showreel

This is a rough showreel, still need to edit it down

cheese

Sketches

Here some sketches for a little animation I'd like to made, about a little island and it's inhabitants.

hand drawn

Sorry for the duplicate movie but the youtube embeds are better quality then the blog uploaded vid's

cross over to film

All my 2D clips

This is all the 2D clips from my final project, plus some testers which didn't make it in.

Final Project

This is my final project entry for my MA in digital film and animation.

Arm Knob

The Squid tank will be rendering for 65 hours, oops not looking good for the deadline. I put a looped version on here to see how it fits in to the whole scene. It's bigger then the one I was working with too so there's a mysterious blackness at the bottom and the side bit does some weirdness. After Effects crashes on me when I preview so it's hard to see this when you're just looking at the frame by frame stills. I dream of a 12 core mac, I know it would never let me down. I had a power cut earlier, reminded me of last year when some pikies cut through the towns power lines and left the place with no electric for about three weeks, just before my last uni deadline. All the power surges blow my motherboard, it was a bad time. luckily this time it was just my oven tripping and I've learnt the hard way about saving my work every two seconds and rendering to image sequence, so nothing lost this time.

sorry one more

computers are so clever :)

All that maths, wish I could live in a 3d world with Gaussian blur to make me pretty

Squid Tank

The start of my Squid tank, think I need to thin out the glass. Always with the token teapot!

bit more of my final project

corner part1

I'm not to sure about the colour wash yet, the tracking is really bad but I guess it's because of the poor quality footage.

My stop motion man so far. I'm going to put footage of real eye over his. I have a long way to go, the colour changes to much from cut to cut with the blue filter I put over it.

The bear

The start of the bear for my final project. Just this little bit has taken so long because Toonboom crashes and freezes all the time, I feel like I'm going flip out!! I've just ordered a new graphics card which should hopefully help the situation.

Gutted

I've only just found Stikfas and they're going out of business, think I'd better stock up

hand on paper

This is a tiny bit for my final project. I need to figure out the best way to make the paper look like it's being pulled away and it needs to be 3d later in the film, I may even make it in a 3d program.

more from the bedsit

I should be ready to start shooting my stop motion section soon. I haven't put any miniature lights in this set as I did in my last project but I want to keep it quite dark and I have some special FX to go in post production.

I would like it to look like it's lit from the TV which would be casting changing light and wondered if I could do that with a mobile phone screen, emm we'll see ;P

the bedsit

My bedsit mini set is starting to take shape now. Going to air brush on some more grime tomorrow.

I think I might go and borrow the HD camera soon and get to footage for the eyes.

more food

food

I've never really made mini food before so I was quite pleased with how these turned out.

Lots of left over Chinese takeaway, cereal and old pizza perfect for my geeky slobs bedsit.

kitchen

Just been making my mini set today, still got lots to do but here's another little test. I really need to work on my movement :(

man test1

The clothes look too bulky, when I make a doll I would usually starch the fabric in place so it looks like it's hanging. I think I might have to make him some new trousers. I haven't figured out how to attach the hands either yet, maybe just drill and hole for a wire and not worry about a ball joint for there.

My stikfas armature

This is the 1/12th scale man I built up from the stikfas armatures. The tiny magnets are still holding him up so I'm really pleased.