A Dragonfly, Duck and Dolphin

So here it is. My short animatic based on the alphabet brief. Hope you enjoy it...

Animation time!

So we were given a new animation brief the other week. Using our alphabet mini-books as a base, we had to design a animated sequence that was to be between 9 and 12 slides and 10 to 30 seconds.

These are the stills/storyboard for my animation:
                                                       

The basic story is a dolphin jumps up at a duck swimming along unknowingly. Only simple, but sometimes that's what works best.


...animation coming shortly!

G for Giraffe

My Giraffe design in coloured pencils.

O is for Octopus

My Octopus design in soft pastels.

F is for Flamingo

Flamingo design in coloured pencils.

Flamingo design using soft pastels.

Bzzzz...

Colour version of my bee design again, but using coloured pencil's.

Puppet time!

So, while I was researching artists and illustrators who work in pastels, for our traditional media unit of work in uni, I came across this artist, Lynda Kettle. One of her pieces instantly took me back to a piece of AS-Level work I did. It is an Indian puppet, which I completely sewed and made myself.

B is for Bee

Colour version of my bee design using soft pastels

O mini-book

Octopus

Octopus and an otter

Octopus and an otter and an owl

Octopus and an otter and an owl on a ocean odyssey

G mini-book

Giraffe

Giraffe and a goat

Giraffe and a goat and a gnome

Giraffe and a goat and a gnome glued to a garden gate

F mini-book

Flamingo

Flamingo and a fox

Flamingo and a fox and a fairy

Flamingo and a fox and a fairy pick flowers in a forest

E mini-book

Eggs

Eggs and an elephant

Eggs and an elephant and a eskimo

Eggs and an elephant and a eskimo explore for an emerald eagle

D mini-book

 Dragonfly

Dragonfly and a duck

Dragonfly and a duck and a dolphin

Dragonfly and a duck and dolphin at a deep sea disco

B mini-book

Bee

Bee and a butterfly

Bee and a butterfly and a beaver

Bee and a butterfly and a beaver at a beach barbeque

Oh, hello semester 2

Well, it's been a while, and I'm sorry for that. Some family personal stuff has been going on, but I'm getting back on track now. So, we started the beginning of our second semester the other week, and were given our first brief of the semester. We had to choose 6 letters from the alphabet and create a mini-book for these letters. It had to be set in a particular way, e.g. say the letter was 'A', the pages had to include a square image and a sentence. The first page would read: alligators, the second: alligators and apes, the third: alligators and apes and antelopes, finally, the fourth page would read: alligators and apes and antelopes on a alphabet adventure.
The 6 letters I chose, were: B, D, E, F, G and O.