The link here is from a film called “What’s he building in there ” by Tom Waites. It has the look I am trying to achieve in my own film, all though mine is shot in night vision.
Mirg…. quick video
I have now managed to get the small film of mirg i did as a tester, the link is below.
Sound and video elective…
At the moment I am doing my 1st year elective in Sound and Video, where at the end of five weeks I have to have produced a 5 minute film. The idea I have is a music video, but a really dark and eerie one. For the sound part I used an Edirol handheld recorder and recorded myself playing guitar, once for the main part and then again for a slightly heavier part ans mixed them together how I heard it in my head. For the video part of the film I recorded things in my friends garden at night, using night vision to give a Blair Witch type of effect and feel, I also recorded things such as pipes and taps just to give the whole thing a look as if it was filmed in a derelict building. At the moment I am putting all the clips together, moving parts around to see how they fit with the music. Soon though I will have it completed to how i want it to be and will post a link from youtube of it on here.
All the other things…
i have done in supporting studies are going to now be uploaded for your viewing after a long time which i am sorry about..
Two images did not upload properly so… here they are
Maybe it is just my computer….
and the fact that youtube is not working on it, but after checking out my main page there were no video’s on there. So i will have to check when i cam get on a different computer, if the worst comes to the worst and i need to post all the video’s again then i will….
Development of Mirg…
Mirg as you may remember is the character i designed for a project. I now have a few more images to put up including some character development images, character interactions and some storyboards including him.
An inspiration for Mirg is Grim from ‘The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy’ on Cartoon Network, mainly because he is humorous and has a Jamaican accent.
At the moment my computer is having troubles with youtube, it has been like it for about a month so it will not allow me to post a link showing anything from Billy and Mandy nor will i be able to post the short animation i did of Mirg. But when i can get to a different computer i will upload them on to here for you to see.
It’s been a while…
Unfortunately i have not posted much in the last few months mainly due to not being able to get much stuff onto my computer. But now i have managed to get nearly all of it uploaded so i can now show you what i have been up to.
First off here are the final character designs for my group project from last year. I do not have the rough preliminary sketches we did first with me, but when i get them i will put them up. That also goes for the fianl animation too, there are a few things that need to be sorted out, but at the moment we are all in our electives and are unable to do any of the editing…… so again, here are the final character designs…
This is the lookr we chose for the main character to have when he was a young child.
This is the final look for the main character’s father.
This was our choice for the look of the main character in the present
day.
I will put up the link for our animatic when it is available because youtube sometimes takes a while to load video’s.
Just a tiny pinch of inspiration…
Hey again, i just thought i would post the opening to a series i used to watch as a kid. Yes i know it’s Manga and everyone is into it now and alot of people want to do animation to do Manga style stuff….. but not me!
I was about eight or nine when i first saw this….( shouldn’t have since it’s an 18) … and was one of the main things that made me want to become an animator…..so here it is
The Guyver!
Character development…
On Friday’s we have supporting studies with Lewis Campbell and we focus on life drawing and the techniques involved with it. He has also done a character design workshop with us to help us with our work, which i found very useful and has helped me a lot. Here are a few images of the work that i did…
I had the idea of a Grim reaper character about a week before we did the character development, it was going to be something i did in my spare time and the original characters i did were not that good so i used the workshop to develop it properly. Since the primary idea of the reaper was going to be a comical one which involved the character (who i have now called Mirg) seeking out chickens and killing them… since he is the grim reaper of chickens. So i had to do some designs for the chickens that i wanted to use as well as Mirg, i hardly put any effort in to the chicken designs but i wanted Mirg to have a cuteness so i went with that idea.
Once i had done a few designs i found the one that i wanted to use and progressed to a character sheet showing Mirg in 3/4 view, side view and a back view. I also drew him with a few emotions that i thought he might use to further progress him as a character.
We then had to do a small animation of our characters looking up, instead of just doing the basic idea i wanted to do something a bit different. So i decided to make a small story of him encountering a giant chicken and having to fly up at it to kill it.
At the moment i am in the middle of producing a short animation of Mirg because i want to make a small series of him in my own time, because i really like the character and like i said before i wanted to do something in my spare time and Mirg fit the bill.
My animations…
I have finally uploaded some of my animations on youtube. They are basic tests to show anticipation and lip sync.
This is the very first test i did, it shows the stretch and squash technique of a ball bouncing.
This test is to show the anticipation of a tap dripping. Instead of just having the water hit the surface on the same frame as the tap, i decided to add more movement and have the water drop fall for a while.
This test of a boulder falling off of a cliff also shows anticipation as well as stretch and squash.
This test of a cannon firing a ball was done to show the movement of the cannon during the firing, it also shows anticipation and stretch and squash.
This is an attempt to lip sync. My group were given a sound clip and we had to create a character, we then has to use Final Cut Pro to work out where the lip movements were going to happen.
