Identifying Direction

Overlap Festival Animation Show & Tell This is a new festival set up by Louis Hudson, where many animators would come and show and tell about the few animations they are presenting, where any veterans or students who have currently studying or graduated can submit their works and have no more less than 1 second of animation, although the festivals had one guide line that was the theme that is based on ‘Faces’, however most animation shown today went over the theme and displayed various different styles and themes. The animators that have submitted were Fraser Ntukula presenting two submissions, Jim Howells with his visual style with 3D animals, Josh Leach’s abstract paintings coming to life, Shiyi Li similar style to Josh Lech along with a brief video about herself, Greg McLeod’s informative line art video, Nina Noon’s dark humour of moving and meeting new people, Al Leeming strange and ominous video, Matt Waruszynski’s sexual fruit, Ross Butter’s crude ch

Hilda Character rigging Analysing animation with character rigging was a challenge seeing how the principles are used through this tool, looking over a few scenes from Hilda a cartoon series that follows a young girl who live in a small town filled mythical creatures, the series was animated by Mercury Filmworks studio and it is an adaption to the comic book series created and illustrated by Luke Pearson.   Beginning with looking at Hilda’s character design, seeing that she has various clothing and where I would examine her main outfit which are a red jumper, yellow scarf, a beret, red shoes, black trouser and a teal colour skirt. How the rigging is done is by creating each body part, facial part and clothing separately, so that the animator would be able to animate all the parts of the body cutting down time and cost and be able to deliver high quality smooth animation. From here I need to see how each part foll