I have missed some of the class this week so I didn’t get to see how they talked about Krita application and animating inside of it unfortunately. I found out this information when I came to class and asked my group members on what I missed and what did they do. They told me about the discussions of Krita and how its another way of animating things. We were told to practise either one of the animations. Either try to animate a walk cycle or look at a flour sack and try animating it. When I have found out about the Krita class and about animating a sack, I went back to Photoshop and try my luck again. This was the result.
As you can see I tried animating a couple of sacks dropping differently. This was really hard also because Photoshop made it a bit harder, but the layers were the biggest problem because they kept appearing. The folding and the movement is minimum as well as you can tell, but I think i got the drop and the bend perfectly timed even if the frames are really short. You can also see that I have tried animating different falls. One is folding in front and the second one is just falling on the site. This was also a fun activity to try, it unfortunate I have missed the class because I would of probably gained more knowledge on animating a sack.
This week we also got Alec to talk to the whole class and told everyone that they can move into any of the world that anyone wants which was surprising for everyone. Everyone took some time to move into different groups that they have wanted formed new teams pretty much.
Our crystal world group didn’t move at all and all of us stayed the same which was really wholesome I am not going to lie because I felt like everyone the idea of our world. Nobody joined our group either at the very start with was also surprising because I felt like we had an amazing idea. As our team was discussing the final assignment which is to create an animation/animations related to our world. As soon as we started discussing more into our animation we had two people introduce themselves and asked us if they could join our group. Their group was about material world and we decided to accept the, into our group and add all of our designs and decide which idea is the best to animate. So in the end we decided to call our world, Crystal and Material world.
After the we all met up we started discussing all the possible designs and everything that we could possibly animate and put into our final animation.
We all posted our designs and ideas into the group chat and then started talking about possible out comes and possible candidates for the actual animation. This is some of the designs work that I have shared within the group.
These are a couple of sketches of different critters and creatures that could be within the crystal material world. Pretty much my ideas for critters in the world. Everyone else also shared their, but I am only posting mine for the time being.
These are some of the sketches possible for the world and how it might look later on if we decide to take anything from these designs. You can see tat I have used the first image here for my colour exploration a couple weeks back because I really liked that design. It was interesting and adding colour and liveliness to it made it so much better.
We then all shared the ideas for the main characters of the animation and any other creatures that might be featured in our world. I have shared all of my crystal world sketches with the team to see if they like anything and if they want to take anything from the sketches.
These were some of the sketches that I had for the crystal world and I couldn’t explore anything in colour because I didn’t have tools for it and our group was very indecisive which didn’t make things easier either. They wanted a character to be a perfect crystal queen. The last two designs that you are able to see I have drew up by looking at different references of ice queens which made it easier for the sketches. We also wanted to keep the bow aesthetic for the character to I added that as well. I also added some bow sketches that the crystal queen would possibly have.
As a group we still kept exploring different options for a crystal queen and these are just some references that everyone loved when I showed them so I decided to add them in incase it will be used by any of our group members.
The same week, we as a team decided to keep discussing and sharing different ideas because we couldn’t come up with the final idea for the actual animation/animations.
We all sat down as a group and came up with the actual idea and backstory of the game. Since we have joined u with another group we had to try to merge both of the world together some how. So the new story is that there is two parts of the world which are crystal world which is the the bottom part of the animation and then there is the top which would be the material part of the world. The animation would be where we get to see the crystal part of the world then its transitions into the material world. Then we are able to see both of the leader Crystal and Diamond standing on ledges closest to their own world and they are facing off each other. They both have side kicks by their side in the animation. Thats pretty much the idea for our animation. These two main characters were Oisin’s idea and pretty much everyone in our group really liked the design and the idea of the animation that we all came up with.
We all talked and collaborated on these specific characters that could be implemented into our crystal world. Oisin drew up the designs and the whole group fell in love with them and we all agreed for the main characters.
After that we all started talking about the actual animation and started finalising the story board as well while we discuss who might be doing what of each part of the story board. I didn’t like this part because everyone grabbed each of the story board slides and decided to try to animate each of the parts. This was not fair for everyone because we didn’t communicate properly and a few group members just said they will do this specific thing without considering their team. I wasn’t too happy about this one, but things like that happen so I just kept it to myself.
As you can see this is the final story board that we call came up with in the end by discussing and taking different ideas. I came up with the idea of them facing off each other which I am happy that it made it in the story board. You can also see that there isn’t much to share for the whole group, especially when nobody is communicating.
I have brought that up and we came with a conclusion that if we each did a huge part for the animation we would run out of time and not be able to finish the animation. So we all started discussing and looking for a solution. We came to a conclusion by looking at all the final character that each of us would pick at least one and try to create some sort of animation. We would then create a montage of different ideas and animations.
These are some of the sketches that I came up with after choosing my character.
This was just me sketching the idea of the character that I chose to do for my little animation and colour exploration. This is more of the sketches of the character that I have did on Animate CC for the first time. I decided to try it out drawing on a different application because our technician showed me different tool that make it a little simpler to draw. It was definitely a new experience for me and without a couple tutorial I wouldn’t be able to use it. It is definitely unfinished, but i gave it some colours in order to remember what I might want to use. We all decided to pick something something from Oisins designs and try to animate it for our presentation.
I decided to come back here and do another colour study with one of the characters that I have made because when I talked to Alec he advised for me to do more colour exploration because he always gives me amazing feedback when ever I am in need of help.
This was one of the most fun colour studied that I did because I have never used shading techniques and different brushers to try to make the characters pop with the colour. I have learned that different shades of colour can make the character look really realistic so I tried it out on my original crystal queen sketch. I think it turned out amazing because you can see different shades on the crystal queen and I posted some of the colour ranges that I have used for the most of the character. I also used the method where you draw lines to make the character look realistic and make it look like it has shadows.
I then did the close up sketch of the face from the same character and explored a different sex this time because I wanted to see how i would look like differently. You can also see that I have used some of the things that I have learned in the past. Things like tone and shading that I have used on the face to give me it some depth and realism.
I really liked this study a lot and I am really glad that Alec has advised me on doing some more colour studied because I needed that little push.
Mantas Macidulskas 