Filipa Amaral

2D Animator

Grad Assist

Featuring Dessy & Holly from 2th Year of BA Animation 2022-2023

For the Grad Assist, Samuel and I gathered up and spoke first about what we were looking for our project. Mainly, we both wanted:

-Background Design & Colouring

Both of the students where picked by us, therefore the fact that they were assigned made us both extremely content.

Personally, we had more urgency regarding background design than anything else, therefore I sent to Dessy (whose background work I was quite a fan of) and gave her the task of making a door for one of our shots.

Dessy - Backgrounds

Door background:

fig.1 & 2 - Examples for the door shot and angle and how I described what I invisioned

fig.3- Examples of the doors and the one I preferred (Marked with an X)

fig.4- Door with background

fig.4- Door in one of the backgrounds (By Dessy)

fig.5- Bringing the door onto TVP (Filipa)

fig.6- Door in one of the backgrounds by Filipa

fig.7- Animation and Colouring by Filipa

Outdoor background- Park:

fig.8- Explaining what I want for the project

fig.9- Dessy's background examples

fig.10 & 11- Dessy's background examples I picked

fig.12 & 13- Dessy's background cleaned up by Vladimir

Supermarket Aile:

fig.14- Explaining what I want for the project

fig.15- Dessy's Work

fig.16- Line cleanup by Vladimir

fig.17- Colouring and Shade by Filipa

Outdoor of supermarket:

Perhaps I was quite free with it, but making people think, asking people the important questions and making it a challenge is what brought even more creativity for Dessy to create the background, and personally, I enjoyed it more than being on top of her background creations and was able to see her flow.

fig.18- Explaining what I want for the project

fig.19- Dessy's Work

fig.20- Final Shot I finalised

Pub background:

fig.21- Explaining what I want for the project

fig.22 & 23- Design of background (Dessy)

fig.24 & 25- Line CLeanup & Colour background (Filipa)

Holly- Colouring

For Holly, I did not need too much help since I was already working coloring things myself, yet a little help here and there was perfect so I would not have to think about it. In a way later on, I wish I had used Holly for colouring a bit more to speed up more shots after I noticed the amount of work that I still had to be done, but regardless, we learn with our mistakes.

fig.26 & 27- Colour Sheets I sent Holly

fig.28- What I sent her

fig.29- Holly's Work

fig.30- What I sent her

fig.31- Holly's Work

What a pleasant experience it was to be able to work with these two young and talented young women and see what each had to bring to the table.