'Coda'

I was really touched by this poignant and beautifully illustrated animation by 'And Maps and Plans'. It was befittingly multi-award winning and was even shortlisted for an oscar.

Public Engagement Animation

I am very excited to have attained an internship at the University of Leeds within the Social Sciences department. I will be creating an animation to showcase the complexities of Public Engagement within the sector. The academic wanted an accessible and playful look. Here is a screenshot of the first scene that I am working on:

Typeface Negative Space as Characters

I really enjoy the childlike creativity of making something of a solid meaning, such as typography, into playful characterisation. It is something I would doodle myself!

http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/fun-project-sees-negative-space-give-type-face-61515221

Isometric artwork

I really like these rooms designed in a 'low-poly' retro gaming style. Each room is created as a different environment for a game character. Stacked together like this, I could imagine a wonderful animated narrative taking place!

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/these-low-poly-isometric-artworks-feature-miniature-rooms-inside-hexagons/

Horror Poster from press pack

I am pleased with this promotional poster that I created for the press pack to accompany the Horror ident. I believe that it conveys the atmosphere and genre of the film and creates intrigue to the content.

Arts Ident Evaluation

I was very pleased with my concept for the Arts channel ident. I wanted to visually represent 4 main areas of the arts: design, music, dance and theatre. I chose recognisable imagery to convey the message in an extremely short space of time (15 seconds), but at the same time, keeping it fairly abstract and visually dynamic.

I was very lucky to work with Joe Dias, who animated the ident. I believe that I directed him well, as it was produced exactly as planned in the animatic. If I were to recreate the ident, I would probably add more textures and perhaps go a little more abstract, for example, focus on a dancer's feet. That said, I believe that I fulfilled the brief well and communicated the genre of the channel accurately.

CITV Ident Evaluation

My CITV ident was created with brand guidelines in mind. I knew that it had to be colourful, interesting and somewhat silly in context. I chose to juxtapose the slow floating movements of the dog and cat astronauts with the speed of a cool, hot rod driving alien. In terms of aesthetics, I was keen to try cut out style animation, mixing hand drawn Illustrator vector graphics and photographic imagery. The ident was only 20 seconds and I believe that I captured my objectives well in such a short amount of time. I had never animated using After Effects before, so it was a massive learning curve. I had also not worked with a sound designer and composer before, so this was a very useful experience. Ultimately if I were to recreate the ident, I would probably make the movements and angles of the characters a little more dynamic. But that said, I am happy with what I have achieved and have received some good feedback on the film.

Horror Ident Evaluation

I was keen to create a television channel ident in the horror genre and believed that pixilation animation would lend itself really well to the style. The chosen imagery is somewhat stereotypical in terms of a horror theme. This was intentional, as I feel that to promote a channel accurately, you need to inform the viewer of the genre in a very short space of time. I was also conscious of imagery being classified as viewable during the day and by a variety of ages.

I feel that the ‘jerky’ style of the pixilation works really well in displaying a ‘non-human’ element to the character. The actress is also primarily a contemporary dancer, which was fantastic for creating unusual and jarring shapes and movements that really brought the performance to life. I believe that the ident captures the theme of the Horror channel well and provides suspense and shock value for the viewer within a short timeframe.

I was very pleased with the actress, crew and shooting day of the ident. The only thing I would do differently is to be more aware of continuity! There were shots where props had been moved that didn't marry up with the flow of the film. It was a definite oversight on my part and I would seek to be more meticulous if I were to shoot another pixilation film. That said, I am very happy with the overall look of the film and the edit. Style-wise there is not a lot I would change and I am very proud of how much I learned about After Effects during the post production process.

Arts Ident Final Version

CITV Ident Final Version

Horror Ident Final Version

Monkey Character Design

Monkey bobble head character design for the CITV ident. Created in Illustrator with a photograph guitar edited in Photoshop.

Arts Ident - 'Bauhaus' Scene

I have created the first scene, the Bauhaus poster graphic, ready for Joe Dias to animate. I created it in Illustrator then imported to After Effects and added a Bevel effect.

Bafta Posters - Malika Favre

I adore these Film Noir style posters, created for BAFTA by Malika Favre (agency - Human After All). Individual posters were created for the 5 nominated films. I love the strong graphical style, contrast of light and dark and the use of a different colour theme for each image.

New Horror Animatic

This is the tweaked Horror animatic. However, we will be experimenting on the shoot days also.

Pixilation Test Shoot

Luckily one of the producers stepped in during the test shoot! Here we tried smaller/larger incremental movements and smaller/larger gestures for the 'crawl' shot.

Girl Horror Ident Inspiration

Citv Animatic

Citv Character Design

Screenshot of Dog Astronaut character in progress, created using Photoshop and Illustrator

Initial Citv Character Sketches

Initial sketches for cat and dog astronaut characters