Using Soft Pastels

Here I experimented with soft pastels for the first time. These were based on my favourite scenes in the Disney films: Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Tangled. They were inspired by some of Alice X Zhang's art and I would like to have a go at using watercolours with the same paintings as inspiration later.

Alice X. Zhang

Recently I discovered artist, Alice X. Zhang and I absolutely love her artwork. My personal favourites are these Disney paintings which had earlier inspired me to try out using soft pastels to recreate my favourite Disney scenes. Having looked at her website though, there are also many other paintings of hers that I also really like. I love the colours used and the emotion in them.

Disney Artists

My favourite pieces of art are Disney paintings by the Thomas Kinkade Company. I think that his artwork is beautiful and captivating. I also like the way that an entire Disney film has been summarised in one painting and I appreciate the hidden Disney characters. Although I love all of Kinkade's work, this is my personal favourite:

Sound Project

This is my finished sound project video. For this project, we had to strip an animation of its audio files and create our own dialogue, sound effects, ambience and music. I recorded all the sounds myself either in a recording studio or with the use of a H4n Zoom recorder except for the music and two of the sound effects (scream/gasp and the child laugh) which I accessed online.

Title Sequence Project

This is our final Title Sequence animation for this project. I worked on this with four other people and my input on this animation was to find research, come up with the idea for the ending with the title, colour backgrounds, create silhouettes and to the create the truck.

Watercolour Background

I created this background for our background layout project using watercolour pencils. This was my first time using these and so I'm quite pleased with how it looks. My only issue with it is that the pencil lines are obvious, even after using water, so perhaps I should have used a little more water and less pencil.

Digital Painting

This is a background layout with a key light source and secondary light for our background project that I digitally painted using a graphics tablet on Photoshop. I am happy with how this turned out as I hadn't digitally painted before this. There may however, be some issues with perspective.

Trees

This is a chalk drawing that I did of trees in atmospheric perspective using pastels.

Motion Studies Showreel

Here is a showreel that I put together with all the tasks that I completed for our motion studies module including the 2D walk cycles (walk and skip), stop motion wall climb and lip sync, and the final stop motion dance project.

Dance Project

Here is my dance animation. I'm happy with the twirl and leg kick but with some of the animation, it's difficult to see what's going on and it was a little less successful. As it was the first time that I had made puppets and animated them however, I am happy with it. The puppet making itself took a while and there were some difficulties with wire being the wrong length and arms falling off whilst animating. I am happy with how they turned out though.

Background Layouts

These are two background layouts I created based on the storyboard for 'Ranger Rick's Adventures: Boomer's Grumpy Day' which I looked at earlier on in the year.

Title Sequence Interior Backgrounds

For our Title Sequence group project, I have coloured some interior backgrounds that were given to me as line art. This was quite time consuming and the colours needed to be agreed on by the rest of the group so there were a few times where I needed to change them based on what was said. I'm really happy with the final coloured backgrounds.

Naturalistic Paintings

These I painted, copying the work of two naturalistic artists. The first one was based on a painting by the artist William Bradford and the second was based on a painting by the artist Franz Richard Unterberger.

Sketching Disney Backgrounds

These are some sketches that I did, copying backgrounds from Disney films. The first is from Beauty and the Beast, the second from Princess and The Frog and the third from the Lion King.

Parallax

This is a parallax which I created on Adobe After Effects. Although the painting could be better, I think that the speed and colour contrast is good.

Designs for Title Sequence Project

This is a truck/van that I designed to fit the style of our Title Sequence animation. This will be used in a scene where the main character George will jump onto the back whilst running away from the age police.

These are some silhouettes that I designed to go in the background of our animation. They will be moving along a conveyor belt. 

These are some silhouette puppets that I created on Photoshop that will later be animated by another group member to fall in the background of our animation.

Title Sequence Designs

For our Title Sequence project, I drew up some silhouettes on Adobe Illustrator so that our group can use them as background characters in our animation. I also designed a truck for one of the scenes in the animation.