Monthly Archives: February 2012

So I made some progress today with my new cows after catching up with blog work and destroying the old 3D cows. Using my old piece of cow research as inspiration I drew some basic cow outlines onto paper. I … Continue reading →

After the experiments of the past couple of days I have decided to give up on the idea of creating my main animals as 3D, and instead create them as a 2D layered object. As they are only really going … Continue reading →

Taking inspiration from our ABC Maya course in the first year, I have been making paper animals as practice for the project. I found some animals similar to the ones I want to make so that I can get an … Continue reading →

I have scanned in all of my leaves, blades of grass, quills, tree trunks and clouds. My next step is putting them into Photoshop, erasing the surrounding areas and saving them as PNGs so that they have transparent backgrounds, ready … Continue reading →

Hooray for clouds. When it came to the style of my clouds I knew I didn’t want anything that looked super realistic – I didn’t really think that it would fit with the paper style that I was using, so … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve been to Hobbycraft and stocked up on some brown card I can make the main bodies of my trees. Similarly to how I came up with my ideas for the leaves I have had a look at … Continue reading →

A little update. I’ve started drawing everything out onto my paper and card and cutting it out. I have chosen to use paper and card because of the difference in thickness. I believe that this will be able to add … Continue reading →

This is my presentation for my Pecha Kucha. I have created all the slides as single pictures. But in order for it to be understood outside of the presentation I have added notes to each slide to explain what meanings … Continue reading →