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Character Design

Character Design: The making of a shrew

I wanted to document the design and process for sculpting a character for animation.

This process includes
Sketching
– Sillohuette sketches
– Thumbnail sketches
– Refined Sketches

Character details
Back story
– life
– job
– house
– real life inspiration
– scale & size

Sculpture
Armature
Bulk Clay
2nd clay layer
Details
– hands
– feet
– face
Redo/corrections
Texture testing
Final clay designs

Mold & Cast
Silicone
Plastic

Credits
Produced by Jessica Duff
Directed by Jessica Duff
Edited by Jessica Duff
Music by David Szesztay, Crowander – “Acoustic Romance”
Camera Jessica Duff
Assistant Camera Kathy Duff
Sculpter Jessica Duff
Sculpting Adviser Lee C. Imonen
Crew 1 Jonathan Duff
Crew 2 Kathy Duff
Screen Proofer Jonathan Duff

Special thanks to my family for putting up with the mess and for all the tea and assistance.

P6: Graffiti from an Offbeat Perspective

I had a lot of fun with this project, I wasn’t certain what to focus on until walking downtown one day the idea for a graffiti short came to me. Street art has always been an intrigue of mine, its another world in a sense. When I was little my dad and I would bike down to the train yard and watch the art pass on the trains.

I think I unpacked some good information considering the time requirement and how limited my source options were; most people in the graffiti scenes don’t want themselves on record talking about it because of the legality.

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My personal experience with this final Multi Media Project was very exciting. The video that I created came out the way I wanted it to come out but honestly it came out better then what I thought it would. Some challenges I’ve faced was editing the video and putting the correct type of lighting. Once I was able to understand how I could make my video more cinematic it all come to me naturally. This was by far one of my best projects, I even made sure to create a water mark for my video to prove I own it. Making cinematic videos is very fun for me and I enjoy doing this kind of work, it reminds me of how Hollywood movies are made. I learned a lot from this project and I could say that there is more work to be done so I can improve on my videos.