Business card!

The design for my business card is finished!

While I'm happy with the basic concept of using the card to tell a two-part story, I can already see a mistake: the pixel dimensions of the files. I think next time (and there certainly will be a "next time") it would be wise to draw the artwork on a larger scale to ensure it'll print better; I might even outline and colour it in Flash since vector-based art resizes better than pixel-based art, but I was under too tight a deadline to get as comfortable with Flash as I am with Photoshop or Paint Tool SAI. Oh well, all good lessons for the next time a brilliant two-part story pops into my head!

Sketches for a business card

I'm designing a business card for my Professional Practice module, and I've had this idea of telling a story - albeit a very simple one - with the card itself to demonstrate my visual storytelling ability to potential employers (the two sets of poses will be on opposite sides of the card). These are the rough sketches; over the next few days I'll refine them to be more consistent and on-model, ink them on the university Cintiqs, colour them and, of course, add my contact details.

Semester 2 showreel!

I got my showreel for Professional Practice finished ahead of schedule (I thought as long as I had Adobe Premiere open, I might as well edit it in the same sitting as my Exploring Practice animatic), so here it is! Compare it to my Semester 1 showreel - I can't believe how far I've come in four short months, and yet I know I'll only top this in Year 2.

Like my previous showreel, it's set to the beginning of "Winner Winner" by Kevin McLeod.

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Industry Research: Storyboarding for Animated Television Series

Today the UWE animation first-years had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the two co-founders of Rumpus Animation, a small-but-impressive local studio. It was quite a good learning experience for me; I feel as if I learned as much from my peers as I did from my tutor, and even though I was anxious going up and talking to everyone, that process allowed me to discover some gaps in my research that it's not too late to fill.

Click "Read More" to see my presentation (slightly adapted to better suit reading as opposed to being presented live).

Tim Allenby's "Grave Mistake"!

I recently volunteered to be an assistant animator on a third year student's final film: Grave Mistake, a funny and frantic story of Death trying to recover the soul of a girl he accidentally reaped before her time. You can see a ton of material relating to the film, including the animatic, on its website - my job is the seemingly small, but important task of animating background characters. Click Read More to see my design sketches, animation thumbnails and, of course, final animations!