All animals, big and small

Hey

After my tutorial with Adam Aiken, I made slight improvements to my Ident, including giving the fish slight movement and adding in slight ripples to the water, as well as the rock pool background. However im still unsure whether I want to add music to my piece or not. 

(I think I may add on one extra frame to the ident, so it finishes on a blank screen)

I also wanted to post my drawings from the drawing trip to Newquay zoo (focusing on quick and rough studies of there movements). 

(two of my favorite pictures from the trip)

 ^ Lemurs, Mongooses, Agouti's and Birds

^ Zebras, Wildebeasts and Waterbacks 

^ Capybaras, Meerkats, Peacocks and Lions

^ Penguins, Macaques and Warty Pigs. 

^ above is a quick sketch of a Zebra done on the cover of my sketchbook during the Animal Behaviour lecture.

;)

Backgrounds

Hey

Here is my first colour test, (after taking over the background design from Hannah) for the beach scape in our sea stories project. 

-Although the girlies havent seen these test yets, my personal favourite colours are, 

the gradient yellow and orange sunrise (shown in image 1) and the bluey turquoise sea (present in the last image) and the rocks and beach in image 4.

And below is the rockpool background which will form part of the background on my ident. 

:)

Watercoloured Fish

Hey,

Here is what I have for my Ident project so far

I scanned the original watercolour fish's into photoshop, cut them out and created the piece using the cut out method.

Although the fishy's are static models, the Orca's movement will be created by changing the shape of the tail and fins..

I will update you with the finished animation (without the sound effects/score ) shortly.

:)

A girl and her whale

Hey


I just wanted to post my Ident characters/templates

^ The Falmouth Logo Whale.

^ and the other castmembers

:)

Sun, Sea , Rockpools and Idents

New Brief - with Adam Aiken 

As we've finished our experimental brief with Derek we've now been set a new project to create a short Ident for our course at Falmouth, 

My Ideas

As soon as the brief was properly explained my brain flourished with ideas for this project, the brief was simple and we practically had the freedom to create what ever we wanted as long as it fits these simple rules:

- up to 10 seconds in length

- need to consider music and sound effects (most idents dont have dialogue)

- if you use music it cannot be copyrighted

- its best if its funny abstract or poetic

-visually engagging

-  includes the logo for the course and the university

- and don't just use a computer to create it think like an experimental piece. 

I really want my piece to not only describe the course but also the environment that we are surrounded in, therefore I would quite like my piece to reflect everything to do with the sea. 

below are some of  my initial ideas 

- The Bucketrope a play on the zoetrope, inspired by Tim Wheatley's The Cyclotrope but using a bucket funnily enough, featuring a sea gull's flight on the side as it spins. - not sure how I would include the logos though.

-  Chalk drawings using pebbles as a canvas, using Gylly beach as my inspiration I found this collection of rocks and I love how the environment has created a sort of cave drawing on the center rock.

- My favourite idea so far was inspired by both exploring Gylly beach in this lovely weather and by watching BBC FOUR's documentary on the secret life of rock pools, highlighting how they come to life during the night. hence the birth of my idea to create an Ident inside a rockpool in which the sea creatures are the logos.  

It is my intention to create my piece in black and white and then gradually turn it into colour making the piece more abstract whilst also hinting at how the industry is always evolving. 

Contextual references 

Walt Disney studios  'Paperman' 

Tiji 'Colour' was created by Akama Studios  and it follows how a sad little panda is the only one who is not coloured in. 

Black and White (In colour)  was created by Eran Amir  by using painting the whole room (including Eran in greyscale before stripping off the grey tones and replacing them with vibrant colours. 

The gradual reappearance of colour within Eran's short is what I hope to create in my ident.

thanks for reading :)