Introduction

Hello there, my name is James Annandale. Welcome to my University course blog, I'm an artist based in Fife, Scotland and I'm currently studying an MSc in Animation & Visual FX at The University of Dundee.

I'll be using this blog as both a journal and a platform to document my progress through the remaining seven months of my MSc.

The main aim is to get creative using Adobe software After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere as well as produce some 2D animation/paintings to incorporate into my main project, a two-minute animated piece of motion graphics inspired by one of my poems, 'Wandering Through Timeless Spaces' which you can listen to by clicking the link below.

https://soundcloud.com/the_artist_explorer/wandering-through-timeless-spaces

Being new to After Effects and not having animated in over a decade I'm planning to make some short experimental animations before tackling the main project, the first of these I'll share in my next post.


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