Animation exercises

UWE's animation course is very good at encouraging its students to learn by doing - not that I've been on any other university level animation courses, so I can't compare it to anything, but it's a very good way to learn, I can say that much.

At the time of posting, my showreel for the first semester is currently rendering, and when I post it here you'll be able to view all of these exercises in one artfully arranged 90-second chunk set to music, but it can't hurt to post them all separately so you can scrub through them and pick them apart at your leisure. Click "Read More" to see the stop motion, hand drawn and computer animation exercises I did within my first few weeks on the course!

Sand on glass (a form of "destructive" animation)

Plasticine synced to pre-existing sound effect (a collaboration with my classmate Tasha Howe - she did the storyboard)

Baby's First Puppet

Interaction of forms

Transformation - dry media to wet media

Transformation - an experiment with an ink wash and a Fuzzy Brush I found in my bag

Pixilation with found objects

Maya test

A tennis ball in the form of a Christmas bauble

A bowling ball in the form of a Christmas pudding

A balloon in the form of a balloon (or, as a happy accident, Santa's sack!)