illustrator schtuff

Just a little test, what was nice about this is that all the ink blobs in the background, are actually my lyric typed out and i messed around with the brushes and sizes and made the background that way :)

It's in the hat

A little bit batterd but now in his hat :) One finished mock up!

a little research.

Well I've been doing some research, or just being geeky, you can pick ^^ and I've come across a lot of new artists and stuff actually! However there are two things I'd like to post up here, providing my Internet isn't going to act the goat like it has been all night! (Makes research a tad harder than it needs to be if you know what I'm saying!)
First of all was this lovely little animation.. The style is quite simple and even crude, but I quite like it, i think it looks very sweet, but most of all i love how in just over a minuet such emotion can be conjured up from the viewer, this just shows you don't need a huge storyline and crazy character backgrounds, it just showed me that simple is effective and often best!



See, it's got such charm! ^^


And then next of all... A film I'm very excited about seeing is 'Coraline' and i found a lovely website with some model shots, which i just have to post up, for inspiration!!

illustrator... again!

Another attempt at Illustrator, this time with the aim of making my work look alot like Charley Harper's so that i could try and make something a bit less ugly! (His work is AMAZING.)







Obviously this is still a very simple image, but it works alot better than the ones i did yesterday :)

Just for kicks

OH and look, I made a little mock up of my character :) He's a magician's bunny so he'd be sat in a hat, hence why he has no feet. He also has a little weight problem. Hehe

illustrator... :)

Well, hello again. After many cups of strong tea and failed attempts, here are two very simple images i made using illustrator...Neither are relevant to my project yet, just me playing around. I have picked up quite a few new things and will put these to better use soon. Just thought I'd best post these up, showing progress and all that lark.
It must be said, I honestly do not know how I have lived my life without a graphics tablet! I really have to buy one, it would of made my college project so much easier and just EVERYTHING would of been different if I had owned one. Guess what I'm getting with my next loan? ;)
Anyway, here are those images...







As i said before, very simple and its just me trying to learn the program :)
I'm just trying to think whats new to type about...hmmm....OH! We have the flatpack festival up in Birmingham this weekend, so I'm going to be going to the event 'unpacked' on Friday and then all the free ones on Saturday, hurrah! So I'm quite looking forward to that!
I went to a talk actually last Wednesday that was part of the flatpack, and it was contemplating the idea that in the future animation will have a large platform on mobile phones, and so it should be considered most of the time through storyboarding and such methods how animation would look on both a small and large screen. The talk itself was interesting and insightful and pulled up a few key points for me, but i just can't see the idea flying in all honesty, until all phones operate using the same downloading systems and such (like when we all finally give in to Iphone's) it just isn't a viable concept because of the hassle of making it available over every system and model of phones. Theres just too many and it seems like alot of hassle when people would rather sit and watch it on DVD or even just on their computer.
Just my opinion at the minuet though, I'm open minded on the subject. :)

Charcter designs....

I've not really got a lot I'm willing to put up here yet because its in such a raw state, so I'll post you a grumpy bear. My designs have changed since this, but i didn't want him to feel too left out :)


And then there's a grumpy bulldog that is once again just a preliminary idea that i dismissed as being too expected.

Golly Gosh!

Well it seems i have neglected my poor blog, so i do apologise, just been so backed up with work and whatnot that i haven't thought!
You'll be pleased to know I've had quite a good day thought! I found out this morning that after i spent all of last night joining twitter to see what all the hype was about i wasn't to be dissapointed...Hold on, before you judge and let me explain....If you included anything to do with 'Skittles' in your update you made it onto the 'Skittles' homepage! Which as you can guess is 'www.skittles.com' so of course this HAD to be done. :) (see image above)
And then you'd better believe we went one step further, oh yes, me and Becky embraced the fact we are animation students that deserve to have a laugh :) So we threw in a little stop motion action.....