Friday, 30 April 2010

Weekly Aims and Objectives

For my final project I am working on a script titled "Lost and Found" from a company called 1000 EYES (Dave), and I'm working on putting forward a set of storyboards to give him a visual representation of his script. Hopefully, it should be completely finished by mid-next week, which will allow me to focus on colouring up and enhancing them.

Devil Squad - all pretty and messed up digitally




Cartoon Network complete (sort of)



This is my semi-completed project for the YCN Cartoon Network brief. It's...alright but I really want to go back to it when I can to make it nice and shiny for my end of year Portfolio, some sound would probably be nice too. But this is how it turned out initially.

Work from my Portfolio





I had to totally bring my Portfolio up to scratch for my interviews, the one at Sunderland didn't go to hot (as I've probably mentioned) but the one for Creative Practise earned me a place!

So here's some of the work I put forward;


Friday, 26 March 2010

sometimes at night, i look at the stars and wonder what came first the chicken or the egg?

Friday, 19 March 2010

Cartoon Network Project




I haven't blogged in aaages! My project is almost finished, and I'll put up my finished version when it's complete but for now here's some coloured up shots and screen shots of the work in progress. The character has changed LOADS yet again.

Friday, 26 February 2010

JAMIE HEWLETT

British comic books artist and designer Jamie Hewlett attended Worthing Art College, where he set up his own fanzine, Atomtan, with fellow students Alan Martin and Philip Bond. When Hewlett left college, Bret Ewins offered him and his friend Alan Martin a chance to do comics in a new magazine called Deadline.
In 1988, the boys collaborated on a strip called 'Tank Girl'. The anarchic strip about a teenage punk girl soon became Deadline's most popular comic. (A 'Tank Girl' feature film was released by MGM in 1995.) He created the strip 'Get the Freebies' for the British monthly The Face. At this time, he lived in a flat with Damon Albarn, with whom he set up the pop group Gorillaz in 1998. Hewlett did the character designs, based upon his 'Get the Freebies' characters, for this virtual band, while Albarn focused on the music.

Jamie Hewlett on his Olympics animation;

‘It looks wonderful and I’m really thrilled by it,’ says Hewlett. ‘It’s gone through so many changes because there are so many departments at the BBC, and the Olympics is their biggest gig of the year. Damon [Albarn] and I are used to having the luxury of doing exactly what we want, and we understand that this whole idea of using animated ancient Chinese characters is quite a wild-card for them. But somebody at the BBC had seen the Monkey opera and they put our name into the mix. And I think we’ve managed to keep the BBC happy, to tick every box, without ruining the original idea. I mean, the characters aren’t wearing running vests!’