well as editing and using softwares like clip studio and TV paint, however I lack consistency in posting my artworks, which I have addressed in a previous blog post.

To get better at this, I am going to try and collaberate with other people who I'm not too familiar with to try and build some connections and friendships.

LAUAN502 - Study task 5

For this study task I'm required to list the different platforms of social media that I use on a daily basis. I currently use the following for my work:

Twitter:



Deviant Art:




Instagram:

• I use each of these platforms to share my art. While I haven't publicly opened my commissions, I aim to use these platforms to achieve this by creating a brand new commission sheet.

• I have used twitter more than any of these other social media platforms, and have amassed a following of 103 people (somehow) assuming to have followed me because of my artworks that I have posted. Examples of recent artworks:

• I will soon be opening commissions once I have finished most of my uni work. I will be using mostly twitter and Instagram to advertise this.

• However, I may start expanding to other platforms. I want to build a voice acting portfolio so I may offer my services to other university students who may need such. I have already lent my voice to another student group for their animation. I may use websites such as mandy.com to commission voice acting when the time is right.

List of things to do:

- Post art on twitter and Instagram more regularly.

- Open commissions on my profiles.

- Research mandy.com and how to set up an account for commissions.

- Develop my Linkedin account.

- Create a website

- Start making merchandise