
A 2D Animator blogging from her Igloo

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e were the designs I did for my business cards and the cover for my dvd cases. I'm so proud of them... It looks so professional! I suppose this is steering into Graphic Design which I have no training in but its not bad for a first attempt. I also happened to have lots of spray mount laying about from my old course (as we did lots of model making) so that came in very handy when I was putting the front and back of my cards together. I was spraying and mounting at 3am in the morning the day of the show while sitting on a big pile of books with the finished cards laying between so I could flatten them and get the glue to stick. Its so werid how random, rubbish I've bought over the years and which I'm always meaning to throw out or try and sell off to friends suddenly comes in handy when you least expect it.04+copy.jpg)

Hello again!
I have to admit I'm doing this Blog a bit strangely by adding late entries as well as putting the
more recent ones side by side...but this one happened yesterday. Steve has reminded us that we need to have some Preproduction work to give to the National Gallery people to put on their website along with our film. He also told me that the films will be going up in september on their website so I had the whole summer to get my Final Project finished...I think once the pressure of college is out of the way I will be more motivated to do it.
The same thing happened with my Task Project, during the term I was stuck and just couldn't do it but once the Easter Break came around it was like I couldn't stop myself from animating....which is really werid. I think I work better under my own steam rather than having tutors breathing down my neck...plus I am getting really bored now of studying :( Anyway this week I've been going back over all my sketches and doodles of my first ideas and early storyboards and I've selected a few images that I think would look good on the website.
However, most of them are really rough scribbles and notes as I had to work so quickly over the Easter break to get my ideas churned out in time for the start of the new term, so I've been scanning them into Photoshop and tidying them up. I've also been setting up a Youtube account http://uk.youtube.com/MariaKyoto7 and finding some finshed animation to put up onto it as well as designing some new business cards. I didn't realise how many of my animations were unfinished or need to be a bit longer in the case of the animated cycles and some could benefit with a little sound too. Such as my dolphin animation... it would be nice if I could find some ocean sounds or dolphin calls to put on it. Anyway here are the pieces of work that I'm thinking of handing in to the National Gallery people as the preproduction for my Final Project.
Some of the images are from my storyboard while others are layouts, concept art or rough scribbles I did while trying to figure out key franes for the animation. I selected a few and cleaned them up to make them more presentable for the National Gallery website with the help of Photoshop....My god what the hell did I do before that programme came along I'll never know!
All the best!