doodles and things

a caricature of my friend dave it was ded fun to do i should do caricatures more often.

Belated

i havent been keeping up to date with this so some of the next few post will be from earlier events in the year.
any how secondya is about half way through its been fun so far much better than first year sides the lack of enough life drawing classes, workin on a film with a fellow student at the mo( i will post details later).

over summer we had to do a story board mine was about a yeti and jenny green teeth alas i dident finnish it but i did learn alot.

my fist project of the year was walk cycles and maya and blummin heck is maya confusing thers so meany buttons and things i dislike being at the mercy of the rig. i did okay on it but i have forgoten how to model things :(.

the walk cycles were fun i did mine in 2d nothing to flashy simple figurs, they were fun i think i did about 10 overall not counting faild atempts ha i also did some rough in flash i got a first for them so that was good :).

During this we had a project set by gene flynn then part of cosgrove hall but it shut down befor we finnished our project we finnished it ayway it was an advert for the royal mail in story bord form this was a really fun project i had to design a character and idea and draw the bord, ill upload scans of this work if i can.

i very nearly got a first for this to it was only because of it not being presented in a portfolio that i did not.

we also went to BAF this year ill upload a post on that soon.

also id like to mention an anime i have found called heroic age, now i used to be anime/ manga mad but ive matured to like lots of other things to whitch has improved my art.

but this anime named heroic age is by no meens stunning animation or story but it is fun and i think its a very good example of how music can have a big effect on the feeling of films its really epic ( i really like it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBDTCpm15YA&feature=channel_page

also i have been watching samurai jack that show is brilliant for its composition and color keying and camera language it should get more recognition in the uk !
i wish you could get the dvds in the uk to.

anywas ill be back soon with a post on bradford and also the midlands anime expo laters

Some sketches i did of torsors i used bruce lee as refferance, i know the bottom one aint a torso but i like the forced prespective :)

Cut Out Animation

On this project we were expected to work in a group and get sound dilolog recordings from the radio and animate the lip sync to them in cut out animation. Alas the other menbers of my group did not seem inclined to work on this prjects very much as they did not come down to the sound room when i asked them and didn't seem enthusiastic or intrested in the project. So i was forced to just go it alone. It took me along time to find soume diolog that i liked, i find find alot of diolog that i didn't really like or intend to use. Eventually i found something i liked from the radio station Rock FM, It was a Phone in show. i dope sheeted this quite quickly because i wanted to get animating after beeing stuck in a sound room for two weeks. I decided to use coloured card, the design i used was an ailen old lady because in the diolog she says 'get to mars' and i thought it would be funny. I quite njoyed cutting out the images and i may actually do a still picture with cut out card.

Doing cut out animation was quite fun although very crude, during the animation process i noticed that somthing seemed off so i took what i had animated and edited t to the sound and i didn't work. I think i had animated a word twice and i had to cut out about ten frames. the occured again later on bt i noticed in time to stop myself.

I do like the animation that i have done although i wish it was smoother but this would meen longer diolog, more frames and more time. I also dislike the way the cut out model gets more scruffy as time goes on but it inevitibul as i am moving and touching it. I try to get as much gesture and acting as well as good lip sync into the animation as my goal is to become a Character animatior.