Comic – Zenith Project
One of the final projects of the year was the Zenith. For this project we had the freedom to do almost anything we wanted and for mine I chose to do a comic. Having learned how to do 3D modeling in my Animation II class, my goal for this comic was to use 3D background models to save on time. I also tried to be creative with the panelling rather than sticking to rectangles/boardered backgrounds.
Finished Zenith
My original idea for the Zenith was going to be a short 2D animation but it ended up being scrapped due to time constraints. Still it was a good experience to reference how people moved in real life while doing 2D animation.
Monster Munchies – Narrative Project
For our Narrative 2 unit in Animationhttps://freestyleacademy.rocks/~KaiZ/narrative-2/narrative-visual-perspective-in-animation/, my group and I created a 3D animated short with all the characters we designed during the year. Although I ran into some issues with the motion capture and ended up hand animating some things, it was a fun project and I’d love to try doing something similar in the future.
Finished Animation
Narrative 2 Storyboards
Part of the Narrative 2 planning part was to figure out a clear story that we wanted to tell. After discussing together as a group, I went ahead and did a few quick sketches for a storyboard so it would be easier to know what we would be animating. We ended up adding extra scenes and removing some others due to it being a bit difficult to tell what was going on. Overall it was a good experience.
Laboratory – Multi-Layered Art Project
Along with the Narrative 2 unit in Animation, we had a Multi-layered Art Project were we all got the option to choose between a lightbox, stacked wood art and ring art. We first would create 2D layers on Adobe Illustrator then they would be laser cut onto 3D objects like paper and wood. I decided to go with the stacked wood option as I felt like it would fit my idea while also making things less complicated than a lightbox would.
The stacked wood art is related to the worldbuilding project we did in English. Figuring out what I wanted to do for the wood art itself was difficult as there were so many things in the worldbuilding I wanted to include. I ended up settling on doing part of the ending where the player character fights against the antagonist for the last time inside of a laboratory.
The most difficult part for this piece was definitely getting the layering right as even after checking multiple times, I ended up with a couple layering issues were pieces were missing or things were too large. Putting it together was also quite messy but it was a really fun project that I don’t think I would have ever tried doing if I had not gone to Freestyle.