Author Archives: Jordan Jackson

Research I wasn’t sure how to go about researching this task so I looked up how others who had animated a dance number had gone about it in their planning. I found a few pose to pose storyboards, that took positioning of feet and lines of action. This was important to understand when I collectedContinue reading “Combined task”

Planning This piece was one a particularly struggled with at first, as I struggled to collect the reference footage. Originally the idea was that I would acting frightened or upset at being yelled at, however my acting talents were not up to snuff to pull this off convincingly. Instead with decided to take on aContinue reading “Acting is reacting”

Research Material Whilst the research I did for this was quite minimal, I filmed my reference footage very early on and got to work fairly quickly. However as it was first task, I spent most of my research learning about Maya. I also learnt about creating projects and step animation. However I was able toContinue reading “Animating with an object”

Planning My idea going into this project was a piece about a man sneaking around in exaggerated almost cartoony, fashion. It was inspired by a walk cycle for goblins in World of Warcraft and looked like it would be fun to try and create something similar. However when I was unable to find good referenceContinue reading “Locomotion”

Research Material Looked at a variety of different reference material, whilst deciding on what scene i would like recreate with my animation. I looked at some MMA fights but decided that as it would most likely require two characters to look effective I would leave off that for now. Next I decided to look atContinue reading “Sport animation”

Research I did some research into cartoony animation whilst the 12 principles of animation apply here of course, there are also many of other principles and techniques that should be taken into account. I found these online and which were very useful for me moving forwards. Planning This animation project proved to be much moreContinue reading “Cartoony animation”