2015! Projects so far and up and coming plans

Hello All.

I have not posted here on my blog for a long time due to being so busy with animated work and other works!

So let me share with you what I've been up to while I've been busy...

So I've been commissioned to edit footage and create animation for 16 interviews for a spectacular company named W-A-Y who are basted in Detroit, U.S.A.
Above is their logo which I turned into a fully animated icon that would be floating in the bottom right corner of the interviews and would also be the animated logo for the intro.

Also heres an I-dent that I animated, it has the logo in the bottom right that transforms into the bar that you see- this is where the name of the "interviewee" appears. 

In the interview I used a transition that brings the appearance of it arriving on screen a better presents.

More later... Bye for now.

-Jamie.

Elephants!

Hello all.


Well, I've under taken a new project for Inclusion Trust's Notschool.net project.

As an online environment the users need some assisting on where to navigate to and what to do around the online community... With a little help from an animated freind appearing on the screen pointing users the right way.

My inspiration for this is something much like what Jurassic Park did when they used an animated peice "DNA" named "Mr. DNA" to help tell the story of how they got DNA from a moscito to bring Dinosaurs back to life.

This is as well an animated intro to all of Inclusion Trust's which will debut with the "guide video(s)"


Heres a tease so far..

And here we go its The Revenge of the 6ft Arm

THE REVENGE OF THE 6FT ARM

                                      http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/london-college-of-communication/

People may think the animation is unfinished but theres a point. 

"People in their last moments show you who they really are" - Health Ledger as The Joker, The Dark Knight, 2008.  

This quote meant so much to me and symbolises in the film that when the characters are here something to do with Death they show their true colours or even if someone is angry we flip and show people another side of us showing who we really can be and this how I choose to symbolise that in the film. 

I hope you enjoy it and please do let me know what you think.

Jamie :{)-

The Revenge of the 6ft Arm

Hello!

I've been SO busy over the last six months busy with projects and my final major project "The Revenge of the 6ft Arm".

Synopsis:

Set in the 1940s a tall man that lives alone in a forest walks into town to put

his height to good use to help the town’s people. when a gang takes the mick

out of him for being tall but when the tall man retaliates in a brake out of

violence the gang seeks their revenge and murder the man, beating, stabbing

him and chopping him into bits leaving only his arm down a muddy

embankment to magically come to life to find its way around the town tracking

down it’s murderers and slaughtering them as they did to what was once a

gentle giant.

Treatment:

Set in B-movie style 1940s, Morristown, Vermort, USA.

A menacing but gentle giant of a man stands tall and peaceful

living in his shack amongst the forests, opposite Lake Lamoille.

One day while out for a walk in the town he notices a gang

whom appear to be trouble, ignoring them, he continues to walk

by. The tall man kindly helps a struggling shop keeper, being 12

foot tall with ease puts his height to kind use and helps put a

sign back up for the shopkeeper while the gang behind him

whisper, point and laugh.

Keeping up these kind acts for people in the town, using his

height the best way possible with the gang following him around

taking the mick out of his abnormality. The tall man hits his head

and the gang are in hysterics laughing and pointing, the tall man

gets so angry that he lashes out knocking the four of them to the

ground.

That night the ringleader and the rest of the gang race to the

home of the man looking for revenge. With knifes and an axe in

hand, they find the tall man to be outside and take their revenge

to the limit, with the first blow of the axe, shearing the tall man’s

arm off, the man’s arm rolls away down an embankment while

they hack away and murder the giant.

The gang discard of the remains in the lake, not realizing they

are an arm missing. That night through lighting and thunder the

arm that was left down the muddy grass embankment slowly

comes to life, seeking it’s revenge on the four members of whom

are responsible for the murder, killing three members but the

ringleader. The 6 foot long arm chases down the terrified gang

member in-which the tables turn and the hunter becomes the

hunted.

Film to be uploaded soon.

:{)-

Animation in 2014

Hello all.

Well this is the first post of the year!

Well before christmas I worked on an animation for The Royal Society for their book awards ceremony hosted by Dara O'Briain, the animation was an intro clip on Bird's Sense a book wrote by Tim Birkhead.  I'm unable to post the animation here due to copyrights but soon I'll post some concepts images.


The new animation that I'm working on currently is that on a B-Movie styled short... Here's a doodle I did for it below.

Watch now!: A Mermaid's Message

Hello!

And here we go, six months of back braking work and effort, blood, sweat, tears have been a massive part of making this short stop motion animation film.

Enjoy...

Heres the poster I designed too :{D-

Watch now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpv_s3lyis

Special BIG Thanks to the General Animation Assistant, Natalie Cheeseman :{)-

                                               

Mermaids!?

Hello, Hello!

Its been awhile, only because I've been very busy with Pre-Production with making an new Stop Motion  animation, this time around its an animation based on pollution and what man has done to our seas, killing off sea life and the possible existence of Mermaids!

Theres been loads of work that has gone into the project from my end, the story has been changed 5/6 times.

Here are some "Pre-Production goodies" that i've developed so far.

Something I worked on

Hello there!

I was looking through some stuff and found a project I worked on at LCC take a look here : http://vimeo.com/45193485

More soon! :{)-

Underwater Tornado?

Wow, Christmas has been and gone and the new year rolled in so fast!

Happy New Year to y'all!

So over Xmas I've been working hard on British Museum animated work, turning each chosen object and "boiling" one, they have all kept the same type of style which I've kept has bold and blocky

        

Also this year, I'm on a Call Sheet to be producer for an underwater animated short, which will be Stopmotion Animation, we are going to build sets and puppets, the whole works, been doing my reseach with the director and was looking at all the effects needed for types of underwater scenes so i film and edited a short, enjoy.

Watch here

Keep you posted on this NEW Animated Short, keep your eyes out, more to come!

British Museum animation

Here we have the Lady Venus (Aphrodite, from Greek Mythology) this is just one frame of animation for the British Museum still in it's blue "test" form you can see the outline in the fist image, the red line that i have put in shows me where the shadows i want on it will fall.

 And now here you can see the filled in shadows, still not finished, will be colored black for the final peace.

More coming soon!

Radio play poster

Rawr!

Been working on the newest poster for this year's 2012 Christmas radio play for Inclusion Trust's Notschool.net project (which I'm a part of as I manage Alumni for them and am their Animation head)

Rhiannon Fancett has come up with a great script and will truly be worth a listen when its out, i'm also helping with the edit, should be fun!

Anyways, Enjoy!

                                             

Disney

Hello all!

Well.. I've just come back from Florida USA, it was truly amazing and saw loads of cool things, went to Disney Land- Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot. and both parks in Universal Studios.

You can check out some things that stood out for me on my travels but i dare say theres TONS more!

On wood with animation now, have to start getting the British Museum animation together, pictures coming soon!  :0)

Wow what a week!

Wow this week has been truly mentle, been making animatic for a pitch, the ideas is called "Tiks" it feachers Mr. Tik and Cuz Tik.

The idea shows where abouts in the world Mr. Tik lives for the fist time and will have some random moments such as some photo realistic effects a bit like Sponge Bob.

Remember the film Beetlejuice? That was a random type of film, had loads of random moments init and at the end Beetlejuice gets got by a Sandworm!

This bit refrances the end of the animation and the world it is set!

More soon :{)-

        

Tornado is coming!!!

Some research on how a Tornado forms, researching for a exciting project for the British Museum.