Georgia McInroy

So I hope you're all well! I’ve been a little MIA over the past couple of months as my foundation ended quite abruptly due to miss rona, however I'm now completing an illustration degree! these are some of the first pieces of work I've produced looking at line quality.

A Storm In A Teacup. 

This is the third animation I produced as part of the full secs animation project we were set on britishness. I chose to animate a storm of cats and dogs into a china teacup. I felt that the animals represented the idiom “raining cats and dogs’ well and would compliment the storm in a cup I chose to portray. The themes of weather and tea were some of the first ideas I thought of when brainstorming things I thought were British and I think they communicate that identity well. I am also really happy with how far my animation skills have come in this project. the gif isn't without faults, but I feel that I have been able to draw a professional quality image with more complex animation as the project progressed. I particularly like the way I did the lightning in the background I think it really adds to the gif which would otherwise b e very static if it weren't for the rain. I also think that I have been able to experiment with different techniques through the project and found what works best for me, I did this in the colouring style I used as well as the text I used in the slates. The previous animations I did were very flat with the colouring which was intentional but I think adding the shadows gave the animation a more complete look subtly.

Reflection.

For this animation I wanted to show the image of a father on holiday getting sunburnt in the sun while he relaxes. For me sunburn and annual holidays are one of the first things that come to mind when I think of What makes us British. Tanning is seen as key and if you have to burn first to get an even tan(so is the belief of many british women) then so be it. so I chose to show a gradual burn and the ice cream melting. 

To produce this animation I used a graphics tablet to edit different layers saving each frame as a jpeg then loading them into a stack in photoshop which I could export as a gif.