Show Reel

This is my current show reel- a mixture of uni and work experience stuff. The file size is on the large size so be patient while it loads but I guess it depends on your computer. I'd like as much criticism as possible, so feel free to tell me how rubbish it is.

Work Experience Walks

These are a few of the walk cycles that I did while I was at HOT Animation last year. (They do Bob the Builder). I've got more clips that I hope to put up someday. Also trying to get my showreel up, but I'm trying to get it to a more manageable size. At the moment it's about 50mb so I'm trying to get it smaller without sacrificing too much of the quality.

Fourth Scene FINAL

That's it, the last scene of my film. I might update with the final versions of the first two scenes. All I need to do now is record the background noise for the second scene and make the credits. I've been asked to experiment with shadows on the scenes as well, which I'm going to try with a single frame from the first scene. Don't know how I'm going to do it yet, but it'll have to be someway that it relatively simple to do, as I'll have to do it for every scene if I decide to use it.

Third Scene FINAL

This is the third scene from my film, I'll be uploading the fourth and final scene in a few minutes.

Roughs Finished!!!

Thats it! I've done the rough passes on all the scenes now. I've got to refine the animation on all the scenes, with the second and third scenes (Drugs and War) needing the most.

I think I'll try to put together the scenes with the title slates and the MIDI music I've got (no licensing needed, hee hee hee). I'll try to put up parts, if not all, of the War and Religion scenes soon.

Templates

Two templates; one from Facts of Life and one from Drugs. I use these in Toon Boom to help me draw the separate body parts.

The Floor Master

Well I've now put a floor plane into the scenes, SOMEBODY thought the girl was floating a bit. Thanks Doug, making me do more work........grumble grumble

Second Scene Rough Pass

Click here to watch 'Drugs-12'

I'm not Dead........

Sorry for not updating in a while, call it a combination of work and laziness. The film is going well. I believe I'm just over half-way though the film and I'm currently working on the third scene. I'm also trying to get some music sorted out. We have the opportunity to show our films in the university cinema, but unfortunately this means that the music we use has to be fully licensced for use. This means that I can't use the piece of music I wanted unless a can buy a license for it.

The above picture is to show how I am working on this film. I make the seperate body parts and put some of them on the same layer, i.e. the arms and legs. This way I can put a rotation point at the joints to get a good sense of arm movement. I'll be putting up the rough pass I made of the second scene shortly. I still need to go over it again and put in the cat and the other small bits of animation (eyebrows, blinks).

Now With Extra Catty Goodness!!!

No new footage this week, I've been working on the design for the cat which I've put into the first scene. Should have some more footage next week.

Facts of Life Part Two

Here is the first scene of my film so far. It's not complete. There will be a cat somewhere and I think I will refine the animation a bit more. Gonna start work on the next scene this week. As for this blog, I'm going to try to update at least once a week.

Facts Of Life Part One

First Scene Part Six

First Scene Part

This is the first fourteen seconds of the first scene of the film. This is how the film will look in its finished version, though the animation may be tweaked slightly.

New Test

This is a re-working of the previous test using Toon Boom instead of Moho. As this is a flash version, the textures are much clearer and sharper than the avi version. Now that I don't have to worry about tweening now, I think that the movement of the character is much better now.

EDIT: Looks like the video wasn't working. Fixed it now. The sound is slightly out of sync, but I may be able to fix that later.

New Version

I have decided to use a different program to produce my film. Rather than use Moho, I will now be using Toon Boom Studio 3. I have more experience using Toon Boom, so although I don't think I will be able to make the film faster, I do now feel more at ease doing the animation.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing picture I did for SketchTavern.

Fact of Life Animatic

This is the animatic for the first scene of my film 'How To Talk To Your Kids About Almost Anything'. I made this before Christmas as I wanted something that I could put the actors voices into in order to work out the best set of voices. Comments and Criticisms are welcome.

EDIT: Just a note. The file is quite large (11.6mb) so it may take a while to load.

Facts Of Life

Just finished building the first scene in Photoshop so I can export it into Moho. The hands are photographs of mine and my sister's hands, with a cutout effect put on them. I'm not too sure how well they will look in the finished product, so I'll have to wait and see.

More Sketchbook Stuff

More early stuff from when I was trying to create the characters for my film. The film is progressing smoothly so far. I worked out the lip sync for the first scene a few days ago. Now I need to build the characters up in Moho and I should be able to start animating in a week or so. I may put up the animatic for the first scene as soon as I get a chance.