Well Old Harry's is now nearly finished. All of the animation is done. Just some special effects and lighting adjustments to be done.

I've been helping out with the compositing in after affects, keying out the green screens creating lighting, shadow effects and colour correction.

here are some pictures of the animators:


Johnny Schumann


Mole Hill


Susan Guy


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I went to annecy for the first time this year. I was disappointed  with the amount of time that we all had to spend queuing up for tickets and I couldn't get into the MIFA part because I didn't have the right pass, but I saw a lot of fantastic films and the atmosphere was amazing. It was crazy to see an elderly man play with a giant balloon in the final ceremony, really leaping out of his chair he was.

I could only get half a week off work so I missed alot of the screenings. I went to the bes...
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I've been working on plastacine models in Flickerpix for the past couple of months. For a pilot episode for Sky. I hope they like it. I've been working with very short deadlines sometimes making a puppet in 5 days.

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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

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wl1ceSZzDg&hl=en&fs=1]

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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...

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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...

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