Sorry bloggers for my long time away, I have been busy getting my work ready for my final deadline next week. To lend some credibility to my claim that I am a stop-motion animator I thought I'd slap up a test I did last year with every stop motion animator's best friend, the house-hold desk-lamp. This is done with captured with a programme called Monkey jam which you can download for free (how about that!) from http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/.

I'm quite fond of the timing on this, I think you can tell he's sneezing. I just had a stop watch and timed my self doing each phase of action and then just animated right there and then off the cuff; no dope sheets involved! I like to work that way, it's less restricting, but I do need to test myself to sticking to the timings on a dope sheet that I have planned, so any prospective employers will be dead... impressed.

Welcome!

I'm not too sure what to write for my first blog post...


Well, for starters: I'm currently working on a 2-minute piece of stop-motion animation which acts as my final major project and takes up most of the year. I think we're about half-way through shooting at the moment. As the production process sort of mirrors that of the industry we've had to do all the concept work for the film which took a few months and included all the design work- including puppets- to be sent off to the kind folks on the modelmaking course for them to build them. I've animated a few scenes now that I'm reasonably happy with and I'm also trying to animate whatever I can on the side. I'm not sure how much I can talk about the production itself as I don't want anyone nicking any ideas from it, so I'll mainly be talking about my own test animation, if you don't mind. I'll look to get some animation up for you to have a look at sharpish; in the mean-time please feel free to look at a more full-up blog.