ALICE & Animation

Just thought I would mention I am currently working on an animation, entitled ALICE, with two friends. It's the first bit of animation I have done in quite a while, shamefully! I am happy to hurt my back a little (my huge lightbox will only fit on the bed in my uni room) just to get in the swing of traditionally animating again, but by George, to get it right takes a lot of patience and time. Time, that is running short...

Hopefully we will be able to complete it within a few weeks, and maybe we would try and get it in a festival, should it be good enough.

ALICE is a recording of an interview with a friend who gave us some very interesting things to animate to! I was in charge of the character design and am currently animating a scene with Humpty Dumpty...

More about ALICE as we near completion. :)

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FATHER TIME - Flash Animation

On the subject of animation, to view the film I completed with two fellow students earlier this year for a university module, you can view it via here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/478937 .
I was chief character (I did not design the cat thing) and prop designer and some foley. I also animated in several scenes as a newcomer to the Flash program. I do feel this animation was more the director's, as it was his story, his program choice, most of his animation style... Nevertheless, I made several contributions to this film!

So the hope with ALICE, it will have more of a personal touch to it. :)

Typography

A few weeks back we had a Typography workshop. Now Typography is something that doesn't interest me usually (not image-driven enough for me). So it is somewhat ironic that this is perhaps the workshop that created my best - or at least obtained the most positive response - final piece. The brief was that we were given a font, and we had go to away and find an invention or particular note that happened in the year the font was invented, or the year in which the creator was born.

Where Graphics works in my favour is the sketchy, playful ideas with a definite font or image... perhaps I am making little sense. Maybe I should upload my sketch ideas; it's usually interesting to see the thought process before the proper thing.

The first poster, at A2 paper size, was my final piece. My font was Broadway, and it is representing the Solar Eclipse of 1929 - the year the font was created. It interestingly even matches the style of graphics imagery that may have been at the time.


The bottom poster was again, Broadway, but this time it represented the first broadcast on television from the BBC in 1929.

Please note that these are pretty rough looking because of the amount of time I had to do them in. With more time I would hope they would be created more cleanly.

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In other news, I have been to see new stop motion Coraline at the cinema, twice. Both times I have enjoyed it; and it has been a nice difference to see a good non-CGI animation on the big screen again! I had some initial reservations about the film: the design looked nothing too appealing/would it just be another stop motion that comes out looking practically another computer animated venture, etc. Fortunately at times, you could tell it was stop motion with particular close-ups and a wonderful scene of performing mice!

Definitely more fun than the simply average Bolt.

Finally, an image!

By all means not my most recent picture, but one I randomly doodled and rather liked. I will colour it up in Photoshop at some point - really need to improve my skills on that versatile program. Unfortunately a part of his arm is missing due to my online editing means.

He has no relation to any projects. He is just good ol' 'Happy Plant Robot'.

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At another point I will upload my typography graphics posters (that was liked by the tutor) I was required to do in Visual Narratives, that, coincidentally, I have finally thought of a workable story idea for.