Building your own website for the animation industry is a great way to showcase your work, attract clients, and build a personal brand. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at building my own portfolio website, and I think now is the perfect time. The following is a summary of the online research and learning…

Creating a showreel in the animation industry is crucial for showcasing your skills, creativity, and range of work to potential employers or customers. In other words, a strong showreel can be a stepping-stone to your dream company and project. Based on that realization, I did some study and research, and I summarized the points I…

In this day and age, even though digital tools for sharing information are evolving, the business card remains its importance in any industry. A good and creative business card can be the first step in helping your potential customers get to know you, including brand recognition and advertising. Meanwhile it is also a good old…

Guanjing(Yoyo) Mu |24/11/2024 In early November, I watched the World Finals of  League of Legends at O2 Arena with my friends. This is the first time I came into contact with this game, and after feeling the enthusiasm of the audience, I became interested in the company, Riot Games, that  produced this game. Due to…

Guanjing(Yoyo) Mu | 15/10/2024 As a fan of animation and games, I have many favorite works and characters. My original intention to study in the animation area is not only to produce my own story works in the future, but also to express my support for my favorite characters from diverse animation/games through secondary creation,…

Explore the world behind the scenes of stop-motion animation Guanjing(Yoyo) Mu | 21/09/2024 On September 21, I was invited by a friend to visit the exhibition – LAIKA: Frame x Frame. The whole exhibition area is not large, but full of details, fully showing me the props used in stop-motion animation of LAIKA Studio and…

Based on the research and practice I did, I find the use of the camera shot is really worth learning and digging, and this process is really interesting. A good camera shot involves not only the angle and distance of shooting, but also the source of light and the contrast of light and dark. For…

Unite 1 Practice based on research. Artists Reference Examples: Artist: Minna Sundberg [A Finnish-Swedish Webcomic Artist] I personally love this artist’s storyboarding. As we can see, her storyboards are somewhat special and vividly, usually combining long / wide shots with close-up shots. From these illustrations, we can observe that it contains (extreme) long shots, high…

[THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ANIMATION] Lens language is to use the lens to express our meaning like language. We can usually see the intention of the photographer through the picture taken by the camera, because we can feel the content that the photographer wants to express through the lens from the theme and the…

Stretch and Compress Our upper teeth don’t change position as they’re locked onto our skull. The hinged lower jaw action is primarily up and down with a slight lateral motion. Williams, R. (2001). The animator’s survival kit. London: Faber And Faber. Again, with squash and stretch, we try to keep the same amount of meat.…