This was the week of the presentation for our group animation which I missed because I was feeling pretty sick that day. I heard that the presentation went very well and I am happy for my group.
I really wanted to talk about the early designs and the story of the crustal world because when I joined that world the two others left so I made up another story for the crystal world and I explored different designs and ideas for it. I was like the original person of the crystal world and I didn’t get to talk about the early stages of the crystal world and how I came up with the story and the description for the actual world. I have shared all of my early designs with the group in previous weeks so I am not going to post them here as well. I told my group if I am not able to make it to the presentation to leave my early designs out of the presentation because nobody would know how to explain all of them since I came up with all of the designs.
This is the link to our groups presentation that they did on week 12
It was disappointing that I couldn’t showcase some of my early development and work inside this presentation, but its okay because some of my group members produced amazing digital work that I was really shocked by. Some of them are really good at drawing digitally and I hope I can draw like them at some point because I really admired their style. Below these are just a couple of images from the group presentation slides that I really liked how they were presented as well.
Even though Oisin wasn’t with the crystal group from the start he was still making great designs and then he took my knowledge and ideas for a queen character and designed these awesome as you can above on the left. Then there is just some early development from the others in the class and some of it is from the people that have previously been inside crystal world as well.
Then my group have presented the actual group animation and it was just a few drawings and animations from multiple people edited together. It was a really good presentation, but our group lacked communication and because of it bunch of people in the group didn’t really get to be a part of the animation. It is all okay thought because everyone made some sort of animation, even if its a simple one like mine we can still show case it inside our blogs. This was the final animation that our group came up with in the end.
If I was to look at this and just give some feedback towards the animation I would say that the spacing and the editing could definitely improve and that could definitely make the animation flow even better. I also learned a lot from this animation when I first watched it. I learned that drawings definitely take time if you want to make them look as good as possible. I also noticed that people use a lot of shadows to make their world and images look way better. I definitely want to try to improve my art the next semester and to practise drawing digitally way more because I am still not very confident when it comes to drawings with a tablet.
This week I sat down with Alec and we talked about what I missed from the class and what I should look over. We also just had a nice chat about my designs and compositions. Since I have missed the presentation, Alec looked at my designs individually which I really liked because he was able to give me so much feedback on the designs that I had prepared for the group presentation. He looked through all of my designs and just gave me little feedback on all of them which was really beneficial. I then mentioned to him that I want to try to animate the character that I chose from the final designs. And he said it sounds really good. He also looked at my work and said that I should do a couple of colour studies and designs because my work was lacking colour and i definitely agree. I said that I will be doing some of the colour studied on some of my composition sketches and some of the characters, which I have did.
As you can see I have picked my favourite design and did a colour study on them and explored a little about each of the forms. The goal for this sketch was to do some colour exploration and with these designs I did just that. I have did some research on the elements of the world and gather up some references when I was designing these characters on Photoshop.
Mantas Macidulskas 