Long time no blog

jeezaz flipping krist...

long time no blog.

In the space of my absence [MONTHS] I have:

Been to Berlin, Pictoplasma Animation Festival. [Great beyond belief]

Been stuck in Berlin for an extra week due to volcano lovelieness [extra great!]

Got home to various THINGS:

1. Animation for North Tyneside Council,
2. Animation for a Rock Opera
3. Interview with the Shed Gateshead
4. Photoshoot for the blueprint business awards

5. Realised the world of work is not for me and retired.

Ok the last one is a lie. Sort of. I still want to run away and live in Germany [if i had of been paid while i was there i would not be here now, i would be living a life of scum-dom on the streets of Berlin]

But now the stress is finally over and I can draw and do fun things again! YES!

nothing for you now, though. :)

Maker Faire

So, as mentioned earlier we did this animation for the Science Fest at the Centre For Life in Newcastle.

We then spent the entire weekend from 9 till 6 shooting pixilation animation with kids, families, ourselves and the staff. Jay did a good post about it HERE. But I am gonna steal some of his content hahahahaha.

It was super FUN. We were often so tired we felt like collapsing... but children have impossible amounts of infectious energy apparently. We also got to see our animation projected on the walls of the Centre For Life which was cool :) Not to mention all the fun stuff that was going on, Musical Lightening...rubix cube robots...mathematical sculptures [more fun than it sounds], ROBOT WARS, virtual fun fair etc etc etc...

So that's what I've been doing this weekend. And last week our Digital City fellowship ended after six months...and I moved back to Newcastle. Which is totally mad, Digital City totally solved my life, if it wasn't for them I'd probably be in the queue at the job centre or something right now...haha

Now i'm back in Newcastle I've LOVED seeing everyone and am basically EXCITED FOR LIFE in general. Summer is on it's way...Berlin and Pictoplasma is soon...we have workshops and animation work lined up, so it's all good really. 2010 has been a mint year so far.

Now I just have to tidy my room which still isn't unpacked....I'll leave you with our showreel [which is still unfinished but you get the idea...] The buddha animation I did, with the background and extra animation + effects by jay is on at the end as well...

THE END.

turps illustration

Been working on making show reels and other animation-y things but I found the time to do another illustration for TURPS magazine. Which is a brillzo local DIY magazine some friends have been putting together. Last month I submitted Happy Guts! and they liked it so I've continued with the Fat-kids-with-their-innards-coming-out theme.

:)

Next month they are printing 4000 copies so I best get a move on with some more ideas...ahhhh

 

I had to rush it cuz I had other crap to do, so I think it could be majorly improved with lots more going on BUT it looks areet when the contrast whacked up which is what it shall look like in the mag so wheeeeeee.

I am in a bit of a crap mood today. bLAh. Need to be productive. Don't wanna be productive. Bleh.

SEEYAZ

Bus Stop

Hello.

I did it. Its 2:50am But eventually I can sleep.... Except my housemates have promised to bang on my door and wake me up when they get back as punishment for not going out...They'll probably be here in about half an hour. 

That'll be nice. haha.

I'm not so sure why these people are so miserable. I must of been in a really bad mood when I drew this. I HATE the guy on the end, he is a massive sicko. The others are OK.

Tomorrow I promise I will do something actually productive.

BYE.

Bus Stop Sketch

I have nothing much to report or show so I thought i'd just scan a sketch I done which will be a THING some day [add it to the list]. alalalalala...People at a bus stop....

Three more weeks till i'm home. weird.


 BEST DO SOME WORK.

end.

Our latest animation work...

It's online...

click here 

to go to the Centre For Life homepage where our animation is. It should be playing for about two months in various places to advertise their Science Fest which is gonna be taking place in March. We are going to be doing a walk-in animation workshop as well so if you're in Newcastle come and join in with the MAGIC OF ANIMATION haha.

I'm back to sunny Newcastle [ha] tomorrow actually. 7.30am coach and then a day of animation businessy stuff [not sure what it actually involves except we get three free meals] at the Animex business day at Tyneside cinema. 

Then I'm gonna have a weekend at home, maybe try and squeeze some money out of my belongings via ebay. But mostly I will be raiding my mam's cupboards for food. woo.

I watched Princess and the Frog, it was great.

bye bye.

edit: DUH i just realised i can embed the youtube video: 

Dreaming of summer...

 

I wish it was summer and I wish I was drinking cans in the sun and smoking. Is what this picture represents.

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY

Background Fun

HIYA!

I love Backgrounds. I love them a lot.

Have been doing a background for an animation Jay wants to do. Well...I've actually just been working out the colours and textures in preparation of doing a background. So this is a work-in-progress unfinished test background. thing:

Not too keen on the big tree in the foreground at the moment. I spent ages shading it but I think it looks a bit...shit....haha, i knew it was gonna be shit even as I was doing it. Needs redoing, or looking at in the morning with fresh eyes. BUT I can't be bothered to do any more tonight.

Tonight it's time to play KINGDOM HEARTS on the DS or watch Charlie Brooker. Or listen to Royksopp with my headphones and mindlessly surf the internet while dancing in my chair. I dunno. I am G-L-A-D GLAD right now though.

Back to NEWCASTLE next wednesday ya. Royksopp makes me GLAD:

ACID BEARS ARE EVERYWHERE

MR. BEAR DOESN'T CARE.

HE JUST CHILLS INSIDE HIS LAIR.

So....i'm pretty bored. The bank won't give me an overdraft so I am just gonna lounge about eating cheap awful food and making more pictures of bears for the next month and a bit.

haha. It passes the time...

Actually I have more productive things to do. I'm making some pirate props for a test workshop we are doing with some neighborhood kids. So far I've made a coffee stained treasure map and a toilet tube telescope. It's pretty fun hahaha.

Got to make a full on Pirate ship tomorrow out of cardboard boxes ^_^

Ehm apart from that I'm working on some backgrounds for Jay that are nice to do. PICTURES SOON.

BUH BYES.

forest bears

I am Planning to do a lot of bears. Found a page of bears I did in a notebook from 2006 and I remembered they are fun to draw. Here is my first bear orientated image:

I have zero money. So far been combating this by getting drunk, but that's not a very good long-term strategy for a penniless person. The bank refuses to give me any more overdraft [even though I have proof in the form of a CONTRACT that I will be getting the money in March.] They are massive unhelpful gimps.

I need to pay my council tax before the end of this month...hmmmmm.

Probably a bad plan to have booked a trip to Berlin in March. But money will find me, I'm sure. I have some coming in from that illustration job which I will use for the green ones of these:

Instead of bothering with boring things like food and bills because those things are BORING. I spent all my birthday and Christmas money this year on boring things. I hate boring things. Food is useless when you could have all green DC hi-tops.

the end :)

Happy Guts

 Hello.

here's a new thing, a happy thing. la la la, a new thing:

 I like black and white.

currently...working on a website and doing general showreel work. Have a few funny animations planned. AND a whole list of ongoing projects that may or may get done sometime somewhere in the future :) maybe.

wheeeee!

Only a little over a month till I'm back in beautiful Newcastle. Looking forward to it, but i will miss the cocoon of my little room and my lovely flat mates and the delights of Boro. haha. awwh.

I won't miss paying rent for a while though when i move home. Need to get a hardcore 9-5 job, or come up with a brilliant money making plan. SOON. Before BERLIN. ahhh!

Next time i may or may not post some pictures of a demolition site near my flat. I truly love it.

Byesies.

2010

Happy Nu YEAH!

busy busy busy, still doing Science Museum animation. Have decided I HATE animation and won't be doing it as a job any time soon haha. But this project is ok, can't wait for it to be done done done though.

Hopefully should be getting some money for teaching kids animation some time in the near future though. That part of it is fun. Other than that just design + illustration please :)

Bought my ticket for pictoplasma animation/character design festival. So I will be buggering off to Berlin on the 10th ish of April for a FULL WEEK. Soooo excited, gonna meet up with a German friend we made last time and have lots and lots and SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I have no money to do this but that is a minor technicality. As long as I make it to Berlin I'm sure everything else will sort itself out.

Got no money now either, waiting for cheques to clear and blah de blah. currently missing Newcastle. Here is fun though. SNOW SNOW SNOW everywhere!

Here's a picture I done:
And here's a lovely tune which featued heavily on my New Years: