first composition

As a lot of our work is almost finished, I've started filling out backgrounds and compiling the work in premiere pro. I would preferably use after effects, and learn more about post production practice. Due to the fact I'm leaving for Annecy animation festival in a week and returning home I'm will make do with the time I have left.

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I've been getting better at painting backgrounds, but I've still got a lot to improve upon. I've been asking Maj for critique and advice to achieve a better understanding, as it has been very resourceful towards personal development, as well as keeping consistency in Mouse House design.

background progress

some generic backgrounds that have given me a little more insight on colour and clouds

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I think I've picked up colouring the sky and clouds pretty well, as they're quite easy to do; I still need practice with ground and foreground objects. I found this background somewhat frustrating to complete due to the fact this was one of the first layout designs by another student, so the style doesn't quite fit (in particular, the brush type being inconsistent and the wheat texture). I plan on revisiting this background later to clean up the layout, if we have enough time. I also need to pay more attention to directions of light, and shadow cast.

background edit

I picked up a background from another student that had left for summer, I brought down the opacity on the grass to make it more subtle, then added another layer to highlight the blades of grass

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Most of the work left on Mouse House are backgrounds, so I've started contributing to that area of work. I'm not great at Photoshop painting, but hope I will improve as I go along.

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Same as before, but now with a rotoscoped background with layout.

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I spent a little too long working out the proportions and angle of the mouse before starting this shot, as the mouse is scaled down a lot.

rotoscoping by Fern Griffiths

2018 student showreel

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Most recent clean up I did for Mouse House; I prefer doing clean up over shots I've keyed and inbetweened myself, as I find it easier to maintain styled lines.

Mouse House poster

I'm not too happy with how it turned out, as I put this together in about a day. But it's a learning curve to time invested in promotional material I guess.

production reel academic year 2018

This is my production reel from my third and last year at University studying Animation and VFX. This is a compilation of all work I've done this semester for hand in. I've learnt a lot from directing Mouse House and am looking forward to keep on working to push my work further, and enter the animation industry.

twig design practice

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I spent this week inbetweening a shot I previously keyed. I often find myself cleaning up the action poses a lot when filling in my keys; I need to get better at keying more effectively.