The Mysterious Traveller

Well I guess this is the first blog post of my new 'out of Uni' life. And boy does it feel weird. I haven't quite comprehended this stage even though it has been confirmed with the final presentation last week; this went rather well considering I was the last student of the day and spent 20 minutes waiting in the corridor freaking out! So yes, life goes on... and I have got several priorities that I need to address. This means I do have to finally tidy up my show reel and CV. It also gave me the opportunity to go through other smaller tasks I kept forgetting to finish, such as business cards. I had feedback from last semester about how business cards should be kept plain and simple... counting mainly on the personal touch on introduction more than the quality of a piece of card. I still wanted to have a nice picture on my one however: This is the back of the business card. You can't see the outline very well but it is literally is my logo against the white...

Well we are now finished. The Money Tree production has finally come to a close and the four of us can now sit back and watch it all upload online. It has been a hectic few weeks to put the animation together, and considering the final day of animating was saturday 21st May (deadline being 24th!!) it was rather a close call. I had been editing throughout the weeks anyway, so the last few days when we all viewed the rough cut were not as pressing as we once thought. I had shown May what I had edited together, after exporting all the files from Stop Motion Pro 7, and we all agreed that the layout (which was still very close to the original animatic) was just what we wanted. I used my own Magix Movie Edit Pro software to edit the animation together as all the exported files were saved as WMV files. It still exported the final film in the format we wanted and kept the quality also. Rig removal was a new technique we used in this animation. I went through each i...

It has been far too long since my last post. And I also realised how I have barely mentioned the insanity of my amazing dreams. They have mostly been inspired by the various horror films I have recently been watching such as Channel 5's The Dentist and new release Insidious. I am pretty terrible with horror films due to my tendancy to jump at any moment, even if it was a knock on the door or a slightly louder 'hello'. This is besides the point ofcourse... because I must talk about the animating I have been doing these past few weeks. And the reason for lack of blogging is because of this: it's been 9-5 most weeks. I am not a primary animator, however, but still have been doing alot of test animations with Alex Young, whilst Jon and May get on with the main animation with the Fox and Barney. The extract below is part of the 'bonus features' we shall include alongside the final Money Tree film. This partilcular video is more of an appreciation film for the pr...