January 2013
1 post
Where have you been?
It’s been a very long time since I visited tumblr, but I felt it was time for an update seeing as I quite like keeping this tumblr lark going.
I probably last posted about my business venture Kaleid…It’s going amazingly well & I’m so flattered. I’ve learnt so much already in the few months I’ve had it up, both on the business side of it & actively...
September 2012
5 posts
August 2012
3 posts
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Will pop up the actual design work for this in due course. A lot of the design work wasn’t as documented as it would’ve been for uni work, but still got some snaps to share!
A very late (and overdue) tumblr check in
So it’s been a VERY long time since I posted on here…
Since I last posted on here, I finally graduated with a 1st (woohoo!) and had my incredibly offensive text posters put up for our exhibition, which was a top night - filled with wonderful advice from industry. I also took a few trips to Soup last month to fully render my Dennis & Lois project & create a showreel to send...
May 2012
20 posts
Finally got my Behance sorted! →
WatchHere’s my draft final video, much brighter & more life in it than in the previous tests.
Still have a few bits to adjust here; the timing is still a little sloppy in places & some scenes are far too quick/slow. Also need to clean up the vector animations slightly & get some more of them moving!
WatchAnother final test before making the full video. I was lucky enough on the last seminar to show this to Tash, Lee & Andy. Andy also agreed with Tash about having my hands in the video - he suggested it would be much better for me to hand Frank the banjo & then leave him to interact with it.
WatchAnother one of the last tests I completed. Again, sloppy timing & the rising of the hot air balloon is a little confusing the way the camera angle changes.
I did keep the idea of the hot air balloon rising up on it’s own in the final video.
WatchThis is one of the tests I completed for the opening of the video. After completing a final video, this one does look so lifeless & void of colour now. The timing is also a little sloppy on this one.
After I showed this to Tash, she suggested I reacquaint myself with Morph & how the use of hands is included in that. The hands were use mostly to just reiterate the size of the models &...
Brief Recap
So when I started this brief back in February, here is what I wrote about the actual brief & my predicted outcomes:
I’ve recently been doing a brief for Soup - as Soup is a collective I’ve become to want to work with when I finish uni, I decided to ask them if I could do a brief for/with them for my nmp. They’ve been collecting footage from a couple called Dennis & Lois, documenting...
WatchOne last thing I’ve been working on today…
Seeing as I probably won’t have time to submit packaging for my toy, I thought that although my set of cut outs & manual were nice, but they needed something else to go with them. I originally thought of a book, but it’s likely that I would have just repeated the story told in the manual or actual video. With the very nature...
April 2012
27 posts
WatchNMP
Quick test here of how I will go on to apply the simple vector animations so that the whole video would flow in a similar style, rather than going from stop motion photos to flat, vector animations.
In the finished versions, each box/manual part would be reacting to the main protagonist of the scene - so here, the other characters would be reacting to Frank smashing his box.
Things to...
WatchOpening - done!
Here is the opening to my video done & dusted. Still a few issues with lighting on each photo, but nothing too major. I’ll tweak it if I have time at the end, but right now it’s not a massive issue. Just glad this is finally done - feel a bit better now knowing the animation is starting to develop, as I’ve not done as much as I’d have liked the past...
WatchOpening bit done!
Well, there is a little before this, but this is where the logo comes up & the title of the video. Very happy with this! Let’s hope the rest continues in the same vein…
WatchAnd…
Here is the quick test video I’ve done this afternoon for the opening of my video. It would benefit from being just a touch faster, but overall I’m pleased with it. Need to keep an eye on the lighting though, still some variation when the hand is in shot.
I have taken all the photos now for the actual beginning, so it’s just a case of tweaking the lighting &...
WatchMade a start on putting the video together. Obviously needs all the extra added details, but as a start I’m quite pleased with this.
Obvious tweaks include Frank’s leg action & arm movements; they’re far too jerky at the moment. It would be nice as well for Frank’s head to look up as the ‘ball’ smashes the box & for him to then do that cheeky action of...
WatchAnother quick test here, just needed to see how a flat photograph would work with a stop motion animation piece over the top. As predicted, the lighting on the animated parachute doesn’t match up to the photograph of the inn. Also, the composition of the inn photograph is great…if only I’d done it in landscape rather than portrait so I didn’t need to move the image up...
WatchQuick stop motion parachuting test
Just needed to throw these photos together to see if it actually did look like Lois was parachuting. The inspiration here is those toys you used to get with a small plastic parachute attached to it, which you could throw down the stairs & (in theory) it should have gracefully glided down…
Having done this, it’s shown me that there’s...
