Continuing from my first post. In my second part of my Fake Essex History animation project for the research, and as you guess this post is a very Essex post.
First off, I will not focus on Essex Girls on this project with Essex Girls jokes, it would be too sexist for this project and I don’t think the project needs it. So moving on.
As you can guess, Ford has a plant in Dagenham, which is in Essex. And through the 1970s and 1980s Ford build cars such as Fiesta, Cortina and the Capri at the Dagenham plant.
The Essex folks always has a fondness of the Capri and Escort, despite the Escort wasn’t built at Dagenham.
Clarkson Car Years
Researched The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE). With the male characters I have mainly focus.
TOWIE
Look at football, mostly for West Ham United, despite they're not an Essex football club.
West Ham United: Moore than history
There is also fanatic fans too for West Ham yeah, like Terry from Upminster right, and Russell Brand (who is not on Youtube below).
Terry from Upminster (TalkSport)
Overall, that is my research from Essex in a tongue and cheek way.
But, for now see you in 2014. Bye.
Its research time for my Fake Essex History animation project, and first I started to look at Horrible Histories with the Rotten Romans to basically give me a quick history lesson of the Roman Emperor in Britannia in the first century .
Horrible Histories
Then, I started to look at Time Team episodes from Essex, I was much inspired from the Colchester episode on how the Romans did in the first century and explain more on Colchester in the first century.
Time Team (Colchester)
Time Team (Southend)
Then, I watched the 1980′s TV show Chelmsford 123. The series was set in the Essex town of Chelmsford in the year AD 123, and concerned the power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus (Jimmy Mulville) and the British chieftain, Badvoc (Rory McGrath).
Chelmsford 123
Then, I watched Monty Python’s 1979 film Monty Python’s Life of Brian which tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. And in one of the sketches, Michael Palin who played a character called Pontius Pilate who can not pronounce his R’s, talk about his friend Biggus Dickus.
Monty Python Biggus Dickus
After watching Python, I looked at French comic book Astérix, written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. Basically the comics are set in Roman times in France and follows the journey of Asterix and Obelix.
And below I’ve found on YouTube the 1967 animation movie Astérix and the Gauls:
Astérix and the Gauls (1967)
Next, I looked at Bob Godfrey’s animation work, for more on the story, which includes animations such as Henry’s Cat and the DIY Cartoon Kit. Which, was quite funny lies in each of his animations.
Henry’s Cat
DIY Cartoon Kit – teaser
In part 2 of my research next time out the Fake Essex stuff.
Bye
First there will be possibly another post in 2013. But, for now Happy Christmas/happy holidays, see you in 2014. Bye.
We had Penelope Mendoncia come in the last day (Friday 5th December) before Xmas to teach us Character Design (should have been Vincent Woodcock for half a day, but something to do about a tooth fairy or some sort). This lesson was more about drawing out of my own comfort zone.
One task today we went out to draw five different people from life around Kings Cross and then had to three things that doesn’t use in our drawings such as drawing down woman, big eyes, small head for example into one unique character, which we drew.
Then in the afternoon session the best four characters were chosen, we then got into groups of these winning characters into a family tree and draw it into that persons style and this what I create below. As you can see not my typical drawing style.
Bye.
This is not for the current group project. But, more for the final project for later in the year. One of my ideas so far, and the one that a few people I have explained were people have liked is called “Fake Essex History”. That is set in roman times of Colchester, Dagenham and Brentwood in the first century, were the romans meet the ancestors of air-heads and douschebags of Essex idiots in a series of fake history in the country of Essex (note: I am from Essex and still live in Essex, so I can be a bit of a piss taker of Essex).
The story is not cemented yet, but I got some ideas such as the romans renamed Colchester as New Rome. Also, the romans drag the air-heads to the zoo in Colchester but the lions refuse to eat them because one of the lions got food poisoning by eating of them and die, so the romans dragged them to place down south of Essex and build a wall called it Brentwood that was the origins of Brentwood. But, the wall went down because the people of Brentwood went in debit of building of the Brentwood coliseum, so the wall went 300 miles up north to relayed as Hadrian’s Wall were it blocked the Scottish. Also, I got an idea with Dagenham and the creation of the British Chariot dubbed as the Chariot Capri with one horsepower. But, there’s a more powerful Chariot called Chariot Capri RS Cosworth with four horsepower. This idea will be more of a comedy. But, the story needs a start, middle and a end if I can develop the animation.
Here’s some more images so far I’ve drawn down from last weekend.
Bye.
