Aster Anderson

The concepts for Lavender started way back in 2022 when I first got a idea for a game in which you would play as a character called “Lavender” and their quest to uncover their past and to find the dream god. The idea was a big open world game full of exploration and secrets that the player would slowly uncover through Lavender. The first concepts were done on paper in 2022 and then were developed into a conceptual digital piece done in Procreate. The idea then rested for a few months till I did a redesign on the 16th march 2023. Soon after I decided I wasn’t happy with this design and started again on design number three. This design I liked more and it has been developed from April 2023 to as late as December 2023 as my art style changed and developed.

This is the final third design for Lavender and the most recent design of them. This I feel is far more expressive than the other works and shows a refinement in drawing skills.

I made a room in blender to experiment with blender and develop my skills within the app. I found it a very entertaining experiment and it has made me want to play more with blender and get used to all the tools to hopefully make more cool things in the future.

This was a short experiment into making small guy more bouncy and lively using bounce and stretch.

This is the in progress animation of the beginning scenes of my A2 final film for Moving Image Arts.

This is to be the final scene of my A2 final film. It is currently in development and is being finished.

This is a Moving image A2 lighting experiment for my final film. It also served as good practice for getting adjusted to my new animation program "Procreate Dreams".

This was a short animated experiment for my Moving Image Arts A2 final film development. the purpose of this experiment was to practice drawing the characters, seeing how they move and interact with each other. Practice with lighting that came through trees and importantly, background practice.

This was a practice into hand gestures but mainly served as practice into learning British Sign Language as the repeated drawing helped me memorize it better.

This is a in progress experimental animatic into quick movements and action scenes. Inspired by across the spiderverse.

This was the final result of my development For my Art AS final piece. a fully functional Praxinoscope of a ice skater dancing.

This was a experiment into a simplistic animatic style that tells a story. The concept was that I wished to effectively communicate what it is like dealing with my experiences with forgetfulness, particularly around remembering people. I discovered that when I forget things, I can remember the emotions behind it but I cannot remember the actual event and people. So this animatic was to describe my experiences in a way that makes the viewer sympathize and understand.

This was my Moving Image Arts AS final piece, an animated film about a shapeshifting hero named "Janus" breaking into the vigilante headquarters pretending to be the vigilante "Mockingbird" before having a change of heart and repaying their kindness by confessing the truth of his identity.

This was a animated lighting experiment i did for my AS final film. the experiment features Janus on a train as light goes by. It was a experiment into how lighting effects surroundings and how I would go about animating lighting in my final film.