character research

Image source: Surf's up official website
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/surfsup/

sixty 40

more of their works:

http://www.sixty40.com/work_archive.html

http://www.edugandapandashow.com/

week 7 character design

I did some studies on pandas, their movements, patterns, etc. Then I develop my character design, I aware that panda with longer arms and legs will look better when I animate.

week 6

Animation Style

the Dínamo Digital studio - Brazil
http://www.dinamodigital.com.br/

I found that the style of few of their works are exactly what I want to do, like more cartoon characters and colourful backgrounds.



Title: Malu
Director: Ricardo Carelli
Agency: Santa Clara




Title: Meus Prêmios 2007
Director: Ricardo Carelli / Ricardo Fernandes

This is a promo for the annual Brazil awards show. I really like the rhythum of the music and the little dancing characters. The jelly-like creatures move and walk funny, they interact each other in the scenes. The colours work so well!




Mika "Lollipop" music video
Director: Bonzom

The black wolf character in this mv is nice! I love the part the girl was being swallowed and actually seeing the bones of the wolf. Interesting pop up texts which match the voice.

Character design

some photos of pandas from "getty images"

My initial concept is to create a 2D animation about pandas - a funny story. My idea wasn't come from the semi-permanent (the edugapanda), I have been thinking to make an animation of panda for a long time!

week5 presentation

In this project, I spent most of the time painting and editing in photoshop. I painted 22 pages in total, I can make a children book with them....I used acrylic paint to do all the paintings, with A4 sized drawing paper (fits to my scanner) the hardest part is to paint the outlines, have to be smooth and perfect, otherwise white bits can be seen when I animate it. I tried my best to fix everything in photoshop.

animation style

the clips of "Mcdull, Prince de la Bun"

this is a movie from Hong Kong, most kids like it, but it is actually a black comedy, which talks about a single parent family. The style is very different from the western's ones, in which they added a lot of Hong Kong elements.