Jessica Hislop's Digital Media Foundation Blog

I uploaded what I think is going to be my final animation onto youtube after making the changes highlighted in the Crit. I am very proud ...

Feedback from the Crit was generally good, they seemed to think that the visual style was strong and that the animation worked as a whole. ...

I put all of my compositions together and found that I was 2 seconds out, in order to shave off the extra time I carefully cut it from the o...

 I transitioned to the water turbines through repositioning the paper and jerkily sliding it down something I used for the hills, (I wante...

The start of my how to lower your carbon footprint segment was by far the longest and the most complicated. I had about 23 layers to the en...

The second scene of my animation, has been cut to from the lights on section so far its the scene that stands out as the most hand dra...

So my opening the light turning on is actually pretty boring to look at- although I've tried to make it more interesting visuall...

So after I made all my assets and exported them as individual pngs (because the files were huge and would have taken ages to load into AE) i...

Since Illustrator files are compatible with After Effects I have placed all of my drawing and characters in there respective scenes which a...

Since I have a lot of hand-drawn elements I thought that it would be too overwhelming to also have hand-drawn backgrounds so after looking ...

I created my hamster first using Illustrator, I used several chalk effect brushes and a range of brown shades to generate his charact...

Although I have a very clear visual style in mind, one that is heavily influenced by Felicita Sala, after my pitch it was suggested that I l...

This is the animatic that I pitched on Monday, Strangely it took more time than I would have thought it would have to make my animatic bu...

This is my storyboard for my final idea. My idea really began and developed from this concept of a hamster running in a wheel and being ...

After creating my animatic and going through all of my music options listed in my research I finally settled on the opening 28 seconds of ...

Because i've finally clarified my visual style I decided that I should the Illustrator responsible for generating the artwork used in t...

I generally preferred the more arty and hand-drawn styles of animation because they felt more organic. As well as this since I consider dra...