MSC ANIMATION & VFX

Monday 29th September Working on my industry side-project in the morning. I'm lead concept artist on an indie animation project online called Welcome to Avalon (volunteer, but if the show gets funded it could lead to paid opportunities). I'd really wanted to get concept more or less done by now but barely anyone else in the concept team is working, I wanted us ready to start production before I get too swamped in my main masters project. Took out some scriptwriting for animation books from the DJCAD library since I already know I intend to create a short film, and I need to figure out how on earth to write one All presented our PSAs and powerpoints (and in our case a Blooper Reel too). Then attended a class social at Braes, it was a really nice way to get to know everyone. We took Toasty the puppet with us of course. And we set up a class group chat so we can all chat to each other outside of class hours now Tuesday 30th September Sean introduced the brief a little, and it had ...

Monday 22nd  September We all pitched ideas for the 48 hour PSA challenge. I made a few simple slides for mine (see below), a fantasy comedy about how evil wizards can defend their lairs from being looted by adventurers. Considering it was an ice breaker and a short intense time period I wanted to pitch something more silly and lighthearted Voted and ended up on the puppet fire safety PSA (my first choice so I am VERY excited to puppeteer).  I'm fine with my idea not being selected, I plan to reuse it for a future project one day Had an afternoon camera workshop with Malcolm in the green screen studio, I learned a lot and finally understand how camera settings work! Below is a Panasonic DVX 200. Very excited to finally get access to the green screen studio Tuesday 23rd September Had two Premiere Pro and After Effects workshops with Malcom. I now have a slightly better understanding of how they work, and After Effects decided to play nice today (I famously have had bad luck wit...