Friday, 28 November 2008

2DCHOONZ.

well, i am getting WORRIED. im so scared about this pitch on friday.. i know i have a great team with me in Ceri and Adam but im jus feeling so so nervous!
i never get nervous when doing public speeches but this feels different :-s
any way, the bible is slowly coming together, a few more pages and it will be done and i rekon it looks grrrreat, we're going to do the pitch with a powerpoint which Adam has done, ahhh. as soon as the bibles done ill post some pix, yeh ;)

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Exeter Ident

we have been asked to animate the Exeter Ident this year and I decided that I wanted to help create the set and do some back ground design heres some of my background shots,
Alex came up with the initial idea and design and I coloured, layered and textured them, I also did the clock face which unfortunantly i dont have pictures of.


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Charlotte and Me also helped Ben with the set for the stop mo.



It was quite un organised but me and charlotte did what we could to contribute even tho in the end it was ben who did most of it, we kind of felt like spare parts, just waiting for glue and grouting to dry! but the end result was really good. :)

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

A NeW tErM

WELL. its been ages, really enjoying my second year, Ive been doing two projects recently, one with Adam and Ceri and one with the whole class.
2DCHOONZ- 2d choonz is an idea i came up with to combine home made tunes and home made animation :) its an online communtity were like minded people can meet up and collaborate, Ive really enoyed working on this project as it can go in so many directions, the initial idea was mine and ive helped design the logo and decided the overall look of the website, im now in charge of putting together the bible which has been interesting, ive loved working with Ceri and Adam both are really hard working, and i glad ive got to work with Ceri again.
ANIMATEDEXETER- this is the group project, at first Laura Holly Charlo and I choose to create a day event for the festival, ive enjoyed doin it but Ive realised its actually quite hard work, and a lot more than just phoning up random people to come to your day, the girls were really keen to send emails out as soon as we got the brief but I told them to slow down.
I thought it would make sense to create an email address for all of us to use rather then send them out from random ones, i also suggested we use basically the same email for all the clients we were interested in contacting, they did this and the emailing began, I dont know why but ive felt slightly left out of this part of the project.. not alot of work got given to me and i am constantly asking what has an hasnt been done.. it feels like lack of communication... maybe four people is to many to create an event?
Any way, I am glad to be part of the ident, Charlo and me helped Ben create some of the set form the stop frame part of the work going to his house for 3 days, i enjoyed what we did and it was great seeing the set come together but Charlo and me felt a bit useless, I dont think it was well thought out,things like glueing and grouting should of been done before we made the effort to show up, it made the work process slow, one day we spent about an hour drying the set with the oven! I also decided to help with the backgrounds, as it is an area in animation i am very interested in, Alex drew out the design and it was up to me to colour and texture it, GREAT FUN i thought but it really isnt, (at the minute) the producers are all telling me different things and when you do something it isnt liked and you have to start again, i understand this is how it is in the real world but its very frustrating!
I wish someone would give me a straight answeron what to do rather than sending me to and fro-ing with each producer. any way, im nearly there! half way there in fact, ill put some pix up when im done :)