In the gaps

Hello

Long time no post, I know. 

I have been working quite a bit on little jobs here and there. (thank you anyone who has given me a little job, it keeps me sane)

One of the little jobs I´ve been working on lately was animating this festival ident for the fabulous Madga Osinska. 

The New Europe Film Festival from Magdalena Osinska on Vimeo.

Time and time

So I have actually been a bit busy of late with one thing and another. I am in the process of trying to put together a showreel and package my dvd amongst other things. 

But whilst I am doing this I am taking part in a little project with Elena. We have a pot of 60 words, 30 spanish and 30 english, we will pick, at random one word from each language and try to draw an image inspired by the words, with a coffee. 

We will try to post the drawings and words each day at andacoffee.blogspot.com for one month, April. If we can. 

I will post again here with news etc asap.

the change

Hi Back Again... I think.

Still here.

So I can't beleive it's been so long since my last post.

I'm still alive and working super hard to finish the film. Our Grad Show is on the 6th of March at the BFi so just have the last things to try and make perfect before anyone can see it.

Until March, then... I'm busy.

Procrastination Issues 30. a reply

This is a reply to Li's great little cartoons over on her Blog I Want a Cat.

http://taigongwang4090.blogspot.com/

I have work to do, we mix on wednesday and I need to get al I can done.

Procrastination Issues 29.

on another note a rushed image whilst waiting for a render.

grr's and growls 2

So this time may I will show you The cat walking into Victors flat its only rough, for movement and timing.


Yep you guessed it, painter screwed the file again. woo!

grr's and growls

This is one of the problems with Painter. Below is a an almost fully animated character after Corel Painter has decided to chew it up.

This is almost the equivalent of a vcr chewing up the only recording of your child being born.

For some unknown reason, after working on this today and saving frequently (painter has been crashing unexpectedly) this image is all that remains of 70 layers of a characters movement in a scene.

This is not a good day. I have a back up that is missing one days work. I suppose I'll have to it again.

please insert as many four letter words here as you think I may have used.

...

Procrastination Issues 28.

Oscar and Lani. pt 2.

I have also worked worked quite hard today. But still managed to do these. This one is rushed, so rough, deal with it.

Procrastination Issues 27.

If the Cat in the film (Today Only) was more human/cartoony, I'm sure this would be a very different film. His relationships with the other characters could be so much fun.

I present Oscar and Lani.
So the edit is going well and the film is picking up a pace. We have made a few changes but all for the better. It does mean though that I haven't been able to work straight as I had been on the animation and spend time roughing out shots to try something in the edit. Nothing too big though most of the large shots are done these are mostly smaller shots.

in other news...

I'm going to make an effort to not draw myself so much. So just wait for long-haired beardy characters being thoughtful and depressed about film. As well as very bad caricatures of everyone else.

Lets see how long it lasts.

Oh now the edit

Yeah don't tell Lawrence this is on here. It doesn't look like him and then if anything makes him look about 12.


But we are starting to edit now. Making a few bold changes and then seeing a couple that I had in mind starting to work on the page.


oh, it's looking good. Hazarr.