Thursday, 22 December 2011
Happy Christmas
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Group Shot
Monday, 12 December 2011
Story Board
Monday, 5 December 2011
Concept Art
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Robbie Viking
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Simmo
Friday, 25 November 2011
Flash Library
"This morning I was doing something with Flash using an old library. This was the library for a series we did called Dusty and Musty. I decided to open this up and see how extensive it is. As you can see it's full. This is everything you need for the 6 main characters. Turnarounds, walk cycles (for every angle), run cycles (for every angle), lipsync (for every angle, happy AND sad) and everything is in twice as one has the shadow on and the other doesn't. This was library version 53 and was what was ready for the start of production. It was constantly updated with reusable animation in and more props etc.
So much work by so many people, there was a lot of heart put into this project. I discovered I was capable of 46hr shifts. We became a little family for those 18 months." *genuinely wiping away a little tear.
- Jane
The picture shows the library in sections and the long thin pic on the right is how it looks un-sectioned, quite long isn't it.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Ink Dot
Monday, 31 October 2011
Encounters Trailer
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Children In Need
Mr Matt also helped Dan with his moves.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Encounters Trailers
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Art Briefs
Thursday, 29 September 2011
City
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Dusty Hat
Friday, 2 September 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
More Jobs
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Class Reunion
Here is a storyboard page for the new short for the 21st Century Learning Initiative. You can see the short here.
The style had to move on a bit from the first one as the characters are talking a lot and talking to each other so there was a need for more expression. So then if you make the faces more realistic you then need to add hair and clothes, otherwise it just looks a bit wrong.
Again Damian Lewis does the voice, this time with Alex Kelly (she does some of the voices on Story Train). Board by Mr Dave, animation by Mr Rob, Mr Ollie and Mr Dan. Directed by Miss Jane.
Friday, 12 August 2011
This Years Encounters, an Image.
Mr Paul has outdone himself, this one is quite epic. Animation by Miss Jane, Miss Kirsten and Mr Chris. Everything else by Mr Paul who is very clever. He doesn't like it when I keep telling him that.
I will link it soon when it's online.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Story Train Shoot
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Village with Three Corners
Friday, 1 July 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
A Production Still
Hello! Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, everyone is ever so busy here and it takes up a lot of my time to crack the whip about!
Here is a picture to show one of the frames of notes for the animator from a scene from a new short we are doing for 21st Century Learning Initiative. Here you see the models of each character put in to position (not poses correctly or started animation) and the prop of the table and punch bowl. You can see some notes from the Director (miss Jane) who would have put notes all the way through the Flash file at certain points to let the animator know what should be happening and when.
You can also see there is the QuickTime of the animatic, this play's inside the FLA to give the animators extra info of what should be going on. Anyone using Flash will know that for some unknown reason in the newer versions of Flash you can't import QuickTime’s. It's very inconvenient.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Sunday, 15 May 2011
The Stay Puft
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Table Football Rules
Here is Mr Pauls site.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
A Lovely Gift
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Monday, 11 April 2011
Table Football
Monday, 28 March 2011
Animation News
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Born to Learn
HERE is a link to watch a short we did for the 21st Century Learning Initiative. It was voiced by Damian Lewis and animated by Mr Rob and Miss Jane with Compositing by Mr Paul and boarding by Mr Phil. There are 3 other teasers you can watch.
Monday, 14 March 2011
Pedro
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Mischievous Mirrors
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Damian Lewis
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
The Green Screen Shoot
Here is another wrap around Mr Paul did of the green screen shoot for the kids in Driver Dan's Story Train. If you find the right path you can see a very big close up of the camera. Oh can you find Stan Cullimore in this picture?
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Our Building
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
A Tour Around Mr Paul's Shelf
Ooo fancy.
I had to remove the embedding as it was slowing down the blog. Click on the link above and you can see it at better rez on a new page.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Creamy and Crumbly
Thursday, 27 January 2011
The Ink Dot Pictures
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Moving Rooms
Monday, 17 January 2011
A Snippet of Preproduction
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Storybook Brief
Monday, 10 January 2011
Story Corner at the RWA
It was a very successful opening night as one point there were over a hundred people queuing to get in. I also noticed that the Matisse rooms were somewhat empty in comparison!
You can see the show at the RWA in Bristol (BS8 1PX) until the 8th Feb
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Jamaica Street Artists
It runs between the 8th Jan til the 8th Feb. If anyone fancy's going along to the private view on Friday 7th (6-9pm) then go along. Tell them Tom Mead sent you via this blog.