We were back to uni today and we have a new subject called Character Animation. We'll be producing a flash animation at the end of term.

A new subject meant it was time for a new sketchbook. I'm not entirely sure what my theme for the animation will be yet but I've started print, cutting and sticking lots of inspiration on to the pages.

Inspiration struck in Character Animation today when I settled on Absinthe as the theme for my work.

I know that I'm going to have a lot of fun doing the research for this class.

I've decided that I'm going to use an absinthe fairy as the character for my animation.

I'm not entirely sure what style of fairy I want yet, so I've been playing around with various sketches. I'll need to mull it over a bit more...

I finalised the design for my absinthe fairy in Character Animation today. Now to turn her in to Flash...

Today was hand in day, which didn't go as smoothly as I wanted. I had all my work finished but then it came to putting my film on VHS, with only an hour to go, everything went wrong. Tom had to run home and covert the file to .av which took 30 minutes. Anyway, it's all handed in now which is a relief, I just don't understand why they still need videos when everything is recorded digitally?!

We started a new subject called Advanced Visualisation today where we will design a 3D animation. I had wanted to avoid doing 3D again but the only other option was audio and I thought this would be more arty.

I've started filling up my sketchbook with inspiration. I think that I'll probably end up designing some kind of spooky doll.