Below the read more break, I've also embedded the short that I personally did the highest proportion of the animation of. On all of them, I did the overwhelming majority of the animation on the main character, Al Gebra, as well as significant portions of the lip syncing on various characters, and animating several of the one-shot characters. I've been told that apparently, of all the animators they had in to work on it, I was the one who did the most animation! So that's a nice little achievement to be proud of!
The work I did for Sun and Moon Studios during my latest stint of freelancing there is now available to watch on their Vimeo site, and I've collated them onto a Vimeo album here!
Below the read more break, I've also embedded the short that I personally did the highest proportion of the animation of. On all of them, I did the overwhelming majority of the animation on the main character, Al Gebra, as well as significant portions of the lip syncing on various characters, and animating several of the one-shot characters. I've been told that apparently, of all the animators they had in to work on it, I was the one who did the most animation! So that's a nice little achievement to be proud of! 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.
I had a really good time at Sun and Moon for the week and a bit I was there. I was able to animate using their Flash character assets and start to get a real feel for the atmosphere of the studio. I helped out on their current project for the BBC - a series of animated shorts helping to teach some basics of KS3 Maths. I look forward to the next opportunity I can get to work with them again.
As a bonus, while I was there, Sun and Moon was given some free tickets by Aardman to the Shaun the Sheep "Family and Friends" screening of the Shaun the Sheep movie at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. I've never been up to Cribbs before, so even the journey there was an experience, but it was great sitting down to watch the best British stop-motion studio do what it does best. Having watched it, it's quite interesting to go back and look at previous Aardman films and see just how different the influence of Hollywood makes it. I think partnering with StudioCanal rather than an American firm helped them keep it very down-to-Earth and British, and to the best of my knowledge, nearly no CG animation at all. Definitely a fun film, and I highly recommend it to people who like stop-motion animation, cute things, and British comedy. And hey, maybe the kids'll enjoy it too! From tomorrow until the 30th, I'll be working at Sun & Moon Studios here in Bristol! Considering their recent awards success, it's genuinely an honour to be working for them, and I've never been more excited and terrified by anything related to my animation before. This'll be a real challenge - one that I'm looking forwards to tackling head on. |
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