André's comic Blog

 In this post, I finished some work that is important for my project. I will be showing the finished progress about the logo that I've design, I will also talk about a story board technique that I learned from Hayao Miyazaki and a poster prototype that I've done. For the logo, I started to analise and give porpuse for some of the fetueres of the logo. I wanted to make sure the logo had so aspects related to the animation. I made a digital version of the logo and I selected some parts to explain their porpuse. 1- Main character's head silhouette on the last letter, making it clear who is the main portagonist 2- Arrow that has the shape of the space ship from the animation, the line is off center to show that is not only an arrow 3- Hegaxonal shape, this shape is very used when representing futuristic technoligy. With these main keys, I finalized the logo: After this, I decided to paint some scenes from my animation using a technique that Hayao Miyazaki uses on his work. You ...

I plan to make some posts showing the progress of my animation project and this will be the first. When I make an animation, I build a set of ideas that relate to the initial idea and that develop it. There are also necessarily changes, be they simpler or more complex. This is related to some attempts that in practice may not work so well when you actually go to the work of animating. One of the first notes is that I've decided to change the character's name for something simpler and easier to say. The Storyboard has several stages and the first one I'm going to show is up to the scene where the title appears. This is the introduction of the animation. I will simply show the space where the animation will take place. Most of the scenes have names labeled so it's easier to understand where it belongs and some have text explaining what is happening (for being harder to understand just by looking). There will be a 2nd character called the commander. This character has no d...

In class, we made an exercise about creating a customer profile of someone. We were put into pares and asked to ask questions to our pare. Here are the questions and answers from my person: Creating a Customer Profile: Maria Age: 18 Gender: Female Marital Status: Single Location: the UK Occupation: Student Annual Income: As you are students this is more difficult to quantify as some of you will have extensive help from parents and some of you may work and have very little spare income. So you may prefer to ask the average amount each week to spend on non-essential items: None Education: High school Behaviour - Where does your partner usually shop? high street ; What does your partner spend their money on? Almost everything ; Do they shop often or infrequently? Often ; Do they browse and investigate first or impulse buy? Impulse What goals/wants do they have when shopping? Good quality What are the pain points? I.e. what prevents or puts off your partner from purchasing? Cheap quality...

 During this week's session, we were assigned to present one of the research elements that we completed over the last few weeks in the form of a presentation.  We were separated into breakout rooms and our peers gave us feedback.  For my own presentation, I decided to research Tezuka Osamu, the father of manga and Anime. I wanted to go into detail about the way he approached Manga, the inspiration behind them, and how it is contextual to my project. I decided to keep the PowerPoint pages relatively blank, only consisting of pictures in order to explain everything while going over it. I really liked this exercise as it helped me develop my speaking skills and gave me the opportunity to enlighten my peers about my project and the research behind it. One question asks by one of my colleges was about the story behind the animation. I gave a brief explanation about the story behind it, but one of the following questions was "How does the story help to make the character look t...

  When doing an anime, it is needed to find what type of anime it will be. Different from cartoons, there are many types of anime and each one serves its purpose. Many   people think anime itself is a genre when it actually isn’t. Anime is a subcategory of animation, this particular animation style originated from Japan, and they represent a big part of the Japanese culture. The Types are: Shonen : Literally meaning "few years", "shonen" usually refers to boys under the age of fifteen, in this case, teens. Thus, shonen anime and manga are aimed at this audience. Many of these anime and manga have a young male hero and are focused on action, adventure and fighting. However, comedies and series with female protagonists are becoming more and more common. Shonen's works also tend to have more than a fair share of fanservice. Some popular examples of anime and manga shonen are Dragon Ball, Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Watamote, and Attack on Titan. Seinen : “Seinen” re...

(NHK, n.d) Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, writer, and manga artist. He is co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation company, having won international recognition and acclaim for the quality of his various animated feature films, which he normally writes and directs, and is widely regarded as one of the leading names in the industry of Japanese animation. (Studio Ghibli, n.d.) Miyazaki's works are characterized by the recurrence of several themes, such as the relationship of humanity with nature and technology, the integrity of natural and traditional living standards, the importance of art and expertise, and the difficulty of maintaining pacifist ethics in a violent world. His protagonists are often strong girls or young women, with many of her works presenting ambiguous antagonists who have redeeming qualities. His works have already been highly praised and awarded, with him even having received an Honorary Oscar in November 2014 for his co...