We've each taken bits of the animation to do, and I feel very happy because i get to animate the man falling out of a train and getting eaten by rats =)
heres afew doodles, and concept work etc.
I HATE HOW THEY DO THE PRODUCTION MEETINGS HERE.
brb
Thursday, 23 April 2009
talking dog
SOOOOO the talking dog project, the big BBC thing we're all doing, its all getting a bit tense in the studio again, Im working with Ceri and Alex and after a slow start due to random things (including a massive easter break) we're getting on track.
We've each taken bits of the animation to do, and I feel very happy because i get to animate the man falling out of a train and getting eaten by rats =)
heres afew doodles, and concept work etc.
I HATE HOW THEY DO THE PRODUCTION MEETINGS HERE.
brb
We've each taken bits of the animation to do, and I feel very happy because i get to animate the man falling out of a train and getting eaten by rats =)
heres afew doodles, and concept work etc.
I HATE HOW THEY DO THE PRODUCTION MEETINGS HERE.
brb
Friday, 6 March 2009
editing shizz
Yeh so Ive finally done my mashup, i choose to do edward scissor hands and the terminator to make a cheesy sci-fi horror movie. and its alright, i would of liked extra time to of really worked hard at it, and tweek a few things like editing the sound. I tried to export it but it would only let me use soundbooth not audition so i gave up.
I also managed to complete our editing task of changing the sky on a moving image, I was so worried about this project as I have never done any of it before, I was so stressed about it I burst into tears on the bus the day we got set it... hmmm. Just thought it was highly unfair that considoring the amount of work we've already got on, why should we be set a project that we have absolutely no idea of how to even begin? luckily Pete Felstead was on hand and he found us a wicked tutorial on sky replacement, I actually whizzed through it which was nice and I guess its once less thing on my mind, Ill post it on here when i can be bothered.
The talking dog project is going ok, Alex Ceri and I have taken on a character each, Ive got the fat woman, I was researching this cos if you type in 'Fat women' on google you dont get much so i went one step further and typed in Feeders... you know.. those weird men that feed women until they get obese and cant move and photograph them.... GAG. note to self. stop looking at rancid websites. even if its for research!
I also managed to complete our editing task of changing the sky on a moving image, I was so worried about this project as I have never done any of it before, I was so stressed about it I burst into tears on the bus the day we got set it... hmmm. Just thought it was highly unfair that considoring the amount of work we've already got on, why should we be set a project that we have absolutely no idea of how to even begin? luckily Pete Felstead was on hand and he found us a wicked tutorial on sky replacement, I actually whizzed through it which was nice and I guess its once less thing on my mind, Ill post it on here when i can be bothered.
The talking dog project is going ok, Alex Ceri and I have taken on a character each, Ive got the fat woman, I was researching this cos if you type in 'Fat women' on google you dont get much so i went one step further and typed in Feeders... you know.. those weird men that feed women until they get obese and cant move and photograph them.... GAG. note to self. stop looking at rancid websites. even if its for research!
Monday, 2 March 2009
New Stuff. Lots of sniping.
Soooo. we've been given a new load of work to do, a lot of it readin in prep for our dissertation next year, and a project for the bbc which seems quite fun.
The reading and writing task sucks, to be honest, I dont mind doing it i just dont like how we've been given lots of stuff all at the same time, and i think it would of been more beneficial if we had started this in january and been given one reading/writing task every two weeks or so, :) anyways ive done the first one and I found the text we had to read actually quite interesting. especially. From Mouse to Mermaid. So much so ive asked my dad to buy me a copy so I can do one of the thousand word tasks on 2 more of the essays in it. I love arguments, I dont mean with friends and stuff I just love a good discussion especially when it envolves disney and how sexist/rasict/nasty they actually can be.
The bbc task seems quite fun, we've been given some scripts for a pilot show and we had to choose groups, my group is Ceri Ralph and Alex (i think) Im happy to be working with Ceri again as i feel we get on well and respect each others ideas. This task is going to be fun but with the time we have its going to be tough thats bbc quality! either way it will be a learning experience.
SNIPEFEST 827. yeh no jokes. the studio has turned into a war zone, everyone sniping at each other over deadlines and shizz. to be honest im letting it all blow over my head, yeh we've got lots on, but we all have to deal with it, we wouldnt of been set all this stuff to do if it was impossible. which it isnt. Ive made a mini schedule which i hope to stick to as my time keeping is and im admitting it... awful. I left the first reading task until 5 days before it was due in... maan. i need to change my habits, but i figure ive always been ok before so why ont i be ok this year? :)
over and out
The reading and writing task sucks, to be honest, I dont mind doing it i just dont like how we've been given lots of stuff all at the same time, and i think it would of been more beneficial if we had started this in january and been given one reading/writing task every two weeks or so, :) anyways ive done the first one and I found the text we had to read actually quite interesting. especially. From Mouse to Mermaid. So much so ive asked my dad to buy me a copy so I can do one of the thousand word tasks on 2 more of the essays in it. I love arguments, I dont mean with friends and stuff I just love a good discussion especially when it envolves disney and how sexist/rasict/nasty they actually can be.
The bbc task seems quite fun, we've been given some scripts for a pilot show and we had to choose groups, my group is Ceri Ralph and Alex (i think) Im happy to be working with Ceri again as i feel we get on well and respect each others ideas. This task is going to be fun but with the time we have its going to be tough thats bbc quality! either way it will be a learning experience.
SNIPEFEST 827. yeh no jokes. the studio has turned into a war zone, everyone sniping at each other over deadlines and shizz. to be honest im letting it all blow over my head, yeh we've got lots on, but we all have to deal with it, we wouldnt of been set all this stuff to do if it was impossible. which it isnt. Ive made a mini schedule which i hope to stick to as my time keeping is and im admitting it... awful. I left the first reading task until 5 days before it was due in... maan. i need to change my habits, but i figure ive always been ok before so why ont i be ok this year? :)
over and out
Saturday, 21 February 2009
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
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
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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. :)
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. :)
Friday, 6 February 2009
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 :)
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 :)
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