David's Animation Studio Practice

Well, I done goofed. My animatic ended up being over ten minutes long... I'm going to have to cut some of it down. It's a shame, bec...

A character's bedroom exposes the most about their personality through mise-en-scene. When designing a bedroom, it is important to note ...

Practice on the animation and background.

I made this background to practice and determine the overall direction I'd like to take for the scenery. This is just a jpeg of the bac...

Pinterest Board references for background artist.

This is probably my biggest inspiration of all. After playing these games at the same time as this pilot lingering in my head at the time, I...

I was comparing Millie to different characters I enjoy and I realised that there was someone that really hit the nail on the head of what ki...

One of the many shows, movies, and video games that influenced Sillie & Millie was Adventure Time. I looked at that for inspiration for ...

As this is the main setting of the pilot, I should make sure the setting tells us as much about the series as possible, since the actual sto...

I contacted a man named James Wood, a composer and mutual friend of Cara, with the instructions I posted earlier. He sent me the demo track ...

I am having a lot of trouble thinking of how to make concept art for Sillie & Millie and I can't find any examples of similar concep...

I am in need of a brand new storyboard template for the pilot. The college ones are utterly terrible and the ones on Google images are no be...

For the main theme of Sillie & Millie, I really want to place a lot of importance onto the music, not just for marketing reasons but in ...

For the full series, I would like to place a lot of importance in the music of the show. Up until now, I have always just sort of cherry pic...

I started working on Young Creatives, which is basically teaching young people art, in my case I help with the animation course, in Universi...

Well, I finished the initial script! That was certainly fast. I think it's now time to start sending it to people to have a look at and...

That's the huge setback to this project. Regardless of my confidence in my animation abilities, even if I reach the minimum of five minu...

I'm at the scriptwriting phase of the animation, and I am thinking about the structure and the content of the script. Judging by the ide...

For my extended practice work, I have decided it would be best if I just went ahead and made a TV pilot for a series I have planned. Since m...

Final piece.

Step 1: Make a Flash document with a green background and a dot depicting where the tracking dot will be. Step 2: Draw and animate ...

We were told to produce a photograph or an image of our work be used as part of a promo for the screening of everybody's work. Grace vol...

The original recording was changed to one sung by somebody else, as the original wasn't as energetic. The character design for Symp...

The feedback for our final crits was mainly positive. Everyone enjoyed the animation, both with the expressions and the stop-motion animatio...

Proof of concept for facial animation

Our team have thought about tone of voice when making this. It's mainly come natural to us, though. Grace wrote the song and I feel like...

I'm extremely certain that this video was what inspired my partner, Grace, to make this animation. To be honest, I do rather enjoy it...

I was thinking for this character, I would design him as this kind of groovy, and chill, guy. I figured for his character, he could l...

Manny was designed as this cute and rather simple looking guy, but still quite a fun character. I didn't really know how to charac...

Since I was told this character was supposed to be a lemon, I figured I would make him stand out, and make him unique to how people would...

Pepé was designed to be this rather insane character. I figured since this was a chilli pepper I'd give him a personality that sui...