Jade Navan Caitlin

I decided I wanted to retry the character animation, I decided to create a cut little dinosaur and make him walk and talk. Looking on the Free music archive I found a song called Dinosaur which I have got my character to speak and then dance to the song. Character Edit Improved. from Jade Holmes on Vimeo .

For our final workshop with Sara we were doing a collaboration project where we where all asked to create a 10 second animation which would be then added all together in a class animation. We where given the theme 'Things that fly' I decided to do a kite, unfortunately something went wrong with the background so it was black I have sense sorted this on my own version. A - MID afternoon finale from Motion-go on Vimeo .

For   this   workshop   we   had   to   once   again   prepare   content   before   hand   I   decided   to   create   two   elephants   walking   across   a   horizon .   The   elephants   had   to   be   drawn   on   Adobe   Illustrator   making   sure   all   limbs   where   separate .  I   then   imported   them   into   photo   shop   with   horizon   background   that   I   had   created   on   Photoshop .  Using   the   transform   options   I   began   to   make   the   animal   move   as   is   it   was   moving   and   the   used   the  ' positioning '  I   moved   it   cross   the ...

For this workshop we were ask to prepare some content for the class to be able to work on creating the 10sec video. We were to pick a book or a poem. I came across a copy of Aesops fable on my bookshelf at home and decided to focus my attention on creating a depiction of the short fable. The Labourer and The Nightingale   A labourer lay listening to a Nightingale’s song throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. “Now that I have caught thee,” he cried, “thou shalt always sing to me.” “We Nightingales never sing in a cage.” said the bird. “Then I’ll eat thee.” said the labourer . “I have always heard say that a nightingale on toast is dainty morsel.” “Nay, kill me not,” said the Nightingale; “but let me free, and I’ll tell thee three things far better worth than my poor body.” The labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of a tree and said: “Never believe a captive’s promise; that’s one ...

For this workshop the prepared work was research into a font of our choice and then some mood boards on what we wanted the piece to look like, to help  us during the session. I looked into a font called Gill Sans, heres what i found : 1913 – Johnston Sans designed by Edward Johnston for the London Underground. Eric Gill worked as Johnston’s as an apprentice and even had a small role in designing the font. 1926 – Gill thought the font could be improved and strived to create the perfect legible typeface. 1928 – Stanley Morrison of Monotype released Eric Gills new font Gill Sans in capitials 1928 – Marketed by Monotype as "Classic simplicity and real beauty" 1929 – Gill Sans Lower Case was introduced. 1929 – London and North Eastern Railway chose the font for all its poster, timetables and publicity material, a use later extended across all British railways. 1935 – Penguin introduced their new design using Gill Sans on the iconic covers, designed by...

This workshop was to show how we could pan thorough objects on the screen using the camera. Overall I am not completely happy with the results, as I feel like it looks tacky. This is because I did not have the prepared content before the session meaning I had to rush to have something to work. I decided on a quote from Joker 'We stopped looking for monsters under our beds when we realised that they were inside of us' Quote Edit 1 from Jade Holmes on Vimeo .

Colour Edit 1 from Jade Holmes on Vimeo . We spent the session creating the 10 second video which we all then uploaded onto Vimeo. We learnt how to make solid colour layers and music blend together to the beat of the song. I enjoy watching my final piece as the colours match the tone of the music. I chose the different colours by using a  aqua colour swatch shown below.