'Dog' is unleashed...

Here's the fruits of our labour at Fettle over the past few weeks, a music video to accompany the beautiful song 'Dog' by Nat Johnson. It gave me and my other colleagues the chance to take the helm and see the video through from initial ideas to final polishes. It was great to try out different styles and ways of working and we are so proud of the finished outcome.

Now, 'Dog' is unleashed and set wild on the public, so treat yourself and enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWg7-AfoLAY&feature=youtu.be

'Showtime' is off to the Royal Television Society Wales Student Awards...

Tomorrow is the big day... the Royal Televison Society Wales Student awards, and 'Showtime' is nominated! Just a nomination is absolutely fantastic, and I couldn't ask for nicer people to be up against, so whatever the outcome it's going to be an amazing night and I can't wait to get on down to Cardiff and let the good times roll...

Talking with Frank Spencer...

The main aim when starting the little side project of Frank Spencer was to end up with a piece of lip sync material for my showreel. So before getting into the main animation of the character, I took a small clip of audio from an episode of 'Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em' to animate to. I feel that it went well and am happy with the end result, so hopefully when I do more I can piece lip sync to action and have a full scene going...

Betty, I've been articulated...

'No man who never did nothin, never made any mistakes' as Frank Spencer would say.  And mistakes are just a part of the learning process when creating a character that's going to work well when animated, So whilst completing Frank's character and posing him up in various ways, adjustments became clear that were needed in order to make it possible to animate him well. For example, the arms were extended, and different pieces were made to be used when the character is flipped so that the shading can be kept on the correct side throughout. At the minute, he is only able to be used from the one angle, so the next stage may be to create the character in different view points- from the direct side view, the front view, maybe even the back view, so that animation of the character could be more flexible...

Betty, I've been animated...

Now that Frank is all cut up into separate pieces, he is ready to animate and move about. To begin, and test the character, I wanted to try a couple of poses, hopefully that are recognisable for the character...

Showtime gets a Royal Television Society Wales Student Award Nomination...

A shocking yet amazing piece of news came through today, that my third year film 'Showtime' has been nominated for a Royal Television Society Wales Student Award! Came a little out of the blue to say the least, but so great-full and happy, and hoping that I can get down to Cardiff for the ceremony. Whats even better is that one of my partners in crime from University, and an extremely talented stop motion animator has also been nominated, Jasmine Hedger, for her film, 'Dr. Mandala', so congratulations to her, as well as another extremely talented stop motion animator, James Carlisle, for his film 'Fishing for the Future, a great film and great guy! So all in all, pretty darn excited about the whole thing!

some animator's do 'ave 'em...

Another little bit of a free period at work means another little project. Looking back at my show reel it seemed to be missing some lip sync material, so my mission is to get some done, based on one of the comedy worlds biggest legends- Frank Spencer! I love 'Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em' so when trying to think of a piece of audio to base a character on he seemed just perfect. So today began the process of designing the character and trying out a small portion of lip sync on just his still head...