Task was to draw the evolution of an artist based on the Pokemon style evolutions drawn by these various artists on this fun website: http://portraitdex.tumblr.com/page/1.
I recommend everyone has a go. Works as a nice short exercise in style/ character design. I like the lines but it probably needs colour and yes I have been watching a lot of anime recently....
Now with full head. Also layouts have been improved and approved for A Sweet Disposition and two chapters of the dissertation have been formatted, edited and modified. All good things.
Minor disasters in Disposition land. Well. To say its been an eventful week would be an understatement but its a testament to anything that can go wrong will thankfully we've survived just. Between illness on both our parts and computers requiring reinstalled system tlc its been hectic.
But its worked out ok and I can finally confirm that our halloween monster "smokey BOB"[ nickname courtesy of the ever useful Pat Imrie] is finally being modelled in 3D so look out for some potentiallylovely smoke tests soon. Also all the background layouts have been drawn. Win. Below is the badly scanned low angle street.
This is a layout I coloured up for Brian and Joe's fourth year film Mawkin's Backfire.The short is based around a Scarecrow that attempts to protect his corn-field from the depredations of two crows, that make a mockery of him. Their blog can be found here. Its deliberately done in a simplistic Tex Avery style in the fashion of his film Billy Boy which can be found on youtube here.
"King of Bears" [Attenburgh, David] Post number 100 so why not. A doodle sketch of a panda or an exercise in character design challenged to me by Ciaran. The boy is a spice godling who's mission it is to collect the world's spices, the Panda his loyal companion only eats bamboo.
This blog has become the definitive guide to all of the work which I have been doing since 2009, from animations to advent calendars and doodles for friends this blog contains it all. The good, the bad and the ugly. Thank you for browsing and taking the time to enjoy this weird and visual diary of a workaholic....
the projects
1. Leap Year [Personal Project]
A male waits at an insignificant railway platform in the back of beyond for a utopian city which only appears for one day in every four years.
2. Waverley[Personal/ Master's Project]
What could of happened if Futurist Sant' Elia had designed the Waverley railway station in Edinburgh.
3. A Sweet Disposistion [dir. - Eleanor Affleck]
A young boy faces his first halloween in a new town. prone to bullying and eager to please he has a rough time before he befriends a mysterious Halloween being with a sweet tooth in graveyard.
4. Mousetache [dir. - Ashley Burns]
The adventures of a swashbuckling mouse in a Calafornian town.
5. Mawkin's Backfire [dir. - Brian Lindsay]
A Tex Avery style cartoon following the misadventures of an unfortunate scarecrow and the two adorable but pesky birds which bother him.
leap year : why?
A personal ongoing project to be worked on throughout this year. It is essentially a 2D piece with experimentation using 3D characters within that environent.
Some things in this world are significantly symbolic. Others are thought-provoking or resonate with something deeply personal. There are things destined to change the world and those which will revolutionize the way we think.
This animation is none of these.
A simple short story about fables, magic, love and seasons, it aims to explore and exploit the more romantic or idyllic notions of contemporary civilisation.
Fueled by hot caffeine this is a work intensive labor of love intended to experiment with environments and compositing with the intention to be playful, sweet and very colourful .
Its not big, it's not clever but it has a lot of heart.
waverley : why?
With a previous background in architecture this project aims to allow me learn and test skills which I learned while studying the built environment and apply it in a new commercial way.
Returning to the Futurists was an easy decision to make having completed an interesting undergraduate dissertation on the influence of the movement on cinema. The site of Waverley station in Edinburgh fitted the requirements of having an appropriate function for this project as well as it existing on a multi-leveled site I can visit and film easily while providing an interesting juxtaposition with Edinburgh's old and new town.
The aim of this project is to turn the skills which I have into a commercially viable project, allowing me to improve my 3D and mix live action footage with an animated model while exploring the dynamic theories of the Futurist movement.