Planning on update my blog more often from now on, New Year and all, must start with good habits.. 19.01.15 Lessons at university have started up again and I the course has now turned to my focus: stop motion animation and puppet making. This has begun with lectures on character design which I found rather... Continue Reading →
Advertisements nowadays are a big industry. They are the way in which something is shown to the world and sold to potential consumers. This is why it is likely that the 'spend in the UK will reach £20bn a year by 2015' (Garside, 2014) for adverts made here. And so it is no wonder that... Continue Reading →
The film projector turning on with the jacket in background of shot and angling the camera towards it slowly. This worked out rather effectively as you see it all and your attention is grabbed straight away. If I were to improve on this however I would make smoother and therefore move the camera more substantially... Continue Reading →
After presenting my work to everyone in today’s class I have found some great and helpful feedback to improve upon my work so far. The first was to make the different shots within my film more easily understandable to their placing in the environment. It becomes too confusing to see the shot change from the... Continue Reading →
DESIGN For my project I know I wish to work with a jacket and a film camera and so when I went to the Betty Smither’s collection I went in search of just such items, photographed right and drawn out below. I decided the blue jacket was the greatest one to work with and make... Continue Reading →
For my project I know I wish to work with 2D drawn animation for the ‘dance film’ aspect of my film as this form shall show the projected film like style most effectively with the sketchy drawing out of it all. Therefore with this in mind I have started the work towards it by capturing... Continue Reading →
Here is the plan of the film I shall create this animation from: Napoli Solo More traditional dance style piece from Daisy West https://vimeo.com/96322347 This is a more traditional style of dance which would therefore be more recognizable a style of movement that people recognize straight off. Has a more memorable look of the dancer.... Continue Reading →
Thought of You A short 2-D animated film Directed and Animated by Ryan Woodward http://vimeo.com/14803194 This is a great film to look at for the 2D animation aspect of my main project plan as well as that of the stop motion within my piece. For the 2D drawn aspect of my film this is a... Continue Reading →
My story will be loosely based on the items from the Betty Smithers Collection, working with a jacket and an old film camera. It shall be in a room with a camera that chatters to life, flickering light to the far wall. we see the faint sign of a jacket next to the camera but... Continue Reading →
Last week, 30th September 2014, was my War Horse day with my university. The day started in a workshop with one of the actor puppeteers from the show itself. It was a great range of work, from warm up exercises to acting and basic puppetry. It was really eye opening to different ways to work... Continue Reading →
