February 28th 2010: The Mexican Rodeo

LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMBBBBBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

February 27th 2010: Polaroids And Static

That is all.

February 26th 2010: Dead Swallow

Tat design for Harley, basic. S'gona have some writing in the banner but that is as yet unknown as to what it will say. Also gonna bust some colour on it, even if he don't want any. My way biatch.

February 25th 2010: Lee Evans

He's a funny fella.

February 24th 2010: Matt Skiba

This guy.
Pretty sucky drawing.

February 23rd 2010: Elkboy

The outright world domination attempt that is the stampede of Antlers continues.

February 22nd 2010: Chris Moyles

It's his birthday.
Hes been squished by blogger.
Gutted.

February 21st 2010: Why Are Dogs Lips Black?

It's just freaking odd.
I don't get it.

February 20th 2010: Golddigger

So I did my usual birthday search, turns out it was Ansel Adams today. So I thought i'd see if he took any self portraits I could work from or something. Typed it in. This guy came up. Clearly not him. But I found him amusing. He looks like an old timey prospecter. Anyway.

February 19th 2010: Abandon Ship

Aiden told me he was doing a project about giant squid monster things. It sounded interesting. I drew antlers on it at first, but decided that it somewhat ruined the effect, i'm not saying that squids are exempt from the antler rule, they aren't, it's just that in this case it was not appropriate.

February 18th 2010: And Dr. Dre Said

Nothing you idiot Dr. Dre's dead.
If he was alive it'd be his birthday though.

February 17th 2010: Photos £2

Antlers are awesome.

February 16th 2010: E to the D to the D to the Y to the M to the A to the C

That spells Beady Man.
Happy birthday brah.

February 15th 2010: Enter King Seabear

I'm not sure about the fighting fish, I don't think I drew it very well. I like the tree though, also, EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE ANTLERS. They are the best. Don't know why. Mad props to EddyMac as I completely ripped off his swirly pattern thing. Braaap. A4 inspires me to go better as opposed to A5 which was sketchy, fewer dodgy drawings for the win.
And more antlers please.

February 14th 2010: Gypsy Kids

Not alot to say about this...
I like blue people.

February 13th 2010: Henry Rollins

University Professor & Epic Frontman.
Happy Birthday.

February 12th 2010: This Ain't A T-shirt Man, This Is Me Heart.

Went to see King Blues last night.
This drawing is shit.

February 11th 2010: Jennifer Aniston

REALLLLY doesn't look like her at all.
aha. Another birthday.
Another dodgey drawing.

February 10th 2010: Jazzman

Ermmm... pretty silly.

February 9th 2010: Whitaker Wright

I only know who he is because of that episode of Hustle. Nevertheless it is apparently his birthday.

Stop Motion Tape Pen Phone Fingers Back & Forth

Messing about with stop motion. Good times. Learnt how to do batch actions in photoshop so you can easily edit a series of photos at once. Useful stuff. I felt like putting it in reverse at the end because it looks silly. yay.

FEBRUARY 8th 2010: And All You Can Do Is Just Wait By The Moon...

...and remember to write the right month on the drawing.

February 7th 2010: Super Bowl

I tried to watch the super bowl... I decided that drawing an american footballer is more interesting than watching the game.

Storyboarding

Okay, so I've finished my storyboarding for my animation. The total is 78 individual drawn frames with annotations, that doesnt include the ones that I already did for the title screen which I think was another 12. So I guess the total is about 90 for a movie that will last about a minute in total. It took a long time. I will not be posting them up here because they are on A3 and my scanner is only A4 and also nobody will care enough to look at them. Good work team.

February 6th 2010: Three Little Birds

Mr. Marley would be 65 today.

February 5th 2010: Geisha Gal

Don't know why.
Just because.

It's gone squished again.

February 4th 2010: And The Living Won't Have A Prayer...

February 3rd 2010: Cupid's A'Coming

He's gonna getcha.

Poster Of Intent

Simple facts.
Had to make this for a crit deal.

Title text animation

So heres the opening title text to my animation. All of "the prisonhouse of nations" text is hand animated (drawn) over 54 frames and then dropped into flash. That took forever. about 13 hours in total. The rest is done in flash using movie clip objects and filters. I think this works pretty well as a starting intro to my animation as it sets the tone and gives the viewer a little information about the movie.

February 2nd 2010: The Death Of An Addict

Today is the anniversary of the death of Mr. Vicious.
He was possibly the worst musician ever.

Flash Lesson 2

In lesson two it got a little bit more complex. It involved creating a basic motion tween on a movie clip. Then entering the movie clip, importing movie clip objects given to us in illustrator and creating a repeating animation within the original movie clip by moving each individual componant on the spot. We learnt about onion skinning which shows the surrounding frames so that you can move them slightly, as an illustrative animator would do.

I then created my own movie clip sections in illustrator to create my own character and animated him in the same way.

Flash Buttons

So my video wont save to a quicktime format so I can't post it but I need to evaluate it. Basically we learnt how to make a very simple "website" format using flash, using actionscript and buttons to navigate between the pages. It's really easy, you just convert things to buttons and then add over and hit frames within them and then use actionscipt to link them to the other frames.

February 1st 2010: They've Learnt To Swim

I just nearly had a heart attack. My USB went bust and I nearly lost all my files. Yeeeesh.

Swimsuit Zombie.