The last lecture I went to at University was an all day masterclass with Chris Hopewell and Barry Pervis. When I was little my mom would let me watch her VHS of the Aardman collection, which had Next on it a film by Barry I used to watch this tape over and over. This is where I got my love of animation. Of cousre back then I didn't understand what it was about I just loved the movement. I got Barry to sign his book for me. He signed it 'Dear Lorna, good luck out in the big wonderful world of ...

The final degree show.

This is the set I worked on with John-lynton Bryan on display in the show.

'Heart Strings' by Rhiannon Evans which won Newports best animated film award 2009.

Take a sneak peek here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcls1gJ2M8M

Joel Mark Calvert's anatomically correct puppet for his final film 'Noah' more of Joels  photos here http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=joel&init=quick#/album.php?aid=113913&id=504281549

One of my set's for my short film 'Forgotten'

My wall of s...

Some designs that I have done for the animation degree show.

For Daniel Brains film The Good the Bad and the Bogey I created some colour concepts.

These were the first two concepts that I came up with. I then was given the following bedroom scene to match the colour scheme to:

Image by Daniel Brain

So to try and make the colours match this scene better I created these. The second of the two I think is a better match.

I drew parts of the animation. Mainly a walk cycle of the main character walking from the front door to the stairs.

Animated t...

One of my side projects that I worked on was a documentary project.  For this project I created 3 props,

Headphones made out of card, they had a wire inserted around them so that they could be put on the head and they would not have to be glued.

An Ipod

and a paper cup.

Here is a still from the film where you can see all three in place,

Here is the finished film

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Introduction

I am a third year animation student in Newport University. For my final year project I decided that I wanted to work on other peoples projects as well as my own. This book is a record of the other side projects that I worked on this year.

John-lynton Bryan's The Collector

We decided that I would be the acting producer and help with the props and set on The Collector. I worked out a week schedule and a monthly schedule for us to work with this helped as I had to organise my time...

Synopsis

This one minute short questions whether the “grass is greener on the other side” It’s an emotional tale of a sack trying to be accepted and included.

Influences

Michael Dudok de Wit – The monk and the fish              Michael Dudok de Wit – Father     and daughter

Sylvain Chomet – Belleville Rendezvous                        Sylvain Chomet – Advert     for insurance

Calon TV – Igam Ogam Tv Series                                  Steffen Schäffler

Initial Ideas

In th...