Preproduction

Today we were told we were gonna film people from performing art students, I am gonna be responsible for preparing before filming the video and editing it.

The Mant'ra

Here is the first version of the Mant'ra, unfortunatly the scanner left out a few lighter pencil marks but at last I've come up with the design and will do another soon.

Here is the link to my finished work on my devinat art site:
http://soulslayer317.deviantart.com/art/Mant-ra-124756425


I think I have learned a lot about working on my fantasy drawings on blog - I have used different p[encil and line techniques - but most of all Kevin has shown me lots of new tricks on PhotoShop. I can now puit video and animation together and put it all up on a website which I could not doe before. I also have some of my own video work up on Youtube,

Adding links to other websites

I thought of making links between my blog to the deviantart profile and other pages to help others know more about them and also trying to make the blog more better

My next idea

What I'm working on is creating a 9ft tall, intelligant, mutant mantis. Here below are the images that would be helpfull for me to create my creature

My 10 sentences about the animation clips

1. After working on the animation for awhile I am glad to have finished it in time.
2. I am pleased with the way they turned out but it was so hard I think animation is not my thing of working on in the future.
3. I've worked so hard on them using clay, cameras and the college's computer to take each clip to make a short film.
4. I've used the camera and a computer to make the films during my time at Middlesbrough and had some help from the tutor.
5. If I wanted to improve them I would just think of how the story would go and plan the story more at the beginning.
6. Ideas for the animation were hard to come by which made the story line a little difficult.
7. It was hard finding the soundtrack and music that would suit the animation best, such as finding a laughing sound for one of the clay models.
8. It was easy to move the clay models inch by inch each step to make the short film flow, making others believe that the figure was moving.
9. I worked on this on my own but when I get stuck I ask my tutor to help me.
10. I have shown this to a few of my friends who were able to see them and they liked the wa my animation had turned out.
    

Samurai swords and armor

Today I've been looking through alot of swords and armro of a samurai. Ever since I started watching anime I starting to enjoy the swordfights more and more, so I thoguht why not make my own, also try out wood work on them. I have only made two swords but I'm still trying out new ideas for more to come.

Vahl'ri in color

I have given this one some coloured, although I would have to take lessons in college in the future. I tried my best to give it a good colour so this is what their suits would look. Also I thought giving their flag symbal some color too.