walk animation

Here's my walk loop:




Am happy with it. Very sketchy but does the job me thinks.

In other news: I have been working on an arcade machine for the last week. It's a paid job to make the intro/waiting screen animation that plays before people have put there money in. It's actually become quite good fun, as im using it to coincide with teaching myself a few more tricks in After Effects. Will post up when project is complete.

Also, built a website last month for a new nutrition website starting up. All this paid work is quite satisfying! Esprit Nutrition

Lifting animation

Georgia Power advert

Hey guys. Just found this while looking on Cartoon Brew. It's a nicely made advert for a company called Georgia Power, which has a very mixed media look to it. What I liked about it (besides the quality) is that once again it reignites the flame that you shouldnt just pick either 2D or 3D.. because there are a lot of things in between.

"There are things known 2D, and there are things unknown 3D, And in between are the Doors is 2.5D."

Anywho check it out, what's especially interesting is that they have a breakdown of the production process too.

http://www.threeleggedlegs.com/repertoire/georgiapower/

Welcome back!

The course officially restarted a week ago. It's nice to be back in the swing of things, I have finished my lifting animation assignment from Derrick, well I say finish but I still need to line-test it & compile it into a movie on the comp... so may come across some errors.

But yeah i'm pretty happy to be back. I had a great summer in Italy, and now back to learning. Except it's fun learning :)

Here's a few pics from Italy:

check out the massive Calzone pizza.

Grand canal in Venice.

 

At the Palio in Siena (THE PALIO IS A MUST)

This video goes someway to catching the feeling and the atmosphere, but the Palio is admittedly one of the bizzarest & most passionate crowds i've ever been in.

 The palio winner

 This is what a 17 euro ice cream looks like...! (bought from outside the Duomo in Florence)

my Birthday cake (Florence)

David (in Michelangelo Piazza, Florence)

Outside St.Peters, doorstep of the Vatican

That'll do for now. Am working on an animation of all our pictures. Hopefully it'll come out well, it's a bit of an experiment to see if that sorta thing works, shall post it up here when done.

Ciao bella

Website

Another thing to ad - I've been working on my woman's site again recently, the work area is a little more thorough now if you'd like to have a look.

I am really happy with the look of this now, think it looks sleak & different to your average photographers site also. Well, atleast different to her classmates who all used the same template.

WWW.FRANCESCADENEGA.COM

Checkit.

I guess this will probably be my last post while in Falmouth... Unfortunately i'll miss the chance to have a tutorial too so this is it indeed! Will be back in September, hopefully with some animation done over the summer, although that's only half likely since im off to Italy for the most of the summer (wahey!). I'm gunna try to keep my blog updated wherever I am.

See ya all when I get back, have a good summer and enjoy the weather while it's nice :D

That's all for now, folks

WE STILL BELIEVE

New drawing - Classic Terry Butcher picture.

 
 

Over the summer I want to have a look into making t-shirts. Online im guessing is the best way, i've seen some sites where you can do this (Cafe Press for example) but for that.. its £20 a shirt... I dont know if my own label justify's that amount really :).

But anywho i'd like to put some of my pics onto t shirts. Shall keep ya updated..


Peace!

A Scanner Darkly

Just watched this film again. I first watched it when it came out in 2006 and have seen it a few times since and I would tell you all to go and watch it. Firstly because you're all animation students, and this film is a very good experimental film to watch, it uses a keen rotoscoping style throughout (and leaves you thinking why bother no doubt), and secondly because it's a very good film regardless. The plot is tough to grasp at first, it revolves around a group of drug fiends and a police investigator, watching over them in a big brother patrolled state. But there is more to it than that, more than the actual plot of the film - the themes within are what is interesting narratively. It talks about the state we live in, big brother, and where we are headed (or have arrived.. - the book was written in the 70's), loss-of-many things, drug addiction and the casualties along the way. Ironically this film is one of them that 'you should watch on drugs'... but really watching it, you realise it is in retaliation to that stereotype.

Anywho a very good film, and two very worthwhile reasons to watch. It's in the library at uni.

Also, I realised watching it for the third time, this guy is also the cool stoner kid  out of 'Dazed and Confused'.. wahey!

What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly?

Group project finito

Well heelo. Have finally finished the group project. It was a long struggle but ended with a sprint and we are done. I am happy with the final outcome, I think its definitely the ground work there for a good grouping. Gotta remember we are just first years, by year three if we were to redo it I think it would be of production standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxc7kR509nM

There's our final thing.

If you play this song in the background it goes quite well with it:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Main+Titles/6kD4j

All done!