Leona Maneechak

Year 1 BA Illustration and Visual Media Student

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  • 16.04 Starting Hand and Eye

    Create a limited edition physical print publication which describes a micro narrative inspired by observed or real life events.  – keeping a visual diary: drawing from life, direct observation and experience, conceptual lenses, serves as a repository of ideas to inspire the micro narrative. – micro narrative: inspired by real-life events no matter how fantastical…

  • Final Animation

    I love my end product even though it took me a while I love the comfort of it. If I tried to do it again I would use a more interesting style and use a different software maybe a paid service because this was free. I would also not lose my work -_-.

  • Finishing animation sound

    After I had finished my animation I had the base sound from the sounds I had collected. Although I had move some of the sounds around to time better with the animation. Once I sorted those timings I moved from using Garage band. This is because even though the usability of the app was quite…

  • Animation process

    I did a more detailed version of my storyboard using procreate so I could make edits. I used red to show camera and character movement. I tried to vary the angles and perspectives to make my animation more interesting, I also tried to do both character and camera movement to make it more interesting. I…

  • Animation Research

    Animation is the art of making inanimate objects appear to move, usually by showing a sequence of photos rapidly in succession. History’s first recorded animator is Pygmalion of Greek and Roman mythology, a sculptor who created a figure of a woman so perfect that he fell in love with her and begged Venus to bring her to life.…

  • Animation style research

    This is a mood-board of the animations I want to create. I like the idea of mixed media. I want to scan in interesting texture from experiments using print and physical mediums, then using digital software to gather it together cohesively. I really love this animation and the animatic so this is a big inspiration…

  • Society of Makers talks

    Society of Makers artist research: Sophie Koko Gate 10 years in the industry studied at UAL CSM then LCA. Preferred software is photoshop. Premium animator extra from adobe.  Works with [Adult Swim]. Rick and Morty. Airbrushed and surreal inspired by Sci-Fi illustration. Currently working on a show with [AS], creating the pilot.  She put work…

  • Media Theory – Knowledge 12.03

    Media Theory notes Knowledge into media theory, knowledge of animation methodology and its contexts. Context is history behind work, understanding its creation reason and looking at a work from all angles. How does it relate socially, what happened when the work came out, how was the work received, where do the ideas come from.  Moving…

  • Storyboarding & Styleframes

    We started brainstorming ideas for our animations and our intentions with them. Storyboard artist takes a concept and turns it into a visual story. I made a storyboard and received feedback from my tutors which allowed me to push my work further. And decide where to put more frames. Style Frames Often multiple versions of…

  • 08.03 Flipbook Animation

    Here we responded to sounds played in class this was The Beatles – Revolution 9, this is how I visualised the song. The purpose of the exercise was to show how difficult it is to illustrate a sound collage like this. Although, I found it relatively easy to show how i see it, but I…

  • Sound collecting & mixing

    Before our project brief we were tasked with collecting sounds. We then used these in our Adobe Auditions workshop which I found quite difficult, we used these to create a characters irrelevant to the project and then used sketch.metademolab.com to easily animate these characters. I thought it was really fun and easy, I want to…

  • Project Brief

    Moving image project.  Context: “Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialised acoustic-visual metaphor that established the dynamics of Western Civilisation” – Marshall McLuhan (1967) The Medium is the Massage Result: 10-20 second piece of moving or animation with sound. Prompt:…

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