A Blog Following my Creative Endeavours
For those of you who don’t know about MerMay it is this rather popular Art Challenge on Instagram with 168k posts in the past 13 days! It was started by Tom Bancroft a Disney Animator and Character Designer with different words for each day to prompt the artwork. 7 ◊ TranquilI've always loved that Riviera poster... Continue Reading →
> Date Seen: 14th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- The film is a powerful 2D animation following a family torn apart during the Khmer Rouge revolution and their struggle to survive and find one another again. I got to see this film as part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018 where it was screened... Continue Reading →
> Date Seen: 11th April 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- It will not surprise anyone to know that I am a fan of the animation studio Laika, being that ten years ago they released my favourite film Coraline (Selick, 2009) and since have created three more equally beautiful and dark sided stories centring around children and... Continue Reading →
> Date Seen: 29th March 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- When I heard that Tim Burton was going to be directing a live action version of this old Disney animation I was intrigued to say the least! I couldn't imagine his artistic style in a live action remake of this sweet elephant tale, but it all... Continue Reading →
#MarchMeetTheMaker Day Twenty Two 'Proud Of' For those who don't know (Hi Newbies!) I studied Stop Motion Animation and Puppet Making at Staffordshire University a couple years back and it was the most busy, crazy and fun years ever on that Three Year Course. Managing to complete my 3 and a Half Minute Stop Motion... Continue Reading →
#MarchMeetTheMaker Day Twenty 'Design Process' The design process always starts with an idea, which I either write down in a notebook or my phone or I try to remember (always a bad idea!). I will then return to these ideas later, making more elaborate notes and developing the ideas further and maybe start sketching things... Continue Reading →
#MarchMeetTheMaker Day Seventeen 'What I'm Working On' I am currently working on my Day in the Life project that I started up on last year's March Meet The Maker. It has been a hectic year so not quite complete but hoping to finish off soon while I have some time off. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvHQ41EllAf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link And to celebrate... Continue Reading →
#MarchMeetTheMaker Day Fifteen 'Motivation/Goals' My Motivation and Overall Goal are one and the same: To Be Creative. My Greatest Goal currently however is to earn a living through my Creative Work: whether that be by making and selling my crafts, through my blogging or my Sculpting and Animation Career. https://youtu.be/oG_eW2d1IvE I love Making and it... Continue Reading →
#MarchMeetTheMaker Day Thirteen 'Photography' Here you can see a little mashup edit of all my cameras. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu8Qw-flBXe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link I have had my Nikon D3100 for about 7 or 8 years now since I started Photography A Level at College and started learning how to properly use a camera and edit photos.. I got my Panasonic TZ100... Continue Reading →
