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Lip Sync Reflection
Time to Build: 2 hours Time to Animate: 1.5 hours Problems encountered: I had a few problems when animating this one. First, when I moved...

Courtney Jenkins
May 2, 2024
Clay Character Animation Reflection
Time to Build: 2 hours Time to Animate: 1 hour Problems encountered: As I was moving the character during its pounce, the legs were...

Courtney Jenkins
Apr 3, 2024


WIP Clay Character Animation
My idea for this animation is to have a dragon-like character sculpted out of clay act like a puppy. This is based on the behaviors that...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 27, 2024
Object Animation Reflection
Time to Build: 30 minutes to an hour Time to Animate: About 2 hours Problems encountered: I had trouble with my camera set up multiple...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 5, 2024
"Meat!" and "Walker" Analysis
Both Meat! and Walker are short stop-motion animations that use raw meats, or otherwise considered "gross foods," as the main subject...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 4, 2024


Object Animation WIP
My idea for this stop-motion video is to take different toys that I still have in my room and find ways to transition between them. In...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 26, 2024
Rotating Heads Reflection
Time to build: creating assets - 2 hrs; building the set - 10 min Time to animate: 1 hr 30 min Problems encountered: I found it hard to...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 14, 2024
Stanley Pickle Review
Today, I watched the stop motion short film Stanley Pickle by Victoria Mather. Initially, I found the movements and the characters a bit...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 12, 2024


WIP Rotating Heads
My idea for this stop motion animation comes from the concept of character creation segments in video games. I want to model the...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 5, 2024
"Neighbors" Response
The way that this short film used pixilation helped exaggerate the characters' emotions as well as the conflict between them. In turn,...

Courtney Jenkins
Jan 22, 2024


PSA Animatic WIP
I have begun to animate my new PSA and I have just finished the animatic, or animated storyboard. The animatic so far is seen below. My...

Courtney Jenkins
Apr 24, 2023


PSA Mood Board/Previz
It is time to make another PSA. For this project, I want to lean more towards the humor and satire side. The PSA will be about "how to...

Courtney Jenkins
Apr 10, 2023


Candy Land Animated Collage WIP
Although my last animated collage leaned more towards a fantasy setting with dragons and fairies, I wanted this one to be themed around...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 22, 2023


Animated Logo Previz
For my animated logo, I wanted to work with a company logo that I cared about. I chose to do the logo of Top of the Mornin coffee, a...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 1, 2023


Eye-Catching Motion Design
While I was binging YouTube videos one evening, I found a music video that was interesting. The link to said video is shown below as well...

Courtney Jenkins
Jan 18, 2023
Character Dialogue WIP 2
I took the video reference from the last work-in-progress post and downloaded the audio. Then, I brought the audio file into After...

Courtney Jenkins
Apr 20, 2022


Character Dialogue WIP 1
For the character dialogue, I wanted to find appropriated audio that was funny. I started searching through short comedy sketches to find...

Courtney Jenkins
Apr 14, 2022


Dance Loop WIP 1
I found a video of someone trying to learn a dance and I wanted to experiment with it. So far, I have drawn the thumbnails depicting the...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 24, 2022


Character Design WIP
I wanted to create a cute and simple character that would be easy to animate. The design I came up with is shown below. I wanted the...

Courtney Jenkins
Mar 7, 2022


Shape Animation WIP
I want to create an shape animation based on old arcade games that I grew up playing. The animation is going to start with a simplified...

Courtney Jenkins
Feb 16, 2022
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