Comic Drawing Workshop

I joined the comic drawing workshop organized by the comic book society I joined , with guest comic artist Dan Lee came to Frenchay to give us a small talk of how his comic career started.

Dan Lee was an Illustration student as well back about 5 years ago when he was still under his degree course, and he siad he didnt quite have the chance to really go ,so later on he decided to move on and work as a freelancer and draw his own comic strips.

 I drew some pictures of character

I love this workshop, because I love character design, and I learned quite alot from Dan Lee as well, reminds me of the old me, the me that use to draw like crazy back then, non-stop drawing and drawing.

2D/3D Printing Rhino Workshop

11/3 and 12/3  I went in to a non-sign-up workshop in the fabrication studio because I couldnt get to sign up the one listed on the sign up sheet on the illus studio, so I just come in and see if there is any space left.
and BAM there is, lots of extra space, because there's only one student and me, a total of 2 students in this workshop .

We started learing how to use the Rhino program, James teached us how to use it, he's very patient
after we learned the basics, he let us play around for a bit with the software and build/ design something out of it.
I build/design something 2D in Rhino workshop and then took it to laser cut it, turns out not bad .

A little sneakpeak of the laser cutting process.

Tada ! I had fun :)

The next day I learned about doing a 3D model  using Rhino program, same routine. James thought us and let us play around with the program for a bit and then lead us to actually build a 3D object with the program and allow us to print the object out.

A video of the 3D printing:

I have learned quite alot in this workshop, I'll definitely have another go someday !

Traditional/ 2D Animation Pipeline

An animation workshop with Mary Murphy and Ian Friend from animation module.
The first session with Mary I learned about traditional hand drawn 2D animaiton : lightbox, peg bar, pencil, eraser , etc. Like for example we each draw a simple picture and then combine our picture together by blending the images together and you'll see the animation flowing.

As for 2D digital animation I learned from Ian Friend, using the software adobe flash
doing a butterfly testing with easy techniques to create a movement form.

It was fun.

** will upload the videos soon.

Arduino Workshop

First day in fabrication studio doing my first arduino workshop, playing with electric and conductor.
The tutor who showed us/runs the workshop is James and Chris from fabrication tech center, they are nice people.

We discovered about lights LEDs, and battery, we also played with sensors such as moving sensor, timer that will react to the arduino system/program.

It was an interesting workshop, I figured it might work in our project for pro practice.

Animation Workshop: Audio & Clay Animation

31 Jan 2014
I joined the option module to do Animation in my second semester , the first animation workshop I attended is with Mary Murphy, a professional clay making artist and also one of the stop motion tutor in the animation course.

I learned about stop motion animation, clay making, the importance of audio to an animation.
Afternoon we get to team up into 2 person and work on an animation with a chosen audio file. I teamed up with Laura Dickson and we made a short animation video.

It didnt came out that good, but Im glad I tried it out. It was a fun experience.

3 Feb 2014
Second animation workshop with Mary Murphy.
On this day, she is talking about stop motion, camera, rules of working under camera, importance of time managements and learning about the flow of clay animation. Which means there cannot be a mistake when you are doing stop motion, because once you did something wrong in one frame, you have to start all over again.