Colour theory

In this lecture I learnt that everything I once knew about colour was now wrong and it was all about how we perceive colour. 
We started off the lecture going over some things that we had learnt in school and some we weren't familiar with for example:
-White light is made up of colour, each colour has a different wavelength.
-In the eyeball the rods let us see tone (light/dark) and the cones let us see colour.
-We have 3 cones-1 red, 1 green and 1 blue
-We see the colour when it hits the corresponding cone.
-Yellow is seen by a combination of the red+ green cones being hit.

If there's no light, is there no colour?

Then we looked at people that are colour blind and saw that they see things in different colours. Deuteranopia causes you to see everything in yellows and tritanopia makes you see everything in pinks and blues. 

-The primary colours are blue red and yellow.

-mixing primary's gives you secondaries  

-complimentary colours are opposites on the colour wheel

-complementaries are made up of the other 2 primaries.

-Complementaries remove colour from each other and become a neutral grey.

-neutral colour wheel= tertiaries- pure colour mixed in different ways

-spectral colour- perception of colour in different light

-yellow cannot be a spectral colour

The two colour modes are made up of each other. Notice how the overlapping of the cmyk colours makes the rgb colours and visa versa.

-Subtractive colour is physical- mixing colours turns to black.

-Additive colour is on screen where mixing colours turns them white.

Dimensions of colour

-chromatic value= tone, saturation and hue

-shades= pure colour getting darker

-Tint= pushing toward white

-Tone= combination of shade and tint.

-Luminance- how bright+ pure the colour is

-Bright= reflecting light

-Dark= absorbing light

-desaturation= taking purity away, removing colour, making darker, turning into a different colour

We perceive colour by what's around it. We are fooled into seeing colours. The colour changes by comparing another colour to it. you may see something as red until you put something more red next to the original colour. Now the original looks more pink or orange. 

This is why we need a system so we get the exact right colour. The most common system is Pantone. These have numbers and letters with every colour under the sun. Colours are only the colour they are by concencous and even that cant be trusted.

Colour and contrast

-Contrast of tone. monochromatic, light value and dark value

-Contrast of hue- the greater the distance between hues on the colour wheel, the bigger the contrast

-Contrast of saturation

-contrast of proportion

-contrast of temperature- putting colours together and adding cold and hot changes the appearance of the colour.

-non existing gradients because of temperature contrast

-complimentary contrast

-simultaneous contrast- all contrasts working together

Subjective colour

The primary colour wants it's complimentary colour to be there so when we see blue on grey, the grey looks yellow orange or brown.

same as yellow on grey makes the grey look purple.

Flow form and force

These are the drawings for push and pull. It was hard getting used to drawing for longer than a few seconds, we had time to put in more details. I think this was actually quite a hard task because pretending to put a force on something doesn't actually show where the weight is because if they actually put force on they would probably fall over so to make sure they didn't fall, they moved their weight. I still felt a bit rushed on these though, but I was happier with the result because they actually looked more like what they're supposed to.

This was the first of the long poses task. I enjoyed this one more because we had more time to get the details and make corrections we needed to and actually try and get them accurate. This gives you chance to work on proportions and foreshortening. That's what I found difficult. I am happy with the result of this one I feel the proportions are right, I just can't draw feet as you'll see more of soon.

This is the second drawing, I found it harder to get the foreshortening right here and her head is too big for her body but I think the body is actually quite accurate apart from her feet. They are FAR too small and this makes her proportions look even worse.

I am quite pleased with this drawing, I feel the proportions are much better and even the feet are a little better! I didn't put much face in this one as I thought I might ruin it and I couldn't see it very well anyway. I like the way I shaped her legs and it actually looks like her weight is in the chair. 

I am also quite pleased with this drawing as it actually looks like Anna and the proportions look good I think this task has really helped my life drawing skills. 
I think I would like to do more but maybe have even more time on it and use a range of different pencils and get lots of darks and lights in there but I didn't really have time to go into great detail on these. I definitely think on this that practice makes perfect.

Sketch book

In my sketch book that we were asked to keep, I have been drawing things like this. This particular one is Elena Gilbert from Vampire diaries. I thought it had been a long time since I had drawn anything like this as there is not much call for it in animation. Imagine animating something detailed like this! Not fun. I am really pleased with how the hair turned out and I am pleased I can still draw like this as this is my first attempt in ages. I definitely need to figure out how to draw lips though. Took me many attempts and its still not right!

I have also been drawing from photographs that I have from my holidays and such:

I am quite pleased with how my figurative drawing has improved recently as before they would just look out of proportion like with giant heads and skinny legs etc. 

I want to turn my sketch book into something filled with memories and things I like and inspiration. 

WALL E

Wall E is a good example of how sound is used. Wall E doesn't really talk so more sound is needed to tell the story. When he does speak though he has a robot voice. It's like auto tuned and electronic and not human. They also use sound effects but in this, unlike Tom and Jerry, the sounds are more realistic. They are not done to make it funny, they are done to make it believable. When he is rummaging through the trash if there was no noise it would be really strange. Or when he squishes his bug friend, if you didn't hear that, it wouldn't draw attention to it. I like how you can hear both of their foot steps and they difference in them. Wall E rolls but the ramp has ridges on it so it makes a noise and the cricket takes tiny tappy steps. It shows that the sound designer has really thought about how this would sound and every detail of it to make it seem real. 

Rango

Rango uses imagery to set the scene well. From this image along we can see that they are in the desert far away from anything with a giant expanse of land that feels even bigger for these small animals. They use shadow and colour to show time and heat and the land just seems to go on forever.

They show through their backgrounds what kind of town this is. It's all old and rusty and breaking. Everything looks like its about to fall apart. It's dry and hot and people are busying about getting on with their lives while you can tell the two characters are above all this on a balcony. This kind of shows the turtles status because he is their leader so he is higher than the rest.

Avatar

I think Avatar really uses backgrounds and scenes to help tell a story. Take this image for example.

From this we can see that it is in the evening because it's dark with a moonlight kind of blue hue and there is a lot of contrast and shadow. Also from the angle they chose to shoot this scene we can see exactly where they are. They are high up in a tree on a single branch above and huge drop into a waterfall. This gives a sense of danger and also how Nala is used to this where as the guy isn't. 

I like how they use lighting in this to show the light coming through the tree tops. This gives you a sense of where you are (under trees) and what kind of time of day it is. It's around the middle of the day because the sun is shining through the top and its bright. They use the foreground, middle and background in this with the rule of thirds. I like the colours too they're nice and bright.

I definitely think that they do a good job in setting the scene. Like when they first fly in and see like this...

  It shows just how big this place is and that it's magical...theres just rocks hovering everywhere. It is a giant expanse that it absolutely beautiful and fills the audience with a sense of awe. This makes them feel bad that they want to knock this place down.

videos

Here are my finished animations. I really like this first one, I think it expresses the sound really well and I am proud of how it flows and looks like it fades which is what the sound does.

I am not as pleased with how this one turned out. I now know that I shouldn't have used the leaf brush as that has nothing to do with frying eggs. I just liked the way it scattered colour. I guess I could have done that myself though. I do like the tapping part at the beginning.

I quite like this one how it looks gloopy and splashy however Mike said it was a bit too literal. I agree now but I still like it. It's not exactly an object and it does work.

I really like how this turned out. The electric blue on the black looks ace and I timed the sharp spark perfectly! I can see from this that I need to start working at a higher frame rate soon because it is a little bit jittery.

I didn't like this one at first but actually I think it really does represent the sound. If i had time i would try and make the red spikes a bit sharper.

Drawing sound

In this project we had to draw sound...sounds crazy. It's so difficult to draw something you can't see! We were given a list of sounds to choose from. This is the first one I did. It sort of came in quiet and built up then faded out again so i drew it getting bigger filling the page but also the colour gets more intense. Mike said that it shouldn't touch the top of the page because that means it's scratching where it makes a horrible noise and you don't hear that in this sound so he said to just be careful about my placement.
I tried a few variations on this using different colour and different media. This included felt tip, charcoal, pastels. I liked the pastels best because it faded much better.
I think I still prefer the shape I originally used.

This next one was a gloopy squishy grosse sound so I used greeny boggy colours to represent this. I used felt tip but also a type of ink. When it dried it still looked wet which looks really cool. I placed the blobs like the pitch when it went up and down.

This sound was electrical and buzzy then there was a snap and it went back to normal. I used blue because to me that is electricity. I came up with a few different lines to start with.

This was the sound of someone frying an egg. I did it like it started in the middle and then came out and as the sound got quieter the little shapes got further apart.
Another idea I had for this is below. I put in the tapping on the side of the pan like 2 solid dots because it was a solid sound. Then there is a swoosh where the egg pours into the pan.Then lots of crackling. I think this works quite well.

Spaces and Places

 The first place I drew was the town hall. I chose this because it is an interesting building in a nice location with lots of space around it. I used a variation of media including charcoal, graphite stick,pencil and fine-liner.  I like the graphite and charcoal ones best. Mike said the lines are very sketchy (that's my drawing style he didn't say we had to draw it a specific way) and that I need to use a 

 sharper pencil, which is a valid point that I will take into consideration next time.

I chose to draw my bedroom next because this would give me chance
 to relax while I draw and 

 use a much wider range of media because I have it readily available and can take as much time as I like on it. I am actually really happy with how these drawings turned out.
 I used media such as pro-

marker, pencil, watercolour, graphite stick and fine liner. I enjoyed trying to get perspectives right from different angles.

 I also chose to draw the Merrion centre because although I've been in there before it's usually just to Morrisons and I've never really paid any attention to it, just walked through. There are some interesting angles in the architecture but apart from that it's a pretty boring building with hardly any colour (hence the lack 
 of colour used and not a very 

inspirational place to draw. Not to mention the off putting people walking past you. I have to say I didn't like this project. I don't enjoy drawing in public.