Over and Out

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Land of Ice and Fire

Iceland. Stark, cold and very, very beautiful. Rough edit and colour adjustment of some of the many minutes of footage I got which was gathering dust on a memory card. Not as glamorous as Kieran Ducan’s Go Pro edit of our trip but I’ll do something with parts of this footage soon!

http://youtu.be/HyQ0N7mnQsw

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Pagoda!

This was the first request I got. This is the Chùa Thiên Mu Pagoda in Vietnam. I was lucky to visit it in February and it’s beautiful. It was also made hilarious by an eccentric tour guide who pronounced Pagoda - Paaagoowda. The request called for one of the stone turtles at it to work into the drawing but there’s already too much going on with the acid colours.

Monday, 14 July 2014

Zodian City Logos

Dominic Colour Stills WIP

Sunday, 13 July 2014

Dominic Production Storyboard

024 - St Peter's Basilica

023 - Ze Gherkin Tis A Silly Building

022 - Farnsworth House

021 - Villa Rotunda

020 - Hagia Sophia

019 - MoMa Tower by the clever Mr Nouvel

018 - Palau De Les Arts

017 - Ski Lodge For Judith

016 - Alhambra Door

015 - Vietnamese Temple Tile

Not that I was exciting about the up and coming holiday...

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.