Attending art exhibitions for inspiration: I attended three different art events this term including the Museum of The Moon, Tate Modern and NFS Animation graduation showcase. One of my favourite artists; Sth Boyden, is also having an exhibition in the States. He has been my inspiration since 2015 so this personal project is hugely influenced…

This is a personal journal started from the 20th of Febuary:  Film Making Lecture (22nd of Feb): During the class, we learnt about what makes a good film. I was introduced to the storyline graph movies usually follow and how to keep the audience interested throughout the story. Life drawing (23rd of Feb): Due to a…

This is a personal journal started from the 6th of February:  Reading Week: During reading week, I worked on my old animation; Lipsync exercises one and had the chance to go back and fix some of the body acting part. I had informative feedback on fixing the animation and spent the entire week working on…

This is a personal journal started from the 30th of January:  Principles of Animation: Exercise 1 With this exercise, we are to animate a character doing a lip-sync based on our friend’s audio clip. Research/references: Due to technical issues with Myblogs, please follow the link below to view the reference videos until further notice: EX1_Lipsync_References…

This is a personal journal started from the 23th of January:  Self study: Research We didn’t have a new exercise assigned so I went back to work on my old exercises and did some more research on character designs and body movements for better understanding. Due to technical issues, please follow the link below to…

This is a personal journal started from the 16th of January:  Principles of Animation: Facial expression Research/references: I made some initial research on facial expression to explore how much I can push myself for the exercise. I tried taking selfies of my expression of disgust, anger, tiresome and in awe. I felt like ‘shyness’ and…

This is a personal journal started from the 9th of January:  Principles of Animation: Body Acting Research: For this exercise, our task is to animate our classmate’s character based on their story focusing on body movements only. I have mild ornithophobia but I wanted to get out of my comfort zone since I have never…

This is a personal journal started from the 28th of November:  Principles of Animation: Quadruped walk part 2 With the sketches and the reference videos that I took last week, I started animating the dog walking cycle first. With the first result, I wasn’t satisfied with how the dog’s head looked a bit off and…

This is a personal journal started from the 21st of November:  Principles of Animation: Quadruped walk part 1 The class has been visited by different dog breeds. All of them have different builds and personalities which affect how they walk and the pace of their walking. It was a struggle for me to draw the…