My favourite Mr.Firth

David Firth has been off my radar for quite a while and I recently checked out his website (http://www.fat-pie.com/) to see whats been going on in his crazy world. ANYWAY it seems Mr.Firth has decided that since his internet succsess of salad fingers and spoilsbury toast boy has calmed down quite a lot hes taken on a rather massive project..

Hes decided to make a feature length film on his own under the working title of 'The Meadow Man' hes even said himself that it could take him years as he's doing it soley on his own, (brave brave man..)

I am so excited about seeing what Mr.Firth has conjured up in his bizarre mind, but in the mean time i guess ill have to watch his old stuff, which by the way, i never grow tired of :) he does have a more recent short animation called Dog Of Man which you should all check out.


http://www.fat-pie.com/dogofman.htm

it is as you can expect, incredibly strange, but delightfully dark all the same :)

chow xx

Movies Ive watched recently...

HIII so yeh my laptop died which im fecked off about so ive been borrowing Hollys dvd player and telly to kill time... ive been going through my studio ghibli collection and have watched these in the past week.... Howls moving castle, My neighbour totoro, Pom poko, Only yesterday, Kikis delivery service, Princess monoke, Grave of fireflies, Laputa:castle in the sky, Porco rosso, The cat returns, an spirited away,

I LOVE STUDIO GHIBLI. i love howls moving castle but thats only cos im an old romantic.. :) other faves include Pompoko which probely is one of the most random animation ive seen... its about a group of raccoons who can morph into anything they want and they start a vendetta on humans... hmm. one i really reccommend is kikis delivery service cos its such a sweet movie. but theyre all good, :) yeeeeh

Oh and i managed to find my Ghost in the shell:2 dvd which im chuffed about, I love just watching it for the detail in the background, along with Steam Boy and Metropolis, Background design is something im still very interested in pursuing and watching movies with beautiful backgrounds makes me want to do it!!

im gunna stop blabbing now cos this post makes no sense. :)

storyboarding and lipsyncing

HELLO! man its been ages... anyway the two projects.. storyboarding, I loved this project, i liked how we could finally choose what we wanted to storyboard rather than being given something to storyboard. At first I choose to do a song by sigor ros, theyre an icelandic band who sing songs with no real words meaning that the listner can interpret them how they wish, i drew out loads of thumbnails dipicting a love story but at the last minute i changed my mind as im really not that good at drawing the human figure, i would of stuck with it if we had had more time but instead i choose to do a song by blur called coffee and tv, I used a robot as my main character and im really pleased with how its come out :), i really really enjoyed this project and its definately given me a clearer view on what i want to do,
Lipsync: When we got set this project i was absolutely dreding it, not only had i not used flash for months but im crap at lipsyncing, anyway i gave it whirl and it came out ok... flash came back to me pretty quick which was good, but i had come up with an elaborate storyboard which i had to severly cut down because it wasnt really the aim of the project, I think the end result is ok, it could be better but i felt a little bit rushed, i was going to do the maya character instead but i didnt like hopw you couldnt really customised the character and make it your own. all in all i think these projects went ok, i loved the storyboarding and its something i would like to continue with in my career after uni :)