Category: Year 1

Realised I never uploaded my plasticine puppet on here, so here goes! This is the clay puppet I made during the Tuesday sessions with Steve. I was struggling to find the right type of clay and other materials because I was back home, so I did get to making this puppet much later than I wanted. I luckily found some non hardening clay (lots of issues finding art materials because of covid) and with some great ideas and help from Steve, I managed to finally make my puppet! 😀

I’ve been working on the character bounce and trying to get the clean up to work better, to make sure the shapes and sizes don’t change all the time. I am finding it a bit hard to keep the animal exercises in proportion since I’m so used to particularly focusing on a single drawing/piece for a consistent period of time. But I’m going to keep practising as much as I can!

Here is my first attempt at the facial acting exercise! I just did some very rough keys in 2D. I’m thinking of doing this exercise with the clay puppet I’ve been building, but also getting it finished in 2D as well, just so I can practise my timing and understand where to place the breakdowns and in-betweens.

Here is my attempt at the mood change walk! This is more of an updated version of the actual exercise that I submitted back in December. It was really interesting and fun to animate this, especially having acted it out myself as a reference 😀 I learnt a lot about timing and performance from this exercise, particularly how to convey body language through a walk! Learning so many amazing things from this course and enjoying every second of it! Will be updating it once I get some more feedback!

I also tried to animate a horse canter and ended up with a funny looking horse with extremely long legs haha! I’m still working on it and trying to make it look a bit more horse like. This also took me quite a while to understand as I’m particularly new to drawing animals, let alone animating them! I tend to go for human characters more, but I’ve loved learning to animate animals so I’m really excited to work on more animal walk and run cycles!

This was my first time animating any kind of animal walk cycle! I found it extremely hard at first and spent most of my time trying to figure out how the legs move. With a lot of guidance and very helpful feedback, I was able to get this far 😀 There’s still a lot I need to work on in terms of clean up, but I am happy with how much I’ve learnt! Hoping to practice and experiment with more animal walk and run cycles 🙂

So here is my horse walk cycle (so far):

A previous version with the skeleton underneath!

Just to highlight a great reference video I found on animating a horse walk cycle! This is the horse walk by Richard Williams and I used this to understand the horse walk cycle along with the pdf sheets that Steve sent us for this exercise! 😀

A little body acting exercise I did with my puppet that I built during the autumn term at CSM! I had a lot of fun doing this exercise with the puppet. It was made using Stopmotion Studio (app) and edited on Premiere Pro. Although I was happy with the result, I’m planning on reshooting this soon just to have another go at it!

A lil character bounce exercise I did as part of my MACA course assignment! I decided to try and animate an animal. It was really hard to figure out at first, especially since I’ve never animated animals before, but I was quite happy with the outcome! I hope to work on this and make it better with all the wonderful feedback I’ve been receiving from my tutors 🙂

Here is the first bouncing ball exercise that I did at the very beginning of the course! I decided to do a beach ball bounce for this one and am happy with how it has turned out!