Connecting Annabelles narration to class, it was apparent from the start that she is a strong, determined and dedicated person. This preferred identity was noticed when she mentioned the concern for getting into university from solely her atar, but her extra curricular activities in music shined through for her to attain early entry. This set…
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Listening Essay: Nancy Hugget
Engaging as an outsider witness required one to listen and acknowledge the “preferred stories and identity claims” (Carey & Russell, 2009) of Nancy Hugget (Director of an Advisory Team to the University of Wollongong) in a therapeutic conversation which unveiled the significance of personal values absently but implicitly guiding one’s life course. Values are paramount…
Guiding Myself Through The Jungle
The first response to a disruptive change in my life has always instigated feelings of uncertainty, stress and panic. So, when I experienced such a thing in my relatively new position in a relatively new job, I was more than surprised with the emotional truckload that followed. The job I applied and interviewed for was…
Major Work Progress
My animation has truthfully taken a difficult start. My first and foremost difficulty was comprehending perspective in cel animation. Upon consulting some academic articles, I found a particular camera technique in animation known as a pan, “Suppose that we wish to make a movie of a scene, taken by a camera rotating from left to…
Dying Elves: A Pitch Process
Dying Elves, the strategic fantastical table-top probability race game that touches the role-playing genre. Now that’s a mouthful. Dying Elves fits into the strategy and race genres as the core game loop involves strategically overcoming challenges & making decisions to collect a set of cards in order to get to a certain point on the…
Dying Elves: You or Them? Pitching it To You
Game Ideaology: A lesson about selfishness (choosing the dying elves or yourself) Dying elves is played on a grid space board where all character cards start in the middle along an x axis The aim of the game is to either save the elves or save yourself. At the top of the board is the…
Pitching Fluorescent Black
I will be doing a hand-drawn cel animation music video for the song Fluorescent Black by Sorority Noise. The video is derived from an animation I have been envisioning since I was 14 years old and I hope to bring this daydream to life and give it justice. It is an extremely symbolic journey of…
Deep Ocean Dive: An Animation
Upon reflection of my animation piece for Task 1, I believe I thoroughly addressed each criteria point to explore and investigate in Affect Effects and motion design principles. Implementation of Motion Design Principles I believe I have considered an extensive amount of motion design principles in my animation. I have utilized visual grammar exhaustively, with…
Animation Progress
My motion design concept is evolving as I continue to play and experiment with it. I believe at this stage I know what I want the motion design animation to look like, however it is actually delivering that on screen which is the challenging part. I have been considering the design thinking stages to assist…
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Motion Design Genius?
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina sequence effectively utilizes a range of motion literacy fundamentals from primary motion to basic animation principles such as follow through/overlapping. The main observations that can be made about this sequence is the secondary motion (camera) occurring in between each segment of the clip in conjunction…
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