Alex's Context of Practice Blog

Overall I feel I could have done a lot better in this module. My time management was bad, due to personal issues and not allowing myself eno...

Since completing the animatic stage of my final piece, I realise it could have flowed much smoother if I had added in more frames, to try an...

Overall my final animation turned out well. I moved his back slightly as he lifts his stomach to make him look less stiff; looking back I wi...

The next stage after animating the character was applying the camera movement. Before this project I had never animated the camera, but I wa...

After completing the CG character animation, and having been inspired by 'Tron', I built a few cube shapes, altered the sizes, and m...

The second part of my final piece involves animating a stop motion model coming out of paper, examining his body in amazement, seeing a comp...

In order to create the final animatic, I decided to create each image using the technique I will be demonstrating, which should give the fin...

For the CG part of my final piece, I decided to add floating shapes to the surroundings. This should demonstrate the vast environment that M...

To start off my practical work, I decided to animate in Maya first, since it is the least time consuming and all I need to use it is a compu...

To create the first draft of animatic, I used frames from my storyboard. As discussed before, I didn't spend much time on the storyboard...

'Paranorman' is a good example of combining stop motion and 3D animation. The eery theme of the story is animated really well with r...

'Paperman' is one of the first public examples of the capabilities with hybridizing techniques. Combining the traditional concept ar...

After experimenting with various character rigs in Maya, I have decided to use Moom for my final piece. Since Moom is the rig I am most fami...

As part of our module, it was required that I create an academic poster describing what I've been researching for my dissertation and cr...

Unfortunately I won't have enough time to illustrate a timeline of the key historical events in animation. Since I have delayed starting...

Earlier this week, the famous Barry Purves came into the Leeds College of Art to talk to my class about storytelling through animation. He d...

After narrowing down my initial storyboard, I had to lay out the details of the sequence I want to create ready to animate, so here it is: ...

Aardman studios are most commonly known for their contribution to the stop motion animated film industry. Two of their most iconic character...

The films broadcasted at Leeds International Film Festival were of a very high standard. From the line up, four films in particular stood ou...

Instead of a story, in 'Steamboat Willie' it seems almost as if Mickey Mouse is discovering sound for the first time, which of cours...

Since creating my initial storyboard, I decided it was too long to accomplish a decent animation within the time limit I have for this modul...

A more recent iconic moment in animation history is the first computer generated feature length film, 'Toy Story'. One q...

'Snow White' was the first ever feature length animation film. This is a significant part of history, and a film that will be includ...

After spending so much time thinking about my ideas, it was finally time to document them into a storyboard. This is only an initial story...

After my second tutorial, I did some research into the history of animation to potentially create a timeline of information, which I can ref...

For my second tutorial, I discussed how to proceed with my practical ideas and suggestions on what to research deeper into. First and fore...

To start off this module, I mapped out a rough schedule of when I should spend time on which module for November and December: ...

The feedback on my ideas and proposal form were generally good, the main issue I am having with it so far is figuring out exactly what my ar...

After giving a presentation on my first official scheduled lesson for the new module, Context of Practice 3, on my initial ideas and plans f...

This is what the final version of the model looks like: As you can see below, from the side she looks very flat. During construction ...

Plasticine application of the breasts and legs Continuing on from my previous post, the model is starting to look more established. ...

Wire frame with millilput So I finally started making my model! After getting all of the tools I need; a wooden base, metal rod, alum...

Don't Bet On The Prince This is a book I have read in research for my essay. It contains a series of essays and fairy tales that have...

So far I have talked about making two armature's of realistic proportions and a Barbie-shaped one. However after evaluating my idea, I d...

For my final piece, I would like to make two models. One with realistic body proportions, and one shaped like a barbie doll. Realistic F...

Since the practical side of my essay has to relate to everything I have researched and written so far, there are a few different ways I coul...