Bhavna Madan

Week 5

On the 24th of October, we were required to observe and animate either a push, pull or lift exercise. I chose to animate a lift:

On the 25th, we had our first ever class working on 3D animation. We used Autodesk Maya to craft an airplane and make it go in circles.

On the 26th we had another acting workshop. This time we were focusing on how tense and aware our bodied are in different situations and circumstances. We had to work with a partner through Levels 1 to 7 (1 – Release, 2 – California, 3 – Economic, 4 – Alert, 5 – Suspence, 6 – Passion, and 7 – ) Here are some of the observational sketches from class:

Week 6

On the 1st of November, we had our first-ever specialisation session. I chose to move forward with 3D classes and we spent the first class getting familiar with Maya and its controls. We took it slow by animating Bonky (a pink little blobby character with only eyes to express emotions) and had it bounce around and emote all day. Here is some of the work from class:

We had our second character design class on the 2nd. We had to come up with a character and answer 7 questions about them.

Week 7

We had a full day Character Design class on monday the 7th of November. We worked with silhouettes, shapes and colours for our further developing our characters. I’d misunderstood the first exercise and drawn silhouettes of all the characters in the story, but corrected that in the redo.

On the 8th, in 3D class, we started working with Binky for the first time and we animated a walk cycle using his model.

Week 8

We finally reached the walk cycle class for 2D on the 14th of November. We had to animate a mood change walk.

In week 3 of 3D class and week 8 of the term, we started playing around with a moodchange walk and a voiceover exercise

In the last Character design class, we worked on a character turnaround sheet, expression/pose sheet and the final character sheet

Week 1

We spent the 26th, 27th and 28th (online) were spent learning about the ins and outs of CSM, the library, Moodle, the technical and assignment help departments. An introduction to MA Character Animation was also held. We were given a brief on the structure of the program and shown both alumni and non-alumni animated work.

On the 29th, we had our first Life Drawing class.

Some of the sketches from Life Drawing (29/10):

Week 2

First practical animation class was held in the Animation room M306. We played around with balls of different weights and densities and spent the 3rd of November animating bouncing balls

Work from Week 2:

On the 4th of November, we had a theatre workshop where we got to exercise the way we expressed ourselves to get a better understanding of using the body and face to tell stories.

The 6th of November was an online class introducing us to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Week 3

On week 3, we had only one day of offline class. We continued working on and perfecting the bouncing ball. Work from the 3rd week:

And a little stop motion trial:

The online classes on the 11th and 12th covered the academic assistance sector of CSM and film theory. We watched many animation shorts and learned about story telling arcs and cinematography in animation. The importance of camera work and how it can aid in the narration.

Some sketches from life drawing week 3:

Week 4

With more practical animation classes, this week we cover the topic of followthroughs in animation. Followthrough is what we’d probably call inertia in inanimate objects attached to moving objects. the delay in their motion (eg. tail fur and ears in dogs, flags attached to poles.)

Work from 17th and 18th of October:

19th of October, I presented about Ghost Animation.

https://www.slideshare.net/BhavnaMadan/ghost-animationpptx-254136712

We also had our first Character Design class this week. Our first exercise was to create characters out of these sh

And our second exercise was to create variations of the same character (mascot)

And lastly, week 4’s Life drawing outcomes. This was my most fruitful week so far.