Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want to learn?

Why did you chose to study on this programme?

• because i am very interested in animation
• because i want to study animation and find out all i can about it as an art form and the way in which it is used in industry
•  because this course seemed to be the best course to study animation
• because i want to develop my skils as an animator
• because i want to work as an animator 

 
What do you want to learn during your time on the programme?

• i would like to learn how to design characters better
• how to explain my ideas better visually
• how to expand my drawing skills and interlink my drawing skills with animation better
• how to develop stories into emotionally moving and complex animation
• how to produce animations professionally

 
What skills do you think are your strengths?

• solid drawing 
• basic knowledge of anatomy
• being able to sympathise with characters when animating them and to understand their mindfulness
• determination to improve my understanding and develop my skills through my mistakes
• being able to communicate my ideas to others

 
What things do you want to improve?

• character design 
• getting the viewer to understand immediately what i am trying to show in terms of story and sequencing
• knowledge of anatomy
• knowledge of colour
• producing animations in terms of the formatting and making a finished animation look professional

 
What ways will you evaluate your progress?

• by keeping a record of what i do on my blog
• looking at my mistakes and working out what went wrong and how i could do it better
• listen to tutors feedback and act upon it
• by being critical of everything i do and making sure it is up to the standard i want it to be at
• by looking for things i did well in my work and making sure to keep that aspect of my work consistant

Photoshop Session - 13/10/2015

Photoshop Session - 13/10/2015

This session we were animating in photoshop, getting to grips with everything we have been taught and making sure we can use photoshop to animate in the future. i animated some bouncing balls and a pendulum because there is no point overcomplicating things when learning the fundamentals.

Photoshop Session - 06/10/2015

Photoshop Session - 06/10/2015
In this photoshop session we learnt how to use the basic animation tools such as how to use the timeline features, tweening and how to make animatics. i thought this session was very helpful and i think i will be using photoshop in the future for putting together my hand drawn animations because it seems useful for this purpose. however it seems like there could be better software for this purpose but even so photoshop seems very useful for colouring hand drawn animations above anything else. In the session we were provided with a few layers in photoshop of a scene that we could animation using the skills we learnt in the session, the animation is below.

Photoshop session - 02/10/2015

Photoshop session - 02/10/2015

We learnt about different ways to touch up our images using tools such as the "levels" tool and the "hue/saturation" tool. These tools will be useful for me in the future to edit my scanned images and make my images looking more professional.

We also learnt about the spot healing brush tool, this was very useful for blending parts of different images and making it look more natural but it can also have some weird effects sometimes.

To put all of our skills into action at the end of the session we created a spaceship out of various different images, i found this challenging at first but then i found it easier by using the masking tools an the transform tools.