Over and Out

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Birth of A Beast

So I may have had to start the Maya model again but practice makes closer to perfect and while its not there yet the first Futurist Waverley is born, many happy polygonal returns. I only have some screenshots for tonight for sleep beckons, camera movements to follow soon. Now if anyone has any idea how to begin UV mapping this beast I would be happy to hear...

Saturday, 24 December 2011

HDRI's of Edinburgh Sites

Not perfect in places but very fun to complete and more location tests! The original photographs, the Nuke composed panorama and then the image lit by the photo in Maya.
Magic.

The Periodic Table of Advent

Day 025 - Horology

Day 024 - Music

Day 023 - Pomology

Day 022 - Glassblowing

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Day 021 - Forestry

Day 020 - Ornithology

Day 019 - Chronology

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Day 018 - Woman's Studies

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Day 017 - Religious Education

Friday, 16 December 2011

Day 016 - Knitting

Day 015 - French

Day 014 - Mythology

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.