List of Animated Shorts used in this List.  "I am a Forest" by Alex Schulz "I'm Scared" by Greg 'Craola' Simkins "Dreams" by Elliott Sellers "Sleeper" by Jordan Buckner  "Escape" by Dolby Laboratories  "Whale Heart" by The Animation Workshop  "Geist" by Giant Animation Studio "Shell" by Daniel Ahrens  "Little Things" by Hugo and Marie  "Otto" by Salvatore Murgia  "Horde" by BRVTS "One Bright Dot" by Clement Morin  "Eyes" by Tom Law  This is the second list of animated shorts I have watched, with this set focusing on ones on the CAA main blog as well as "Sleeper" which I am using as the main inspiration for my Premise project and "I am a Forest" which I found through online recommendations. This set I feel I drifted, again more towards the animations that focused on interesting lighting a...

List of Animations used in these Mood-board's. "Alter-Ego" by Kuba Gryglicki  "The Grandfather of Soul" by Keytoon Animation Studio  "13 Ways to Die at Home" by BeezleBug Bit  "90 Degrees" by Supinfocom  "Ego" by Supinfocom   "Dynamo" by Supinfocom  "Cafard" by Supinfocom   "Bad Head Day" by Karen Weiss "Yankee Gal" by Supinfocom Valenciennes "Hum" by The Animation Workshop   "Murmur" by Peter Byrne  "Greed" by Embrya AB "Interim Camp" (Excerpt) by Field  "Coach" by 15 Frame Animation  "Mighty Antlers" by the Animation Workshop  "Salma" by The Animation Workshop  To continue to get a better idea about what I want to do for my Premise project, I decided create some mood boards based on the animated shorts provided to me, as well as some others that I liked through the UCA main ...

After watching a bunch of animated shorts, I decided to start making these mood-boards to get a better idea of what I want my story to be as well as the character that in habits it. To make the story and the character physically tell the story rather than using dialogue I'm leaning more towards the idea of the character and the room being new, so maybe the character moves around and so they are used to being in new rooms, but not sleeping in them, so the room and the character both have a strong personality, either with the room being old and previously inhabited or new and barren, which I will expand more when I come up with the story for the project, but so far I am leaning on those two ideas, because it allows me to be more creative with the character design and explore colour and lighting in the environment design as well. For the story concept, as I did with coming up with the basis for this concept, I think I will write a long version and condense it down, just so I c...

Managed to finish the Jaw element of the animation and so far I am happy with how it has turned out, especially since it's only the jaw I was moving, so had a limited amount of ways I could show different words and stop the mouth looking like it was flapping around aimlessly. I did struggle around the second line, with the issue of the mouth looking like it was flapping around, but I think I managed to fix it and get it to fit the audio clip.

This lesson we did more short timed drawings, so I decided to continue to do more blind, continuous line drawing because I felt it was the best way to capture the form of the line and also make the drawings more interesting as well. We also had to expand the drawing near the end of the session, using the pose to create a scene and a character, so with mine I decided to go with a homeless man for the first one, because I felt the pose was deflated and weak almost, while the second one I decided to go with a man holding a flag, because I felt the pose was heroic and strong.