betty's little blog

At least, no more college related deadlines as I've submitted my last module last Thursday! 3 years of DFGA adventures flew passed  so ...

GA-MA-YO is a network for game makers based in Yorkshire, providing information about events happening around, such as local monthly meet up...

On of the submission criteria for this module was to create a showreel. I struggled with the idea a bit, as I describe myself more as a conc...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , one of the most anticipated games of 2015, finally was released on 19th of May. While there are people who decide...

I found about Leeds Illo thru twitter back in January, when the first meeting was about to happen and Facebook group was just created. Gro...

Recently I came across the website that evaluates and estimates the worth of your CV. Adzuna.co.uk uses a word or pdf document of CV as a ba...

Interesting article, titled The video-game industry has a dress code – driven by a lack of diversity , was added to the tech section of the...

Recently a lot of artists started talking about importance of having your own IP. Fact that studios can lay off a lot people quickly, while ...

As we are about to finish college I've started looking for interesting competitions to take part in. Tigerprint , a design company bas...

I have to admit - I've been quite lucky so far, because all the small jobs that was offered to me came from various websites I've be...

I found Zachatronics podcast few days ago and had a listen to the first episode. It looks like we are going to have a good indie dev pod...

Becoming a freelance artist and working from home is a possible career option for me. Of course I'd prefer to have a full time job in a ...

Final Year show is upon us and since the biggest module been already submitted, planning space can start. From what I've been told, mov...

For some time I've been wondering what it is I exactly want to do. Is it concept art? Animation? Illustration? Comics? A very difficult ...

FernFlower was quite a ride. I've enjoyed the process as much as I felt in love with the story and characters. So natural part was for m...

Compilation of Interesting Stuff posts, my lists of interesting things from the world of animation, ilustration and concept art! Lately I...

Double Fine Adventure! is a 20-part documentary about the challenges that comes with having a successful Kickstarter campaign. It's bee...

For the Extended Practice module we where asked to come up with our own briefs and set of criteria to follow and fulfill. It is a very la...

Complete animation is one minute and 44 seconds long. It has a college logo at the beginning and the end, sound and credits. I happy with ho...

Below are the puppets I've used for this project, taken apart, so all the elements are clearly displayed. Each part was a different laye...

I keep making same mistake, leaving sound editing to myself. This time round my main concern with collaborating with sound designer/composer...

Last week, after chatting to various people and showing my finished animation, I've decided to re-do opening sequence. I tried to follow...

During portfolio review session LevelUp! team looked at the work of their followers and commented on it. Unfortunately my portfolio subm...

Since I worked really hard on the extended practice module it seemed like a waste to just hide finished piece inside college walls or deep i...

Today I've put all the scenes together in Premiere to see what changes can be made and what I can still improve. Below is a list of thin...

I got the idea for what to call my extended practice animation quite early and the only thing stopping me from creating a title/ending seque...

Last Thursday we had our final crit presentations which means it's only two weeks left until module deadline. Goal was to have a your th...

I tried to avoid drawing side view for Boy and Girl, hoping I'll save time and that running scene will still make sense. Unfortunately i...

As I've been animating for few weeks now, some changes to the characters had to take place. Running scenes in Fern Flower are important ...

Artifex Mundi is a game company based in Poland. Their games are very stylised and illustrative, such as Grim Legends 2 and Deadly Puzzles....

One of the important moments in my animation is the scene showing fern flower blooms. When designing fern flower I had to take a possible wa...

Below is a list of the scenes I need to animate along with some notes. I got a very basic, rough storyboard, which I'm basing this list ...

Lights and camera are easy to set in After Effects and can improve scene drastically. Since I wanted to imitate look of the theatre sets, ma...

I came to the point where I should start thinking about what tools can be used to animate. Initially I thought about using puppet tool in Af...

Below are finished assets I'll be using. It might seem like I'm repeating it over and over again, but thinking modular was a key to ...

I need to draw forest. And I want it to move and interact with characters! Okay, Betty, slow down... From the beginning I knew that there wi...

I've created my business cards a while ago, last year, just before the Showcase Spectacular in Corn Exchange. Since I was taking part in...

Below are very rough storyboards I've quickly drawn to map out all the scenes. They are far from perfect and I wish to have more time to...