I used some sketches from my sketch book and recreated them in silhouette form using ink on tracing paper. I then scanned them into photoshop and adjusted the contrast to achieve sharper image. Then i scanned in some textures i made using masking tape and ink and changed the colours so they were warmer. I used these as backgrounds.

This what i'd like the finished aniamtion to look like. 

Chowder

I watch this everytime i'm at my brother's. It's one of the funniest and weirdest kid's cartoons, but what i really like is the design of it visually. 

All the textures are seperate drawn patterns that are on a still layer. When characters move, the texture of their clothing doesn't. I think its a really nice effect, sort of digital collage. 

horsing around

i went to my friend's workplace, she works at a stable looking after rich people's horses. So i took some sequential photos and videos of them running about to break down the walk/run cycles.

Lunging- trot and canter cycles.

essay....

Ment to put this up aaaages ago. how i worked out structure of my essay: a giant mind map....

Caroline Leaf- The Street

I've been looking at Leaf's work in my essay as she mentored Suzie Templeton during the filming of 'Dog' and was also a visiting lecturer when Templeton was at RCA. I think that Leaf had some influence to the shot transitions in 'Dog' in how they transform from one to the next- mainly when the boy is curled up in the feotal posistion on his bed and then there's a cross fade to the father in the same position.

But i've just watched it again and noticed that its these transitions that are what i ment by the transition sin my Olympics Ident....

Design for Animation Essay....

I've been looking at what i think are Suzie Templeton's main influences. So far i've said that i think she's been influenced by Svankmajer but i also found out that for her film 'Dog' (which i've been focusing mainly on) she was influenced by Jean- Pierre Jeunet who directed and wrote 'Delicatessen' a French film from 1991. Jeunt and Svankmajer's films are films i have watched since i was little and i was very pleasently surprised to find this connection.

still from Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 1991.

I also made links between Templeton's first film "Stanley' and Svankmajer's 'Little Otik', with response to the theme of food and obsession.

Olympics Ident

I've started to mock up the background with the figure. I still need to add trees, clouds and possibly some greek style decor...