Cinematography - experimenting and time lapse

I got out a P2 camcorder from the media desk on Friday to have a good play with it over the weekend..One of the first things I wanted to try out was time lapse so I positioned it to point out of my window:Apologies for the funny grey start - they all start like this, it must be the way I exported them out of premiere.I took the camera down by the beach and filmed my girlfriend Nina walking along the rocks; I know that Pete Langford may have mentioned...

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Life Drawing

It was fun to get back into painting and other art materials for this session - It's been ages since I last used paint. I also liked using white chalk on a black background; I think it works well due to the variety of different marks you can get out of chalk but also because of the contrast of white on bla...

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Crew Assignment - Barista

I have joined Alex's team to help produce his animated film featuring a character called Tim who works in a coffee shop. You can check out his full design bible below..Barista Bible You can also check out his blog here.My main job on the project will be animating..but like Simon's project I'm happy to work across other areas if required.I really like the look of it - combining real textures with animated characters and backgrounds. The story sounds like it will fit in the 'rom com' genre with some fun surreal moments and interesting...

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Life Drawing

Here are some of my life drawings over the last few sessions. In one of the sessions just before the Xmas holidays we had to draw one another as no model showed up. See if you can guess the teacher and student featured in 2 of the drawings!...

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Crew Assignment - Projected History

I'm going to be working for two third years projects this term (and next I expect.)One of which is 'Projected History' directed by Simon Carter.The aim is to do a 3d mapping projection onto Tremough house (The old building situated in between Darington and Tremough campus.) We will be visually portraying the history of the building alongside references to the ages its been through (ie. the Industrial age.) It's quite an exciting project to work on...

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Post-Production

This term we've had a choice of 2 different projects to focus on: pre-production and post-production. I've decided to settle on post-production as I've reached the conclusion that I will learn more. Also the videos that George showed us were pretty mind-blowing. I will never watch a film in the same way again! Here is an example of VFX work.Here are some notes taken from Georges lecture:So for this project Ryan, Insa and I will be working together....

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Face Sculpt and Environment project from last year.

Another 2 posts I accidently deleted last night, but now I have re-uploaded the images here. I think its a bad idea working on the computer when you're really tired..Here is my Face sculpt from earlier last term. Never quite got round to completing it. Still it was a worthwhile pursuit that I enjoyed (at times) and learned from. It did get a bit tedious occasionally - I remember it taking a surprisingly long amount of time to do.And going back even...

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Harry the Crab -- Maya practice

Here's some work I actually did in April last year, but accidently deleted the post whilst adding labels. oops! Anyway, this could be cool to use on the post production project. I quite enjoyed making this crab and thought it would be cool to have it look real with one twist. It's doing Tai Chi. I've never rigged anything so it would require a lot of work so its definitely a maybe for using this idea in the post production proje...

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Inspiration over Xmas/New Year

Motion blur 2 by OnedotzeroI got out this very cool book from the Woodlane library.I recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary and experimental animation/live action/motion graphics. It comes with a DVD showing work from every artist featured in the book as well as an interview with each Artist. The Artists work spans across audio visual/music videos/short films/commercials etc..A few of my favourite artists in the book include Run Wrake,...

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