ALICE COMPLETE!

That was a tough several days of good ol' animation love-hate!

I'm pleased it's over now, but also pleased with the finished result! It looks very effective the white, traditionally animated Alice (and friends) against the mixed Photoshop collage backgrounds. There are things in my animation scene that I'd like to change, but it can't be helped now, and it's all a learning curve/curb of what to look out for next time. In fact I experienced a lot of faults that had to be rectified, just showing how much I have yet to learn and drill into my mind - I know my learning is slower than others so I shouldn't worry if only after a year I am still making mistakes because it is the time to be making them an' all... What I achieved even just in that scene is a surprise to me and (despite the strain) I'd like to think I am ready for more!

Various joyous animation and clean up sheets used...


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Film details:

Traditional animating: pencil to lightbox. Clean up with pen. Roughly 2 minutes long. Photoshopped backgrounds with collage photos. Created with fellow animation students Jessica Marcell and Tanya Scott. Interviewee Alice Gowland. 2009.

For this film I was responsible for: character design, sound foley, animating the entire Humpty Dumpty scene and wondrous clean up.

You can view the animation here: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/film/alice-on-mayonnaise/

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Here's some early concept and character idea doodles. Apologies for the faintness! I will post some more later when I am able to scan/upload in colour!

Rough material choice turnaround of the finalised Alice. I can only show you a rough version because to this day I'm not sure what someone did with the original!


An earlier rough turnaround for Alice. Note particular differences.


Early layout idea of Alice in the boat.


Fisherman Chris. Based on our animation tutor!


More Chris.


Humpty Dumpty!


Alien in an earlier idea of Photographs taken for 'Not human!'


More concept ideas for Alice, as well as life drawing and random doodles to come soon...

Hello...

I'm currently trying out various background colours on this blog, but none seem to stick with me, so hopefully I will sort that out soon.

I also think I should start making this blog more accessible soon. Only about two or three know about this and I do feel quite loathe to let everyone see - but that is partly the point of this blog, to sort of advertise myself out there.

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In creative news, last week saw the deadline of the Visual Narratives module. I can't say I'm sad for the end to come, because that module did nothing for me. After being subject to around nine hours of presentations (argh!) it was a relief to finally relax - albeit not for a long - and start concentrating more on ALICE.

At some point, I may well upload my final piece (currently being externally marked), consisting of:
- A mock-book for children about a Sphynx Cat;
- Five coloured pages taken from the book that were coloured in watercolour (something I have wanted to try and improve in, amongst other traditional techniques). Evidence will be that I still need some work with watercolour, what will come with the time and practice.

This low note is not to say I am all negatives to illustration - certainly not! I still seek to improve on the subject as long as drawing and a good story idea drives me.