Progression

This is Legolas, you can obviously tell from the bow and the colour. I'm currently still designing backdrops and character designs to then make animating easier and less hassle. It's raining and it's cold as well. Food time.

Animation beginnings

After we presented our animatics and pitched our ideas we were given the go ahead to start work on our animations. For the first period I worked on an external project I have while I had some ideas before later starting on animation related work.

In Illustrator I created the above image as a mock-up for a background. Sticking with the themes of simplistic, and trying to use circles for a constant theme throughout. While I am happy with the sky, creating land with circles is a bit trickier. 

During lunch I also created the image below, inspired from some logo designs I saw earlier which used shapes and colours as a font face. While I didn't do that, I did make two shapes with vibrant and bold colours.

Gaben

Today we learned about the bone structure tool and made bad animation things, I chose to use the face of our sweet prince, Gaben. To actually structure it was easier than it looked, simply dragging and dropping things onto things and creating restrictions. 

This would act as an alternative to animating as you can create poses which it then 'tweens' to. Useful for making subtle movements.