Project Aims

The area I want to focus on is character animation and acting, and I feel a vignette would best allow me to develop my skills in this area. I would like to animate two characters; a humanoid and a creature, and incorporate a range of basic actions like walks, runs and jumps. To escape from the generic CG look I would like to give the vignette a mixed media influence. I am very interested in stop motion so will emphasise elements such as texture, depth and lighting. I will animate in Maya and composite in After Effects.

Welcome

I am a third year animation student at Lincoln University (UK). This blog will be documenting the making of my short film. My initial idea for this project was to create three 40 second animations of different media that link together to tell a story. I was planning on one of the sections being stop motion, one cut out probably using After Effects and one 3d computer using Maya. However, we have been recommended to keep the length down to one minute and an emphasis has been placed on computer animation. I have therefore decided to concentrate purely on 3d computer animation as I wish to increase these skills the most and it has the greater job prospects.