I scanned in my summer sketch book today. I hope to work on my summer project brief tomorrow evening.

For my final year in Middlesex University, I am hoping to get more involve with group and stop motion projects. I also hope to be continuously learning my 3D Maya as well.

This is just one of the many stop motion animation that I really like. 

I am particularly fascinated by the colour and the style of this colourful wood scene. It reminds me of Sherbet Christmas Card advertisement by Nicos Livesey, Azusa Nakagawa, Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan. 

Behind the Scene for Youtube Play

Watching the behind the scenes has allowed me to understand how the film was made. I didn't know that the set was build to such a large scale. I suppose that that was a good option to allow the east of animating and allowing the camera to go through the journey. I wonder if it could be done on a smaller set and the zooming in and panning could be done in post production, would it have the same results? Also if animating would be easier on a larger or smaller set. Would building a smaller set be less time consuming?

Scheduling your film

Scheduling is all about making sure that you do the right things in the right order.

In general, the best order to do things is:
1.Script
2.Character Design
3.Background Design
4.Storyboard
5. Lay out
6.Voice-recording
7.Animation
8.Sound effects
9.Post-production

West, M.

Making an animated film : a practical guide

West, M. (2005) 3 Ideas and Planning. In: Unknown. eds. (2012) Making an animated film : a practical guide. 1st ed. Ramsbury: Crowood., p.42.

Personally I find having a raft voice over gets me a head start.

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

Banksy Art...

Soundscape Lecture

Expressive = Real + Dramatic

The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
USA, 1974

http://youtu.be/AUKUe15WZkE

Sound Designer, Walter Murch

Surreal = Unnatural Sounds

eg. externalize inner thoughts

Harpya
Palmar D'or


The Girl Chewing Gum
John Smith

Hairy Man
Steven Subotrick
USA, 1994
( David Shrigley's Style)

Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
USA, 1979


The best video of the whole lecture
Transformer's Sound Design Behind the Scene

Elempleo

This is an example of doing an animation using something unconventional with something conventional.

I find this animation cleverly written. Giving away the plot of the story, I found it weird at the beginning that his household furniture and goods are made out of human. In my opinion it is an uneasy feeling to actually have strangers in my house. The peculiar atmosphere seems to be absolutely normal and fine for the protagonist. Later to find out that the character's occupation is being a doormat at his office.

This animation arouses the thought of social hierarchy in this world. It's funny how he was being served at home by humans but in the office he is just a door mat. It is indeed very humbling to acknowledge the different jobs that each of us individual does in this world.

The only thought I have and is thankful for is each of us have our responsibility in life, each of us is gifted in our own very way and only by working together in our individual duty keeps things going.

Thought of You an animation by Ryan Woodward

absolute beauty !

Exit Through the Gift Shop

I'm on a project to make a title seqeuns for Banksy.

Banksy made a film called EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP.

I really didn't expect the movie turn out less about Banksy and more about this guy called thierry and who now became a pretty popular "artist" in LA - MBW aka Mister Brainwash.

I yet to learn more about MBW so rather save the comments for later on.

In the documentary I learned of the street artist called INVADER. I really want to make PACMAN made of tiles too...they look so colourful and adorable!

I don't know how the title sequence will turn out really confuse with these street artists...Sometimes you don't know which side you should be on...

:)

http://jumbosmart.com/animation-lessons/interview-with-jason-stansell/1026/

Invention of Love (2010)

I'm impressed by the amazing mechanical details designed. Such a brilliant silhouette animation. I really appreciate the theme and storyline of this animation too. It reminds me of nature and the life that God has given to each living thing. Gadgets are great but not as beautiful as capturing the essence of nature.

Infographic Of The Day: 13 Rules For Realizing Your Creative Vision

The Done Manifesto lays out some bracing maxims that are key to preserving a startup's most valuable asset: urgency.

Bre Pettis knows a thing or two about getting things done rather than getting them perfect: He's the founder of Makerbot, a company that turns out cheap rapid prototyping machines. No one would say they've been perfectly realized, but a key to Makerbot's success is that it has evolved in the real world, rather than foundering as just another great idea.

With that in mind, Pettis and collaborator Kio Stark gave themselves exactly 20 minutes to create a manifesto encapsulating everything they knew about bring a creative vision to life. They called it The Done Manifesto. Illustrator James Provost then took the extra step of turning their 13 maxims into a poster:

They are:

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

see the full post:
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William

Rake's progress

James Gillray

Comments on napolean war

Willant heath

Rodolphe
Konkykru.com/earlycomics.html

The d
Muff n jeff 1907
Comic strip
Nt suitable for animation

Windsor mccay
Started of with illustration

No proper story board til disney

Plane crazy
Steam boat willy
3little pigs
Sb of dumbo
Work very raftly
Abt ideas nt finish art work

Fantasia walt disney
1940

Fishinger

Storyboard language

Orgesticulanismus

Timing for Animation

Balloon Slow & Light

Animation = Movement with Meaning

Good timing gives meaning to movement

Luxo Jr Dir , John Lassetar

- Pixar Lamp

Dive Straits - Money for nothing

1987

Understand principal of timing based on nature.

Have complete control what audience see,when & how long they see it

GOOD DESIGN

clear & effective

effective layout

Betty Boop-silhouette

GOOD TIMING

too fast the audience will miss the aim

too slow boring loss att.

Up,Disney -2009

Dogs- JH 1981

know your audience

speed of reaction

PEPPA PIG

Cell Action

WEstern Spaghetti

PES,USA

Billy Balloon

-Don Hertzfddt

( don't watch it's sickening)

ISAAC NEWTON

Newton's Law of Motion

object will not move until forces is applied to it

object keeps moving until a force stops it.

3 stages

CAUSE

ACTION

REACTION

What causes things to move

in animate objects nature wind Rain

Living Creature Muscles and Psychology

The paternal world

David O'Reilly

Ireland 2011

Animation that Inspires

A Scanner Darkly

Walter Bashir

Tim Burton's, Vincent

Karupoeg Puhh - Vene Keeles,1969

Skeleton Dance

Steamboat Willy

Midele Gandri

Hobo Clown

Steriogram Walkie Talkie

Paprika

Chris Cunningham

Robot Chicken

Death buy Lemonade

One Man Band

Jan Svangnejan - Dialogue

Blu

Pes

Norman McLaren

Razor Heads

Andy Chahill

Coyote finds the purpose of living too. Hooray!

Study Anatomy

DAvincci

John Hubley

Abret Furer

George Grosz( JH is a Big Fan)

political Dadaism

John Heartfield

Banksy

Ronald Searlie (JH grew up looking at)

prisoner in Japanese WWW

Henry Moore (sculpture)

drawing during WW

Pablo Picasso

(telling the world about the spanish Civil War)

Jean Duffet

Saul Steinberg

pop in America

Benoit Gillaune

Tim Burton

David Shrigley

SAndra Salter

Blu

www.blublublu.org

Ryan Laukin- Walking

The Trouble with Love & Sex- JH

Visual REsearch more important than your animation

We need 3-4 sketch book a term