Life Drawing- Outside Uni

These are some images from the life drawing class I attend outside of university. These are some of the more resent pieces. I will be posting the older ones as soon as I can find them.

The images below were a test will using different tones to map out the figure on the page, using the colour of the page as the mid tone.

Life Drawing Term 1 - Outside

The image below are of the sketch that I had completed when we had a day out in the National History Museum.

Life Drawing Term 1 - In class

All the images below are of my better piece of life drawing. I have taken photos of the piece and then placed them with Photoshop, where they have been pieced together.

Life Drawing Term 1

The images below are from the first week of life drawing. There are more piece, but I have chosen the following to show.

Animation Techinques: Bouncing Ball Final

Then video below is of my final animation of the bouncing ball in 2D.

Animation Techinques: Ball and Tail Final

After showing the final test to my tutor, I was told that certain sections need to be changed alittle. I worked on these sections, and the video below is of my final Ball and Tail animation.

Animation Techinques: Ball and Tail

The video below is my final test for the Ball and Tail animation.


During this test I found that animating the parts separately made it easier to animate both parts, as I could concentrate on the timing and movement of one before the other one.

I started animating the ball - as this is the primary movement within the animation. After I had finished the ball, I started on the tail. The tail was the most difficult part of the animation to me, as it was hard to fit in the movement along with the balls. Also trying to get the flow of movement that a tail has was very difficult as well. I looked at the reference that I linked on a previous post, but it was still difficult to show that movement on my own animation.

Animation Techinques: Ball and Tail

The first test that I did for this animation was just the ball bouncing up the stairs. The video of this is below:

The test was ok, but the animation was not what I had hope it would be. I wanted to have the ball act more like a character then a bouncing ball and this did not show in this test.

The second test that I tried was putting a tail on the ball and bouncing it a few times. This is shown below:

This test did not work out as well as I had hoped, but I found animating the tail and the ball at the same time difficult.

Ani 105- Crystal Maya

The image below is of the crystal that I will be using to base my animation on. I'm still going to work on the crystal if possible to make it more realistic but for the moment I'm going to begin the After Effects work, to get the animation on its way.

Ani 105- Crystal Maya, second test

A little bit more work on the crystal. Starting to get it look more like a real crystal, but it still has some work to do. Using a texture that came from michalkotek.com for the inside of the crystal.

Ani 105- Crystal Maya

The image below is of the crystal that I am creating within maya. The crystal is not finished yet and is a work in progress shot from the render. Trying to get the texturing of the crystal right, before carrying on to camera work.

Its not looking great at the moment, but the colours are around the ones that I want to use for the base.