Other Bits and Bobs

Here are a few other illustrations that I have produced recently alongside work for FMP. I've been playing around with lots of new textures and a new lack of outline style.

Rosie Rainbow Pig- Final stages

It's almost finished! All I need to do now is place each page into Indesign and add in the text. Then will be able to print up several copies ready to be hand bound!

I intend to have a professionally printed and bound copy in time for the final show. 

Overall I am very happy with the book. With more time I would go back and revisit some of the pages I finished earlier and redraw the characters. I'd also try to make the actual story stronger but unfortunately I needed to focus my time on the illustrations rather than the quality of the story itself. 

Below are some small thumbnails of the whole book. ..

 

I still feel like I have a lot to learn about Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm looking forward to finishing FMP and being able to focus on my own personal projects and learning more about animation.

Monster Animation

I've had a bit of a slow start with my animation but things are definitely moving on now! I had initially wanted to do an animation with the main character of the children's book. I became more and more stressed with the amount of work I was having to do along side this and decided to opt for something a little simpler.

I decided to focus my animation on my monsters. This makes more sense because they are relatively easy to animate and are also something I plan to continue with after graduation.

Although I'm finding After Effects confusing I really think it's something I want to learn properly in the future. My style of illustration is really easy to convert into animations because of the simple shapes and character anatomy. I've really enjoyed picking which monsters to use and imagining how they would move around and behave...

Below are two of my finished animations. I intend to animate a further two monsters and then put all four into one animation with sound effects and music!