Friday 15 April 2011

crocodile catch up 11th - 15th april

Monday: First Monday with no rushes, which was actually really nice. I did however have a presentation for my external brief module which I had only found out about the night before, so there was a bit of a rush in the morning , but by 2 , I had a good start to a presentation and it actually went really well , as it turned out it was just a draft for the final thing at the end of may. I got to show my posh new buiseness cards and post cards which I got off moo last week which look fab. Unfortunately I can't seem to turn them the right way round but you get the basics of them anyway they look cool and I would recommend moo.com to anyone looking to get buisness/postcard s done.

Tuesday: I was animating for Barry Purves project , young persons guide , unfortunately although I spent hours on my dope sheet last week , I messed it up slightly , I managed to rectify it, it just took a bit longer than it would of, which is the general name of the game anyway in animation.

Wednesday: was a general editing day, I put together in final cut pro, the first scene of never smile, that I shot last week and also the final scene where I get attacked by the crocodile. I then spent the rest of the day editing the animation I did for Barry on tuesday , which ( like most of my editing ) meant a long time in photoshop.

Thursday: I was back in the rigs , shooting my last scene for Barry's project , it's very good to know I just have editing to do on that now, I feel like all my projects are finally coming together

Friday: today the day I'm writing to you all ! my plan for today is too 1) sort out and throw out lots of things from my Tiny box bedroom. I'm going home next week- monday - as part of the easter hols so , I am taking lots of things with me in order to clear space meaning I can start animating for the music video I am working on, in my room in the evenings, whilst all the 3rd years are busy with rigs. Then when me and my fellow 3rd years have our deadline on 23rd of may I can return to filming in the rigs. I am also planning to fix crocodiles today as after lots of filming they have a bit of ware and tare going on.

Thursday 14 April 2011

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Tuesday 12 April 2011

crocodile catch up!!! 4th - 8th april

Monday was our last ever rushes day. mixture of relief but also of ahh we're all alone now - which is not really true because the tutors are still around for advice.
Tuesday was a kind of fix up crocodile day so I opened up a crocodile hospital in h006 the room at uni and made my crocodiles that had been injured in filming all new again
Wednesday was a good animation day , I spent the morning doing test sequences of eyes coming up from the pavement and in the after noon I shot my first scene with my assistant kyle who was eaten by a crocodile :)
Thursday I did some animation for the project I'm working on for Barry Purves
and Friday I helped clear out some of the mess in the animation stop motion rigs and also animated my end scene - me being attacked by a crocodile , and I also did a v quick animation for a innocent smoothie ad.

Friday 1 April 2011

crocodile catch up 28th - 1st april

Monday , was rushes day , because I work weekends this means going in and preparing my rushes presentation in the morning, I also helped Emma  my  house mate with her story board for rushes. After completing my rushes work , I worked on some editing for some shots I had done previously , basically this was photoshoping bits of people's bodies out of frame so the eating of the crocodile looked a little more believable.
Tuesday was my set making day although to be fair not for my crocodile project this was for an outside project i'm doing for a band. Tuesday afternoon wednesday and thursday morning , I spent doing the epic challenge of dope sheeting for the music which is 4 and a half minutes long hence why it took so long to do. For those un familiar with dope sheeting , basicaly it is where you have lots of charts on lined paper each line represents 1/24th of a second if your animating to music like I am you need to work out exactly what notes or beats are in which frames ( which is 1/24th second ) and then plan what ever it is your animating to move to the beat. it is a heck of a job to do but it makes animating sooo much easier with good results.
Thursday afternoon I went to a brand marketing workshop which was all about being your own brand and looking at who your target audience / consumers are. After the workshop I went to see one of our tutors, Laura weston exhibition, which was really great , Laura had a wide rage of pieces on show ranging from sketchbooks to really interesting lino prints , postcards, fridge magnets , broaches , you name it it was probably there and fab. 
Friday, In the morning I went in and was filmed for part of a project I and my classmates are working for Barry purves. I then stayed and helped my friend Sarah paper mache some chairs for her stop motion set . I then came back to my house and completed another dope sheet this time for my section of Barry's project , luckily this is only 19 secs long so I was able to get it all done in the afternoon.
thanks for reading remember you can see earlier stages of my project at www.plasticineperson.wordpress.com ( most have pictures and I will be adding more pictures to this blog too yey

THE SKETCHBOOK CHALLENGE

This is quite exciting this months theme for the sketchbook challenge is : branching out - out on a limb, basically , doing things in your sketchbook you don't usually use or like , getting to a place of uncomfortableness - its explained much better on the sketchbook challenge blog so why not click on the badge on my blog. For me I always stick to black pen and ink 99% of the time . Strangely enough I absolutely love colour but rarely use it in my art apart from the bit of painting I occasionally do. I hate - with a passion charcoal , its messy unreliable , it has no nice fine lines and when you try to "blend" it just looks a mess, so my plan for this sketchbook challenge is to use lots of charcoal and colour and anything else it might lead too

Wednesday 30 March 2011

the sketchbook challenge

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just came across this great blog each month they give you a theme for you to get creative with then you can upload them to your blog linking them to there's , this months theme is spilling over - i'm probably going to wait until friday and start with the april theme once that is revealed but what an ace idea

The big switch over!!!

hello all, I started writing a blog earlier this year with all my progress on my 3rd year project which can be found at http://plasticineperson.wordpress.com/ however I am switching over to blogger as there seems to be more of a networking option available here so will continue to blog progress on this blog my old blog will still be running for the remainder of my project so people can still go and see what i've been upto :)