Easter egg fun

The place where Lewis works wanted him to design some hard boiled eggs - so naturally I painted some for him... I was fed lots of lovely ommlette as payment so this is what I finished in like 2 hours

Quick update

I have a facebook page!! If anyone is remotely interested it is a little more professional - or at least intended to be so than this page... this is the address

  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Georgie-Goldsmith-Cactustrophic-Productions/440535552693438

In other news I was at a MMA sparring competition yesterday - fellow members of my Tae kwon-Do club went and entered - I was part of the moral support team...

Steve has given me permission to use his kick in my Tae kwon-Do project which I am currently collecting footage for... I cannot post the video as blogger keeps claiming there is an error however I can add a link to somewhere it has already been posted...

I want to see this (link)

I also have green screen footage of kicks in real time and slow motion some of which are children so for the sake of their privacy - despite the fact I have parental consent for each of them I will keep that from the internet until they're in the final piece.

So here are some of the punches and kicks I CAN post =D

Thanks to Lee Wallace, Pui Lee and William McElhone

Curled up in a fetal position on the stairs

It appears I have an RSI... To us lay people that is a repetitive strain injury that I have inflicted upon myself from drawing for too long whilst holding my graphics tablet pen too tightly causing my tendons, nerves and muscles to protest profusely x3 despite the fact it has improved already since the first sign of it on Tuesday afternoon it is still not functioning properly and it doesn't take much for it to go ping (painfully :C) - my swot analysis would require me to count this as a threat... I can't really draw or even work the mouse pad on my laptop x3 My P.O.A. will be resting it for a few days (thankfully the weekend is nigh) and paying my lovely doctor a visit if I don't show any improvement in too long... Which I doubt will be necessary this should be fine after a little while :) in any case I will endeavour to post my work so far tomorrow and discuss up and coming projects that I'm being briefed for tomorrow and I can show you exactly what caused this immense pain I'm in now - just in case anyone is interested in how to cause Georgie injuries she can't stand x3 anyhow,

Goodnight

Planning ahead

So I have a couple of modules on the go, and a couple of projects within each... So I'm putting down a timetable that will probably not get followed to the letter precisely but will hopefully be of use to me in the coming weeks...


Week 1 - This week

Capturing footage for Tae kwon-Do commerical
Illustration work
General organisation - eg. CV and Business card

Week 2

Capturing Tae kwon-Do footage for the commercial
Illustration work

Week 3

(Easter week 1)
Illustration work and shooting/editing the Tae kwon-Do commercial

Week 4

(Easter week 2)
Illustration work and editing the Tae kwon-Do commercial

Week 5

Working on small projects
(Tee Party, Card designs etc.)

Week 6

After Effects editing on things like my ghost girl animation.

Week 7

Final editing, printing and binding ready for hand in...


Not sure if there is much more to post about... I shall sign off for now guys


Cheers

More attempts at business card ideas...

I'm still working on the business card ideas... I'll come up with something good eventually... I don't think I've quite got the composition right and such but I'm doing my best...

in any case I should post about the stuff that will be coming up soon...

In a bit,

Cheers

Another life drawing session

This was a fifteen minute sitting that I used to focus on the face - I was pretty happy with this :)

CAAD class doing a short ident in After Effects

 Okay so this might be a little too bouncy and may need to be calmed down a bit but for a first attempt at doing it I'm really pretty happy with it =D

More sketching

Just a quick post with another life drawing... Again printed from google

New sketch book

So life drawing started on Tuesday for the first years and I decided to go along. So glad I did because I'm dead happy with how I'm drawing now - I can finally draw again!! I bought a new sketch book so I can put some work together to take along to my interview - it was mentioned sketch books are interesting discussion points in these things so if my work is good enough I think I will take this with me in April.

I also printed some life model images off the internet, I know that's probably a mega weird thing to do (it was solely for the drawing I swear) and it's bad since they're a flat image rather than a real 3d human but I wanted the practice so tough.

Candy hearts is the title of the greyscale gorilla competition which I'm currently puzzling over - I'm considering a real heart exploding into little candy ones... Not sure how I could do this - but I'm working on it :)

Meantime,
Cheers

A trip to Seven Stories

It was our luck that Seven Stories in Byker was holding an event about getting your childrens picture book published tonight. We we're given tips for excellent texts, getting noticed, and how not to annoy publishers and got an insight into the world of Axel Scheffler - illustrator of the Gruffalo.

His sketch books were left out for us to look at and his work is so beautiful it's inspiring, the fact it was there right before our eyes gave it a more real feel, again like in Berlin giving the position Axel is in a more human appearance. Again I feel like it's possible to be so successful with the right balance of hard work and good fortune anything could happen. I'm really pleased I went to this event and now that I know what to expect I bet I will return for more.

And what's more I had two books signed by the man himself!! I was thinking of perhaps giving them as prizes to the children best behaved or hardest working in my classes but I think I might just keep them myself.

Business Card designs

These are my rough business card designs (of the front and back in respective order) - I can't find the memory stick that has the original illustrator files of the logo on but when I get home I'm going to replace these logos with hopefully less pixellated versions...

Until then...


Cheers

Better late than never

PPD task one - today is the day I finally embark on the dreary and wordy journey of a real SWOT analysis...


Overall my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are going to be listed alongside job roles I could fall into and am interested in... I then work out what skills I'm missing and work a plan out to fix this so I leave university with the most skills I possibly can...


Strengths - Storytelling, composition, drawing, communication, presentation, digital skills, patience amd acting.

Weaknesses - Software skills, model making (sculpture), lighting and drawing skills.

Opportunities - Sneaking into life rawing classes with the first years, work on software available - Maya is free online on which to practice and learning to model make with Dave.

Threats - Time element (not much time left?), deadlines - things will take priority if they need handing in, lack of inspirations and for a lack of things to list, bing ill...

Specialist Job roles I like the sound of

Storyboard artist
Layout artist
Compositor
Editor
Animator
Model Maker
Illustrator
'Lighter'

New skills I need for these job roles

Storyboard software skills and knowledge!!
Premier pro experience
Better Drawing skills - incl. light and shadow
Flash experience
Photoshop and After Effects improvement of skills
Shake understanding
Model making
Greater Colour Theory knowledge
Understanding lighting to represent daytimes - or a more technical understanding rather than theatrical...
Maya understanding


Learning plan with this in mind

Model making class with Dave
Research and document Colour Theory and lighting
Download and play with the Student Maya package
Research the software called 'Shake'
Steal Andrew to teach me how to use Flash
Practice Photoshop and After Effects further
Try out and improve my skills in Premier
Sneaking into life drawing classes this week with the first years...


These targets will be easy to cover in one way or another before the course ends this year...


Long typed up post over


Cheers

Plans for the future

Our work based learning module requires us to produce projects from a live brief. This can be from a competition, commissioned or requested based brief that follows the module guidelines. It can be illustration or animation - I want to do a brief for both...


Greyscale gorilla has a 5 second project competition that I intend to enter. The brief for February was 'Candy Hearts' however I don't know when the next brief will be released so I will do the February one and if the next one is released I'll do that one too... then if I have more time I'll go back in time and do other cool briefs I see on the site too...


I also like the idea of the Future Lions competition - this year's competition hasn't been released yet but the old ones suggest it will be similar to the usual 'averts whatever you want however you want' format. I want to create a series consisting of a parody advert, perhaps using made up jargon like those seen on the television these days and a load of posters.
Alongside this I will come up with a load more briefs to do... I think this is going to be fun

Cheers

Update on everything

It has been a while - I will blame it on my current ailment, I'm recovering from being ill so haven't been able to post as I would have liked during the handing in of two modules. This is my quick update on where I am currently regarding modules, and own work...

This is my final piece for my digital skill application module; it's my animation 'Friend' in progress. So far I have perhaps just under a half of the animation complete. I still don't like the way this looks but it will do.

Blogger is not allowing me to upload my showreel but I also went for an interview at Sunderland University a couple of weeks back. I feel it went quite well and the interviewer said she enjoyed the showreel that I cannot post at this time.

My Contextual studies essay was handed in last week so this weekend I have been module-less... which has been an amazing feeling... I managed to tidy my room and recover from whatever I was ill with much better than if I had a module to worry about. So I'm back, refreshed and ready to try and get some work done... I hope... 

One slight problem I feel I will be facing is the now complete lack of inspiration I have... During the module where I had no time to work on funny little projects I had so many ideas - I had ideas swimming in my head like fish in the sea - and now? These fishies have been spooked and are in hiding again... which sucks... Hopefully I will overcome this and come up with some work to do...