Good Day Bad Day heads to MIAF...

 

Today I've recieved some very exciting and humbling news, that my second year film, 'Good Day Bad Day' has been chosen to be played amongst approximately 400 other animated films from around the world at 'Melbourne International Film Festival 2013' this June! It will be showcased on one of the ten days of the event, and I couldn't be more shocked and gratefull that my little film is travelling half way around the world to be shown to audiences over there. It's mind boggling but I'm totally thrilled... 

Time to tweak and clean 'Showtime'

Well, it's back to uni after the Easter holidays- I say back but i've treated the hols just like any other three weeks so have been working away as per usual. So now the film is all roughed and key framed, and now its on to the task of tweaking and cleaning - this is where the film starts to really come to life and the final look starts to take shape.

Some of the beggining sections have been outlined already so it was just a matter of tweaking timing and details of animation which has helped alot and really brought the section together, making it more interesting and hopefully keeping people interested to carry on watching,

I dont want to spoil the final film but here are a few stills as a bit of a sneak peek...

The Ultimate Image...

Now without further ado, after all of the different designs and composition tests, heres the final Ultimate Image...

ultimate image design nears conclusion...

 

After looking at some more artwork, I stumbled upon the art book for the Dreamworks film, 'Rise of the Guardians', which featured an image on the front that instantly struck me. It had a white background and a sketchy style that matched that of my business card and CV, and featured a fantastuic composition of characters coming in from the side leaving lots of opne space that really drew attention. This seemed like something I wanted to try so I set off creating some new designs...

 

ultimate image designs

 

For the second module of business studies, we were set the task of creating an ultimate image- an image that would show our style, advertise us and show our work quickly to onlookers for use on websites or other promotional material. The process began by looking at various images, posters and pieces of artwork to study layout and compositions, before starting to design one of my own. The fun then started when it was time to create a selection of designs and compositions to choose from to become the final piece...

 

Then desk designs would allow me to show various characters aswell as a selection of art and design work to show off other things that I am able to produce, to they seemed overall a little too cliche and busy...

These seemed nice and keeping then clean and simple suited the business card and cv, but something about them just wasnt working...

 

I liked some of the designs, but something wasn't quite working. The pieces weren't suiting my style and mixing well with that of the business card and logo, so it was back to the drawing board...

'Monkey on a Horse' is born...

 

Together with fellow animation student, Matthew Burnham-Jones, we're currently in the process of setting up a little animation studio called 'Monkey on a Horse'. It's an exciting time, and things are coming together, so you can follow us at:

                           Twitter: @monkeyonahorse
                           Facebook: monkeyonahorse
                           E-mail: monkeyonahorse@gmail.com

And here is our first showreel, so we hope you enjoy and keep posted for more very soon...

The loyal sidekick goes digital...

After a fantastic talk from Chris Phillips on Friday in university, I wanted to try some new styles that could be used for my Ultimate image, so this is my first proper attempt at digital painting on Photoshop, and i'm happy with it, its turned out quite nice and I'm looking forward to doing more, improving my skills and hopefully getting quicker at producing them...