This is class

This is done by Elliot Cowan, (http://www.elliotelliotelliot.com/) he works in New York and he wrote the ongoing series of The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead, an animated series that's played at film festivals world wide.

Influential work.

According to Dave, this influences all of my work so I thought it only fair to whack it on!

I had to put this up, it's mesmerising.

Group project progress

My Robot is finished! Hoorah. (I love loc-line)

All of our set pieces, our flat images for the "Scrapyard-wasteland" are finished, they just need to be printed off, Karl is in the process of building the main character's house/shack. Pencil and ink-work of the storyboards are almost finished and will be ready to digitally rework very soon. All is well. Hopefully!

New found Loc-Line and an almost finished Robot!

I finally have my Loc-Line and it was the easiest thing to work with I have EVER experienced!

My Robot model has been totally revamped and will be ready to animate in a day or two. As soon as he's completely done I'll put some pictures up.

Character Designs - Live Brief

Rough Storyboards - Live Brief

Shown left is a rough storyboard and description of my idea for the E4 Monday Movie Night Ident.

This is part of my proposal for the project, although I still need to adapt my script and develop ideas further.

My Live Brief

For the ongoing life brief, I've chosen the E4 Monday Movie Night as I think this is the one I could do within the best of my ability.

Just looking at the brief immediately gave me ideas so I began working on character designs and storyboards straight away.

Making one of those Channel 4 Ident thingies.

We used lighting, extruded shapes and a nice green background to make one those Idents that channel 4 make all the time, mine's a bit on the fast side!

My first year show reel!

Next Week!

With any luck, my order of Loc-Line will arrive for next week so I can begin the armature of my final model, if not, it's going to cause a few problems!

Next week, alongside making my final model I am going to add the final adjustments to my research file and development sketchbook that show my ongoing construction of my model.

Evil Model

A couple of images of my finished makette (I don't know how you spell it), thinks it's worked pretty well, shape and size reflect how the finished model will look if all goes according to plan!

Inspiration for robot character

This design above was by PJ Holden, and shows perfectly what design I was looking for in my initial research.

Researching character designs while looking for inspiration, I obviously spent most time looking through robotic or machine-like looking designs.

I had decided I wanted the character to be relatively

short, with large, over the top parts of his body looking distorted. Through researching different robot characters, I learned what would be the best way to make the robot look worn down and poorly made.

Evil Robot - elevation 3

3rd and final set of elevations on my character.

As these shots are close up I really wanted to make the facial expressions totally over the top and unrealistic.

I also had the idea in pre-production, that the character's light bulb reflect his emotions, if he is over-excited in any way, angry, happy or terrified, his light bulb will glow brighter. If he is down, sad or tired, his light bulb will fade out.

Evil Robot - elevation 2

2nd set of elevations. These show some of the character dynamics I wanted to experiment with and develop.

Basically, the sillier the robot looks, the more fun and interesting his dynamics become. In terms of realism, there aren't really any limits in what I wanted to do. Metal can't really bend or anything but who cares?

Evil Robot - elevation 1

The first of 3 elevations on my original "evil robot" character.

I used old rusted metal and scraped surfaces to make him look old and worn down, the idea is that he has built himself up from a simple toaster with rubbish household items and utensils.

I think it's worked pretty well!