3rd year research

Hello Folks.

Well its been most interesting researching this red riding hood lark, so many variations, its all quite exciting!
im still in love with the charles perrault version (the grusome one were the wolf eats everyone and wins haha) but i recently came across a version written by a chinese auther and illustration called Ed Young. This version is very different to the one we all know,

Story Summary
This is a Chinese Red Riding Hood story of three young children whose mother goes off to visit their grandmother. That night, a wolf comes to the door, pretending to be their grandmother (or "Po Po"). The eldest child, Shang, asks why "she" comes so late and why her voice is so low, and the wolf finds excuses. When the two youngest children let the wolf in, he immediately blows out the candles so that the children cannot see him. He pretends to be sleepy, so they all go to bed. The children feel his tail, and he says it is hemp strings to weave them a basket. Finally, Shang lights the candle, and even though the wolf immediately blows it out, she sees his face. She gets her brother and sister out of the house by saying that they are going to pick gingko nuts for their grandmother, because they will make "her" live forever. The children climb to the top of the tree, and Shang tells her siblings that the "Po Po" in the house is really a wolf. They devise a plan to trick the wolf, and successfully kill it before their mother gets home.

Its not the story im really looking at here, its his illustrations, theyre very beautiful and set the mood wonderfully. heres a few






I love love love these drawings, they reminded a bit of my concept work, purely because of the textures he's used. and the wolf looks a bit similer, This is the style Im hoping to get across in my animation, i hope it works! :)

In reply to charlotte post..

WELL twilight.

I feel like a little girl swooning over someone so much,
The book is amazing. i cant wait to read the others, to link this into this 'animation blog' the new film looks really good, a lot more CGI and effects than the first one, im hoping they dont look ropey cos i hate crappy CGI

xxxx



since when were vampires so damn desirable!

3rd year project shizz.

WELL! starting our 3rd year project already is mighty scarey, BUT i am really looking forward to it, im currently working on my own, which I dont mind but Im worried that im not going to be able to finish my work, as I want to do something i havnt really done before,
I want to aniamte little red riding hood, but in a way so we hate little red and like the wolf, I want the audience to feel sorry for him, and to not actually care when the girl gets eaten. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry but im fed up of villians always losing, so yeh, he wins in my version!
I plan on doing all this by hand, (lightbox) I know its going to take huge amounts of effort and time but Im willing to do it because I know the outcome will be worth it :) Hopefully ill be able to drag some second years into helping me with sound and colouring my drawings! any way heres some concept work for you to get your teeth into. (no pun intended...)

Kathys Final Pieces

After scanning the drawings I did i edited them in photoshop,I really enjoy using photoshop to colour my work as i love the effects you can use, :)




This is one of my favourite things ive done, i really like how the flowers look after i added colour,and the great thing about photo shop is that you dont have to re-draw everything you can clone the images then change the size and colour to make different looking flowers. :)



Thi image was a little different as i only scanned in the ciggerette and the people, the background and the sky were all drawn by me in photoshop, i like this image because i really like the compistion ive used.

Kathys Drawing project

Kathy set us a project were we had to put some people in either an enviroment that was much bigger than them, or one that was much smaller than them, i choose to do an enviroment that was a lot bigger.

heres some concept work.

doodlets

Just a few doodles ive done, I love drawing animals, :)

Talking dog continued.

The Talking Dog production is finally finished. here a few more bits and pieces.mostly of concept work.

a Lovely rancid ratty.
To create the walk cycle, well, scurrying cycle, i jus flipped the image and made it into a symbol which made animating it pretty ok.

Tunnel shot, before photoshop...



And After....

Chunky Ladies.

Platform concept.

Rattys again.

Story boards.

Overall the project went really well, although we did finish two days after the deadline.. we were one of the few teams who did complete it, I am very pleased with it,

I also did the credits and I gathered and helped produce the soundtrack for it, although it was Alex who tweaked it to its perfection!

Overall I was pleased with the effort we all put in to acheive something I am very proud of.