Emma Ford
TY PAWB CREATIVE FOLK TALES
A Collaboration with Active Writing In May last year I was approached by Peter of Active Writing to create a series of illustrations that...
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Emma Ford
- Jan 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Finished Piece
I finally have a finished animation! It is only a small piece but I am happy with the result. I initially wanted it to be longer, but I...
Emma Ford
- Jan 24, 2021
- 1 min
Illustration Commission
I was asked by a very good friend to create a fan art illustration of her Player Character from Dragon Age Origins. This game had a huge...
Emma Ford
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
Adding the Enemy
My warrior prince needed an enemy to attack (as he does in the storyboard and animatic) I had been putting it off, but I got the stage...
Emma Ford
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Animating the background
As I mentioned in the last post, I wanted to animated the background but to do this I needed to re-draw it, on separate layers to allow...
Emma Ford
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Animation Feedback Session
I shared my animation with the MDES group again, they agreed that the swipe is definitely improved, but the background is too static. I...
Emma Ford
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Adding Shading
After the last update I began working on shading on the character, he looked flat compared to the background. I think it works well, but...
Emma Ford
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Animation Update
As I continue to work on my project, I cant help by hate the acid coloured scenery I created for a quick background to the action. I...
Emma Ford
- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
Animation Feedback Session
I joined Steve's Post Grad Animation session this morning. Apart from giving me major anxieties because they are doing incredible 3D...
Emma Ford
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
The Script
I don't consider myself much of a writer, I do it, and I am convinced it is mostly nonsense but for this project as a whole (not just...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 5 min
Learning Contracts
Contract 1 Date 5/10/2020 - 19/10/20 A Write brief points that explain clearly what you intend to do in the period indicated above...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
A wonderful weirdness that came from animation frames
I decided to see the mess of lines that each drawing layered on one another would look like. I've been working on the animation in layers...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
What will my animation look like... Eventually?
So my extremely simple one second of animation got me thinking, there is a lot of work I want to do to improve it in the long run. I've...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Finally A MOVING Character!
That doesn't make me want to cry with despair when I look at it! The way I've worded the title you're probably thinking I finally have an...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
An Animatic with sound
Following Steve's advice I went back and tried to make an animatic with sound. I can't realistically say how successful it has been, but...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Digital Eyes and Non Human Photography
This was a really interesting session with Paul, obviously I have seen the bonobo's supposed self portrait, drone footage and Google's AI...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
Tutorial with Steve
Following my tutorial with Karen and Yadzia, I spoke to Steve in Animation again. I do think sometimes that he gets a bit exasperated...
Emma Ford
- Nov 29, 2020
- 4 min
D&D an exercise in collaborative storytelling
I joined the University Dungeons and Dragons Society last year then due to the pandemic, we had to stop meeting to play the game. Since...
Emma Ford
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Well the world didn't end...
and I think I might have over reacted to my issues with the last animation attempt. It really pays off to get advice, something I'm still...
Emma Ford
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Tearing my hair our with animation
AAAAAARGH so many problems! Firstly my laptop, which is supposed to be able to handle this sort of thing, keeps crashing when I try to...
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