Found in the Public Domain 3

Found this Gundam sticker on a bridge around Waterloo.
Artist unknown.

Taken via my camera phone.

RSA Animate

Just recently I completed a budgeted animation with my brother that we’ve been creating since mid-December also with the help of two other family members. The short is an entry for RSA animate and we decided to create visuals to Rachel Botsman’s ‘Collaborative Consumption’ in the style of pixelation, animating on our hands.

I am pleased to say that we’ve made the shortlist and in early February we will know if we have reached the final top 5. I am also pleased that we have made it this far at least and I would like to say it wasn’t easy creating this kind of animation with our current resources, hardware and software.

There are some good entries and I wish the best to our other competitors.

Danger Mouse and other thing’s

Hi guys, this is the first post of the New Year, so happy New Year!!!
I have just seen the ‘Two Against One’ music video from super cool producer Danger Mouse and composer Daniele Luppi’s album Rome. The song also features Jack White, click above to check out the animated MV!!!

Also on the production side, I have almost finished a collaborative project, though it is budgeted the concept is there and I have enjoyed the project.

The King Of Cover Letters

I dislike generating a false interest in anything, period. Well small talk is small talk but that’s beside this topic. What I’m talking about is writing a cover letter for a job that isn’t that great.

Edit: “I dislike generating a false interest in anything, period“, I’m an open minded person and this may come across too harsh.

Walk Cycle update

 

A couple of posts ago I uploaded my practice walk cycle onto youtube and pressed it (link). This press features the latest adjustments which are: character position and time.

Looking at it now, I see it needs a ground line to show the character’s weight.

Sketch 27/10/11 and personal triumphs

I drew this from my window, the golden hour lighting screamed for it to be drawn.

Its wasn’t until the end of College that I realised my approach to drawing was all wrong. Before I use to try and recreate my subject as if what I drew was the object.

My lecturers noticed this and told me that my sketches were uptight with no feeling, it was just a boring almost precise drawing. I didn’t really know how to progress and they didn’t know what to prescribe for my problem. It was only until Uni that I fully released my fault, which was drawings are only representations and not the object itself.
Now this might be quite obvious to the masses, but for me, I became enlightened to my personal problem.

Walk Cycle Practice

While working on ideas I’ve been practicing on my basic animation exercises. This clip is a progressive walk cycle I did a week back or so.

I may develop it more adding inbetweens etc and wacom it up but I must say, I really like the grain and pencil marks on the page, to me it adds dimension and depth to the 2D realm. If I wacom it up, the little things like this may be lost but it would bring it into this digital age… possibly.