Emma's Final Year Uni Project - The Fish Shop Cat

I created this blog for my research, ideas and to show my progress during my final year at the University of Huddersfield studying Virtual Reality Design with Animation.

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

A Stroll With Famous Cartoon Felines

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The link below was a good site I found that explored different animated cats including the ones that inspired me! It was helpful at working ...
Saturday, 5 June 2010

Giving Cats a Voice

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I love these videos. I have done it since I was young. You basically film a cat or cats and then talk for them. The videos below are two gre...
Friday, 4 June 2010

WOW A video of a real cat that lives in a Fish Shop!

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WOW I just found a video of a real cat that lives in a Fish Shop! His name is Charlie and he is 18 years old.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

What I handed in

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Here is where my animation got to when I had to hand it in. Pitty that I never got to finish it for the hand in but I think it will be ok.
Monday, 31 May 2010

Cool Walk with Hi-5ing Snake

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Here is the bit with the cool walk and the hi-5 with the snake. Remus just needs bits adding and it all coloured.

Some vids i forgot to post

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Here are some videos that I forgot to post.

My Bits so far

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I'm not going to have enough time to do the last bit with the sandwich gag in time for my hand-in but I fully intend on finishing. I wor...

2 Small Bits = 1 Bigger Bit

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Well, here is the last posts video joined with the next bit. You will also see at the end is Remus sliding across desk because of the owner ...
Sunday, 30 May 2010

Look, Climb up, Little Walk, Meow

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Well, this is what I've done from coming home instead of doing the rest of the Maggot Run (Gutted about it by the way! Really wanted to ...
Thursday, 27 May 2010

Changed Girl and Cat Slightly.

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Due to my silly mistake of doing the cat first for this bit I have changed them both slightly. I've also coloured the last few frames of...

Fingers and a Bit of Colour and Tidy

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Ok, I've added fingers and tided it a bit. I've also fixed the sandwich and added a bit of colour. She is now ready for colour altho...

Girl with Remus

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This bit of the girl is really coming together. Just need to sort the fingers and blinking now. I also need to add a few more frames so it f...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Girl Blocking with Remus Animation

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This is the footage shown in the last post but I have added the Remus animation. I will need to change the size of the background as Remus...

Girl Blocking Outline Animation

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Here is my blocking animation for my girls part with background. As you can see its just a rough body outline based on what I recorded of my...
Saturday, 15 May 2010

Meow, Run up and Rub

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Just need to add the tail and pupil now... well and colour.
Thursday, 13 May 2010

Reference Videos

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Here are some videos of my carer, Andy acting out a bit of my animation for me to use as reference. I love refernce videos, it pick up littl...

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Here is another update of my cat rubbing on the girl. Took a lot longer than I expected to work this out and get it done! It just needs a li...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Worked out how head could go!

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Took a lot of messing and tries but I think I've worked out a way to get the head to rub on the arm and then move around it but still lo...

Sitting, Get Up, Run and Rub on Owner

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Here is what I've been working on the last few days, all put together. Really annoys me that its taken me so long to just do this much!

Rub on Owner

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I've had a bad day trying to animate. My heads not been in the right place so drawing and thinking of transitions was really difficult. ...
Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Cat Scene 3 - Animation mixed with Storyboard

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This is to show what I have done so far for this scene and what I have left to do. I'm hoping I will get it done in time but time is run...

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner 3

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Here is a bit more of what I've done. Remus pounced and ran at me while I was doing it and he seemed to just stop and walk so suddenly t...
Monday, 10 May 2010

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner 2

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I've made more progress in this bit today. Hopefully I will have most of it if not all done by tonight.

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner

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This is the bit I've been working on today. So far I am at the sitting and getting up stage. It did take most of the morning to picture ...

Some Fish Videos

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Here are some Fish videos used as reference.

No Tail!

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I just noticed his tail is missing! I forgot about that. Will add that in now or in the morning, it is getting a bit late.

Cool Cat Walk Finished!

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It's taken an awful 2 days to work this nightmare out but I have finally done it! 80 drawings, 149 frames! I think thats not bad. Oh and...
Sunday, 9 May 2010

Another Reference Video

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This is a really good reference video with different types of walks. The first one was the kind of thing I was thinking of for the cool cat ...

Reference Videos

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I just realised I never posted the link to the reference videos I found to help me with animating a fish, my girl and cat. http://www.youtub...

Cool Cat Walk body

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Here is what I've done so far today. Bit annoyed that I overslept as wanted to get this done today, just means I will be up late tonight...
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Emma Williams
Hi, I'm Emma and I'm originally from Chester. I graduated from the University of Huddersfield and I am now studying with Animation Mentor. My dream is to be a character animator specializing in creatures. My website - www.Emimation.co.uk
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