Friday, 11 February 2011


Free To Be Me from Ové Pictures on Vimeo.




This is another video from vimeo which i looked at, which is a little bit more relevant to my work as it is in the style of cut out animation. The characters in the animation are my favourite especially the tree with the mustache, i like how the animation moves, its very wavy and flowing. i also looked at this video because i needed to look or ways of different camera movement and this video had some good examples in my opinion.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

CHICK from Mayki on Vimeo.



this is a video of an animation i looked at on vimeo, i just looked at for inspirational purposes, to get a better idea of how to make my characters flow better, and move more precisley. the general animation is good, i like the use of colour in it, and i really like the characters too.

Friday, 21 January 2011

Leaked Sex Tape Of Celebrity Jeramia The Bear

This is the dream sequence scene of Jeramia the bears dream when hes sleeping on the beach. This was the probably the easiest bit of animation i have done for this current animation. All i really had to do was insert a white background, load up all the characters and put them together, then i put puppet pin tools on the bears arms so i could bend them backwards behind his head so it looked like he was relaxing. After that all it took was adding in a few blinks onto the bear, and getting the walruss to stroke the bears stomach and lick his chest, then move down his body and that was pretty much it, it was all done within about 15 minutes. I may have to add in a few censor bars like, even though you cant see anything its very suggestive.

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Quincy Drops A Coconut On Jeramias Heed!

This is my second scene for my animation. In this scene, yet again jeramia is sleeping peacefully underneath the palm tree, only to be awoken by a falling coconut which Quincy the crab has deviously dropped on his head from above. The most difficult aspects of this scene, for starters was moving Quincy the crab up the tree, trying to get the correct angle and timing it right so that the shadow undeneath him would dissapear in time was difficult but a few attempts fiddling with the rotation and positioning helped solve the dilema. Another issue i was having, was how to correctly move Charlie the monkey down to the ground to pick up the coconut, i needed him to bend and reach down to pick it up, but the keyframes i had currently placed were making certain parts of his body stay still and move backwards when i was trying to bend his body, which just didnt look right, so i had to reposition them and start from scratch, whilst movinf the shadow at the same time, until it looked correct. The blood was something i had changed aswell, to begin with for this scene and the previous scene where the pelican throws up on the bear, i had been using blood i had designed and made myself, but i had found some already animated blood sequence which i decided to replace the original blood with. This looked alot better in my opinion and was less time consuming for animating as it was already done for me.

Monday, 3 January 2011

George And Jeramia

This is a scene from my animation were George the Pelican comes over to Jeramia when hes sleeping, and wakes him up by regurgitating fish all over his face. I also included my new character 'Charlie The Monkey' at this point, who then comes from behind the tree and stabs George all over for waking up Jeramia. The animating in this scene was fairly simple for me, as it consisted mainly of just moving and rotating the odd parts of the characters

Monday, 13 December 2010

Charles The Monkey!




This is Charles the monkey, i created him on adobe illustrator whilst i wa soff for christmas during december. i was thinking about my animation, and felt like it was lacking a character, so i thought long and hard about possible characters, and came up with this guy. Hes almost like the protector of Jeramia the bear, everytime Jeramias sleep is interupted, Charlie appears and 'deals' with the problem! All his body parts are seperate pieces so all of him moves, except his facial expression, i gave him eye lids so he could blink but that is all. I also created props for Charlie which include a dagger, and a sharp stick, which he uses later on the animtion.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Star Wars Work Experience

During the last few weeks, me and my friend David Denny were asked to do a small ammount of animation for an illustration company, Keltie Cochrane. The animation basically consisted of animating different aspects of the new star wars book covers. For copyright reasons i unfortunatly cannot display any of the picturesm artwork, or titles of the book. We had to stick with the original artwork, and werent really allowed to change it, however we could add in certain effects and features of our own, aslong as it didnt change the original designs. if i am honest, i was somewhat disapointed with what we actually had to do, there wasnt a great deal they expected from us, and since we were limited to using the original artwork, there was only so much we could do, like move the star fighters across the scene, zooming in and out with the camera, panning through the landscape, and occasionally rotating the odd bits and pieces. This for me made the project a little bit boring, not that i wasnt grateful for the work experience, it was interesting, but i just feel that there was alot more we could of done to the work, and made it look ten times better, if we were allowed to adapt the artwork. All in all it was kind of an interesting project, getting to see the exclusive designs and the star wars books etc, but as far as what we had to do for the animation side, just wasnt enough for me.