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Of Schedules & Excel Sheets

17:25

Here comes my favourite part of every term whenever there's a film project to work on: schedules! Oddly enough, scheduling seemed like a very normal task for me to do whenever we have a film to work on and to abide within a certain time frame. Production schedule Individual task sheet Overall shot list (close-ups are below) Close-up...

'Dance of Life': Concept Art

16:48

Concept arts... are always a tricky thing for me. I decided to give it a go and see what I come up with. Initially, when we were giving our practice pitch, the lecturers said that the concept art didn't seem 'dance-y' enough, which, ironically– was in the title of the project. So, Emma, Ting and I started coming...

Diversity: Final Cut

16:33

After weeks of having a good rhythm of animation to clean-up to colouring to exporting, we finally have reached to the end of the production! We managed to finish a week earlier than planned as we were all working on the film over Easter, which helped in giving us more time to fix any errors or inconsistencies that...

Bringing 'Dance of Life' to Life

13:00

With the initial idea in mind, we came up with mood boards to set the tone of what we were going to go for. These are the moodboards that I've compiled together: I've also sketched some drawings and tested out how we were going to accentuate the definite line of action with the sketchy-style of the rest of...

Diversity: Backgrounds

14:34

Throughout the live brief, other than taking charge of the schedules and assigning tasks, I took up the role of colouring layouts with Ting. The layout artist for this project was Majua. Honestly, he's a very talented person when it came to layouts and they all looked superb! He managed to capture the essence of a kindergarten well....

Life Drawings

02:12

Turns out... this will be the final term that I'll be having life drawing classes! I'm not too sure how to feel about it, to be honest. It's quite nice to have a 2-3 hour shut down from staring at computer screens and just loosen up a little. Also, this doesn't mean that life drawing ends at the...

All Aboard the Diversity Train

14:00

When it came down to choosing between the Kresen Kernow and the Diversity brief, our team went for the latter. Since then, we laid out a concept of an idea and decided on how we were going to approach the brief. Our team ended up looking at the root of the issue and for us, it seemed clear...

intense drumrolls for BFX

19:00

As some of you may know, BFX has been an annual competition and festival since 2012. I remember seeing a group of current (2018) third years making a intro video of themselves to be submitted to the competition, last year (2017). And they were better known as Team Sponge (shoutout to Thomas Wallis, Ryan Orgill, Amy Lucas, Daniel Martin...

Birth of 'Dance of Life'

22:30

A few weeks back, we had an entire week with the legendary Luis Cook (I'll be doing a post about what inspiring words he has left us to ponder on). Honestly, this is just one of the amazing quirks about being in Falmouth University. You get tons, and I mean TONS of amazing people from around the world...

'Curiosity' Brief

00:30

During our introductory lecture to Design & Pre-Production for Animation 2, we had 3 students from Film to brief us on the project that they are developing for their third year, called, Curiosity. It is about a little girl that finds a dusty and forgotten robot in a warehouse. The team wanted us to create and come up...

New term, new modules!

02:00

Ah, 2018. A fresh new year, a fresh new start. That's what we often tell ourselves when the clock strikes midnight and the number of day count hits a reset button: day 1 of 365... then we head off to bed with that mantra in our head. And when we get up, nothing feels different, then a few...