Here is an almost finished bit of illustration work i'm doing for the council. They gave me a drawing that some teenagers created and my job was basically just to redraw and colour it. Hopefully this is close to what they wanted. Had to change it and cut it a bit to fit it into the size they specified and i made my own choice when it came to colours and time of day.
Basically the picture will wrap around a cd-case-sized leaflet with the words on the front. N2L is an outreach service for people under 18 with drug and alcohol problems.
This was pretty fun to do in the end, i worked on it with my friend. But it would have been nice if we had of been able to design and draw it. Councils never put real stuff on leaflets, where are all the drugs and alcohol and scummy kids in this scene? haha. oh well, it's money. here:
I LIKE CHRISTMAS I LIKE CHRISTMAS, i'm all excited today...I go back home on Friday for the festivities. Currently penniless and super busy but it's good,
Here is the christmas card we did for the IDI, [Digital City] I designed + animated the santa robot,
This evening I have spent about a million hours trying to do a suitable christmas card design. This is kind of mainly to send out as a promotional thing for our company [lolzomg company lolz] but I wanted to do one anyway, just to send to everyone...
HOWEVER, I've never been very confident with layout and composition of things. I need help. I know ONE person reads this but never mind, WHAT CAN I DO to make this better? It is meant to be a xmas office party scene. Dunno if you can tell... Any advice? I think it's a bit cluttered but its late and my brain won't work and I am sick of doing it and I need to pack and blah blah...
ADVICE PLEASE.
iN OtHeR NeWs: Project Robot Santa is going well....the main animation is done. Now we need to render and put stuff into maya and then make it all brilliant. Will try and get some work in progress clips up after the weekend. Actually i'll have a go at a quick render of the animation I did and try and put it on here tonight.
Going back to Newcastle a the weekend. Gonna mooch on down to electrik Sheep to see the opening of a Jon Burgerman exhibit. Should be fun... Also get to see loads of friends I haven't seen in ages. :) Really looking forward to it. But I have to pack at 1.30am....bllahhhh...
lalala ok, Goodnight!
p.s: Have developed an obsession with Laika the first animal in space, after falling in love with this tune and video...
I Thought I might share some old stuff I did in my final year of uni. Because I quite liked them and because I want to fill my blog so full with things every minute that quantity overrides quality. Also because somehow getting ready for bed takes more effort than this. I actually posted these on my old blog but hmm ho that one's dead and buried now. They are from an [unpaid student] project we did for Proctor and Gamble. It was about cavemen and soap. No it didn't really make sense. Anyway, apparently it gets shown to their soap making employees or something now... Sketches:
Backgrounds and things:
I quite hated the coloured characters in the end. But the backgrounds were good fun. THE END.
NOT QUITE THE END....i leave you with this, my absolute favorite music of the moment...yumyum...
Pretty busy at the moment. It's fun fun fun. Bradford Animation Festival was also very fun. Here I am in my volunteer BLUE T SHIT collecting the signed poster we all got at the end. We had to go on stage hahahaha:
I am second from the right looking INTENTLY at my prize.It was a really busy week, lots of late nights and early mornings but it flew by cuz everything was so FUN. Can't wait to go back next year, hopefully volunteer again. Met loads of lovely people as well :)
highlights were:
MACHINARIUM talk. Amazing game and amazing talk. Download the game! CORALINE talk. One of the producers, and the lead special effects guy were there. It's unreal how much work went into that film. Plus we got to watch it in 3d. Yay. THIS ANIMATION was un-real!! i didn't really understand what was going on, but it looks nice :) THIS ANIMATION is also amazing.
and this is all I can be bothered to link to right now as it is nearly 2am.
So here is what I am doing with myself at the moment...
Project One...
project two .... also hopefully doing some illustrations for an anti drugs leaflet, WE'LL SEE. I hope so ... I want to do lots of illustration ALL THE TIME.
So yeah, pretty busy. FUN IS FUN, LIFE IS FUN....the end
Long time without writing as usual... I have a silly animation. No sound. will put sound on....some day.
here it is. lalala....erm youtube is stupid you'll probably have to go look at it as intended on youtube. It is not really meant to cut one guy off like that :) believe it or not.
la la la.
I managed to get a place stewarding Bradford Animation Festival, which is nice cuz i get in free. yay! Also my friend Emmanuel has a video in the music video category with his degree film. :) awww, should be a fun week.
HAI Since I am pretty monumentally bored being back home I thought i may as well upload some pages from my battered notebook that I took traveling. There is lots more BUT i didn't re size them and uploading is taking a million years and my patience is zero. The other ones are all similar to each other anyway, they probably warrant their very own entry. Lucky them.
Oh wait this wasnt done travelling BUT OH WELL I LIKE NUCLEAR THINGS.
Fatty Kiddies Painted in the brief sunshine of Spirit Base Festival <3
[this is me and Charlotte in our tent that a nice man gave to us for free. because we had a Tesco tent and he was utterly horrified at the thought of us camping around europe in a Tesco tent.]--> These are some weird stickers we stole from a very high up club. It had a million stairs and i had to stick these to my body to preserve them for the book haha. HORRIFICALLY OFF IT, RATHER VILE was a song we made[its gonna be a big hit]:
I missed Berlin more than anything, also I LIKE THESE COLOURS they make me pretty glad... THE END. LaLalala...so i am basically at a massive loose end. Viewing places in Middlesborough on Monday!!! Which is the third time i will of been out the house in this past week!! [I am festering] I am excited but i need to convince them to let me let for 6 months only....but who knows... If i can then i will be stayng in the new student halls DOUBLE BED + EN SUITE luxury ones. :) wheeee. if i cant....well i am most likely buggered for accomodation.
erm anyways. I have been knitting [it's difficult] and I am trying trying my best to buy spray paint and paint a WHOLE BIG THING very soon. It will be pretty horrific I guess since I have never ever ever spray painted before [well there was one incident but it was pretty horrific...and all photographic evidence has been destroyed...]
Also I am making my very own CHILD IN A SLEEPING BAG. It will be a brilliant creation hopefully, just waiting for Becca to come back from Holiday to give me the sleeping bag I need for my NEW CHILD so we can have a CREATION day and I will take photos galore and hopefully My So Called Life will be a bit more interesting...
soon soon soon... p.s I nearly died this saturday just gone...ROOF AND FOOT DON'T MIX and this is a very valuable lesson
My extra special ability to never finish anything I start means I've just decided to start a new blog instead of carrying on with that other one from another life time. :)
THE end of the story is that I passed University [lalalalala wheeeeee] and now its time for THE REAL WORLD and REAL LIFE and BEING OLD and all those horrible things.
What I did over summer condensed into bullet points:
Left Uni a whole 2 days after the hand in date and flew to an obscure Austrian Psytrance Festival. Learnt that: Austrians and Germans are maybe the nicest most helpful people ever.
Left Austria on a beautiful [TERRIBLE] 20 hour train journey to camp in Croatia for about 5 days [hot and nice but boring]
Left Croatia for Hungary meeting our friend Horrible Man who had a
flat in Budapest [hi free accomodation!]
Wanted to live in Budapest forever. Met some more lovely people <3>
Went for a SERBIA ADVENTURE because Horrible Man was DJing there. It turned out to be a fairly horrific idea. We met some lovely Serbians but we were basically in this tiny little town outside of Novi Sad with nowhere to stay...but they did cook us FISH SOUP and chips, which was nice of them. However, nowhere in the world will exchange Serbian money, apparantly it is "worthless". So if you ever go to Serbia GET YOUR MONEY CHANGED BACK TO EUROS WHILE YOU ARE THERE. OR if anyone wants to buy some sexy serbian money let me know...I have like £20 worth.
Got train back to Budapest for a few more days without Horrible Man and met up with some more lovely people and saw some very odd things.
TRAIN FROM BUDAPEST to VIENNA. We stayed for one day. It was very hot and we do not understand the currency.
TRAIN FROM VIENNA TO BERLIN. We sit next to the toilets and try not to have panic attacks.
BERLIN for my 21st birthday[yep i am old now]. Probably the most ultra lush city I have ever seen. We meet up with a lovely German girl Vicky from the festival in Austria and she DRIVES US TO OUR HOSTEL AND INTRODUCES US TO ALL HER FRIENDS plus tells us the best places in Berlin to go. This is an unbelievable luxury compared to the past 3 weeks.
BERLIN HOSTEL fucks up our booking...theyre fully booked so we have to have the apartment which is basically an amazing 2 bedroom flat with bathroom and kitchen and is pretty much the best place ever, for 12 euros a night!! Unfortunately we only booked for 2 days and they wont let us stay there any longer so we spend our last night in an 8 person room hostel...
We leave Berlin and make the final journey to Amsterdam where we meet two more friends.
Amsterdam rains. And we have no money. And we are camping. And our friend's tent is leaking. We make the best of it. We cobble together a BBQ and buy books [LOL] and relax. this is fine BUT THEN
Last day: Some evil evil man sneaks into our tent in the night and steals my friend's money. NOT TO MENTION my travel partner's camera [WITH EVERY SINGLE OF THE 900 Ish PHOTOS SHE TOOK THE ENTIRE MONTH]. But don't worry he's going to Bad Karma central and probably all his limbs will fall off and everyone he cares about will die horribly in front of him and THEN HE WILL GO TO HELL. I hate him I hate him I hate him. [oh yes, to add insult to injury he also stole A BAR OF CHOCOLATE and the pen knife which was our only cooking utensil OH i hate him]
We stay in a disgusting hostel/hotel thing the last night. I buy a head*
We get the ferry home.
BACK HOME:
I have two days to wash everything, gather my senses and go to GLADE FESTIVAL!
DANCE AND DANCE AND HAVE SOME FUN
Have to leave Glade alone on Sunday...get the bus to the train station, the train to London, the Tube to the Coach Station...the 7 hour coach back to Newcastle....yumyumyum. Actually it was ok because I had a pillow and a window seat. Except a man kept leaning asleep on me and in my half asleep state I elbowed him in the ribs loads really angrily hahahah. I mean, sorry sleeping man....
GOT THE METRO HOME at 6am...slept for a bit...went to Sunderland...met the GROUP of fellow recent graduates.
Plan our Super Impressive power point and presentation to show the Digital City people.
The next day we go to Middlesborough to DO our super impressive power point to the people who decide whether we get the money and the chance to try and make an animation company with their help...it is like dragons den but MUCH scarier and we leave feeling very very non confident...They tell us they will let us know tomorrow...we drown our sorrows in McDonalds [I try not to think of all my friends who are still at Glade Festival].
Next morning Jay rings me and does NOT sound confident.
BUT he is lying to me and we got the £4 grand each and the 6 month fellowship!!!!!!!!!!!! yay yay yay yay!!!!
AND THAT IS THE END. Well...that is the beginning :) Our first meeting is on the 20th September and I am moving to Middlesborough and everything is gonna be super mega!
I guess I better link to my final film. Hmmmm......I know its pretty horrendously horrible but it makes me laugh, and thats the main thing. Basically my Animation Degree taught me that I am no Animator. Well...maybe i could be if that part interested me...but I prefer pre-production etc blah blah...so anyway basically I am just explaining that, yes, I know the animation and technical ability is pretty laughable in my final film. But its ok cuz I just like characters and pretty colours and textures best anyways...my official role in this digital city thing is pre production and character design so blah blah, enough excuses...here you go...
ahhhh. Next entry: Gonna scan and upoad my travel journal of various drawings and stuff I did when i was away...
:)
byesies!
* p.s this is a head...MY FAVORITE POSSESSION EVER!!!
