For this part of the course we were tasked with continuing the exploration of our professional roles in the creative industry, developing from the Professional Practises work done in year 2. My main points from year 2 were that I wanted to specialise in character, environment design and animation simultaneously however while these are my …
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FMP Research and Development
For this project we were first assigned to research into ideas we’d want to explore over the summer, specifically into themes, artists and concepts we’d like to explore for our FMP: Initial inspiration was from different music videos such as Siames’ The wolf, or art pieces I had been drawn to over the internet. I …
Exploratory practise blog
.”Create a 1–2-minute animated film that promotes you as an auteur, defining your individualstyle whilst experimenting with techniques and formats that help you develop directions in yourwork. You should explore themes that have personal value to you. You will consider therelationship between sound and moving image.You can choose to focus on one specific aspect of …
Professional practises blog
Over the course of this project I created my own website using Wix. My aims with this was to have a secure and singular place where both my portfolio and showreel were featured, to ease any potential employers or viewers so that everything is in one place and easily navigatable. I wanted to choose colours …
Horniman project: cats and dogs
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lqzgUYQ=/ With this project we were tasked with, in teams of 2-3 to create an short 50s animation around the lives of cats and dogs. Given this brief by the horniman museum they asked that: ‘We would like 40-50 second films that respond to ideas around domesticated cats and dogs, theircharacteristics and behaviour, as well …
informed practise prt 2
As of this power point my main idea developed to focus on the game ‘littlebigplanet’ created by mediamolecule, I want to explore how it fits in with gaming as from what I remember playing of it as a child it doesn’t fit all of the conventions of a mainstream title at the time of its …
informed practice
originally I had the thought of my research question being around one of these subjects in my mind map. I wasn’t too sure on what type of question or what type of argument I’d be highlighting with my essay but I did like the idea on focusing on how animation is usually garnered towards a …
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game arts elective: game choice and item development
for this elective we where tasked with creating a believable item/ object to be put into one of three games: ori and the blind forest, zelda or sea of thieves. I chose Zelda specifically the spin off titles of phantom hourglass and spirit tracks, this was because I have the most experiences with these games …
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For this project we are exploring the many layers to life specifically fear and our understanding of things around us. The exploration of creating fear in the audience through art and film. We had firstly looked into what particularly generates feelings of intense fear and looked at a selection of films, the one which stook …