A major announcement guys

My major announcement is that I am back at University doing a MA (Masters degree)in Character Animation somewhere in a London University for the next two years. So therefore, I am continuing the blog for the next two years at least, the first proper post will be ready in a few days time. But, for now.

Bye.

Donny and Pete vs Max and Monkey or is it?

Last year for my Final Major Project for Animation I created a two minute animation called 'Donny and Pete' (2011), were you have a smart cat called Pete with a dumb human who knows nothing called Donny.

Donny and Pete


If I could have put this in my research I would have I saw this last year on the Aniboom Youtube page called: 'Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation' and was created by Alex Fass (web-site).

Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation


Alex Fass stated on his own web-site that the “Max & Monkey” concept was created both for the production and the pitch of an adult humored, animated television series. Max is a not so intelligent person, while Monkey is the intelligent one out of the pair of them, possibly the same characteristics as my characters, I think Donny is more stupid than Max in my opinion.

Max & Monkey was created by using three programmes:Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Also, using Cintiq, a graphic tablet you can draw into Illustrator and Photoshop instead of using a mouse.



My thoughts on the two animations. The first animation above have it's own unique style with Maya, Illustrator and Photoshop altogether. The second animation below, if I didn't know that the animation was created in Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya I think the animator was nearly copping my style with Donny and Pete. But, yet again I don't believe his copping by style at all. But, personally the first animation has its own style more on its own compared to the second animation which was a bit more flat without the 3D style.

Anyway, great animations altogether.

Max and Monkey Ep. 2 - An Odd Couple Aniboom Animation by Alex Fass



Bye.

Showreel 2012

In a pervious blogs/posts I done last year and the year before that, I showed of my showreel from 2010 and 2011. So here is the up to date version of the 2012 showreel below which includes some new animations, so enjoy the showreel folks.



Bye.

The Art of Evolution of the Formula 1 Car - Animated

Last year I entered myself in the Red Bull Canimation competition back in November 2011. I was influenced by the Red Bull Racing team and Sebastian Vettel recent glory for my animation.



Most recently, I have seen this is animation below, created by Animateer and Illustrator designer Ruf Blacklock.



The creator of the animation Ruf Blacklock, who is a big fan of Formula 1 himself, wanted to created an animation that shows the evolution of Formula 1 car from the last 62 years and has not been shown on any video streaming site until now. Each car is the winning chassis from the respective seasons, for examples the 1978 Lotus 79 and 1983 Brabham BT52 was drawn in. Even the evolution of the steering wheels from 1950s to the present day was included. Also, the animation was created in Adobe After Effects.





My thoughts on the animation overall, I felt that the animation worked really well throughout the 60 seconds. I felt the background music and sound effects worked really well. The sound effects were spot on with the noise of the formula one car of present. I felt the styling work well and using simple colours, reminds the styling of the Tron films. The big positive point I felt that the timing was right, if it was longer than 90 second I think it might not work. If it was 45 seconds it would have been too short for the animation, so a minute was spot on in my opinion. Is their any negative points, nothing I can really notice.

Overall, I enjoyed the animation altogether. Despite, I am a big Formula 1 fan myself.

Bye.

'Our New World' animation

This is an animation I have recently seen, I was very impressed by it. The animation is called 'our new world'. Took the animator over two years to create/animate. When I first saw it I thought it was created with Maya. But, the creator said it was created on Blender 3D programme. Here is a link from the creator, who's explains about the animation more on how he create the animation.



My thoughts on the animation, I felt that the narrative worked really well with the animation. Also, I felt the use of black and white colours and then adding red to animation made it more like something out of a Frank Miller's Sin City comic book styling to the animation. But, overall I enjoyed the animation, very cleaver animation in my opinion the creator has created.

That is all. Bye.

GTO art cars from Adobe Ideas I've created

Second post/blog of March. This what I have done from last few months ago on my iPod touch. Influenced by a few images from the Superman/Batman comic books. Draw them first by hand, then scanned in, then altered in Photoshop.



There was an app for free on iTunes called Adobe Ideas for the iPhone (now cost £2.99 for the app nowadays) which I've done some drawings perviously I've done on my iPod Touch.



I was Influenced by the image of the Ferrari 250 GTO to created it in Adobe Ideas.



I started with the image behind as a template, draw in the basic colours onto another layer.



Then I remove/hide the real image reappear as a reference on in a while. Then add more colour to the main image.



Then re-tidy the details/adding and removing colour of the car with a bit of trail and error. Some didn't work. But, is developing the piece.



Add some details to the bonnet.



Add some more detail, add/replace colour.



Add the Ferrari logo on the side of the car.



Then retouch the front end of he car again for the finish piece of the 250 GTO.



Then I done this with the Ferrari 288 GTO.



And the Ferrari 599 GTO too.



So I take all three GTO cars into Photoshop for a little altering on angles of the cars. Saved as as a jpg file. So here is the finish product of Ferrari GTOs' below.



That is all. Bye.

A drawing/illustrated post with super heroes in it

First proper post/blog of March. Starting of with a different post today. This what I have done from last few months. Influenced by a few images from the Superman/Batman comic books. Draw them first by hand, then scanned in, then altered in Photoshop.


I was influenced by the Pop Art movement, Artist such as Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol. Also, I was influenced by Frank Miller’s Sin City Comic book style of black and white images with adding limited colour.

The original drawings was created by using HB pencil and a sharpie pen.



Then adding the blue and red by using cheap marker pens to draw in.



Now, I went into Photoshop by scanning in the original black and white image. Then in Photoshop I threshold the image to black and white. Then, with the layer went to select menu – click onto colour range, put the fuzziness to 100% clicked OK then delete the white bits of the image as the image below shows.



Then in a few layers below the main layer added simple colours to the image in each layer.



After I added the colour, then saved as a jpg file. This is the finish piece.



Also, I’ve did the same technique to Batman image as-well as Superman above.





So here is the finish product of Superman and Batman together.



That is all. Bye.