I was inspired to do this illustration after a January 2017 trip to New York City with my lovely Mum. This city was (and still is) a dream location for me. I love the feeling of being surrounded by a huge jungle of beautiful architecture. We experienced the city in the middle of a winter snowstorm, evoked the magical feeling that we were walking around on a movie set.
Sal is a character I designed for a university assignment. The brief was to focus on creating a character with appeal and visual interest. I had lots of fun pushing the proportions and drawing something out of my comfort zone.
This project was created as part of a university assignment in which we learned all about pre-production pipeline for animated projects. The assignment involved writing and developing a mini storyline with characters, designing said characters. thumbnailing and storyboarding as well as creating concept art.
A personal project I completed after trying Pomegranates for the first time on Christmas Day with my family.
A mini project I completed as part of my final semester at university. I had recently seen the movie 'Rocketman' and was non-stop listening to all Elton John's music. This is part 2 to assignment given involving 'experimental animation', in which each student decided what they wanted to experiment with to find new an exciting outcomes. I decided to experiment with visual styles for motion design.
This is part 2 to an assignment given involving 'experimental animation', in which each student decided what they wanted to experiment with to find new and exciting outcomes. I decided to experiment with visual styles for motion design. After some time deliberating on what I should base my assignment on, I chose Sir Elton John. Given that he experiments often with his own personal style. I thought it would be fitting to experiment with my animation style alongside this.
Not only did I experiment with new styles, but also new techniques. I animated a simple character lip sync to music, and also rigged a full 2D character, which was a good challenge for me and really enabled me to create a more expressive character performance.
The first mini 2D animation project I attempted using my iPad Pro allowing me to test out the Animation Desk app.
This project was completed as part of a university assignment in which I experimented with visual styles for motion design. I experimented with rough/textured styles, clean/vector styles and greyscale styles. I also played around with abstraction, form, line and colour.
In late 2018 I had the great opportunity to create some montion graphics animations for the 2018 Lord Mayors Christmas Carols as part of a partnership between QUT and John Cristian Productions.
This was a greate learning experience for me, to be part of a real & quite large production. It was great to learn about the starge & screen setup, as well as recieve feedback from the director and making changes based on that feedback. I also experienced my work being rejected in the final lineup of visuals, which was hard at the time but important to experience as it will naturally be a part of my career.
This is the first installment of an onging series I wish to create as a personal project, depicting how different people celebrate special moments.
I’m an animator, motion designer and illustrator from Brisbane, Australia. I love to draw, and after discovering animation, I realised what I love even more is bringing drawings to life. Seriously, I love it almost as much as I love dogs. Or garlic bread.
I’ve completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Through completing my degree I not only learned skills in pre-production, character design, 3D modelling and animation, motion design and more, I also learned how to use these skills to tell a good story.
I am particularly interested in art direction, but really I’m just a huge nerd for all things motion design.
I’d love to chat to you!
annabellecassell@gmail.com
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