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Amateur illustration works

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Hyde Park’s Swan

The Royal Parks are some of London’s most popular, and also include Hyde Park, St James’s Park and Green Park.

Here is my illustration of Hyde Park’s Swan. This is the first time I sketched in Hyde Park. People from different countries come here for a walk and picnic, and I fell in love with this beautiful place. Moreover， swans are so elegant and beautiful, which makes people feel happy and enjoy their leisure time.

Lake

Here is my illustration of the beautiful landscape， which demonstrates a peaceful night, the beauty of nature is the best source of artistic inspiration. At the same time, I can find beauty in our daily life. Then， I will create beauty and record it as a work of art on my blog.

The bridge of sighs

Here is my illustration of the bridge of sighs. It was my first time going boating in Cambridge, and I felt the environment outside the campus of Cambridge, the atmosphere of the classical tradition, which was a wonderful and pleasant leisure time. I hope I can have the opportunity to go to the campus of Cambridge and feel a more academic atmosphere and sentiment next time.

The Oath of Love

Here is my illustration of the Oath of Love. This illustration depicts a young girl playing the violin. When she met her beloved, she was inspired to dedicate a beautiful song to him to express her love. She believes time tells everything. Therefore, pigeons, flowers and the cello are selected as visual elements. Hope you love this feeling and gain more peace.

Flipped

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For my summer project, the Reflection on Reality, I chose the word Flipped, which is used to describe love at first sight and infatuation. It generally refers to falling in love with someone who has the flipped that becomes colourful to your life. The following is the Disney short animation Paperman I found on YouTube. I chose this short film to make a short animation about the emotional social phenomenon of cats and lions in the next step.

The Paperman is mainly telling the story of the middle of this century, New York, a young man on the way to work encounters a beautiful girl. The boy in the hands of a stack of paper inadvertently leaves a lot of marks on two people, both the girl and boy return to their respective life at the same time, and the young man find that girl come to interview the other side of the building, he relies on the stack of paper and the time and effort. Finally, the boy attracted the attention of the girl.

The Paperman was shot by John Kahrs, a former Pixar employee, and this was his first film. Released in 2012, the film was presented in black and white, using a relatively advanced method of combining hand-drawn animation with CG computer animation. Paperman tells a beautiful love story through a paper aeroplane. Love, at first sight, is beautiful, but the effort of two people is the important reason why they can meet again. Love works can move the author because as long as there is love, we can face all difficulties. Therefore, everyone can enjoy the happiness of love equally, and this will not change no matter how many years pass. Whether it’s in love or work, when you have an opportunity, you need to seize it and give it you are all. While witnessing a simple and beautiful love story, we also understand the importance of opportunity and hard work for success in the future.

Refer to films of the same theme
Refer to animated short films of the same theme

The reason why I intend to the keyword and chose this animation, which is not over ten minutes, it makes me feel the flip of love. Once I meet the flip, the flip is wonderful. I had flipped, completely. Meanwhile, flipped can bring the audience a kind of appreciation of the moment and have “the best chance encounter in life” truly moved.

LIAF Process in the first few weeks

This semester, our team will complete the LIAF animated short film project together. I will choose the theme of Being Human, and the animation called Oh BabyBaby, which is led by our leader Maria Joao and with Muneera as the team member.

Teamwork and communication are extremely important in completing group project tasks because we needed to finish a 45-second short animation film, which will be combined with the 3D technology to complete the 2D character animation short film. Therefore, the tasks and schedule in the early stage can ensure the planned execution of the group project. For example, in this project, we had a simple group meeting to discuss the advantages and tasks that the three of us were good at in this project. Both team leader Maria Joao and I at the illustration level are relatively solid, and who mainly responsible for Rough Animation in the early stage of the storyboard, and we drew the illustration with TV Paint software, tween drawing and an animation test. I am mainly responsible for all the Clean Up and colouring of the animation. At the same time, Muneera specializes in 3D, so she was responsible for building models of background in the early stage. Maya software is used to complete the background part of the story scene. Meanwhile, Maria Joao is responsible for the concept image of the scene in the early stage, and Muneera is responsible for the final effect of the scene in the late stage. Audio and After Effects will be used by our team leader and Muneera.

In the early stage, the collection of materials and videos in the style of similar animated short films is conducive to advancing the preliminary work of the group project, because our animation style, cancels the need to refer to a pencil line, which is similar to a have coarse fine partition line, the characters also need pencil texture and colour, by texture shading effect allows the video picture to present a kind of relaxed sense of art, so the reference related video data of the same kind, for screening for clip art visual effect, thus saving time to achieve the desired results of the group project initially.

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Finally, in this LIAF project, the team’s tasks and communication process are at the early stage, which is helpful in promoting the progress and implementation of the project. During the process, the collected materials and videos can also be combined to save time and achieve the artistic visual effect of the preliminary group project.