Making of 'Devil and Demons'

I started this project as I would any other, creating a mood board of the theme. I found out quickly though a lot of the images I was searching for looked super similar and wasn't really engaging me. I decided to do some further reasearch and look at other cultures and religions, and what their highest form of evil was. I thought looking at one of the oldest civilisations would be a great starting point. The Egyption were obsessed with the afterlife and their God of death, Set ruled the underworld. He was in the shape of a jackal. The theme of anthropomorphised animals or a mutation of sorts created demonic creatures. The Egyptians we also fascinated with magic and sorcery, another running theme I found amongst the dark arts. While I was looking through Christian views on the devil, I was facinated to find out that the different names of Satan, Beelzelbum, Leviathan were all aspects of the 7 deadly sins. At this point I thought I had enough ingredients to create Devils and demons.

My initial ideas we pretty lame but the more and more I did I found my self creating things that had character. I enjoyed the process profusely even though I did it so slowly. Annabeth asked us to have a minimum of 10 designs and I ended up with 20+. I think the next step to accumulate people's opinions on the designs and choose the one people enjoy the most. I think this is another step out of my comfort zone as i don't enjoy showing people my work, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and find out that people aren't as critical as me.

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Trying to give triangles life

I knew Chris was going to be in the afternoon lecture and i hadnt gotten much round to doing any character designs for script to screen, mainly because they were traingles and i didn't think it would be too difficult. When i got round to it i was struggling to give the characters personality and they just looked really flat. I experimented with creating more complicated designs using a verity of triangles but because the story i had in mind was light hearted and comedic i thought it'd be best to keep with a more cartoonty simple style. Howver i was still left with the problem of the designs looking lifeless When lecture came about chris thought it'd be best to go back to basics and focus on gesture lines and had us in groups create actions and to draw them out. I enjoyed working with my group, but talking to people after class it seemed like half the class didn't enjoy it which kind of baffled me Near the end of class i got chris to look at my des...

Video Essay

I knew it would be best starting off before getting into editting that gathering some knowlege these two videos were pretty useful even though i didnt use any after effects but its useful to know that i can easily work between them Looking at other peoples making of videos as well as the stuff Annabeth posted on Blackboard i was pretty confident in what i needed to do. So i started writing down what footage along with what i wanted to say Gathering the footage was a bit tedious, and i tried to cut out footage that i didn't need, i felt like the 3 minute mark was a good place, not too long not too short. I thought id had confidecne with my voiceover but it was horrible, i was lucky that the room i recorded in had good aucoustics and it doesnt sound ultra horrible i was pretty happy with how the video essay turned out even though its a bit cringe

James' Balls and other parts - Making of - A.E sessions

After effects sessions Ball bounces and pendulum Annabeth and Jame thought it would be best to teach the class the basics of after effects and have us all have a basic under standing of the software. I was fairly familiar with after effects as there's is almost an endless supply of tutorials online but I think shows the depth that after effects can go into. We started off with simple functional animations such as the ball bounce and pendulum, i wish that we learned this last year as it was far easier to in after effects, and i think would of assisted me in stop mo and definitely in Maya. As you can see the graphs are much clearer and i think easier to understand, this kind of knowledge is really useful as most people would think this is really complicated but to us animators this is much friendlier to us. As well as the ball we did a pendulum, and furthered that and made a leg with moving parts using the bone tool. I ...

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