puppets ^-^

just wanted to show you all my puppets for the animation i am now currently working on.

oh i nearly forgot

here's is a little bit more work to show you from second year. as part of our work we had t go and help a few third year students. i worked with two pairs of students. one pair asked me to make sausage puppets called the Frankfurt brothers and they needed trilbies making. the second pair asked me to make some school uniforms for their puppets. we was supposed to give them 25 hours of our time. so when you think about it making two little sausage puppets and some school uniforms doesn't sound like a lot for 25 hours but i ended up doing everything twice. the first lot of sausage puppets i made went terribly wrong and horrible looking and the hats went all lumpy. so as i was showing them what i made i asked them if i could just make them again because i didnt like how they turned out, so went off and made them again and it all worked out perfect. here are some pics of me making the puppets 

pictures of the school uniforms i made. i had to make themtwice because the instructions i was given were wrong .they gave me drawings of the characters and when it came to making the uniforms, i asked them if they wanted me to make them to the size of the drawing, they said yes so thats what i did. it came to me meeting up with my third year and i showed them what i had made and they said it was far too small. here i'll show you 

you can see here the size of the drawing to the size they were making their puppets. so anyway was not a problem to go off and remake the uniforms. so here is my finished result. 

cubism lady animation

morning...just :) i dont feel like i explained my cubism lady animation idea very well, if at all. the idea of this animation is that its set in an art gallery. as you saw in my opening shot, the camera pans across three picture frames. in each picture frame there is going to be a different style of art in. the first picture frame is going to be a still life picture of a bowl of fruit. the second picture is going to be in the style of pop art and its going to have a little pop art man in it. the third the picture is going to be of the cubism lady. in the story, the cubism lady comes to life and decides to course some mischief. she gets out of her picture and goes in to the pop art picture and then dances with the pop art man. when she has finished dancing with the pop art man she gets out that picture and then goes in to the still life picture and starts eating the fruit, then steels an apple and then makes her way back to her picture and acts as if nothing has happend. i hope you  like my idea and on that note i have to go off now and start remaking my set ready for next week ^-^

wooo look at the date...its only a month untill christmas yaaaaay

my work in progress

i'm currently working on another project. one of my tutors breifs was called 'art moves' we had to choose an 'ism' i went with cubism. never really done anything with cubism ever in my life so i thought i would challenge my self abit. i chose to do my animation as a cut out animation. i've never really worked with cut out either, another challenge. so i have designed my charatcer, and built my set, which i need to build again, but at least i got to do a test shot of what i want to do with my opening scene. here is a picture of my cubism lady 

 

here  are some of the tests i did with my cubsim lady puppet

here is the test shot of my opening scene.

 

in theselast tests she looks a little bit different. the reason is becuase i found in the other tests you couldnt see her hair and i realised i made her a bit wrong. so i remade her and made another two of her ( so basically three in total) i made three of her because i needed her to change from one side to another so i made her changes.

finally we have cought up with my third year work.

so this is the work that i have been doing for the third year. in the first three weeks of returning from our summer break we had to get straight on with three mini breifs. the first one we were given to do was the 9 prepositions, the second one was onomatapoeia and the third one was the micro script. 

9 prepositions 

  onomatapoeia

micro script

my proudest monet....back tracking part five.

for your infurmation. . . . 

so this is the post i've been most looking forward to writting. at university we had to do a collaboration breif. i worked in a group of five. we called our selves 'smiling beetroot donkey' we had to go online and look for animation competitions that would could enter. we came across one for an anti fur campaign called 'infurmation' we did a story about how a fox gets cought in a trap, taken away to a wearhouse and then skinded. yes we did a horrible skinning scene...it even shocked me a little when i saw our finsihed result and i knew it was coming. we split our little group in to two. three of us were working on the 2d part of the animation whilst me and another worked on the stop motion side.we built our fox puppet with love...and then we filmed him. O.o

so we entered our aniamtion in, we showed our tutor and she was happy with it and also cringing at it.  

WARNING WARNING. OUR VIDEOS IS GRAPHIC...remember hes not real and i've seen our little foxy since filming and hes healed up nicely now. urgh, i cant get the video clip from my pc to work on here so it has to be viewed by this link. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZZRPAlzIY

heres the best  bit ... 
a few months had past us by and we hadnt heard anything from the competition for a long time. we thought we hadnt done well at all. turns out we did quite well...rather well...infact so well we came first place  so here is my certifficate to show all the world that we won. 

here are some photos of our fox puppet for you to enjoy. hopfully they will help make you feel better for what you just saw :) 

little cotton bobbin tail ( back track part 4)

i did a hand drawn animation. our breif was 'tiny plannets' so i came up with the idea that my charatcer lived on a home made plannet that he put together him self. the charatcer is very odd, its half rabbit and half sewing machine. he wheels around his plannet. hes oh so very happy that he gets to show us his handy work...thing is tho i never managed to finish this animation. i will though one day in the future. rememeber the friend chaz i mentioned in another post? well he was once again very awesome and made me the song to go along with the clip.

heres is a few images of cotton bobbin tail from the story boards