Three little words

One of the first projects we were set this term was to gather into groups, pick two words at random from an envelope and a third emotion from a sport envelope and make a short film collaboratively. The films we were given were OPERA, ROAR and our emotion was ARROGANCE/SNOOTINESS. We were then given style guides, which we were abel to swap out if we wanted, we received UPA which was fantastic for me as it's something i'm very familiar with and love. It was suggested as myself and another girl in our group are 'The stop-motioners' of our year that we should attempt stop-motion for this project. This was great as I've wanted to combine my love of stop-mo and UPA for a long time.

The result of this exercise and six weeks, of making, planning, animating and tireless editing on behalf of our Director/Editor Ben Sullivan. Is as seen below ( I can't show you the full film at this time as were hoping to submit it for festivals this summer).

Initial sculpts

Setting up/testing

 

multiple ladys for shots

me animting

Production schedule - ready!

Lady in the spotlight

Difficulty!

My short film Difficulty completed during my graduate year at Cambridge school of art has been screened in Breda in the Netherlands and is to be screened at the Barbican in London, in February 2014. Yay!

Here is a link to the production blog http://difficultydiary.tumblr.com/

Working late on 'Difficulty'.

Poster for 'Difficulty'

LAIKA competition november.

I recently become aware of the Laika character design competition, so I designed this little guy for the Movember entry. He came 3rd and it was nice to get more model making work out there.

Revisiting...you little beauties

Last year I created miniature models for my final project...based around the english sea side, I wanted to revisit it over the summer but I was too....busy (yea lets go with that). Any who I've been contacting local independent shops in my home town about the possibility of selling them as postcards, but I wanted to revisit  them and produce new imagery with them in my home town...more appealing to the 'grockles', you know! (and if understand that word your probably from around here).

So I began today, or re-began...not sure.

mime updating

Here he is all finished and dressed. dashing no?

Mime Take 2

Props for upcoming animation.

The bottle is made of resin. exciting stuff.

Mime Take 1

Progress has been slow on this project. But  (the Mime) has been coming along nicely, after making a fully functional professional armature curtsey of www.animationsupplies.net.

look at me work, harder then it looks trust me.

but heres how he looks at moment with out clothing.

more to update soon. Promise. 

Fable update

Here are some stills and photos from my new animation:

the set

Lineal in situe

It's not completely finished and due to time it probably wont be for a while so when it is i'll update again but for now you can go to my vimeo and enjoy the test shots and experiments: http://vimeo.com/34894815

ITD:Last Brief:Editorial

For the final brief we had to chose an editorial and produce a piece to fill the allocated space.

I chose one around the argument of orchid and dandelion children, the idea being that some children are predisposed to being one way or another, if an 'orchid child' is in a loving/nurturing environment it will bloom and do very well in life, if its brought up in less than ideal way it will wither, whilst dandelion children have the ability to survive no matter what. I think i'm probably an orchid.....

So here are some ideas I had

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I made interchangeable faces so that all the characters could be changed to meet the brief. 

ITD:character- combine and animal and a mode of transport?

Bit of an on odd brief this week, we have to combine a mode of transport and an animal, I did some brainstorming but one of my earlyest ideas remained my favourite the Segway Bear, I thought this would be a great opportunity to revisit my circus Brief from first year, which I was disappointed with. So here is the one...the only...BANJO....

Emotion Board of Banjo

We were required to show them in four states of emotion, as fallows...

Lonely

Destructive

Depressed

Anxious

I also made a stand up puppet, he's animated too.

A very fun brief all in all. 

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.