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 →
375 Days
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 →
Missing Link (Butler, 2019)
> 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 →
MAF 2018: Short Films 1
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 →
Proud Of / Top Tip or Advice
#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 →
Design Process / Throwback
#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 →
What I’m Working On / Mistake or Lesson / Dream Collaboration
#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 →
Motivation / Goals / Workspace
#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 →
Photography / How I’ve Learnt
#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 →
MAF 2018: Virtual Reality
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 →