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...

Quick update because lying awake at 4am is more constructive this way...

Just a little good morning to everyone,

I've done some mental maths... I can assure you it's more mental than it is maths that is for certain, but I feel I may have over half of my animation complete in time for hand in next week. Today I will be animating as many animated assets as humanly possible in a day and the remaining elements will be completed over the weekend, this gives me time next week to play around with basic sound effects and prepare everything to be handed in... I'm feeling quite optimistic though that might be the sleep deprivation talking.

I'm unsure about how ready the music will be for the background but I'm sure even if it doesn't get done in time for this stage of hand in I'm sure it'll be fine and ready for the eventual hand in :) I am admittedly behind otherwise music could already have been done but lets not dwell upon that and focus more on the positives :)

Extra origami

If anyone wants me to try and post the instructions on how to make these let me know and I'll try...
With the help of a hair pin I managed to make smaller roses - it's always a fun challenge to me to try and make my origami smaller and smaller to see how small I can fold something and still have it resemble what I was intending to make at the end...

A little origami to brighten up the day - or rather night...

Thanks to a newspaper article from Kirsty Allsop that I will need to acquire from my grandmother to credit sufficiently I have managed to make a rose out of paper - this is two of such roses I managed to fit together in a sort of reverse flip of the Tudor rose which I'm pretty happy with - especially since I did this after reading the instructions a half hour ago and haven't looked at since...
So yeah, flowers make pretty awesome procrastination projects :)

Link to Vimeo

Blogger is taking way too long to upload a simple video... it's only a few seconds long but it has been uploading for over an hour almost... so I shall post the link to the video on Vimeo...

http://vimeo.com/58974539

cheers

Iss - shoes

So I still am finding it mega hard to draw even the simplest of things... it is MOST frustrating to say the least...

However since I am finding it hard to work on my backgrounds I have bought a book that should help me...

http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-impeccable-scene-design-game-animation-and-film

This is a review of the book - I thought it would be a good idea to post this so you first of all catch the name of the book but also get an idea what it's about and how helpful it could be...

I think it's really inspirational - I want to just start all of my backgrounds again and make them look like this - something I would totally do if I could make anything I do look anywhere near nice... :(

Working on it in any way I can though - this animation WILL be done at least to the point where I can hand it in and not fail the module - then I can start over if I want so it can look nice and then I can finish the whole damn thing...