This lesson introduced us to Animism, which is the belief that objects and creatures all have a spirit/ essence. We then watched a series of videos and debated whether or not the animators were able to capture this essence through the appeal of their characters.
The study task this week was to produce a rough line test of an object or animal being brought to life.
I animated a walk cycle using my cat, Conan, as the model, and decided to give him a more anthropomorphic walk, inspired by the latter films we watched in class.
I sketched a very rough walk cycle first, consisting of eight different frames.
Link to Rough Animation
I then refined this animation by making the lines more crisp and confident.
Link to Refined Animation
Finally, I added a tail to my animation, once more looking at references to try and make sure the follow-through looked right.
Link to Final Animation
We were also briefed about the main body of this module.
The first topic that came to mind was women in animation. I decided to focus on the difference between female characters portrayed in the media fifty years ago compared to how they are portrayed now. I took two books out of the library: "Women, Feminism and Media" by Sue Thornham and "Woman and the Media" by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell.
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