A me turnaround

So I realised I have not actually been able to complete a proper turn around thus far and decided I ought to do something about it.
I got someone to take photographs of me turning and used them as reference.

(apologies for the completely unflattering photos.)

Other than trying to better my arty skills I have been working my butt of on my film. Today I scanned frames for 8 hours without stopping. 

We have also been told to make a small promotional leaflet which I've dedicated my evenings to. And, scariest of all, we are to present ourselves and our work in front of industry professionals on Monday. So this is going to be an incredibly busy week! Especially as this time next week I'll be jetting off to Lisbon for 5 days for Monstra. How very exciting.

Anyway, this is why I haven't updated in a while. Busy busy busy.

Re-blog

These are from my 3rd year Production blog - Don't Step on the Crack I thought I'd re-blog them here as they fit in nicely with my design work. Also, I didn't want the first thing people see on my blog to be the Disney Doll set... It's a tad embaressing.

Anyway, these are make using photocollage on Photoshop.



Brain Food

The tital is probably more interesting that the content here.
On our course we are required to attend Visual Culture, which at first thought was a drain and something used to give art courses more 'credibility'. However, having just attended the first proper lecture of 2nd year VS that has been turned on its head.
I havn't been into uni for a while as we have had an obscene amount of time off, and it was great to get really stuck into this lecture. The tital of the lecture is 'Things' and its about how everything has a meaning/ can be interpreted.
I'm not going into it too much now as we covered a staggering amount, but it really fired me up and I just want to discuss it! Infact when we got home the lecture hadn't finished for us and we talked about it for a good hour after.
I am so glad as it would have been rubbish if it hadn't been interesting, or taught badly.

I need to get some sturcture back into my life. At the moment I am living in three different places. None very far away, but having structure whilst moving around alot is hard. Now that term has resumed I will be a bit more dissaplined in posting things. Especially as for one of the modules we have to create a seperate blog to use as a journal/sketchbook of our progress.
Should be interesting.

Some sketches

So these are just a few quick sketches I did before we started animation. We are now on clean up so they are a bit old. But kind of sweet none the less.

Fireflies

Its about time I put some things up here about our group project. We are creating a 90 second short film in a team of three. It's a hand drawn piece, and new experience for all of us.
We have actually finished animating and I have already cleaned up 2 scenes. Its really exciting seeing things come together.

It was my main job to create our characters. They are cute little creatures which ended up being a mixture of red panda, rabbit and squirrel.
I'm quite happy with them and they are rather fun to draw.
If you want to see more about the film our production blog is:
Fireflies

SS Great Britian Project

Last year we got the chance to work on part of a film for UWE. It was a project called SS Great Britain - The Incredible Journey. I was really excited, it's the first proper animation 'job' I've had. Although we didn't have any creative input it was really interesting.

Mostly it was a scene colouring job, but we also had the chance to do a bit of character animation. I jumped at the chance and was given 2 scenes to paint and 2 to animate.

With the project completed I sort of forgot about it and I have missed my chance to get my hands on my finished scenes which was really stupid.

However, the film is shown on the SS Great Britain and my name, along with a list of others in my year, is listed in the credits. I was really excited when I saw that.

My work is mingled in the third part of the film, which is more 2D based.

I have the scenes from before I worked on them somewhere, will upload when I can. But for now; this is the link to the full film.

http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/movie/index.html