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3D Printing - Robot
For our next Creative Play task we were assigned to watch the videos Kevin and his video editor made which were tutorials on how we can...
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Matthew Leonard
Dec 3, 20202 min read


Post War Developments
Once the first World War was over, different types of animations started appearing which were a huge improvement compared to what was...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 20, 20202 min read


Animation During World War
During the time of world war, televisions weren't invented and so media and propaganda had to result to using posters and radio for their...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 19, 20201 min read


The Famous Names of Animation
When referring back to the history of animation we look into the people who changed the way we see animation and has done things to help...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 19, 20203 min read


Pixilation & Time-lapse
For our next lesson in Creative Play we were researching into the creation of pixilation and time-lapses by looking into the history of...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 13, 20202 min read


Palimpsest
One of the first ever lessons during our Creative Play module was to create a "Palimpsest" which was essentially a piece of media which...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 12, 20201 min read


Perspectives
For our lesson on perspectives we were looking into how each one differentiates from the other and to experiment from different angles...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 12, 20202 min read


Emotional Demon - Final Reference Sheet
For the final part of my task it was time to create the final reference sheet by using the materials and ideas I've generated from my...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 11, 20201 min read


Weight in Animation - Ball Bounces
From learning the basics of animation movement such as easing, arcs and anticipation principles I began to start working with animating...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 9, 20203 min read


The Persistence of Vision
Animation derives off of motion, ironically however motion is just a succession of still images with no motion at all. This optical...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 5, 20201 min read


The History of Animation
Although animation has only become technical over the past century the concept itself has been in existence for many thousands of years...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 5, 20201 min read


Pendulum Animation
Before I started working on the pendulum animation in Maya we were being shown references of pendulum animations in real life and how...
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Matthew Leonard
Nov 2, 20202 min read


Hypermedia Stories - Somber Forest
For this lesson we were assigned into groups of 3 to work on our own adventure text stories, using inspiration from iconic books and...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 29, 20201 min read


Emotional Demon Pose Sheet + Colour Palettes
Once I had my character and had the turnarounds complete, my next task was to create a pose sheet for my character to portray his...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 26, 20201 min read


Zoetropes
For my first time in the Makerspace facility, my task was to create my own zoetrope which was a very intriguing process and overall a...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 25, 20202 min read


Emotional Demon Turnaround
After observing all of the thumbnail options I decided to go for number 4, which was my depiction of a demonic goat character, inspired...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Emotional Demon Thumbnail
I have been experimenting with different shapes and sizes of my character to get an idea on what I want them to look like. I have done 20...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Psychogeography
For our first lesson outside our screens and on campus of our university, we were studying about Psychogeography: "the study of the...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Maya - Easing and Anticipation Animations
After learning the 12 principles of animation in our first lesson we began to start focusing on each individual principle and try to...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Exquisite Corpse
Our Creative Play lesson was very social as it involved a lot of us being in groups and creating our own characters by letting someone...
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Matthew Leonard
Oct 14, 20201 min read
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