André's comic Blog

With this post, I intend to reflect on both the evolution of my work and the way I felt during the whole process. When the idea for this project came up, which I kept in its essential features, I changed a lot. First, the battles I waged to get the drawings to have something of influence from Expressionism. I still have doubts, if I shouldn't have exaggerated some scenarios, deforming them more and making a more intense play of lights. Every time I do work, I like to make it big and impressive. I do that so I can be proud of myself. For this work, I tried to do the best I could in this short time to see what would happen. In this project, I improved how I can do animation in a very short time. I used techniques of my own to save time and do the max I could in a very short time. I tried that the idea of ​​being inspired by expressionism did not totally abandon me, because it is not something I have ever done. I worked hard, sometimes wondering if I could end up as I had thought. And...

  The website I built came from some research I had done on how to build a website. I already had a website where my portfolio was, but I wanted to build a totally new one. The details I was concerned with were much more technical than aesthetic. The website was built with the aim of promoting and making my work known in the area of ​​2D animation. Initially, my website had a simple layout, which I wanted to keep. The big problem was in terms of aesthetics, as I show in the following example: I wanted to keep the website simple, even in terms of layout, fonts, colors, menu, among other aspects. But the truth is that in aesthetic terms the website was not doing well. I then tried to work on the fonts and colors that appeared. I canceled out the flourishing green, which was very exaggerated and a little childish. I tried to create a more professional layout and some letters with some design and easy to read at the same time. My goal was to engage the target audience with my work and ...

Hawley Pratt (standing) and Friz Freleng (sitting) ( Cartoon Research, n.d.) Hawley Pratt is a well-known name in the world of animation because I used to see Pink Panther. He co-authored this animation with Friz Freleng, an animator with whom he has always worked. He was born in 1911 in Seattle, Washington, and died in 1999. He was a film director, animator, and illustrator. He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. (Askart, n.d.)  He worked at Disney studios in 1933, before joining Warner Bros. (Askart, n.d.) he was fired from Disney during the 1941 strike when he went to work for Warner Bros. as an animation assistant, where Friz Freleng worked. (Cartoon Research, n.d.) He worked at Warner Brothers cartoons and then at DePatie-Freleng studios, where the opening credits were Pink Panther films. (Dograt, n.d.) His job at Warner Bros was to make background layouts and character poses, working with Friz Freleng. (HowOld, n.d.). He is the author of animations by the duo Sylveste...

Ollie Johnston photo ( Walt Disney Archives, n.d.) Ollie Martin Johnston, known as Ollie Johnston, was born in 1912, California, and died in 2008. He was one of the names known as animators at Walt Disney. He studied at Stanford University and the Chouinard Art Institute. (Walt Disney Archives, n.d.) He married Marie Worthey who worked at Disney. He started working at Disney in 1935 as an apprentice animator, working on Disney shorts. (Walt Disney Archives, nd) His work as a professional animator began with the long film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Pinocchio" in 1940. (National Endowment for the arts, nd) Most films from Disney have their contribution, as is the example of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, and Bambi. (The Disney wiki, n.d.) Ollie had steam trains as a hobby, and he liked it so much that he had a railroad built in his backyard. It was this setback that inspired Walt Disney to build Disneyland. (The Disney wiki, n.d.) His recogniti...

One of the parts of my animation is completed, and I decided to show it today so I could explain better how my animation will work. First, I will show the final product and then I will explain what I did to achieve it. So, for this animation, I started by doing the main animation in Sketchbook. Because I couldn't do the background in the animation right away, I had to use a green screen so I could add the background later. Here's the animation without background or sound: After this, I got to draw the background that I had to use for this shot. For this, I draw 4 drawings. The floor The railings The first layer of buildings (the drawings don't need to be perfect because they will be in the background) The second layer of buildings  (They are more simply because they will have a lot of objects in front of them) With the drawings done, I had to make the character and the background work together. With this, I used a technique called "parallax", which I've done r...

  (photo for the blog) This week I decided to make my website more user-friendly and nicer. I took a good look at my website and I thought of many things: The website looks empty The colors are not very good The logo isn't very good and my name is in an awkward place The portfolio has no way of having both works showing at different places I decided to change how my website worked and making it more user-friendly. First I wanted to change the website for a more black and white style, the reason being is that it goes along with my style of drawing. Then I deleted the logo from my website and used a more interesting title. I reorganized the buttons to be on the top of my website so people could navigate faster.  Some of the fonts of the letters on my website were also changed to suit it. These changes made my website look more unique and interesting, and one of the big changes was the background of the website. The background is now a drawing that I made for the animation "Pande...