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.

laser eyes FXs

laser eyes FXs, the laser starts out way too slow and I need to clean up the footage on the left side of the pot.

power blast fx

some power blast fx

fart gas

This is a little special fx clip I did for a friend. I still need to fix the fart cloud and the smoke and the end needs scaling.

stikfas

I just found these really cool stop motion figures from a company called Stikfas. They're only 3 inches tall but the arms are a good length for my 1/12th scale models and I plan to use the joints and make the rest of the figure by just cutting and stretching the other body parts. I brought two different kinds of models, the red one has extras joints at the knees and elbows but actually I think the blue one will work in a more natural way. I'm really please with these little £2.99 figures, I had been looking at professionally make metal armatures which could be cut down to make 5 inch characters but I think the balls for the joints were about 6mm and that would have looked awful and it would have cost about £100 to find out.

Evie big hand

My little cutie niece Evie, I made her right hand really big and I experimenting with making her eyes really big too like they did for Johnny Depp in the resent Alice in wonderland movie. It's just footage from my really poor quality hard disk camera so I didn't want to invest too much time in it, I need to hire a good camera and play some more.

Basho and the frog

A little film I made the titles for.

time

My time project with Jonny Greenwood track

stop motion pug

This is my most watched video on youtube (mostly because it has "pug" in the title I'm sure)uploaded in 2006. Showing the stages I go through in making one of my 1/12th scale dolls house collectibles.

stationary cupboard

This is my first 3D animation made in Max, I got a really good mark and was quite please with myself

peter

This is my first stop motion project for my MA course, I definitely need to return to this project is was such a rush job and I still hadn't really learnt after effects that well at this point.

wait for me

This is a film I made for a Moby music video competition. The film footage was directed by a friend of mine. I think I will return to this project and give it a cool sound track and take out all the romanticised bathing at the beginning and make it more old skool B movie horror.

Hiaku

This is my contribution to a group project on my MA course

My Dorito advert

This is my own entry in to the Doritos Advert Competition. I know it's a bit confusing because I crammed so much in to 29 seconds and the voice overs were left to the last time and perhaps sound too similar.

Dorito FX work

This is an entry for the Doritos Advert Competition written and directed by the guy in it. I had to edit it down to exactly 29 seconds as the over acting made the whole script over a minute long, I added the TV effects to hopefully disguise all the cuts mid sentence. The meteorite should really have been like the third person on screen which would have saved me from having to keyframe every single frame around the jazz hands but heyho, I could have done this alot better but I was only given about three days to do it and I was also doing my own advert.

statue

clip from my time project at early stage, I still need to sort out the flip back to the original hand as the light had changed too much for a smooth transaction and the figure at the end is on screen before she should be.

crack

clip from my time project, still playing with it :)

The End

I'm nearing the end of term on my MA in digital Film and Animation then it's just my final project to contend with.

Sadly I'm studying and the London Metropolitan University which has been an epic mistake as the place is falling apart and hasn't brought any film or computer equipment for at least 10 years. I also had no idea it had stolen £36. million from the government and axed half it's work force just before I started there. If I had know it was the worst uni in the country I would have never gone there but apparently the Met was able to opt out of being in the nationally printed league tables. Jokers...and I've been robbed of five grand.