Lets Make Juice

A quick project. Working with Tom Wisdom (producer of The Art Show) we decided to do a short fun film in 7 days. The result is the creative juice. We wanted a stop motion feel which was achieved in the edit by Given. We shot some stop motion pieces (cowboy, plasticine cut and blend which seem to work nicely with the graphic pieces I created for it which included some victorian wallpaper. Not entirely happy with the result beings as we were so rushed to fit so much in. The final animation was very rushed and the audio peaks. Overall a fun project to do!

Art Show

Working with Hannah Newson on this project we were approached by the producer Tom Wisdom to create titles and stings for his new live broadcast show called The Art Show. We had full creative control only working with one colour idea which was baby blue. With a short time frame we quickly got into After Effects to produce this in a few days.

Fishy

The creative brief we got this term was a class project. We chose a song collectively. The song chosen was Mr Scruff - Fish. What a tune!! So this song was then split into 20 equal segments and given randomly to the class (there being 20 people in my class). As the song is mainly samples of people talking about fish with no apparent narrative we decided to add an overlying theme which was Environmental Issues.

The brief was to represent the song and narrative in your segment. Working with the people either side of you on the transitions between your pieces.

As always with university projects i just want to experiment and learn as many skills as possible. So from the start I wanted to composite live action with stopframe and digital animation. Inspiration for which would be Noah Harris's work with E4 and most recently Ford.

For the narrative of the piece i wanted to do something comical yet challenging.
The idea I came up with; In response to human consumption of fish the fish are adding to the natural output of C0 2 from the sea by opening up massive soviet C0 2 tanks underwater thus adding to global warming and ending human existence.




This was one of the most laborious and enjoyable projects I have done to date. I spent Around 40/50 hours on the final 12 seconds. I learnt origami, went to central London at 4 in the morning for a 3 second shot and did lots of testing and random shooting with frosted glass and light filters to get the sea effect I was after.
ABOVE is a short making of video which should help explain.

Stop Frame

An aim of mine is to be able to work with claymation as it looks so much fun! so i have bought some modeling clay. just some cheap stuff and it seems to work pretty well so far! going to set up a scene with Hannah Newson later on to play around with moving stuff through environments.

First Blog

This is my first Blog so we'll see how it goes. My current position is a second year at Ravensbourne studying Motion Graphics. Here is some of my old work!




Taken from one of my all time favorite films the point was to animate a character with movement and font choice. This was my first time experimenting with light sources and active camera in after efffects.




Just a bit of fun really! Mix between stopframe and digital animation. The only comped bit is the tap. Sound design was done by James Murray.





Working with Hannah Newson we did the graphics for a live Childrens Wildlife show. It was the first time we had ever tackled this type of work outside of education and are pretty pleased with the results! We did alot more within the show as well including wipes and short information graphic pieces. All the work was done is illustrator and after effetcs.





Was supposed to be an advert for 118118.com but the finished result did't work too well. This is a rough cut because i think the animation was pretty slick and it was the first time I had ever tried stop motion with a rostrum camera!





The first animation I ever did on after effects. We had to come up with a film idea and do the title sequence for it. My idea was a chap escaping from prision.