Sunday, 25 November 2012
Friday, 23 November 2012
Claymation
I saw a brilliant claymation recently at a horror film festival by Lee Hardcastle. His claymations are very rough looking and he stated that he has no formal training - but his work is amazingly funny and creative. This was quite a poignant piece and one of my favourites.
NHS Storyboards
Here are some rough storyboards that I originally made for the NHS brief. I basically wanted to tackle the subject of mental health issues suffered by carers.
The story centres around a young man called Liam (not a child - as this is a separate subject). I have set the scenes up to show that he is caring for somebody sick, although the focus is on him, so the other person is not entirely shown. I wanted to communicate a feeling of 'drowning' metaphorically. He is feeling down, stirring a cup of tea. The tea becomes a sea of negative sentences that he is feeling about being a carer. He falls into the tea and begins spluttering and drowning. Originally I wanted to have him coming up for air a couple of times and seeing something represented as 'out of his grasp' - e.g. friends out having a drink. He then goes under again after seeing this.
As he finally begins to drown and becomes unconscious, a hand grabs him and pulls him up. Say the arm had a yellow cardigan on, I would then cut to a scene of a lady in a yellow cardigan serving him a cup of tea in a cosy living room. The graphics would then denote that there was support available from the NHS for carers struggling to cope.
I was pleased with this idea and Tony liked it. However, it was never developed as we decided that the time constraints and complexity of the animation might be too much for me as I hadn't started an animation before. It is perhaps something that I would like to make in the future (maybe the holidays).
The story centres around a young man called Liam (not a child - as this is a separate subject). I have set the scenes up to show that he is caring for somebody sick, although the focus is on him, so the other person is not entirely shown. I wanted to communicate a feeling of 'drowning' metaphorically. He is feeling down, stirring a cup of tea. The tea becomes a sea of negative sentences that he is feeling about being a carer. He falls into the tea and begins spluttering and drowning. Originally I wanted to have him coming up for air a couple of times and seeing something represented as 'out of his grasp' - e.g. friends out having a drink. He then goes under again after seeing this.
As he finally begins to drown and becomes unconscious, a hand grabs him and pulls him up. Say the arm had a yellow cardigan on, I would then cut to a scene of a lady in a yellow cardigan serving him a cup of tea in a cosy living room. The graphics would then denote that there was support available from the NHS for carers struggling to cope.
I was pleased with this idea and Tony liked it. However, it was never developed as we decided that the time constraints and complexity of the animation might be too much for me as I hadn't started an animation before. It is perhaps something that I would like to make in the future (maybe the holidays).
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012
Drawing - Lesson 2
I really enjoyed yesterday's drawing lesson. Following on from our charcoal city scene experiment of last week, the tutor asked us to create a character that will reside in said city. There was a bush drawn with two eyes shining out from the dark. There was also a power plant fairly near by. My imagination starting working overtime and I came up with the character of a mutated squirrel! His backstory is that he is mutated from living/birth by the power plant, he hides in bushes and eats neighbourhood cats!
Our second task was to draw what our character would 'see' if they were looking outwards (a perspective exercise). I drew him from the perspective of being the two eyes in the bushes, looking outwards across the road at a cat (his prey) ambling along the pavement!
Our second task was to draw what our character would 'see' if they were looking outwards (a perspective exercise). I drew him from the perspective of being the two eyes in the bushes, looking outwards across the road at a cat (his prey) ambling along the pavement!
Drawing - Lesson 1
My first lesson in drawing consisted of discussing what icons made a city (e.g. skyscrapers, parks, roads etc.) and then drawing one on A3 paper. We then swapped seats (continuously)and proceeded to fill up around 8 pieces of paper. This eventually became a cartoon style city. We worked together to piece the sheets of paper into some sort of order and then grated charcoal and rubbed it into the scene to give it depth and create a 'smoggy city' feel. Erasers were then used to bring light and contrast through the charcoal.
The end result was very imaginative and it was great to see so many different styles of drawing at work. Our tutor suggested checking out William Kentridge as a relevant animator, who uses hand drawn charcoal. Below is a video example of his work.
The end result was very imaginative and it was great to see so many different styles of drawing at work. Our tutor suggested checking out William Kentridge as a relevant animator, who uses hand drawn charcoal. Below is a video example of his work.
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