Jasmine Masters, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester.

In this exercise I looked to create a basic run cycle using methods learnt from doing the prior walk cycles. This included using a squish method on the parts that are down (bent knees) and stretch on the parts that are up (straight knees), as well as ensuring the follow through and timing in the short can be as accurate as possible.

Maya Brief 2 - Set Design: ... by Jasmine Masters on Scribd

Maya Brief 2 - Set Design: ... by Jasmine Masters on Scribd

'What if?' Metropol... by Jasmine Masters on Scribd

For this exercise, I looked to expand on my Basic Walk cycle animation and create a 'silly walk' using my actions as reference ready for when I animated it in Adobe Animate. Reference video: Getting the positions before shifting animated frames to put the walk cycle into real time. Silly walk in real time.

Black Narcissus (1947) was adapted from a novel written by Rumer Godden and was then altered to be a film that was then directed, and screen written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film displays themes of religion, underlying ideas of exoticism and female sexuality as suggested by Tim Dirks “Black Narcissus (1947) is a provocative, dazzling and rich-colored psychological-religious and sexual drama” (Dirks, 2019) that is then portrayed through the convents nun characters as they begin to dwell into personal pleasures whilst residing in the isolated environment the Himalayan mountain side provides. (Fig 1. see below). Fig. 1 Black Narcissus (1947) [film poster, Advertisement] At the time Black Narcissus (1947) was made, World War Two (1945) hadn’t long ended and women being able to work in the workforce had risen since they had been a key part in the war effort; particularly in the labour force as the more men were required to go to war – this included farmer...