Arbressence logo

Here is an animated logo I actually designed and photographed 2 Christmases ago and have only just got round to putting it into a sequence! It is for my mate Nathan who is a sound designer and Musician and asked me to do a logo for his site.



Its a bit jerky and probably wants re-photographing now that I have a tripod.

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My favourite experimental videos from the class...

Here I have commented on some of my classmates work that I felt was well done and appealing to me in some way.

I enjoyed Toms (both Tom Spettel and Tom Gamesons animations)

Heres Tom Gamesons

The Venetian Mask from Tom Gameson on Vimeo.

The lights are very effective at changing the look and colours of the mask. Its also nicely edited/timed with the music and has a strong atmospheric feel to it..

Here's a link to Tom Spettel's experimental piece.

Brilliant :) Love the smoothly animated movement of the characters and also the way it has been done. The characters have a lot of character!

I really enjoyed Ollys one as well..



I like the look of it. Very nice.. no lens flares though or motion blur.. Whats going on Olly? hehe :)

Also, the natural element of using water and plants gives it a nice earthy feel and I like the glowing addition of drawn plants and mushrooms. I think this has inspired me - I would like to do some glowing animation myself at some point.

Brians one was interesting too..

A variety of techniques and methods used resulting in a well synchronised piece.
I like the light painting - turning into smoke.. it suited that part of the music very effectively.

Heres a few more that stood out for me..

Rosi's - I like the idea of combining a 3d paper model with 2d characters. Very cool.
Joe's - Like the intergalactic feel to it! And of course the giant singing mouth.
Grethe's - The method worked quite well and it is also one of the only ones that carried a message.
Jake's - Cool ink effects and I like the bit with the birds..

There are many more that were cool but theres not enough time to write about them all.. Good effort everyone some very nice work ! Have a good Christmas and New Year :)

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November 11 Second Club Results

November 2010 11 Second club competition

I got 244th out of 295.. Not bad. I think I would have got better if I added in more frames for the inbetweens.





Here are a few comments:

• Ruud Harbers 2 days ago

  Love the idea. To make it more smooth you could add more frames, it would deserve it.

• Kacee 3 days ago

  Great idea!

• Justin Rochon 4 days ago

  Great idea!!!

• J Richardson 4 days ago

  Funny idea, animation needs work, good poses

• Lorena 4 days ago

  really funny, the chicken face is hilarious

• Sam Caudill 4 days ago

  Great idea! Work on more breakdowns and add more keyframes and you'll have a good piece

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