I've finished my first proper piece of stop motion animation off.  Now I've been set an animation with 2 characters.  I'm seriously looking forward to it and will be sure to upload it here.

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I started off the week by modelling a Morph!  He is deceptively simple with a lot more nuance in him than I expected.  This was a great introduction into sculpting plastecine, which I hadn't done much of, and a warning to the amount of work ahead!

I was then set the task to create poses portraying various emotions.  This exercise is an animation staple however this appears to be the first time that I have seriously done it.  It was great fun and a good challenge.

I finished off this week with my first piece of stop motion animation concentrating strongly on emotion and body mechanics.  This has been the longest time that I have spent on a single short section of animation since my first year in university and it comes with a great feeling!  It takes a lot of planning, a lot of concentration, a lot of patience, and I love it!!  This video here is a work in progress and I'll be finishing it off on Monday.

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_I'm taking a 2 week break from freelancing to do some work experience at Aardman to try my hand at some stop motion animation!  Hopefully I will have some sweet footage to put up here by the end of it.

So, first day at Aardman today. Not sure what I am and am not allowed to tell you about what happens within its walls though, I've signed an NDA (Non-discolsure Agreement). I can tell you that I made a morph today. It took me quite a while to make him. He has a lot more subtleties than you would think. I learnt a lot from making him and I'm looking forward to tomorrow where I will be posing out a character conveying various emotions such as dispair, happiness and confusion.

This time Beyond the Bean sent us a crate of their smoothies and half a dozen boxes of cookies.  Oh baby!

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This was a great little project that came my way through Sun and Moon Studios.  I was given the storyboard for this autumny advert and I created the final animation for it.


The guys and gals at Beyond the Bean also sent us a crate of their smoothies to power us through the project!  Thank you folks!

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I learnt to knit on the weekend.  A house mate's nan came to stay.

So now I am the semi-proud owner of 2 knitting needles and a ball of red wool.  I've started my first ever scalf and I want to challenge myself with a bit of a pattern.  This is my plan:

Creating this pattern turned into a fun exercise in composition.  I think I might make more of these!

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Well, I've been working at Sun and Moon studios for around 3 months now and I can now share some of the work that I've been doing:

I animated a bunch of different animals in a game called "Deadly 60: Deadly Planet".  The work I am most proud of is the animation for the birds of prey in the game however I think you have to complete most of the game to be able to see them.  Animals that I animated that appear early in the game are the giraffe and the millipede.

The hands in an earlier post are from this animation for PharmaVentures.

I animated the expert with the square glasses, all the people in the board room scene and the people on the basketball court at the end (all except the main character).  I also drew all the backgrounds for the entire animation.  It was great fun working on two's in Flash and I hope another project like that comes my way soon.

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The title of this post isn't a backhanded swipe at God, it is how this illustration found its final look.  I've been on and off of this illustration for the past 2 weeks and inspiration from various artists I've been looking at has made the final image very different from what I imagined it would be upon starting. 

The image on the left is the final composition and the image on the right is a close look at the detail of the image.

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I drew this as a rough to work out how to position the arm and hand for an animation.  I quite liked the sketch so I decided to immortalise it here: