I’ve taken the bit from my animation film where the character, whilst in the middle of his tantrum, pulls his eyes out of his sockets in sheer frustration. This segment of the film, in my mind, is the most expressive in terms of pure frustration and anger. For me it hits the spot for expressing this in ways the human body cannot be able to. Sometimes watching or listening to something that expresses not just how you feel, but beyond that too. This is a perfect example of this

Another anime inspired post. My fondness for anime is such that I have seen more inspiring things in anime than I have seen in conventional cartoons where the animators try and make something as dramatic and action filled as possible, as efficiently as possible. By this I mean animators who have depicted a battle scene simply by drawing a single fight scene between a few people and did effects to like; spiral the still around, added some fast-flowing action lines in front of

The film has finally come together after a good solid 4/5 days of working on it. I have now left myself the easy parts to complete which is the brushing up part. The long menial task of filling out each individual frame is over leaving me only the tarting up and adding icing on the cake. I will come back to it with fresh eyes so that I can properly criticise and edit it properly. For the moment though, I do know I need to do these following things: Smoothed out a few lines in

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese mecha television series about a dystopian future where these giant bio-machine mechas called Evangelions, piloted by humans, defend this highly fortified futuristic city of Tokyo from these abstract, demonic-like creatures called Angels. The anime takes on a whole lot more than just machines fighting monsters as the series tries to answer deep, philosophical questions about self-worth, human connection and what and why we as individuals g

These are my experiments from all the playing around I did on Photoshop to try and see if I can reflect the mood and emotion of the character in the moment that he's in without drastically changing the colours of the character itself. In this example I kept the same colour scheme as I chose in the previous blog and I enhanced the exposure of the frame using the adjustment settings. The white in the character's eyes went yellower, his flesh tone and lips more saturated and ove