As per requested..

Over summer I stumbled across this website of a Liverpool based illustrator who's work interested me -

http://www.phillipmarsden.com/

There was also a animation festival in Barnsley which i wished to attend but couldn't make it to so i tryed to find some of the animations on the internet. One which i did find and liked was this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk , It reminds me of the visual explanation brief we had last year.

One animation i looked for but couldnt find was called 'Pig Me' from what i read and stills i saw from it, it looked like something i'd enjoy, however i did find the animations creators blog - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.pig-me.blogspot.com/&ei=eMyXSpO2KN3ajQfZ5fCfBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpig-me.blogspot.com%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ADBF - I found this usefull as it shows some of the sketches for the animation and they write about some of the process's they went through prior to creating the animtion, which I still really want to see. I really like the style of drawing used -

And finally - something fun i enjoyed -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrqUctZTkU&feature=related

Vr W/Animation Y1 Animation and Kinetics - Car

Notes: Building up learning texture, lighting, timelines, and more.

Vr W/Aniamtion Y1 Animation & Kinetics - Falls

Vr W/Animation Y1 - Animation & Kinetics - Walk Cycles

Animation & Kinetics

This unit covers mainly 3D animation in 3D Studio max.
Here are some of the animations we covered in 1st year.

Vr W/Animation Y1 - Foundation Studio

Foundation Studio -

Foundation Studio was the core module of the year with only 2 seperate projects over the academic year, the first brief, entitled "Visual Explanation, and second entitled "Play" Both very open briefs to interprate how we wanted. The aim was not to a produce a final project for the brief but be able to convey an idea, Storyborads, working examples, etc.


Foudation Studio; Visual Explanation -

For visual studies i chose a very straight forward subject of Evolution. It's always been a subject that interests me. I wanted to portray an animation that would help to show younger children where thoerys of evolution come from and what they are based on, showing them in a way they would understand.

Foundation Studio - 'Play'

The 'Play' Project was a joint project with Danielle Pollitt. We were designing an online co-op game. Some of the inspirations for this type of game was the PS3's LittleBig Planet and PC's The Sims and online aspects from the likes of World Of Warcraft. The charcters were spiders and the levels were based aroudn thier enviroments.

Vr W/Animation Y1 Visual Studies - Sky Lines

Notes: Skylines from views in Huddersfield, Different times of the day. Gauche Paints, Water Paints Charcoal, Pen and Illustrator.

Vr W/Animation Y1 - Visual Studies - Festive Card

VR W/Animation Year 1 Year 1 Work Continued

Visual Studies - Festive Card

Notes: A Festive Christmas card based upoen the 2D Game 'Worms'

Vr W/Animation Y1 - Visual Studies - Typeface

VR W/Animation Year 1 Continued
Visual Studies - Typeface


Notes:
Left to Right Influences - Alex Kidd (Game), Frank Stella (Artist), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist)

Vr W/Animation Y1 Visual Studies - Charactures

VR W/Animation Year 1 work continued
Visual Studies - Charactures

Notes:

This was my first time using Adobe Illustrator. Charactures of myself.

Welcome/ Vr/ W Animation Y1 - Visual Studies - Morphing Animation

/StartBlog

I'm Rachel, currently 20 years old and awaiting to start my second year of my degree at Huddersfield University, West Yorkshire, in Virtual Reality Design with Animation.
This blog is here essentially to upload my work, and tell you abit about it and myself.

So I thought I'd kick my blog off with some first year university work.

(Uni. Huddersfield) Virtual Reality with Animation, Year 1 - Visual Studies.


Notes:
Inspired by Back To The Futures Delorean Car. Hand drawn first animation, which later slightly improved on turned into -