Collaboration in a day

During the collaboration session, we were put into groups of two people, after sharing names we took the first letter of our names to make up words, and to form a product that can be promote and sell. The object we made up was a goose kettle, which is basically an idea of a goose carrying a kettle around on his back to serve tea and coffee in a specialist goose-operated café. To back up with the idea we started with drawing it onto papers, which I unfortunately did not hold the original sketch so not able to show it in the blog, but here is a demonstration of what it would look like. We then presented to idea to each other between five groups, when we eventually voted for the best. The goose kettle idea got the most votes and became the product that we are going to present to the rest of the creators in the room after we’ve develop it into a more complete idea that is able to be promoted as a bigger group. Therefore, the idea was developed into a goose café with a goose carrying kettle, while other small gooses carries tea bags or accessories.

At last all the ideas were presented in front of the projector with a simple presentation that demonstrated the initial sketches, the developed drawings and the whole concept of the café. So in order to narrow down to the best idea among all of the presentations, the vote went mostly to the idea of a latex outfit for a dog. Afterwards we were all working on the same idea and finished with a video in the form of an advertisement, which demonstrate the property of the product and the reason to purchase it.

During the course, I discovered the process of producing a presentation of one idea chosen from a variety of ideas, narrowing down to the best choice, and on the other hand, to adapt other's creative idea and collaborate together to form the final design campaign.

Life drawing session

One of the life drawing session I went to to improve my knowledge on human shape and scale, in order to draw accurate movement when doing frame by frame animations.

Kimi no nawa

Kimi no nawa, which has also been translated into Your Name in English, produced by Shinkai Makoto, which is known as who would produce films that each frames would be a beautiful wallpaper. Other than the admiration on the delicate produced backgrounds and scenes, The narrative in the story is emphasized by a few epic scenes. The weakness I would judge the film would be that the characteristic of the main characters are not distinct enough.

OUAN502 - Study Task 3 - Animation Studio Research

For this study task, we need to go ahead to research a animation studio, which my choice is a studio based in Ireland, named Cartoon Saloon. The studio has a very unique style of the animation, which is also identical as well. They includes a lot of Irish cultural features especially in the film Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. They started by doing illustration, graphic designs, short films and commercial animated films, and gradually started to do feature films.

During the presentation, I introduced the studio of its history, such as how it was formed and developed, the feature films that the studio produced and what is in progress at the time. I will be practicing presentation skills while build confidence, during the presentation, what I forgot to talk about was that I have tried to contact the studio, also by following the studio on social medias such as Facebook and Twitter. The films are very appealing and inspiring to me.