Sonic & Cheerios

I filmed cheerios filling up just too see how they rest for when I create the gold rings and how they will rest once they have filled up the screen in my piece of work.

Sonic Animatic

Improved animatic on the timing of the music.

(Might have to change music but not sure yet

or do two versions of the same thing with different audio.)

Thinking of the ending audio and will decide what to do at the end to make it more dynamic instead of it just fading away as it doesn't really fit.

Sonic Animatic

A really rough idea on what I want the final to be like, though the timing is off.

1st draft animatic.

*Sonic changes the '11' to 'th'

*Spins the '0' to a gold ring

*pulls down/up the 'anniversary' banner

Do Animatic - No sound -

The sounds will just be the slight grunting and heaving sounds from both characters as they try to push the impossible.
Then a scraping sound like a heavy table scraping along the floor as the massive object finally moves.
As the two letters shift together at the end there will be a slight clinking sound as if two metal blocks are put together like a magnet.

Download's Big Screen (Ian Watkins - Lostprophets)

I found this image on the internet.



And photoshopped a tutu onto it, just for fun.



And one of my friends who went to the Download festival in 2008 texted the image to the big screen the day Lostprophets were headlining and the whole crowd saw it while waiting for them to come on stage.

The blog banner.

I drew all the images free hand before scanning them and then adding colour to them in on photoshop, using different layers for the different colours being used so its easier to edit around to create a vector style image.

I got the idea from an Anime called The Wallflower.









All these images I managed to put together in my own way which inspired me to create the banner at the top of my blog.
The images were researched through the search engine google (The Wallflower Anime).

The screaming people from the Anime influenced the creation of my own version of the screaming people within my blog banner.

A7X's Nightmare / Jacob's Ladder

After watching the new video Nightmare from Avenged Sevenfold (A7X). I started to mess about in photoshop and came up with this image seen below. My idea was that the pieces of film being ripped and analyzed in the same manner as if a patient has taken apart and tried to re-edit the footage leaving scraps behind on a light-box.



The idea behind the music video is living an actual Nightmare.
As the lead singer, M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders) is being pulled through halls, he notices the deceased drummer, The Rev (Jimmy Sullivan) torn down drum kit which he used during the 'City of Evil' tour. He then see's lead guitarist Synyster Gates (Brian Haner Jr.) bashing his head against the window, Rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance (Zachary Baker), once in a fetal position on the floor and another time waltzing with a fake skeleton, and bassist Johnny Christ (Jonathan Seward) crawling above Shadows. Near the end of the video he is led by two boys to a room, where the last drum set The Rev ever played live with the band is set up.



There are some references from previous music video's the band has done over the years, like the tarantula crawling across the drum kits was shown in the video 'Afterlife' however the tarantula was crawling along The Rev's face. Another reference from the same video is where Zacky is waltzing with his girlfriend rather than with the fake skeleton.
Also there is a smaller reference from their music video 'Bat Country' where the faces of the patients are being stretched and the priest from the music video 'Seize the Day'.

Click below to view the scene.
The Jacob's Ladder Hospital Scene.

The video is based off/influenced by the film Jacob's ladder with the hospital scene. (Said to be one of the Jimmy's favourite movies).
Similarities like the torn down drum kit in the music video is the broken bicycle in one of the rooms.
The girl in the fetal position on the floor is similar to the way Zacky is in the video.
The crawling patient on top is similar to Johnny as he does the same.
The blood on the floor.

Packaging brief

Its a what if Relentless [energy drink] did a fragrance this would be the package.

Kerrang Ident

My final piece of the ident brief.
Using 3D modeling in maya.

Tim Burton's Vincent


my title sequence


stop motion
split personalities

The Cross Pathway Brief!

Pigeons:

• Graphic Design [Manager] - Nicola
• Illustration [Secretary] - James
• Moving Image - Elizabeth
• Graphic Design - Jay

This link below is the Blog for our group and everything to do with research, process & Development and also the time management.
Pigeons Blog

We created a six minuet animation in After Effects and also used photoshop and illustration.
It has an element of Stop Frame animation, Green screening.
The animated rooms represent a variety of physical and spiritual choices that we make through life.

Each room is something personal to each member of the group;
Room one : Jay - childhood
Room two: Liz - Teen
Room three: Nic - Early adulthood
Room four: James - Adulthood

The title sequence brief.

also there are bumpers and ending credits.

Testing green screen

Testing the lighting and positioning of the dolls, screen, lights etc.

Green screen

The green screening process of part of my title sequence, testing out the timing of the movement
obviously stop frame animation



Also a Still image of the other doll I used on green screen

Tester on flashes between images

My test of the flash between images, its very quick but you get the idea on what I want.




This is an example from an advert to the linked show Ghost whisperer with the flashing of images.

A Worms day out

Animation NCFE 06/07
First year of college in ND Graphics
Flip book - first piece of animation I ever did. No sound though.

Animation NCFE 06/07 - 'Spring'

I did this in my first year of college, its a bit naff but it was my first time trying this so give me a little credit.