Draw The Dinosaw: 2016

Friday 9 September 2016

Fellows Work: stopmotion

Here is a little clip of the latest animation that fellow member Dave Codling has created. At the moment he is learning After Effects add extra detail to his animation, like believable cigar smoke.

these ideas for making models are great and the moulding material can be bought and reused.
take a look at her site. there is a great video showing her using a flexy skeleton to build her figures.
hopefully you can see this link let me know if you cant

http://julianalepine.com.br/
https://www.facebook.com/ipmsnederland/videos/508640982665452/

Friday 29 April 2016

Tech Cues - Digital Creative File Formats

Choosing the right file format seems like a minor rather mundane thing - an after thought that you are confronted with when saving your shiny, new piece of work.

However, keeping your data stored in the right way, between work sessions or when moving between programs, can mean the difference between clean crisp images with a smooth workflow and blocky blurry results with nightmare unpicking of older files.

Here's a handy guide to keep you on track with some of the main scenarios we encounter on the course.

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Maya

This is a great web site to help ease yourself into Maya. There are free scripts to help with facial animation by creating a GUI set up at the side of your character rather than using fiddly controls in you character. Also has a couple of good books you can buy on rigging and animation. http://www.animationmethods.com/videosandfiles.html. Check it out also has lots of YouTube tutorials easy to follow

Tuesday 29 March 2016

sound of cinema

this is a great series all about the soundtrack to film. you could get some great ideas from this for your own productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNRZFZEyTLI

there are 3 in the series so far dont know if there will be anymore but well worth a look

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Hell and Back

Just watched this, very funny stop-motion film, has some nice animation :) very South Park humour.

squash and stretch

Check this out, it's a great tutorial and very easy to understand. fantastic break down for creating bounces in stop motion.

Thursday 11 February 2016

Through the Looking Glass- Alice in wonderland Illustrative Events

Starting Thu 11 Feb till Sat 16 Apr 2016 To celebrate 150 years of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the British Library are hosting an exhibition exploring how the story and it's characters have continued to capture our imaginations. Looking at how the story has been adapted, re-imagined and re-illustrated since it's original concept.

Along side the exhibition they have Alice in Wonderland pop-up shop in the British Library Entrance Hall and different talks and workshops with different illustrators that have work on Alice inspired pieces. Check out the links below for the different talks and works shops.

Illustrating Alice

Alices adventure in comics land

Alice and the World of Children’s Literature

Thursday 4 February 2016

2016 Animation Festivals

Now we are into the second term and a brand new year, it's a good time to start looking at and planning to attend animation and Illustration festivals through the year. Whether or not your plan to submit some of your final pieces into the contests, festivals are great place to visit for networking, workshops and seeing what's happening in the industry.

Coming up in February...

‘Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games’ held in February 2016, the largest festival dedicated to animation and computer games in the UK. It has a day dedicated to animation and game design.

Chester 30th international Film Festival 23rd February - 11 March 2016