As a unit we began to learn about the vast world of animation. This was done by receiving a presentation from an animator from Jersey, Liam Nunn.

Liam Nunn has spent over a decade smashing the creative industry with precision, energy and finesse. Working with many brilliant people on oodles of ravishing campaigns – including multiple locally and nationally award-winning ones. A multi-disciplined media monster, Liam was once described by a colleague as “quite good but sometimes a bit bizarre.” Wait… 

Fact #1 Liam once illustrated an award-winning dog poo.

Fact #2 Liam is a three-time professional wrestling tag team champion of the world and he probably owns more spandex than you do. Gosh!

Fact #3 Liam produced a whopping 52 weekly self-portraits over the course of a year just for larks. You can see them here.

He began by giving an in-depth power-point regarding the basics of what animation is. From this I learnt about the intrecacies of animation in as a carreer in the industry and the different types of animators, for example;

• 2D animator.
• 3D animator.
• Background artist.
• Character animator.
• Clean-up artist.
• Digital ink and paint artist.
• Image editor.
• Key frame animator.

I gained a unique point of knowledge regarding the nature of how something can be made to look natural when being animated

Liam then proceeded to further my knowledge on Adobe After Effects, an important piece of software for any kind of animation.

He created a template for us to start experimenting with called a rig. I then learnt how to keyframe an animation together using the stopwatch tool

And the rig controls Liam set up for us

The following is my experiment with this animation template:

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/af6f83b7-6135-4fd9-96fb-ca2a00e9950a