Degree show, how it went and we won best 2nd year film!

Just got back from watching the animation degree show at the odeon.


Our film seemed to go down very well. It looked realy great on the massive screen.
 Lots of people giggled when it came to the imp section. I'm not sure wether it's because they understood the story or was just because of the cuteness of the imp, but I think I pulled off the cute imp apeal well and the movie seamed to connect together well.


After watching all the movies I was happy with what our group did and to make it even better we won an award for the best second year film.

Character turn around of me as a character

I have just done a simple trun around of my character in simple clothes to just get an idea of how he looks all round/perspective wise. From now I hope to take this forward and try to produce some nice action shots. And also develop the character design wise into other clothes for the sport ideas.

Initial head/faciel expression designs of me as a character.

Yes I have developed the faces above some ok some not so good but they were just to test the drawing process of how I can quickly produce quick drawings of my face using shapes. so in this instance It's easy as I just use a circle and basily half a hexagon for the jaw/chin. This process seems to make it very easy to reproduce the characer.

Current work I'm going to start on at the moment

I have a huge list of ideas i'm going to do this summer but as I'm working on the game animation at the moment my time is quite tight as it is getting more rushed to get it all done.


The work on the game is slightly stressfull sometimes so I randomly decided I would try design myself as a cartoon and I think I may take the concept further and try to get some nice animtion out of the character I see s myself. I will try to include a range of short animtions such as sports I do and interests I have. This I think will be a nice change away from the game stuff and will allow me to develop my 2d skills more too.


Ideas to develop using me as a character:


Swimming- Swimming has always been qute a big thing to me. I still swim now and am also a qualified swim teacher, so I intend to produce some realy nice animations of the swim strokes and perhaps diving.


Handball- I have only been a part of handball for 2 years now playing at university but in that time I am a qualified coach, qualified table official and also I have plaed both years for the great britian Universities team. With this I hope to get some realy nice animations such as shots, dribbling, goal keepers. This will test my abilities but I htink for me it'l be an enjoyable process.


Anyway shall keep posting as I go.

Random post

Just a quick post to say I'm going to now use this blog to post all my other work I do as it'l be pointless to leave it and start a new one.


Anyway I have lots of new work I intend to be getting on with in my own time aswell as work on a a children's computer game so I will be kept very buisy. I will try and keep posting all my new stuff :)