Category: BA (Hons) 1st-2nd Year
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Moving Forward
First good news of the week was the fact my personal Business Cards were printed and delivered and they are even greater than I had hoped. They are greatly unique and show the many crafts and creations of my work throughout many different projects. I have also been working further on some of my Production…
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An organised week
The title is so as I have mostly found this week to be an organised one. In the means of sorting out more of a ‘business’ for myself. I’ve updated this blog/website, set up a Facebook page for more details from my films, made logos and business cards which should be delivered soon. All in…
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A Long Time Away..
First of all I should apologize for the lack of updates the past year. I am still working on my degree in stop motion animation and puppet making at Staffordshire University. Just got my results back for the second year and I passed the year with a first. I am now on a summer break…
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Two Twos
Two Twos The Second Semester of Second Year I have now officially started back at university again and getting back into the full week of studies, very much excited to learn and do more. Puppet Performance is the stop-motion focus module, making a film together as a group as though a professional production team. Running…
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A ‘Portmanteau’ Word
The first week project for second year of my Stop Motion Animation and Puppet Making degree is looking into portmanteau words. Making up our own words of two different words put together. Mine were: DRALU – dragon with the flu SEUNK – seal punk ELEIRD – a cross between an elephant and a bird or…
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Summative Interpretation of my Chosen Extract from Persepolis
This extract from Persepolis (Paronnaud and Satrapi, 2007) is a very powerful one; showing how politics had affected the country of Iran during the time, what that meant for the people within the country and it’s influences on them. The story it tells has a great impact on the audience and tells them a lot…
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09.02.15 – 15.02.15
Sculpture for Animation – This week I attached my sculpture wire frame to the wood block bottom and began sculpting my character’s basic body on the wire. The character design task of this week was based around the theme of ‘Urban Princess’. I tried to look into different ways in which this phrase could be…
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Week Three
Sculpture for Animation – We started class with an idea of picking out a series of words printed on slips of paper from a box and drawing these as two characters with these attributes. I got ‘depressed, sick, young’ and ‘manic, healthy, old’ two very contrasting styles and I believe I showed them well within…
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A Week of Workshops..
Sculpture for Animation – This week has been one of a personal study time in sculpture for animation and so I began working steadily on my ‘1960’s Cuban Skateboarding Boy’ sculpture. Stop Motion Pipeline – Throughout the week we have been learning about the different workshops and methods of making we can use throughout this degree in a…
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Starting into New Projects..
Sculpture for Animation – To get our first sculpture rolling this lesson we picked out a subject matter from a box to make random selection. Mine was found to be ‘1960’s Cuban Skateboarding Boy’ and so I began my research for character design by looking into 1960’s skateboarding kids and found a great website full…
Print. Sculpt. Stitch. 