Graphic Design & Animation

A zoetrope produces the illusion of motion by displaying a sequences of drawings or photographs showing progress phases of that motion. This workshop during creative exchange week was about the human zoetrope. The first part of this workshop was devoted to the drawing of paper animation loops which explored transformation and morphing. For this task, we were split into 6 groups of 3 and given a text to write up each. 1) The 2) Hudders- 3) Field 4) Zoe- 5) Trope 6) #hudgda My group were given '#hudgda' to write up on 18 frames (pieces of paper) each person wrote the text 6 times using graphite. I was responsible for the fade-in and fade-out part, to do this, I started writing the word very lightly, and gradually began to draw bolder and thicker using the graphite. Once each group successfully completed their frames, we grouped together as a class and organised our frames in order to make the following sentence 'The Huddersfield Zoe-Trope #hudgda' We took i...

During creative exchange week, I attended a workshop based around Title sequences using Cinema 4D, This was my first experience using this program so I learnt several different skills throughout this session and the basics of the program. The class looked at an example as in introduction, the end credits in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' which can be viewed via this  link. To start, we learnt the basic of a simple credit scroller. We added text which was edited to remove depth, increased size and aligned to the middle. We used the cameras viewpoint to ensure we were happy with how the text looked or where it was located. To animate, we used key frames, so we set our first key frame at the start of the credit text, and a later key frame for the end of the credit text. One thing we noticed is that the animation of the scroller played at different speeds, to fix this we used the 'Dope Sheet' which offers a convenient way to shift the timing of key frames in the t...

For creative exchange week, year 1 students visited the "Yorkshire Sculpture Park" Below are a few pictures I took during the day and some research about them. KAWS Brian Donnelly, professionally known as KAWS was born in 1974, is a New York-based artist and designer of limited-edition toys and clothing. His career began as a graffiti artist, then started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. His work exhibits in museums and galleries internationally. His art stands somewhere between fine art and global commerce. This sculpture comes across as a Mickey Mouse/ skull and crossbones inspired character. The head of each figure looks similar to a skull and crossbone- the ears of the characters are the bones and the eyes resembles an 'X'. These features makes them instantly recognisable as the works of KAWS. Deer Shelter The Art Fund in 2007, commissioned a permanent Skyspace by James Turell at the Yorkshire Sculp...