Idea though design: the shoe

so the first project of an illustrative second year and we were required to make a shoe that represented a famous person in history: I decided to the Wrights Brothers. I constructed the shoe out of canvas and would, the idea was to make it out of the same material as there plane.

This is the first attempt.

after the critique on this piece it was made clear that it did not represent the brothers at all, so back to the design board it was. I decided to deconstruct the shoe as most of the most interesting things in the construction of the show were inside, wear no one could see.

And heres the final outcome.

I've got a golden ticket....

so a couple of month ago now but, I attended a talk by Quentin Blake, such an amazing and lovely man.

Fable

we have been set a particularly bleack text for are animation that covers teh rest of term and christmas:

Fable

Once upon a time
there was a lonely wolf
lonelier than the angels.

He happened to come to a village.
He fell in love with the first house he saw.

Already he loved its walls
the caresses of its bricklayers.
But the window stopped him.

In the room sat people.
Apart from God nobody ever
found them so beautiful
as this child-like beast.

So at night he went into the house.
He stopped in the middle of the room
and never moved from there any more.

He stood all through the night, with wide eyes
and on into the morning when he was beaten to death.

-Janos Pilinszky

-Translated by Janos Csokits and Ted Hughes

yea so.....thats a tad depressing.

All i wanted from this brief relay was a free rain and abitly to finaly use stop motion (model animation), so i can devlop in my modeling ability.

Though I think I'm going to take this brief and alter it to something i've wanted to do since last year, I've wanted to create a 'Freak' based naimation ever since teh circus poster Brief we were given last year. I've had an intrest in the freak show, and deformaty for a longt time now but it was'nt till last year i was properly allowed to vent my intrests in a creative way.

Since last year i've steadly been watching and seeing as much to do with the circus, cranie folk and freak shows as I can. Last uear I attended a talk (with preformances) on the history of the Circus. And during the summer I was finaly able to attend a Freak act by the fantastic Circus of Horrors.

I laso manged to watch a intreging Documnetry on Joseph Merrick (the Elphant Man), as well as watching Dan Browns Freaks last year, i did also watch the elphant man in teh university Liabray, im not much of a cryer in fioms, but i sobed my eyes out in the middle of teh Libary whalst watching this truely beuitful accout of a fantastic Man.

All in all I think this may be the perfect time to create a piece that incoperaqtes all these things.

Rob ryan...

...very exciting day for me! when I met the world renowned Rob ryan. Possibly made a massive fool of my self, but it was worth it, such a massive influence on my work and a totally lovely guy so was a great night.  with a free glass of wine thrown  in, why the hell not.

Beautiful book, showing Ryans process 

signed copy

and heres his blog just in case: http://rob-ryan.blogspot.com/

The aniamted scketchboook?

The first animation I create this term was based on the drawing Trip to Savilla, the brief was called 'the animated sketchbook' now I knew that this is what we were going to have to do before we left for Spain, but for some reason when we returned to Cambridge, I was totally stuck for ideas. I looked around my normal hot spots of visual research and found inspiration in the blog on Anna Betts (a graduate from The Cambridge school of arts: http://colourandsound.blogspot.com/) here work inspired my work for this:

here are some details of the work.

if you check out my youtube link to the left you should be able to watch the animation.

Sevilla

ok well savilla was a far few months ago now but since returning from spain i've been crazy busy.

All in all a beautiful and exciting city, with eccentric residents but all fantastic. Here are a few drawings done there:

Scene from above, the mushroom looking over Sevilla sone in about 10minutes

columns 

tower. beautiful architecture

market scene

homage to aardamn....feathers mcgraw

I have been planning to do this for a while, the penguin was always my favourite aardamn character, and i decided this would be a good opportunity to try some photoshop painting. got a lot to learn but for now here it is.

feather mcgraw 

update of the mime

heres his shirt, the arms have since been shortened

and heres his hat

Oh we do love to be beside the sea side....

...after working on the english project for a while I simplified it. I decided to attempt model making using Fimo, just as a experiment it ended up being what I think was my best work all year. After feedback from others I decided to create a range of model people based around characters that you often see at the British seaside. I really enjoyed making these people, they were labour intensive but worth it. I was able to pull knowledge of my home town in weymouth in order to create my funny little people. i was inspired by the work of Martin Parr who often photographs in weymouth as well as Slinkachu who creates models and puts the in real life set ups.

little girl with ice cream and old man walking in the sand.

A old lady eating fish n' chips and a Little Boy playing in the sand.

Handkerchief hat man floating on a rubber ring and a 'Lobster Man' coping with his sun burn.

Hello Blog...nice to meet you

so summer 2011 time to start a blog I recon, part of my summer progress plan, if nothing els I don't wan't to get rusty in a creative sense over the three moth break. So many things i wan't to do, who know if i will.

a blog hmmmm, what do u do with this blog laura, well i guess i'll try and get sum of my work out there. most of my animations are already up on vimeo and youtube, but no were seemed suitable to put up the pre-production work and my illustration work. So hopefully within this blog you will see a range of work form me and watch me develop and we will see were we go from here. Look Forward to getting to know you all.