Digital Animation
Leah Macken
Visual Development Project
For my final year project, I wanted to focus on visual development. After making my third-year short film I realised that I had a much stronger interest in the pre-production side of animation than I did in the production part. Through doing this project I wanted to improve on both my drawing skills and my background painting. I planned to do two visual development packages displaying different styles and genres throughout the two so that there would be plenty of variety in my work to show in my portfolio. I also created an animatic to go with each package, one being more of a comedic skit focused on an interaction between two characters in a pub and the other being an action-based fight scene between a monster hunter and a monster. Work for the project was created in Procreate and Photoshop and the animatics were put together in Adobe After Effects.