For those of you who don’t know about MerMay it is this rather popular Art Challenge on Instagram with over 308k posts this year! It was started by Tom Bancroft a Disney Animator and Character Designer with different words for each day to prompt the artwork. 14 ♦ Adrift For today's prompt I... Continue Reading →
Hi Everyone! So I know it has been a while since I last posted on here 375 days in fact! It has been a hell of a year full of lots of changes, work and projects and this is the main reason my blogging has taken a slip. But I hope to change this and... 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 →
I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next... 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 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 →
This was a wonderful edition to the Manchester Animation Festival with a setup of four VR Headsets for us to see each of the films by the proper "in the world" style of the films. And they also had a great range of VR Films to experience and see which was great. .This film... Continue Reading →
I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A's and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next... Continue Reading →
I wanted to do a collective piece on all the 'Making Of' panel talks that were a part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018, bringing together all the information and skills that went into creating each of these wonderful films seen above. Becca’s Bunch The image of Becca's Bunch caught my eye immediately when... Continue Reading →
> Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- This film was another we viewed before being part of a Q&A session with the director in Manchester Animation Festival 2018. I personally have been looking forward to this film since I learnt about Mike More and his Chuck Steel short at the last Manchester... Continue Reading →
