Printed Folio Book

I've set up re-designed my folio as a nice big printed hard backed book which I've now uploaded for print, it should be printed and back in my hands within 10 days. You can see an online version here:

click to see portfolio

(I've deleted the embedded flash preview of the book because it slows down the page too much.)

My next most urgent plan is to produce some business cards and promotional postcards over the weekend. Then look at generating some exhibition artwork for the final show.

Fraiser Werp hand-in complete...

The Fraiser Werp animation has been animated from beginning to end. All that remains is to work on the sound effects and music over the next few weeks, certainly by the 25th I'd like to have a basic sound track finished if not with the real music.

There's not much I'd change within the animation, it demonstrates a broad range of mixed up techniques that I've seen, liked, been inspired by and worked on over the last couple of years.

The animation was rendered at 1024x576 for the hand in but I've been creating most scenes in 1280x720 when possible as I have every intention of entering the animation into competitions who will no doubt desire a better quality. 

Blog continuation

So I like to feel I'll keep this blog updated past the end of the course and into my future projects as they arise (although maybe not in such depth from now on). We'll see wont we. 

The release of The Fraiser Werp animation 

The release of The Fraiser Werp animation online isn't going to happen until I'm happy with the sound and have added the credits. So my mass of 10 followers on this blog (one of which is somehow me and at least 2 others are dead ends) will have to wait in suspense until the up and coming Final Show or the Star and Shadow showing on the 19th July, or when I launch it on Vimeo.

What next:

Sound effects for the Fraiser Werp

Graphics for the Final Show

Business Cards/Postcard designs

Transfer and edit folio into a nice printed book using Blurb

But right now I intend to do nothing for a day or two, absolutely way too much continuous staring at a screen has been happening over the last 2 - months, well 2 years in fact, beer, cinema, sleep.

Final bit of stop motion...

Today I'm generating the last piece of stop motion, after today I will have all the raw animations completed, these last scenes will need the sea adding over the next couple of days and and there are a few post productions tweaks needed on the rest of the animation, but it's all coming together it seems.

I've added in some rigging that can be seen as the ship spins around, this was from a photograph I took in Hartlepool a few months ago. (Forward panning at it's very best!)

The next scene set up mid animation with cat fur cannon smoke!

How things look at the moment with the sky and rigging dropped into the background.

And then:

The next couple of scenes relied on an armada of ships in bottles sailing across the screen:

Tediously edging each ship along why rocking at the same time, they're raised up on boxes to get a nice low angle from the camera.

I'm now working on dropping them into the classic old animated sea scene, something I've wanted to have a go at ever seeing The Tale of How at the beginning of the course.