In any case, here it is:
"Under the Weather", the 90 second short I made with Rainy Days Productions last October-December time, is now available on YouTube for everyone to watch, so go ahead and share this on Facebook, Twitter, or your preferred hipster social media site. Hell, even tell people in real life about it, if you like it enough. In any case, here it is: So for this month, I decided to enter the Show Me the Animation's "Do it in Ten" competition, which had the theme of Fire. I decided to take quite an "asdfmovie" approach to it with a short bit of wacky humour that I know plays well among my DeviantArt followers. It may not play as well among the judges, but I feel like I was trying to just get this done in as short a time as possible, and is just a little something to keep me in practice. Just a little piece of animation to keep me somewhat in practice over the summer here, of my Doctor Chaotic character doing a little dance. It makes a nice looping GIF.
I managed to get my hands on After Effects and have finally finished my work on the BBC Listening Project short! Apparently, I'm the first to do so, so we'll see how this goes with other participants. But all going well, it should be online sometime around October. Here's a little sneak peak of it: So I recently updated my showreel with a couple small bits from the BBC Listening Project - replacing some old first year exercise stuff, and some stuff that was there because I didn't have anything else. I decided to just go ahead and have the music play at a constant volume throughout, as I wasn't sure whether or not showing the sound that the lips were syncing to was particularly necessary - especially now that there's animation from something that's technically actual work that hasn't yet been released.
On top of this, I've also been doodling some little pieces of animation recently, one of which was done before I tweaked the showreel and so actually made it in, but a couple others - one of which (despite gaining nearly 800 views) I don't think would be particularly useful, and another that simply wasn't made before I did the tweaking. Could make it into my next revision though. I'm definitely quite pleased with it. Three shots are now completed, and another is currently in the works, meaning 14 seconds of animation is completed, and another 14 seconds is nearing completion. 2:52 to go! Here's the opening shot of it as it stands: This'll be edited and mixed with some live-action footage at a later point in production, but for now, I'm really happy with how this is looking and will continue on to the remaining work.
This new showreel now includes most of the stuff I've done for Dead and Breakfast, as well as removing one of the outdated first-year exercise portions of it. I should be able to update it again by the end of April with more stuff, such as (hopefully) some completed shots of the BBC Listening Project work, as well as another idea I've been having recently that may be easier to come to fruition than the Doctor Chaotic short. We'll see how it goes.
Finished the latest shot on "Dead and Breakfast", and I've already been assigned another shot to do - I'm just waiting on receiving the symbols necessary to do it. I've also made some modifications to my CV based on the feedback of Sarah Cox (director at Arthur Cox) and Mark Taylor (director at A Productions), so here's the updated version of that: Ok, so I've started fleshing out the story of the Doctor Chaotic short, to the point where I'm confident that it's not going to change massively anymore so I can start to work out jokes and gags for it. At this point, with "Dead and Breakfast" and approval from the BBC still pending (I think my e-mails may be going to their junk box), it's hard to tell if/when the short will actually be completed, so I've got a rough guestimate of sometime next year, just to make sure there's no rush. With that, I made a tiny teaser thingy to show off to people and build a little bit of hype. The cape wave animation isn't as good as I'd like, and the background is absolutely not representative of what would be in the finished film, but is just there to give the basic idea.
So while waiting for another shot to do for "Dead and Breakfast", I decided to use the base of the generic wiggly-tailed ghost to make one of Sam. He seemed to like it. Another ghost for "Dead and Breakfast", this time a nice generic wiggly-tailed ghost which I know will be used throughout the film. The line consistency around the right eye's already been sorted out, and the arms are likely to be a touch shorter in the film, but it probably won't be massively noticeable.
Designed and animated another ghost for "Dead and Breakfast". Don't yet know if it'll be used in the film, but good practice nonetheless. Also related to the project is this little doodle:
So this week, I finally got to work on my first shot for Sam Shaw's "Dead and Breakfast", and having finished it, Sam's given me permission to show it off, so I will! Here it is: There's going to be one or two minor edits to this before final inclusion, but other than that it's done, and personally, I'm really happy with how it came out. On to the next one!
Here's my first showreel! Some good stuff in there, I hope, and a whole load of contact details. The music in this showreel was done by Stuart Fergurson (aka RainbowCrash88). Includes clips from "Under the Weather", "Cats Are Dumb", "Hover Llama in the Wild", "Joey and Remus", a promotional video I did for Hydra Books, an animation test I did for "Dead and Breakfast", a Gravity Falls fan animation I did using the audio from a vine by Jason Ritter, and the sting I did for the British Animation Awards.
Really managed to pack a lot in there in the end!
I've just entered the British Animation Awards Stings competition. The basic theme was that it had to involve sheep, and their logo - other than that it could be any form of animation between 4 and 30 seconds.
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