@lice animation: May 2011

So, it has literally been forever since I updated my blog, which deserves a slap on the wrists, but I have been crazy busy. The workload has now slowed - I only have 3 projects on the go, (Pitch Project, Negociated, Animation Technologies) as opposed to six (which included Dissertation Proposals and Crew Assignments Report) and working like a mad thing with Alex in order to get Barista sorted for the 3rd Year hand-in. Which we managed. Literally, just in time (security came along to kick everyone out at studio closing time and we were literally the only ones able to walk out), and the result can be shown below:

Barista (hand in draft) from Joleaf on Vimeo.

I'm continuing working on Barista for my Negociated brief, which means I will clean-up all the shots I worked on in the video above, and then get cracking on new ones after that. The hand-in is on the 8th, so I can tell I'm going to be working like crazy again. I've been exporting videos of my works in progress, however YouTube is having trouble with them: they'll upload, but not convert... I'm not sure if this is because they're exported from Animate and YouTube doesn't like it...

The only piece of written work remaining for this term (after handing in another set of literature reviews and film review - both of which I got damn good marks for - and a dissertation proposal, complete with massive bibliography) there's only the animation technologies essay to write: we have to research a technology that is/or can be used for animation, which for me, has been a real struggle to think of anything - I was always terrible at trying to invent made-up machines and gadgets as a child - but I came up with the idea of Digital Cameras and their now cheap and high quality avaliability... So I've got to find out a bit more and write it up in a nice essay format and presentation for the rest of our year D:

On a slightly funner presentaiton note, for the pitch project I'm working with Sasha, Insa, Emily and Paddy on creating ideas for a short animated series about the residents of a kitchen cuboard, the condiments, called "The Foodal System". Emily is in charge of creating script ideas and has posted some of the ideas on her blog already, here. Paddy and I have been working on lots of character design. I have been in charge of creating the all tea-bag rockband 'The Herbals', a bunch of hippy herbal teas...