I wasn't sure I'd get the chance to use the above loop again, but luck came my way, and I'll be spending 6 weeks working full time at Sun and Moon Studios again! I was last there for a week of work experience in January this year, and I'm so glad that I'll get to join everyone there again.
Wessex Student Bus Pass
So recently, I was recently contacted by one of the people from CrowdReach.co.uk to animate an advert for the Wessex Star bus service for university students. All of the visual aspects were left to me, including the visual design (beyond a basic "motion graphic" style mentioned in the original e-mail) and the storyboarding, as well as the animation.
The deadline was super-tight - I only had the final audio in the last two days of working on it, and only had the script for two days before that, so this was completed in it's entirety in 4 days. So with the free time I've had after finishing at A Productions, I've cooked up a quick entry into Show Me The Animation's "Do it in Ten" competition. The last theme they had was "Sweat", so I decided to play around a little bit with mine. You can see it on the SMTA website here, or on the YouTube embed below. Check it out, and if you like it, then share it! I've successfully applied for an internship at A Productions here in Bristol! I'll be there 8 weeks until the 21st August. It'll be great to finally have my foot fully in the door of the industry and to be working full time in a studio.
Let's do this! I figured it was about time that I updated my showreel with a small selection of bits from "Grave Mistake", especially considering it's getting time to think about applying for jobs for after graduation.
On top of this, an updated CV is now available on the Work page. So I've been getting on with the animation phase of Grave Mistake, and I'm really getting into the swing of it. My current strategy is to go through it and focus on animating one character at a time, going through their shots chronologically. It's working well so far - I'm a third of the way through the shots featuring the Girl. While making one of the longer shots today, I found a piece of animation that, if you reverse it, looks like dancing. It was funny, so I went ahead and made it. I asked around at uni to see if anyone else was doing anything like this with their stuff. Apparently, it's not unusual.
So, I've finally got enough symbols together to start having test animation done to see how it looks. First results are fairly promising, and incredibly reminiscent of being at Sun and Moon. Speaking of Sun and Moon, my updated CV is now available on the Work page to view and download. Once I'm into animating the actual shots of Grave Mistake, I'll probably update it again to reflect that, but until then, consider this one the most up-to-date one.
So in the last week, I've been paid to create a short animated loop for the unicorn character belonging to an online client. Weebly's being weird about animated GIFs, so if you're on mobile or tablet, my apologies if this doesn't play/load. So, to kick off the New Year with a creative twist, I decided to get myself back into the swing of animation after the holiday by animating the second TiN of 2015. Seeing as how my site can't seem to handle a simple GIF image, check out the animation here instead!
It's finally out! The film I did for BBC Radio 4 is now live on their website! It won't be getting a publicity push from the Beeb until sometime in the new year, but it's live and ready to watch now, so go check it out!
Finally got round to making the second Sprakle short!
With uni winding down for the term, my aim is to get two more of these done before the New Year, so fingers crossed! After all this time, I've finally managed to find the time to animate the first of the two Sprakle shorts I had planned way back in the summer! There's also a Redbubble account with Sprakle merch now! Once again, I've entered Show Me the Animation's "Do It In Ten" competition, this time on the theme of Space. One of my friends, Lewis Rogers, mentioned that he planned to think outside the box for his entry (not yet finished), so I decided to do the same. As you can see by the preview image, it's based around Tetris blocks, rather than the typical astronaut/spaceman theme that's run through all the other entries so far. So that should give it an edge this month. But we'll see.
"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.
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: |
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