Observational Drawing - Animals 2

Took another trip up to Camperdown Wildlife Centre this weekend to do some more observational drawing. Luckily it was a bit warmer this time and goodness that giant tortoise can walk quickly!

Observational Drawing - Animals

Going to do some more sketching of my dog, Pippa, since I'll be animating a canine character for my Masters film project, managed to do this sketch before she got up and wanted to play one-sided fetch...

Yesterday I went up to Camperdown Wildlife Centre to do some observational drawing, my hands froze by the end of this because it was rather cold that day - even some of the animals were huddled together to keep warm!

Masters Semester 1

Here is a summary of my work from Semester 1 on the MSc Animation & Visualisation course, including links to blog posts for each project:

Polygon Model Project
Relevant blog posts at: Shoe Polygon Blog Posts

Modelled and textured shoe, rendered using multi-passes, compositied in Nuke:

Pair of shoes, ambient occlusion render:

Nurbs Model Project:
Relevant blog posts at: Nurbs Environment Blog Posts

Rendered Ambient Occlusion stills of the Nurbs interior environment model:

Rendered camera shot of Nurbs interior model:

Group Project Development Work

Relevant blog posts at: Group Project Development Blog Posts

48hr Film Project
Relevant blog posts at: 48hr Film Project Blog Posts

Life Drawing and Observational Drawing

Relevant blog posts at: Life Drawing Blog Posts and Observational Drawing Blog Posts

Research Skills and Methods module
Relevant blog posts at: Research Skills & Method Module Blog Posts

Final outcome - research poster:

Masters Blog

I have a new blog which covers all the course work I am doing on the MSc Animation & Visualisation Course.

http://lillydurrantanimation.blogspot.co.uk/

One of the most enjoyable projects so far was the '48hr Film Project'. This is the finished film I helped out on:

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Working for a year and a half on one project can be an exhausting process with many many ups and downs, challenges and triumphs along the way. It was a good moment when I finally sat back in my chair in the edit suite with the final edit of our degree show film 'Krokodi' done!

Here's  a link to the work I did for 'Krokodi': http://krokodi.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Lilly

And here is our short film 'Krokodi':

I learnt so much working on this film and felt I was leaving the Undergraduate course with many 3D Generalist skills, and valuable Director & Production Management experience.

The Degree Show came and went by very quickly! Joanna put together a great website for our class:

http://animation2013.co.uk/

I also did some themed baking for the opening night to celebrate the premiere of our film:

"Burger" cupcakes and "Krokodi" biscuits

A highlight of Degree Show week was going along to a screening of everyone’s films at the local cinema DCA – and all of the films looked and sounded amazing on the big screen!

Something new was tried this year. A few of us took our Degree Show down to London where we showcased our films in the screening room of MPC – Moving Picture Company, and invited local VFX and Animation companies along. We were also grateful to visit The Mill whilst we were in London and get some good feedback on our work.

Back home I finally stopped, read a book or two (that have been waiting patiently on my shelf for a while), watched films and caught up on lack of sleep from over the past few months!

It was great to see everyone again at Graduation :)

During the first part of my Summer I worked with a group of MSc Animation and Visualisation students on their film ‘Roses & Dust’.

Watch 'Roses & Dust' on Vimeo

My role was Character Animator and it was a good opportunity to get back into animating, after not having much chance to do any on ‘Krokodi’. It also gave me a good insight into the Master’s course... which is where I am now! Back at uni, starting the academic year as a MSc Animation and Visualisation student. My goal – to have an animation showreel by the end of the course :D

Observational Drawing

 Just a quick selection from my observational drawing sketchbook - drawn in cafe's and on trains:

Life Drawing Year 4 - Semester 2