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Pre-Production in Industry
The pre-production stage is one of the most important stages in animation as it's the stage which fully develops the story and the...
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Matthew Leonard
May 28, 20211 min read


'Umbrella' Part 5 - Animatic
Finally we move into the last stage of the project being the animatic. One thing that I didn't mention in Part 4 during my storyboarding...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20211 min read


'Umbrella' Part 4 - Storyboarding
Once I developed my characters enough it was time to begin storyboarding. As I mentioned in Part 2 I already did a tiny amount of...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20212 min read


'Umbrella' Part 3 - Building on Characters
After I knew what characters I wanted to be in my project it was time to develop them further and experiment with their designs. Before I...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20212 min read


'Umbrella' Part 2 - Story Development
For the next development stage on my project I wanted to create a story which wasn't too far out or too simple, just a perfect story...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20211 min read


'Umbrella' Part 1 - Concept Designs
To begin the pre-production of my new project 'Umbrella' I wanted to design some characters just to give me an idea on where I wanted to...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20212 min read


'Tricky' Animation Review
As a small exercise for myself I wanted to have a look at an animation we got shown in class called 'Tricky' by Jodie Ford and point out...
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Matthew Leonard
May 27, 20212 min read


Designing Environments
For our task in designing environments we were told to consider a lot of things which would be a huge importance for us later on. These...
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Matthew Leonard
May 26, 20212 min read


Concept Idea Development
During this lesson we were told to design our own characters keeping in mind the use of shapes from the previous lesson. Here I designed...
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Matthew Leonard
May 26, 20212 min read


Character Archetypes
During this lesson we move away from different story structures and start focusing on different archetypes for characters in which we can...
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Matthew Leonard
Mar 1, 20211 min read


Story Development for Animation
To continue where we left off in our previous lesson, we focus on looking at more types of story development methods, as well as being...
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Matthew Leonard
Mar 1, 20212 min read


Story Structures
Having a story structure in any form of fictional story is definitely something that can detrimentally change how interesting a movie or...
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Matthew Leonard
Feb 11, 20212 min read
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