#practical project

My first actual crochet project in a while!

I’ve had summer classes, work, and my internship and my brain is just such mush I hardly do anything for myself. But I’m trying to work on that!

After a tiring day I've finally completed my morphological map! For my Earth Surface Processes course~

As the title states it's an area in the northern part of Jamaica.

This type of map excludes anthropomorphic structures, leaving only geomorphological structures.

I believe the area to the west of the limestone plateau is of igneous origin with explain why the surface features are different between the two areas.

In the original storyboard, this scene consists of Taylor brushing his hand across the wall, noticing the rocks being warmer than usual.

When coming to animate this shot, I wasn’t too confident on how to visualise this and how to animate it without spending too much time on it. This is when i decided to completely change the shot.

I then decided instead of this scene, I’ll have Taylor walk past a stalagtite with a piece of cloth with dry blood stuck through it, having taylor pick it up and feel more keen to leave the cave. This would be a lot more threatening and it would be easier to animate.

I woldd definitely show my work off at comic cons. There are usually ones in belfast. 

https://www.showmastersevents.com/belfast/

However, I think I heard somewhere that they’re stopping this one in the future, so I decided to have a look at ones in England.

https://www.mcmcomiccon.com/manchester/

The Manchester comic con is very popular and would bring a lot of interested new fans. There are also ones in london and birmingham. 

https://www.webtoons.com/en/

Other than cons, webtoon is also a very popular place to post your comics and there are plenty of other webcomic sites like smackjeeves and taptastic. People also post to Tumblr. but I prefer webtoon and smackjeeves as it was made for comics.

Shot 17 was fairly difficult to produce, the character animation is a perspective shot and I’m not too good at visualising many perspective shots. This is where I decided to go into Autodesk Maya and use a simple rig to help me with the shot.

I started off animating a simple walk animation using the rig. I then exported it into a PNG sequence and then import it into Toonboom Harmony.

I then sketched over the 3D Animation, the left leg, right leg, waist, body, head and hood were all sketched on separate layers, then changed the width and sizes of the body to match Kai’s phisique more.

Then I lined and coloured the animation

I then rendered the background. Since it was a pan shot, i increased the height by 70% then used content aware fill in Photoshop to extend the sketch drawing further up, It wasn’t perfect but the layout was good for me to work with.