Boscombe

I've had a very productive day and finally completed my storyboard. Here is my final storyboard, and some pages of my rough sketches and ideas. I'm excited to start working on the animatic next week, and hopefully I will be able to sort out the timing. I also met with the director of the film I'm working on, and I've been given some storyboarding and research to do, it's nice to be so busy! I feel like I will have a really full portfolio by the end of term if I keep working at this pace!

Today, I finally created this rough version of my storyboard. With only 4 seconds of animation, I've been trying to figure out the best way to make my character move without the timing feeling rushed, and I've been trying out so many different storyboards that I'm so pleased to have a (hopefully) finalised idea. I need to complete a new, cleaned-up storyboard by the end of today, hopefully, ready to make the animatic with the rest of my group next week.

Here are a few doodles that I did yesterday evening as a break from Uni work. Having a break from drawing with more drawing.

I was in Oxford this weekend and here are two pages of drawings that I did on the train home (the second page is people at the station that I drew when my train was delayed by 2 hours!) Oxford is my favourite city in the whole world, and I am so grateful that I get to visit so often. I spent a year living there whilst I was on my Art Foundation course at Oxford Brookes, and I miss it so much now that I have left! Bournemouth is nice, but Oxford is very 'me'. I love the beautiful old buildings, and I always get bike-envy at all the pretty bikes everywhere!

I seem to have endless work to do at Uni at the moment. I started my weekly life drawing again today which was really nice after such a long break over Summer. Here are a few more drawings of my baseball character. I've started the storyboard, and hopefully will finish it by the end of the week!

Here are a few (very badly scanned) pages from my sketchbook of what I've been doing at Uni recently. I have no idea why these have scanned like this. My group project is going really, really well so far, and I've been mainly trying to get used to drawing the character and developing my character's personality through my drawings. We were also set a 3000 word essay today...shockingly, I'm quite looking forward to this, as I love to write, and don't have many opportunities to do so!

Today was the start of my first project of the year at Uni- my group and I (myself and 3 others) have to create a 16 second animation of a baseball game. We each have to animate 4 seconds of our own character, and design the layout for our own sections. We have been given a character sheet, as the project is assessed solely on the character animation. The project lasts until Christmas, so I'm excited to have a nice amount of time to create something I will hopefully be really pleased with! Here are a few quick sketches from today, trying to get used to the character.

Here are few pages of doodles from my sketchbook. I was a bit stuck for what to draw yesterday, so painted the page yellow and gave up. I woke up in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep, and drew these colourful characters.

Here are a few pages of doodles from yesterday. I love to draw faces and facial expressions, and I think that these have turned out really well. I'm not very pleased with how they have scanned, and how prominent the fold in the page is- I need to buy a new Moleskine because the paper lays flat which I love, they are my absolute favourite thing to draw in. A nice sketchbook makes such a huge difference to the way I draw!