1st Blog

Dear Diary,
The 2nd week is now over and Pre-Production is on it's way to becoming assignment riddled and full of super new exciting things for us to learn and see.. Week 1 started slow but there is no rest for hungry hippo on his quest for animation glory so my journey must continue. The 1st homework task was to research, thumbnail and design the Inns main hall from the Grimm's fairytale "The Three Army Surgeons". This task was a lot more fun than I first thought it would be, the researching was hard because there is no pictures of 18th century Inn hallways to be found anywhere, but after watching Korgoth and his beer guzzling which occured inside a ye olde looking drunkard hide-out I was inspired to draw a dark sort of setting with little arch windows, hard wood beams, old wooden floors and stone pillars and walls. After roughing up some hallways mainly using a perspective i found something which i liked and decided it was time to turn it onnnn and get it dooonne!! After my rampage of shading and rubbing the homework was done. Also the videos about roughing up those dinosaur poses were really good, I could see how much time you should spend on roughs and when you have finished your main drawing how to shade it well. Also Mark's constructive feedback was really helpful and I totally agreed on every helpful point he had to offer on the construction and composition of the layout; some of the things i could do to improve this picture would be to add more detail in the floor and walls, this could be done by adding cracks on the stones, putting a grain in the floor boards and reducing the size of the stairs. Personally I think it might need a table or something with someone sitting and drinking to spice things up a bit. goodbye blogger see ya next time!..