Cerys Ford Computer animation arts

The aim of our first project was to introduce us to the idea of concept painting and digital painting. For this, we were given a series of cities from Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible cities’. We had to draw a series of thumbnail sketches for each city, and after that we chose our favorite city to do three digital paintings on; an exterior establishing shot, a exterior low angle shot and an interior establishing shot. I chose the city of Ersilia because out of all the cities I had the most inspiration for it, and I felt like I could take it in an interesting, creative direction. I had multiple ideas for the city, so I had to decide on having the city move on wheels as I felt I could execute that idea the best out of all the Ideas I had. When it came to the composition of the paintings, I was most inspired by the overall feeling of the city when it was described in it’s entirety, with the web of strings, the city itself, and the tents on the mountainside. It was important to me to get s...

 Every Friday since the beginning of term, we have had tutorials that go into the basics of photoshop. They went over things like selction tools, photo manipulation, clipping masks and animated GIFs. They mainly served as a refresher for me as I have used Photoshop before. However, I did find exporting an animated GIF extremely useful as I had never done it before, and it came in handy when I had to create the GIFs for my final digital paintings in the invisible cities project. Unfortunately, I don't have any of the files from these sessions as I thought I had saved them to one drive but I cannot find them. I will probably update this post once I find them again.

                                                   

 

 

                            Here are my exercises attempting 1,2 and 3 point perspective. I thought it was important to get a decent amount of practice in perspectives as I havent really specifically looked at and practiced perspectives in my work. I found 1 point perspective the easiest to grasp, but when I moved on to 2 point perspective I found I had to put a lot more practice in to get it, but once I did, it made a lot of sense. 3 point perspective was similar, and I'm not entirely sure if I've fully got it just yet, but I'm not going to need it as much as 1 and 2 point perspective in my digital paintings.