Thursday, 29 May 2008

Speaking From Experience Progress report for crit

I needed something to show in my crit last week so i sumerised the shots and little editing i had done.... here is the result

Speaking from experience animation dev

This is the full animated sequence which will be played over the top of my video footage, as shown from the test in my previous blog.

Look What i Did! :D

Ok very quick test for my current video project "Speaking From Experience" and looks crappy because it was compressed for youtube. But i was so happy when i figured out how to overlay Animation on top of video that i had to share it with the world :D A-ha (Take on Me) Eat your heart out.

Enjoy...

Friday, 16 May 2008

Dave Mckean

Dave Mckean's Arkham Asylum.

This is a page from Arkham Asylum, Dave Mckean's Illustrations
have depicted the dark night darker than ever before. I love these
illustrations, the vivid reds and greens contrasted with the Moody
dark blue surroundings create an undeniably evil Joker. The
slightest shadows and highlights hinting at the presence of BatMan
but never actually showing him in his full form creates a Mystery
which is lacking in other batman comics, generally due to over
dramatising.

Don Hertzfeldt Bitter Films

One of Many Bitter Films Animations
very very funny but also very strange.

Eagle Vs Shark Apples

Just some cool stop motion about some apples

Taken from Eagle Vs Shark

Search for Inspirado [Speaking From Experience]

Currently i am working on my "Speaking From Experience" Brief and looking at video/animation techniques, i am hoping to incorporate animation with filmed footage and stop motion photography. These are just a few examples of such work that I found on my search for inspirado.

A-ha Take On Me

I would just like to state that in no way do I condone listening to A-ha, I do not like this song but the technique used in the video is something which intrigues me.

Chumbscrubber

Only looking at the 1st couple of minutes (House sequence)

Juno Intro


A Scanner Darkly

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Grid and Layout

I have been given a brief to re-design a magazine page layout.
In order to do this I had to deconstruct the existing page (page 36 Death of analogue – WTF Magazine).
My page was structured with 6 columns and 4mm gutters. I used the original grid layout of the magazine so that it would be suitable to replace the old design.

death of analogue original

page 37 thumbnails

I have removed “analogue at a glance” because it is the start of the article. I wanted to improve its impact by giving it a title page style, and felt that the section “Analogue at a Glance” would be best suited on the next page with the “Digital Switchover” section…
The reaper was deleted because it was cheesy and I thought just leaving his hand resting on top of the TV was enough to get the concept across.

Picture 4

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Black Cab



The second graphic Devise inserted into my "Taxi Driver" Enelope

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Daily Monster

YouTube - 344 Daily Monster 94 (of 100)


Daily Monster: 1 Man Loads of Monsters

All created in this Ink blot style and all look ace, check them out at youtube.com

Dark Days

This Film Is Amazing!

This is the story of some remarkable people who live on the underground in America.
Their Underground shanty town means that they can do what they want when they want and although they have sad storys, they are happy with what little they have. These people are inspiring and i would advise everyone to watch it.

McCain Potato Parade

McCain are inviting every one to join in with the potato parade!

Picture 15

"Created in collaboration with Aardman Animations, the Oscar winning team behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, and the digital whiz kids from glue London, the challenge was to make an interactive animation with stop-frame characters based around the importance of a McCain specially selected potato!"

The Interactive bit of fun graphics enables you to create and edit your own potato parade and send it to your friends indox.

these little cute spud characters put a smile on my face and hopefully they will do the same to you

to find out more visit www.potatoparade.co.uk

Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4

This Video is a Primus song, as it has been made by the universal music group it cannot be embeded onto my blog but follow the address above to view.

The Song featuring a fiddle battle between a man (Johnny) and the devil. the animation of this video is impeccable especially for the type of video it seems that most animated music videos or at least animated sections of music videos lack the clean professionalism of block buster animation which this captures. not only is it really well done but i found it hilarious.

Monday, 14 April 2008

Visual Language 2

This animation uses line thickness to investigate depth and was the second step in my visual language personal development:

Visual Language

Personal Development.
My visual language was focused around 3 objects (inhaler, spray cap and mobile) and the effect of line when looking at depth. using 6 pens.
i found it difficult to work without a final piece in mind so decided to draw the rotation of these 3 objects, animated here: