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.
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.
But anywho i'd like to put some of my pics onto t shirts. Shall keep ya updated..
Peace!
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!
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!
I don't want to change the world....
...I just want to watch it go by.
Compiled some pictures together to make this, I used After Effects, Flash, and then, regrettably, Windows Movie Maker (to get filesize down for net). Just a quicky.
~ Enjoy
Drawings
I nabbed me nans scanner the other day and now have scanned ALOT of stuff in, huzzah!
Here's some stuff.
Here's last weeks work for Kathy's sketchbook project... the rule was "Draw what you're reading.. be it an exact incarnation, or just what you envision whilst reading". It was my rule and I am happy with the outcome:
Here's some stuff.
Here's last weeks work for Kathy's sketchbook project... the rule was "Draw what you're reading.. be it an exact incarnation, or just what you envision whilst reading". It was my rule and I am happy with the outcome:
(Not a book, I bought Call of Duty 4 the other day, have been playing it alot)
Love on the Dole.
On the Road, I also did a colour version of this quick..:
Colour version.
I was reading a book about Socrates and got this image of a father & son in my head.
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That's it for the drawing project, but here are some more pictures for you to look at from my past sketchbook.
Nighthawk, Smiths lyrics & Darwin
Wedding day, swansea beach girl, & stress head
Enjoy
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ANIMAL FIRM UPDATE
Hey guys I thought i'd update you on my 'Animal Firm' project.
I've got a story I like coming together. This was infact my problem previously. I really liked the story, but I couldn't IMAGINE the art style to go along with it. But, I remembered back to watching CoonSkin, had a look at it again. The way it handles serious subject matter pretty much showed me the way.
Sometimes I find that with animation. Through the years of marginalisation & trivialisation, the Disney mould and what not.. sometimes it's HARD to actually envision something you yourself are creating.
I've cited alot of influences on this project. Im a little dismissive at that fact because it would be nice to be totally original, but alas this is meant to be a draft for a television series, not something from the depths of my own heart & brain. So t'is fine and actually quite rewarding piecing together the influences.
Here they are:
The story basically revolves around a group of lads who are out to make a splash in there seaside town. They see the Prime Minister coming to town as this splash; there way to make an impact, there way to make a name for themselves.
So they set out to assassinate him, under the philisophical guidance of the old master Sock n'Cheese, a malevolent incarnation of Socrates.
The lads all have there own seperate reasons for doing so, some purely for pride, another to feed his son - they are spurred on by the financial backing of local underground business woman Lola.
So anywho that sums it up. I've gone into the story more than I perhaps should, but I dont care - im happy to because otherwise I wouldnt of liked the idea and my interest would of slipped.
Thats all for now folks.
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I've got a story I like coming together. This was infact my problem previously. I really liked the story, but I couldn't IMAGINE the art style to go along with it. But, I remembered back to watching CoonSkin, had a look at it again. The way it handles serious subject matter pretty much showed me the way.
Sometimes I find that with animation. Through the years of marginalisation & trivialisation, the Disney mould and what not.. sometimes it's HARD to actually envision something you yourself are creating.
I've cited alot of influences on this project. Im a little dismissive at that fact because it would be nice to be totally original, but alas this is meant to be a draft for a television series, not something from the depths of my own heart & brain. So t'is fine and actually quite rewarding piecing together the influences.
Here they are:
- CoonSkin (the level of seriousness in the subject matter and how it works in the animation)
- Mean streets (the companionship of the lads)
- Libertines (as above, see especially 'What became of the likely lads?' Vid) (plus for there preaching of 'Albion', the English sentiment)
- Taxi Driver (Presedential assasination story)
- Inbetweeners (Early influence now lost a little... this would only be for the grouping of the lads.. that is all)
- This is England (see Libertines) (plus the easily inplanted racist ideals)
- American History X ('easily inplanted racist ideals') (plus the character of Sock n' Cheese is somewhat a pastiche of the older neo nazi guy in AHX)
- Socrates (Sock n cheese..)
The story basically revolves around a group of lads who are out to make a splash in there seaside town. They see the Prime Minister coming to town as this splash; there way to make an impact, there way to make a name for themselves.
So they set out to assassinate him, under the philisophical guidance of the old master Sock n'Cheese, a malevolent incarnation of Socrates.
The lads all have there own seperate reasons for doing so, some purely for pride, another to feed his son - they are spurred on by the financial backing of local underground business woman Lola.
So anywho that sums it up. I've gone into the story more than I perhaps should, but I dont care - im happy to because otherwise I wouldnt of liked the idea and my interest would of slipped.
Thats all for now folks.
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Fashion show: Update 2
Heelo. Me and Brian have been working on it most of today trying to get something together, it's more than getting there now, Im pretty sure we'll be done by tuesday (atleast ready for corrections - if any)
Anywho, here's some bits and bobs to have a look at.
This is some of the animation of the girls i've been doing. The thing with these is they will be silhouetted ontop of a moving background.. so any minor errors (for example knees jerking out a little too far) will not be noticable. Also, they have come out a bit to... sexy perhaps? But the thing is we can use them coyly, have the legs in close up for example. See what you think anyway, it may not be fine in your eyes.
- Poser
- Simple one
- The sexual looking one
- These are all variations of the same thing [ One ] [ Two ] [ Three ] [ Four ].
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Brian will then take these and add the silhouette effect in behind them. This is a little preview of how that'll look :
Something like this..
Or this.
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Hope you guys like what we've got so far. Brian is going to add more flair to them in After Effects, but this is the basic building blocks.
Anywho, here's some bits and bobs to have a look at.
This is some of the animation of the girls i've been doing. The thing with these is they will be silhouetted ontop of a moving background.. so any minor errors (for example knees jerking out a little too far) will not be noticable. Also, they have come out a bit to... sexy perhaps? But the thing is we can use them coyly, have the legs in close up for example. See what you think anyway, it may not be fine in your eyes.
- Poser
- Simple one
- The sexual looking one
- These are all variations of the same thing [ One ] [ Two ] [ Three ] [ Four ].
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Brian will then take these and add the silhouette effect in behind them. This is a little preview of how that'll look :
Something like this..
Or this.
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Hope you guys like what we've got so far. Brian is going to add more flair to them in After Effects, but this is the basic building blocks.
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