Hand Drawn Kinetic Type #3: The Great Repetition - Complete

The 3rd video in the series has been a little while coming but it's finally gone live.

It's a little different from the first two, we're trying to move it forward.

I hope you enjoy it.

Props to Ben Darvill for all the help http://www.bendarvill.com/ 

End Transmission.

Hand Drawn Kinetic Type #3: The Great repetition - Progress

Okay. So due to recent developments with this project I'm taking a lot more time, care and effort about the outcome, I'm making, working, scraping, re-making, re-working and occasionally re-scraping what I've done. But I'm fairly happy with what is below.

Got some 3D paper type and stuff.

 

These take about 20-30 minutes to make EACH, depending on which letter it is (except for 'I' which is easy).

I made 24 letters. Only 3 of which were 'I'. You do the math.

Hand Drawn Kinetic Type #3: The Great Repetition - Start

Touche Amore Video #3: The Great Repetition went into production today.

Here's a hint at something new I'm doing with this one.

There have been some fairly exciting developments in relation to this project, although I'm gonna keep that under my hat for now in case it doesn't work out. Chow.

Hand Drawn Kinetic Type #2: Touche Amore's 'Pathfinder'

Track 2 of 'Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me'.

See part one in an older post.

Hand Drawn Kinetic Type Time Lapse of: Touche Amore- Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

 I bought a little camcorder about a week or so ago. 

This is the first thing I've got round to doing with it.

Hand drawn kinetic type of one of my favourite bands - Touche Amore

. It was just something fun to play around with. 

To be honest I thought It wouldn't work at all but in the end it turned out alright.

Check out Touche Amore.

http://toucheamore.com/

Year 3 - Project 2: The Future Of Illustration - Time Lapse Illustration Video

Group meeting 2 had some massively productive outcomes. We smashed the whole project in one day. 

More ideas, sketches, set up and production. Here it is...

Enjoy.

Design And Art Direction Awards Not Quite Final Piece

 

So here's the half of the video that Eddy Mac and I got finished before we succumbed to illness and had to drop out of the running. We're both really disappointed we didn't get to see this one through because on watching this back just now we we're both really pleased with the outcome. If we'd had more time there would have been some additional footage on the third screen section and ideally the same process completed for a second song.

I think that the succession of food being hit with the hammer is a really effective portrayal of the notes and makes for interesting watching, especially with the changing of speeds that comes with the chorus and the faster sections of the song it creates various lengths of clip which give a different effect. I think that the middle section is also very effective as the speed of the movement juxtaposes with the slowness of the third screen. I think that the 3 different speeds across 3 different screens works really well and the addition of some stop frame work on the third screen would have brought in an extra element to the video which would have completed the set. 

Back To Weaving The Dreams

So now that 2010 is done and dusted and all of my drawingly requirements are also done for now I had time to get back to what I supposed to be doing with my time: building my website. Filling up my gallerys was priority one. It took a long time to format 100 or so images and make thumbnails of them as well but it got done. It then also took a long time to insert aformentioned imagery into said gallerys in the requisite fashion and a pleasant order. Yes. That's right. Requisite. I chose a dead pigeon to be the fron of my illustration one because I like it. And that is the best reason to do anything and everything.

The next step was to input an animation into my website. Since I've only ever made one animation to date this was exceedingly easy. I simply clicked on a backing box and hit insert - media - swf - browse - file. Then resized it appropriately. At some point I'm sure that I will make some more animations in which case I will be forced to integrate them into a gallery system similar to that of my illustration gallery. But as it stands I have no need of such a system and this will be updated when necessary.

As you can see here, it works.

Then I realised that I hadn't actually put any imagery on my front page yet and It was in essence, a white box with a few bits of text sitting in it. It took me a while to decide what images to use. I didn't want to go for just one image as I think that this would narrow the field down too much and visitors to the site might think this is the only type of work that you do. So I went for a mixture of styles and disciples, focusing on illustration as this is my fortay. So I've got a colour illustration, a bold black and white one, a painted one and a line work one alongside a book cover design and a black and white photograph. I chose to focus the images in on a small detail as the larger images are available for viewing through the galleries. I think this works well as it creates an interesting composition, and a small insight into the variety of work that I produce. I chose to arrange them as below due to the fact that 3 of the images I chose to use were predominately green. So I split them up as much as possible.

Gallery Nav Page For Website

I couldn't decide what large image to add to my home page, so I decided to leave that one to stew for a while and move onto the next bit. Most of the pages are all going to be pretty straight forward so I wanted to do the most awkward one first, the gallery set, and get it out of the way. This page was also the only one that I knew exactly what I was putting on it, for all the others I have to make imagery decisions. Made myself up some nice live traced buttons, same style as the normal navigation.

Drew myself up some icons for the different categories within my gallery.

Set it into the dreamweaver, fiddle with the layout and sizes a bit. Then preview it in IE. At the moment i'm going to leave it as is and see what gets said at the crit on Thursday. But i'm thinking maybe grab the whole set and shrink them down into the middle a bit more, theyr'e a bit dominating at the moment.

Also you may have noticed that my twitter button doesn't seem to work properly in IE. Issue needs to be sorted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Project: Animation

So a couple of days ago we were given our new brief which is to create an animation lasting between 30 and 90 seconds that puts across a point and has to be based on statistics. We've started flash tutorials and it all jsut came flooding back to me... So I'm basing mine around speeches by Mumia Abu Jamal, made from his cell on death row, about the American justice system.
The main statistic I am looking at is that 23% of the worlds incarcerated are in the US when they only have 5% of the worlds population. I thought that was interesting.
I instantly wanted to try and use various different methods of animation so I've set to work on some illustrated frames and MY GOD this is tedious. I've been drawing the same thing over and over for about 3 hours now and I'm getting close to half way. wonderful.

A bit behind on the uploads for my Daily effort but they have been done and they do include an exploded whale.