tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81610019645382428182024-03-13T20:15:45.368-07:00Daniel James AnimationsDaniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-28836131180595893322015-09-24T03:49:00.000-07:002015-09-24T03:49:28.202-07:00Animating Elements for a Music Video <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello all fellow stop motion lovers, Dan here with another update. I did this project around a year ago now, but it's nice to finally be able to talk about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I received an email from director / editor </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nick Light </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;">asking if I would be interested in animating some green screen elements of cassette tape for a music video he was currently directing for the artist Mystro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once I said yes we had a good conversation discussing the amount of shots needed, how long each one will be, what the tape will be doing in that shot and the camera angles. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;">With that understood it was time to start planning the shoot. I converted my basement into a small studio space. With the camera mostly shooting down. This would change if the shot need to be from a drastically different angle or required props to be animated on and around such as a table leg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now you would have thought that the hardest</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> thing to get hold of was the cassette tape, but thanks to good old PoundLand that was sorted in no time. The hardest thing was to decide on was how it should be animated. In tests I found that the tape would move and completely change shape with the slightest touch, not good for animating with. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I shot the 11 3 to 10 second shots in around a week in between working full time. The only major problem I came across was the dreaded light flicker. After talking to the director about this it was decided not to worry as it only effected the background never the tape elements. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are the final green and blue screen elements. Light flicker and all. </span></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZN-DH9OKxg" style="line-height: 1.38;" width="560"></iframe><span style="line-height: 1.38;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here is the final music video. </span></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xq2R_4VwlhI" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38;" width="560"></iframe><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.9867px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hope you have enjoyed this latest post and as always your comments and feedback are very welcome. </span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Till next time!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6667px; line-height: 17.9867px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-67297858386975084242015-06-09T18:25:00.000-07:002015-06-09T18:25:44.177-07:00Thinking Out Loud – Animated Ed Sheeran Cover:<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span lang="EN-US">Back in December of 2014 I received an
email from a musician friend of mine Kazuki James, check out his previous work <a href="http://www.kazukijames.com/">here</a>.
He was asking if I would be interested in doing an animated music video for
him. I of course said yes and Kaz went on to tell me that he has been working
on a cover track of Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud. Performing the music
himself while getting Birmingham based singer Andrew Morris to do the vocals,
check out his work <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andrew-morris-3/">here</a>. Kaz went into more details explaining that he wants this
video to be a recreation the original music video.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">If you have not seen the video check it out here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The big difference in our video will be instead
of a man and woman ballroom dancing it will be two men. Myself and Kaz decided
that these two characters should be based on the singer Andrew and his husband
Drew. With the overall plan been that the finished video will be used to
promote same sex love and raise money for </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.akt.org.uk/">The Albert Kennedy Trus</a>t</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;"> </span>an LGBT charity.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Story:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first thing I quickly realized when
given this project was that it would not be possible for me to build and make a
ball ballroom set in the time frame I had. To get around I decided to set the
video in a white paper textured environment with a wooden dance floor. Knowing this would not be very visually appealing
I got the idea that every time the dancing got more interment and loving the
paper walls will start peeling back. The big ending being a revealed montage of
all male couples, made up from friends of the singer and producer. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">With the story idea approved it was time
for me to start on the puppets. My plan was to build the armatures first. Knowing
I would have limited shooting space I did not want to make them too big.
Keeping in mind that these puppets will be to dancing men I gave them wide
shoulders, long arms with strong legs and feet. We were fortunate to get all
armature joints and parts kindly donated by <a href="http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk/armatures">AnimationToolkit</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the armatures completed It was time
to start on sculpt the heads. As the two characters from this production are
based on real people I wanted to get a good likeness to them. I had Andrew the
singer send over some reference photos of himself and his husband.</span></div>
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primer and carried on to apply layers of mutable shades of acrylic paint till I
was happy with the skin tone and texture. For the hair I wanted to do something
different with these puppets and gave them a real hair look and texture. To do
this I prepped the heads by painting on the hair and beard sections in a solid base
color, this will be used as a guide when I add on the hair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To make the hair I got some cheap hair extensions,
cut them up into almost a powder. I then covered the painted sections on the
heads in PVA Glue. When tacky I sprinkled on the hair making sure to apply plenty.
Once dry I blew away the extra hair giving me the final look and I could not of
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<span lang="EN-US">As for the costumes myself and Kaz
wanted to base them on one of the reference photos were the two guys are at a
wedding dressed smart yet relaxed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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To make these costume pad out the armatures with sponge and trimming it down to a body shape I felt suited the guys.I then hand stitched
the trousers and waistcoat from scratch, however to save time the shirts are
from an Action-Man, with one died pink. Now you may have noticed that these
guys are a little more filled out then your standard Action-Man. To make these
fit I made a cut up each side of the shirts and hand stitched in an extra panel
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<span lang="EN-US">The final step was using a sponge to apply
multiple layers of Liquid latex to build up the hands and feet. I used this
method as I I felt the solid colour you get from silicone would not match the
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<span lang="EN-US">After popping in the eyes adding on the brows
and stick on mouths the puppets are completed and don’t they look Handsome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Set:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To make the set I took my animation
table from <a href="http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk/set-base-duo/?page_context=category&faceted_search=0">AnimationToolkit</a>. I added the wooden floor by cutting up a printed plastic
pattern into floor board size strips and laid them onto set base. To make the background
it was simply 3 layers of paper: 1 brown parcel paper, 2 the montage of donated
photos and the final top layer of plane whit paper.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let the Animating Begin!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My original brief was to make a shot for
shot remake of the original video. It became very clear that it would not be possible
to do the big romantic movements without this looking like a big joke. It was
very important to me and everyone else that this did not look overly comical, we
want this to look sweet, romantic with a hint of funny. </span>I would plan out the dance routine in 10-20 second chunks of story-boarding, animating, story-boarding, and animating.<br />
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animating I found it was best to shoot on a mix of single and double frames. This
would depend on what the guys were doing and how big the dance move was in the shot.
However I would all ways shoot the wallpaper ripping on single frames. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ways of recreating moments from the original video, find ways to match the action
to the lyrics and focusing on not repeating myself. I found the best way to do
this was to edit the video as I went along adding the new shots in as soon as I
had finished animating them.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Overall apart from exhaustion I felt the
only major Problem I came across while animating was the refreshing rate of the
LED lights causing light flicker. This would mostly happen with close-up shots
and when going from a mid-focused shot to an extreme close-up focusing on the pealing
walls. I was able to fix most of these shots in After Effects with lost cutting
up, Pasting, moving around masks and layers. However it was not possible for me
to fix every shot when the characters were moving over the flickering sections,
to try and fix these shots of would adjust the colour levels frame by frame.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">So come, comment, like, share with all your friends, help
spread the love and if you liked the video please donate to the </span><a href="http://www.akt.org.uk/2/spg357/albert-kennedy-trust-helping-young-lgbt-people/can-you-help/donating.aspx" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;">The Albert Kennedy Trus</a>t !</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hello everyone just a quick post to say that I am very proud to have both The Piper and Viv & Mandy mentioned in Barry Purves’new Book <b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472521900/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0NFD9HC068Q56HCGM48T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294">Stop-MotionAnimation (Basics Animation)</a></u></b> Second edition. </span></div>
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longer a privet video and isnow available to everyone! Check it out below,feel
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier in the mouth I got to try out soldering
a ball and socket armature. Using the armature parts from <a href="http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk/">AnimationToolkit </a>I
cleaned them all up with nail polish remover to remove the dirt and grease so
they can fuse together perfectly. Using the silver solder and flux kit and a chefs gas
torch I started heating up and soldering away</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It took me a just under 3 hours to compete the
full Armature, I found soldering the ball and bar sections to be relatively
easy. The joint sections took a longer time to heat up and a bit tricky to
apply the solder to at times. The most tricky parts I found for me were the
feet plates because of the size and shape of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once all the parts were soldered together I
cleaned them up in vinegar to get the burnt scorch marks off and built up the
armature itself. I have to say that soldering an armature is brilliant it feels
so solid and much more professional, I will be doing this with all my armatures
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<o:p></o:p>Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-16829221060633305392014-02-23T09:34:00.000-08:002014-02-23T09:34:51.894-08:00Piper screenings <span style="font-family: inherit;">Good news! My graduation film The Piper has been selected to play at 2
screening events in March. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first screening is overseas at the Montreal
Nuit Blanche on the 1st of march 1st. This is a one off screening of selected
highlights from the Stop MoMontreal festival, that The Piper was screen at last
October. More information on this festival check out the site <a href="http://www.montrealenlumiere.com/nuit-blanche-en/">here! </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second screening is the 2014 Animation
Showcase Chester International Film Festival on 6-15 of March. This is the
first time that the Chester International Festival has had an animation section
and I’m very proud to be apart of it! For More information on this festival
check out the site <a href="http://www.festival.chesterfilmfans.co.uk/?page_id=227">here!</a> </span></div>
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I’ve worked on the shorts for a week at a time over 3 sets of 12, 30 second
episodes, in the May - November of 2012 and in the November of 2013. My main
job role was making the new props for the episodes, this can be anything from
making conkers, snails eyestalks, bunches of cherries, corn on the cob and even
a Chinese style gong. I also helped out with the setting up of the new shots,
set dressing, placing props to look the best on camera and assisting the
animator with shots when I'm needed.<br />
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Behind the scenes photos of what I got up to taken by myself. </div>
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In the last year Compost Corner has been nominated for a BAFTA, screened at the
Bradford Animation festival and most recently nominated for not one but two
British Animation Awards known as the BAA's. I'd like to say now a big thank
you the Wes for letting me be a very small part of it all and a massive
congrats to him and all the team involved, it grate to see a small production
getting recognised and I have my fingers crossed for you!<br />
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The second time I was at CITV I was asked to animate a little short for them
called Roswell. This was for a workshop they did with a bunch of kids where
they spent the day creating a storyboard for a short story. The puppet, props,
and set had already been made and was all set up for animating. I spent the
afternoon animating the puppet on set with a green screen background, although
I had to follow the storyboards I was allowed to come up with my own ideas
within the boundaries.<br />
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Once I finished animating I gave the image files to the CG guys and in 3 mouth
I got sent over the final file with grate 3D FX and brilliant sound FX added
the just brings it all to life. Check out the final Roswell below and as all
ways your comments and feedback are very welcome.<o:p></o:p>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/w-_RVgM69Lw" width="560"></iframe>Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-76040245301455678062014-01-07T05:52:00.000-08:002014-01-07T07:29:08.126-08:00Working at Second Home Studios<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Back in September / October of 2013 I had the chance of getting to do just
under 3 weeks of work experience at delightful and very welcoming Second Home
Studios in Birmingham. Where I got to assist on a project for CITV's Share A
Story, This is a yearly </span>competition by CITV where children get to make their own storyboard for a 30 second short. The winners are selected and local animation
studios are then given a short to make in their desired format.<br />
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The Share A Story I got to work on is called 'My Motorbike'. Made at Second
Home Studios. Written and read by 8 year old Alex Holt, Directed and Produced
by Waldemar Werbel and Chris Randall.</span><br />
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I joined the project on the last 3 weeks of production right when the animating
side started up. This was a perfect time for me to join as most of the job
roles I got involved in were prop making, set dressing, help setting up shots,
lighting and overall studio assistance. The job that I'm most proud of getting
to do was making the characters scarf and red cape. I made 2 of etch Item as
they had a habit of getting a little grubby from been used and moved around a
lot to simulate the wind as he rides the bike.</span><br />
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One of the more amusing things I learnt was making the trees. To do this we used
a number real tree branches, glued together to make the tree trunks. For the
green foliage we used bunches of Broccoli screwed and glued into place. This
would of never of crossed my mind but it is something I will most definitely be
keeping in mind for a project as it has a brilliant look on camera. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To read the skwigly interview with Chris and Wal on the making of My Motorbike Click
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<span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Credits:<br />
Written and read by 8 year old Alex Holt,<br />
Directed and Produced by Waldemar Werbel and Chris Randall.<br />
Animation: Ian Whittle, Chris Randall, Waldemar Werbel<br />
Production Assistant: Omari McCarthy<br />
Modellers: Dominic Madden-Kennedy, Abbie Williams, Charlotte Clare, Amy Dodd,
Ian Whittle, Omari Mccarthy Josh Taylor, Daniel James<br />
Post-Production: Waldemar Werbel, Jardine Sage, Frank Mansfield, Chris Randall<br /><br />
I hope you enjoyed It, this was great fun to work on and a brilliant team to
work with, I hope to get the opportunity to work with them again! To find out
more about Second Home Studios click <a href="http://www.secondhomestudios.com/">here!</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I had the joy of been at the 20th Bradford Animation Festival,
this was my first time going and what a year I picked to go. As there was a lot
happening over the week I will focus this post on my personal favourite events
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On the opening night of the festival I
got to see a screening of Nightmare Before Christmas, the film was been
screened To celebrate that like the festival it's the films 20th anniversary.
Now of-course I have seen the film A LOT but I have never seen it on the big screen,
seeing it like this was brilliant and I was amazed to see new props and details
in the sets on almost every shot. Iv you ever get the chance to see it on the
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Independent Animator Lee Hardcastle gave a very interesting talk
on how he to become a success from posting his animations on YouTube. I first
noticed see Lee<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>s work when he posted the evil dead in
60 seconds, Pingu's The Thing and it's grate to see that he is doing so well. I
Found it fascinating that he has managed to turn his crating animations for
YouTube hobby into his full time job and it.s something I'm very interested in
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My highlight of the festival was getting to see the brilliant Ian
Mackinnon and Peter Saunders receive their lifetime achievement award. For
you guys who may not know Ian and Peter are the owners of Mackinnon & Saunders the UK's leading stop motion Puppet makers and they could not be nicer
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You will mostly know them from their work with Tim Burton on The
Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie and with Wes Anderson on Fantastic Mr Fox. They
have mostly been busy working for over 20 years on countless children's TV
shows including: Bod the Builder, Bill & Ben, Postman Pat, Engie Benjy, Fifi
and the Flowertots, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion and most recently Toby's Travelling
Circus.<br />
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They are a true inspiration to me and it was brilliant to see them
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On the last day went to see the brilliant Oscar winning
independent Australian stop motion animator writer and director Adam Elliot in
conversion with the grate Barry Purves. I first saw Adams work when I got to
see Mary & Max and Harvey Crumpet and I became fan of this unique style of
film making right away.<br />
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Apart from seeing his films I did not know all that
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behind it all. For you guys who may not have seen Adams work cheek out the Mary
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Before the talk started Barry and Adam were talking in the caff
where I was also sat, this was where Barry spotted me came over and introduced
me to Adam. I got to have a good chat with Adam and I also got to show him The
Piper puppet, biggest complement he gave me was when he asked if Mackinnon and
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My self @BeyondCraft and @catch_ch and The Piper working hard on
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi guys i would like to show you this grate campaign for a new animated short,
Kernowland a Stop Motion Adventure, Based on the popular children's books by
Jack Trelawnys and directed by my very good Friend Zeke Ares. </span><br />
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I first meat Zeke in my first year at university and over his last to years we
got to work on a number projects together including been the co-director on his
final film Surge witch you can see below.</span><br />
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As you can see form Surge Zeke has a grate mind for details, large scale
story's and directing. Zeke has spent the last year building up a team on
brilliantly talented people in-order for him to bring his full vision of
Kernowland to the stop motion screen.</span><br />
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But don't just take my word for it come and check out the crowed finding
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For new and up to date news come and like the Facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kernowland">https://www.facebook.com/kernowland</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Subscribe to the YouTube Channel so you can see the I believe in Kernowland
videos </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyPv6w7R8ToR5oeYTFcoW8w?feature=watch">http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyPv6w7R8ToR5oeYTFcoW8w?feature=watch</a><br />
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I know I speak for Zeke and myself in saying we believe there is great
potential in this project so</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> please </span>please <span style="font-family: inherit;">donate if you can and </span>please <span style="font-family: inherit;">do feel
free to pass the links around!</span><br />
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I believe in Kernowland!!</span>Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-854248347274999972013-10-10T12:19:00.000-07:002013-10-10T12:21:05.912-07:00Degree show and GraduationNow that all the hard work on The Piper was over it was time to get ready for
the university Show and Tell degree show. This where all the university's Art
and design departments are open to the public, so they can come and take a look
around all the final year students work on display<br />
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While i was setting up my section of the degree show I came out of the
animation department and I was shocked and over the moon to see that The Piper
had been used on a banner to promote the animation department. It was a very
amazing thing to see my characters on a 5 foot size banner and I felt very
lucky that my work had been chosen.<br />
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The degree show lasted a week and was brilliant to see people's reaction to everyone’s
films and hard work.<br />
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For all you who could not make it to the degree show here
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So now the degree show was over the next step was the big one, Graduation! This
was a crazy broiling hot day and grate way to say good bye to university life
but hopefully not the last time see you your mates.<br />
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A completely unexpected thing happened as I stood in the wings of the stage
getting ready to walk on and shake the deans hand, the speaker stopped reading
the names From the Stop Motion Animation and puppet making class and said and
the winner of Outstanding Creative Achievement In Design: Graphics and
Animation is awarded to Daniel James! Well I was of course dumfounded and did
not believe it. I walked out on stage a bit like a zombie, shook the Deans hand
and only when I had sat down it hit me what jus happened.<br />
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winning this award was truly a grate honer out of the whole university my work
was selected for this award and for that I am very grateful. I would like say
now a massive thank you to every on who has helped me on this project, to my
tutors for nominating me and to the heads of the Arts and design department who
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This was the icing on the cake, I can now proudly say I could not of received
any higher of an achievement for my time at university. It's now time for the
scary part, where I levee the comfort of education and step out into the big
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I’d like to tell you lovely lot that this Sunday the 8th of September is
Animated Eden, Cumbria's First International Short Animation Film Festival. This
is a one day pilot animation festival to help raise money for next year’s much
bigger festival and screenings; it will be awesome if we could get as many of
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I'm also very happy to say that my film The Piper will be getting screened as
part of the festival. So to all you guys who have seen my making of posts and
not seen the final film this will be a perfect chance for you to see The Piper
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After the screening I will be taking part in a Q&A on stage where I will be
talking about the making of process for the film and taking questions from the
audience. You will also have the chance to meet The Piper cast as I will have
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If you are a stop motion animator or fan you will be delighted to hear that the
incredibly talented Mr Barry Purves will be given what is bound to be a very
inspiring talk all about is experience working in animation and why he still
animates with puppets. Barry will also be screening a selection of his own
short films. I first met Barry in 2010, in them three years I have gotten to
know him very well and now regard him as a good friend. I highly recommend that
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I should also mention that the festival shop / stand will be selling The Piper
crew T-shirts size medium only for £8 and badges for 50p. So if you liked The
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So come on down or up, the festival is free, so what more could you want!!
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<o:p></o:p>Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-5841388585991230222013-09-01T12:56:00.001-07:002013-09-01T12:56:24.018-07:00Making of The Piper part 3 <div style="text-align: left;">
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With the puppets and set completed it was time to get animating on the film.
Due to story points I had to shoot a dream sequence and one of the last
shots for the film first, it had to be done this way as I needed the park set
to be fully clean. Once all the shots were completed I had to take a week out of
animating and messy the park up, add a fence and trees. In planning my
animation time sheet I had to shoot the story in chunks all facing the same
camera angels. This was important to get right as the sun is setting toughout
film and I was painting the background by hand as I went on. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The first two weeks of animating were with all that kids paying on the
equipment in the park. These were all shot of two's at 25 fps as i wanted the
kids animation to have a more classic children's tv show vibe. However the
Piper himself was animated on ones this was to give him more fluid movements
and allow him to play his pipe in sync, it also helps to sell the fact that The
Piper is not from this world and gives him a very different feel. Here is a
slide show that shows the animation process and the order I shot the film in.
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Editing:<br />
Editing on The Piper was the first time i really used After effects to its full
advantage, as i haven't had much experience with After Effects i asked my may
friend Frank Mansfield for some advice. There were 6 main shots where I used
After Effects for: rig removal, light tracking, colour correction and green
screen removal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I edited the film as I went along, animating in the day and adding in the new
shots on the night. The dead line on completing this Film was the tightest it
has been for me. on the day before hand in I finished animating the final shot
with the Piper and all 7 kids at 5pm and was up editing in the final shots,
making the final touches, fully syncing up the music and adding in the sounds
fx till 7am of the day of Hand in. I uploaded the film on to Vimeo, did the
last part of the right up and handed in all my work. </span></span><br />
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Reactions:<br />
I had The Piper online viewable to the public for 2 days after it was
completed, and in that time that feedback has been amazing! I sent the link to
a large number of animation friends and here are some of their brilliant
comments. </span><br />
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I'd like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to everyone who
has watched The Piper and commented on it as means a lot! To the ones who have
no seen The Piper yet it will be back online once the festival runs are over. </span></div>
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As you may have seen there is a brilliant new stop motion ad now showing for
the first John Lewis Insurance, if you have not seen it cheek it out here!<br />
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I was lucky enough to be contacted by by a member of 360i asking to be a part
of the new campaign called ‘What Matters Most’. This has been launched alongside
the new ad were viewers can create a 6 second vine showing what matters most to
them. You then post your vine with Twitter using the #tag #whatmattersmost and
you have the chance of winning £1000 in John Lewis vouchers and more!<br />
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My job was to create my own 6 second Vine that they could use as a part of their
example pages for people interested in creating their own vines could see. This
was my second time animating with the Vine app and I found it an interesting
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As an animator I found being limited to not watching your animation till you
have fully finished your 6 second clip gave me a whole new respect for the
legendary animators who did these amazing shots without the tool of Instant
playback. I believe using this app will be a great way to teach new starting
animators a great sense of timing. I plan on trying a list of basic animation
tasks on the vine myself to see how it goes.<br />
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Here is my finished vine and if you fancy creating your own vine for John Lewis
check out the site here. <a href="http://whatmatters.johnlewis-insurance.com/competition/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">http://whatmatters.johnlewis-insurance.com/competition/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></div>
Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-32588292894021040302013-07-27T10:01:00.001-07:002013-07-28T04:25:32.922-07:00The Making of The Piper Part 2Hi guys
welcome back to the making of my final graduation film The Piper. In my last
post I gave you a insight into the per production work and in this post I will
cover the making of the Puppets, set, props, and animation.<br />
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The Piper Puppet:<br />
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slideshow shows how I made the Piper puppet form my first designs to the final
character on set. The armature is from <u><a href="http://animationtoolkit.co.uk/">animationtoolkit.co.uk</a></u> and was cover in foam to pad
out the body shape. The sculpted clay head was set into a silicone mould and
casted up using a fast setting resin. The suite was hand stitched by my self
working from a pattern that was kindly given to me. The hands are made form
silicone and hair is made out of a fur fabric that was coloured in using a
number of different sharpies.<br />
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The Kids puppets:<br />
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slideshow shows how the all 7 kid puppets were made. I had 3 Ball and socket
armatures and 4 wire armature that were from <u><a href="http://animationtoolkit.co.uk/">animationtoolkit.co.uk</a></u>. The armatures were covered
in foam to give etch kids a different body shape. To save time all the kids had
the same head, this was sculpted in clay, set into a silicone mould and casted
up 8 times using a fast setting resin. All the kids costumes were made the
amazing first year student Cat Hayes, check out her work<a href="https://vimeo.com/catchanimation"> hear!</a>. The hands are
made form silicone. The hair was made by my self and to second year students <a href="http://robthecartoonman.blogspot.co.uk/">RobMillard</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/user11562787">Giselle Schiniou</a> (click names to see there work) layering up meany hair extensions over a foam
core. Once fully dry I would cut it into the desired shape.<br />
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The Park Set:<br />
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slideshow shows the construction of the park set. I started off by covering the
Animation table with a big black sheet that I stuck down with PVA glue. Once
dry I glued down sawdust in to the shape of the pathway rolling over it till
flat. I did the same technique for the chip wood in the main play ground but
instead of saw dust I used torn up chunks of cardboard. To make the sky /
backdrop i got a 1 meter by 2 meter size strip of blue fabric. I painted on the
clouds with poster paint as it seeps into the fabric, I would paint this sky
more orange tough out the film to so show that the sun is setting. The chip
wood and sawdust were painted with a mix or poster a acrylic paints.<br />
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I made all
of the play ground equipment my self with scraps pieces of wood, wire and foam
board, a part from the seesaw witch I got my good friend Zeke Ares to make,
check out his work<a href="http://zekeares-animationcreation.blogspot.co.uk/"> here!</a> I made the play ground clean first then once all the
shots were completed I messed up the play ground. To messy up and to make play
ground feel more like a cage for the kids I added a fence all around the park,
i also added trees all along the back and sides of the park. this helped me get
some every interesting depth and lighting on set. The tree were made out of
poster tubes sprayed in glue, rolled in saw dust, painted up and glued to the
set.<br />
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as always your comments, questions and feedback are very welcome! Coming soon
the making of The Piper part 3.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Well I
know it's been a long time sins I last blog any news. As you may have guessed I
have been incredibly busy the last 7 mouths. However now university is now all
over I plan on getting you all up to date with a sires of new posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good place to start off with is a little
film called The Piper. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The
Making of The Piper 1</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">If you
follow my work you will know i have been working on this film for the past
year. Just before christmas i created a teaser trailer in order for me to work
on this idea for the entreaty of my final university year. hopefully you have
seen the making of that I posted back in February if not feel free to check it
out in my older posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Now that
I have finished the film I can now show you all how I made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you can imagine there was a lot of work
that went into the film so I have decided to go over the highlights in part 1 and show
you a set of making of slide shows in part 2. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Firstly
id like to mention the Armatures and Materials for all of the puppets in The
Piper have been sponsored by Animation Toolkit. I have been very fortunate to
have been in contact with owner of Animation Toolkit Wes Wood for a number of
years, he is an awesome chap and incredibly generous. I was given enough
joints, balls, rods and plates from his amazing Ray Harryhausen approved
Armacreature sets to make 4 puppets, 1 Piper and 3 of the kids. with the other 3 kids been made out of the wire armature kits. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I would highly
recommend this kit to all you stop motion guys, there is so much potential to
what you can create with the kit, may it be human character or your classic</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> creature</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
like the legend Mr Ray Harryhausen would make. To see all the brilliant stock check out <a href="http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk/">AnimationToolkit here! </a></span><br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> With out
the generous help of Animation Toolkit I could not have made The Piper full
stop! I'd like to take this time to say a massive thank you to Wes Wood for
making this possible and I hope you are as happy with the final film as i
am!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Once I
got the script and designs finalised it was time to storyboard the film, I
stared off by thumb nailing out the whole story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With my
drawing skills not been the best I decided to get a story board artist Chloe
Howley in. I gave Chloe a copy of the script, designs and my thumb nails to and
she got back to me with some amazing story boards. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Sadly
Chloe could not board the whole film so I got my Step sister Nadia McLoughlin
to takeover.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Once all
the boards were competed I started editing them together into the animatic.
Creating this animatic was a brilliant way for me to show my production team
and mentor what exactly I wanted to do in this film. This also managed to help
convince the tutors that I needed to book out and have the set attached to the
animation table for 2 mouths solid. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Here is a
snippet from the animatic. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Music:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I was
very fortunate to get composer Brett McCoy to create original music for film. I
gave Bret almost free rain when creating the music for the Pipers playing.
however i had the idea to have the boys and girls come out to play theme plying
when ever we see a new park set. Brett Worked to the timing and music keys I
set up in the animatic with a temp track with music from films and tv. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Bret did
an amazing job of the music and id like to say a massive thank you! The Piper
would be nothing with out his music. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Cheek out
Brett's other work<a href="http://www.brettwmccoy.com/blog/"> here!</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Thanks
for reading guys and as always your comments and feedback are very welcome!
Coming soon the making of The Piper part 2.</span></div>
Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-91261908169052353182013-02-10T06:47:00.000-08:002013-02-10T06:47:34.888-08:00Making of The Piper Teaser TrailerI know its a later then i pland but here is the making of The Piper Teaser Trailer. way back in summer I got the idea of doing a retelling of the pied piper, with my twist. As soon as I got that Idea I started sketching quick designs for the piper and the playground itself. As I was not doing a straight retelling I wanted to have hints to the original story buy having rocking horses that look like rats in the park. <br />
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I had a very lose idea for how I wanted the piper to look , so I did several pages of just random face designs. To help me come up with different ideas I looked into as many of the different retellings of the original story as I could find.<br />
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After doing the quick concept sketches I wanted to see if the design I liked would work well in 3D. As I was sculpting I felt that the design of the hair did not look right as a 3D sculpt . I tried out a number of different hair styles till I got a look that I liked<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 20.0pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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Happy with the sculpt I removed the head and got it ready to cast up to make the silicon mould from it. To make it castelbel I had to remove the hair and make holes in the head to show where they will go. Once the silicone mould was made and the clay head was taken out I got to cast the head up by using a two part fast cast resin. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 20.0pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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As this was a teaser trialer i wanted to keep the look of the piper a
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The next step for me was to make the ball and socket armature that the piper will have, so he can do the graceful movements required in the final film. this was kindly supplied by Animation Toolkit to check out all the awesome goods on the site <a href="http://www.animationtoolkit.co.uk/">click here!! </a> </div>
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Once the armature was made I then glued the foam over it. When dry I cut the foam down into the required body shape. to make the pipers outfit i got a pattern from a producer mate that im not aloud to say the name of just yet . With some slight adjustments to the shape it fit the piper grate.</div>
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These images show the making of the: park gates, rocking rats and the swings. The Ground on the swings set was done the same way as the main park set, using chunks of ripped up cardboard glued to a wooden board then painted over with several cotes. </div>
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I am right now in the middle of the full productionon on the final Piper film. Now that the trialer has been out for 2 mouths i have been amazed by the grate feedback i have got back from it. I would like to take this chances to say a big thankyou to all who has seen and comented on the video it meens a lot! </div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/55351182">The Piper Teaser Trailer 2012</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/djanimations">Daniel James</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-84597494281368259342012-12-11T05:29:00.000-08:002012-12-11T05:29:55.760-08:00The Piper Teaser Trailer <h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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graduation film The Piper , I hope this has you excited to see the final
film coming in 2013!</span></span></h5>
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Mandy in the Big Clean up Part 1 was screened as part of the Flip International
Animation Festival? Well I’m very happy to say that Viv & Mandy in the Big
Clean up Part 2 will be getting screened at this year’s Flip animation festival
on the 2<sup>nd</sup> of November!</span></div>
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2 on the big screen in a room full of animation lovers who may even remember
seeing Part 1 last year. I’m very grateful to the people at Flip for once again
give this me and Viv & Mandy this opportunity, thank you very much!</span></div>
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films from graduates from my university also been screened, so a big congratulations
to all of them as well!! For more information about the Flip International
Animation look at<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/" style="color: red;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/</span></a>
to book tickets and see what great things they have going on there this year.</span></div>
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to meet as many of my online animation mates face to face, and you can even
have your very own Viv & Mandy badge :D</span></div>
Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-66886418402438029772012-10-06T14:32:00.000-07:002012-10-06T14:32:23.892-07:00 Bristol Animate Encounters Day 3 & 4:<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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After the joy of last night Myself, Tommy and Gareth got up
nice and early and went over to a filmmaker’s breakfast networking event. We
sat down at a table and many different people went around the room and came
over to talk to use. We got to the meet and chat to some very interesting
people, some were fellow animation students, resent university graduates and
the film and animation advisers from the British Council. I learnt a lot from
these people and found out some interesting ways to help you get finding for
animation and short film ideas. These are something I will most defiantly be
keeping in mind for when I leve university next year. </div>
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The Lighter side</div>
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This is the last of the short animation screenings, and this
one felt much more like a bigger mix of short and longer studio animated
shorts. I had seen some of these shorts screened on TV over last year and it
was fantastic to see them on the big screen were every detail looked amazing. My
highlights from this screening were: Much Better Now, Phone Home,
Pythagasaurus, Stopover, A Different Perspective, Chop Chop and The Gruffalo’s
Child.</div>
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Nexus Studio Focus</div>
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Nexus Productions are an independent production company and
animation studio based in London check them out <a href="http://www.nexusproductions.com/">here!</a> This one was grate a mix
of a show and tell presentation with the screenings, 4 people from the studio
sat there speaking about the company; they would show a short then talk about the
making of that short. This was a very different way to screen the shorts and I
have to say I really enjoyed it, this is exactly how in my eyes the 2 Aardman
screening should have been like. My highlights from this screening were: Back
to the Start, Invade all of the Humans!!!, The Chase, Speed of Light and This
Way Up. But if I was to pick one it would have to be Invade all of the Humans!!
Hands down! </div>
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Trip to the Aardman Lobby</div>
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After the last screening Tommy and myself decided to go for
a little walk around Bristol and hopefully find The Aardman animations Studio.
To cut the tale short we ended up finding the studio, and after about 5 minutes
standing outside saying should we or should we not ring the bell, we rang bell. </div>
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The very nice chap behind the desk let us in and very kindly
let us have a look around the amazing props, Puppets, sets and life size
Wallace they have on display in the Lobby. To say that this was an amazing and
very overwhelming felling to be standing in the middle of Aardman is a big
understatement. One day it would be fantastic to get any form of Work experience
there, or even the full on tour would keep me happy, but until then I have got
theses pitchers to remind me of just how amazing it was.</div>
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Still buzzing from are trip to Aardman we then mad are way
over the Late Lounge. This screening was a mix of live action and animated
shorts that are a little to adult themed to show in the day screenings. There
were some that were very funny and some that were a tad disturbing, but the
quality of shorts was fantastic. My highlights from this screening were: Tram,
The Bob shorts, Curiosity Kills and Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gum)</div>
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Aardman Kids Animation Workshop </div>
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This was my last day in Bristol and a brilliant way to end
it was to go to a build your own Gromit work shop with the very awesome Aardman
model maker Jim Parkyn. Although me and Tommy were some of the oldest in the
room this was a cracking work shop that lasted just over an hour. Using a sheet
of basic shapes we used these to build are very own Gromit, and I have to say I
was very happy with the way mine came out. And thank you Jim for letting me
keep the modelling tool with the Aardman logo on it I will use it with
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Once the workshop was over we stayed back and had a very
nice chat with Jim about most things animation, I then handed him one of my
cards and a Viv & Mandy badges. Once out of the workshop Tommy and I said a
jolly good bye, parted ways and i got the train back to Sunny Stoke. </div>
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Now I am back into the full swing of university life I can
say that all in all this festival has been one hell of an amazing experience
and I’d like to say a massive thank you to all the truly amazing people that I
got to meet, chat to and spend time with. I very much hope that I can make it over
to the festival again next year, so until then buy buy Bristol! </div>
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Day 2:</div>
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Tooth and Claw</div>
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This was the third selection of animated screening and as you
may be able to guess from the tile most of these animations were animal themed.
This screening was an exciting one as this was the screening were former
Graduates form my university including Tommy had there film The Money Tree
shown, and it was a grate felling to see it on the big screen for them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My highlights from this screening: The Money
Tree, Rising Hope, L’Ere Bête, Ride Of Passage, Ernesto, and The Tortoise</div>
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Before this screening I meet up with Katie McQuin who is a
community manager at Aardman. I know Katie from posting animations on the
Wallace and Gromit site and twitter. I meet here for a little chat last year
and it was grate to she hear again and have a good long chat, and she was very
happy to get her very own Viv & Mandy badge. Myself, Katie and Gareth head
in to the next screening. This was the fourth set of animated shorts to play and
themed about gods, death and the environment. My highlights from this screening
were: Zing, A Life Well-Seasoned, Atlas, Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto and
Bendito Machine IV</div>
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Setting the scene: Layout workshop</div>
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The workshop was held by Fraser Maclean the author of the
book setting the Scene, this was an interesting talk were he spoke about his
personal jobs within animation, his first job was doing some of the shadow FX
work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He then went on to talk about the past 100
years of animation layout in a brief history, showing clips for different films
and shorts as examples. The full history of layout is in his book that you can
check out <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Setting-Scene-hc-Fraser-MacLean/dp/0811869873">here!</a> Id highly recommend it for all animators but more so if you are
a 3D and 2D animator/ director. As staging can make or break a scene. Also
Fraser is a very nice, friendly and easy to talk to chap.<br />
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Before this workshop started I spotted that I was sat next
Mr Ben Mitchell who is the co-hosts of the brilliant Skwigly Animation pod cast
check out there site <a href="http://www.skwigly.co.uk/">here!</a> And you can download the pod cast <a href="http://www.skwigly.co.uk/articles/podcast/">here!</a> or on
ITunes. I had been chatting to Ben on and off over the last year over twitter,
so It was nice to introduce myself and put a face to the voce and tweets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Over in the Art gallery close to the festival they had the
pirate ship used in The Pirates! Film on display in the lobby, and boy this
ship was massive!! The details on the ship were stunning the mast, sales and
rigging alone was over 2 stories high. This made it hard to fit into a single
photo but hear it is in all its glory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Directors UK: Sam Fell</div>
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This event was a big one for stop motion Animators, and
because of this it meant that most of the online stop motion twitter community
were all coming down for it (you know who you all are). We all met up before
hand in the watershed bar. I got to chat up with sum of gang that I have met
before and some who I was meeting for the first time, a big one for me to meet
was stop motion animator Tim Alan who has worked on Corpse Bride Mr Fox and the
up-coming Frankenweenie, if you don’t know who he is then check out this site<a href="http://www.timallenanimation.co.uk/home">here! </a>He has done some brilliant work over the years!</div>
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Once we all had a little catch up we all made are way over
to the screening of Paranorman (if you have not seen it yet I say you must run
and go see it now!!) this will be followed by an interview and Q&A with the
films co-director Sam Fell. Even though I had seen the film before the
atmosphere of seeing an animated film in a room full of animators and animation
lovers was something I have never experienced before and what a buzz it gives
you, fingers crossed this will be the first of many like this. Once the film
had finished and every one had picked their jaws up off the floor and stopped clapping
out came Sam. </div>
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This chat gave a grate inside into what went into making the
film. He spoke about the character design, the 3D printing, casting the film, picking
the actors, walking the thin line of not making it too scary for kids and the
big question on all animator’s lips how did you feel when you heard that
Frankenweenie was coming out this year as well. Once the chat was over I got to
briefly meet Sam, were I got introduce myself, have a short chat and I gave him
my card. He very kindly did me and Gareth a quick singed drawing of Norman etch
that I will be getting frame at some point very soon. <br />
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After the chat with Sam a big bunch of use all went to that
after screening drinks/ get-together on a boat / pub. This was a great chance
to meet more people and have a good chat with some animators and directors in a
very chilled and relaxed manner. thanks to my idea of tweeting a photo of the
badges I was wearing I got spotted and had a very nice chat with managing
director of Slurpy studios Aaron Wood check them out<a href="http://www.slurpystudios.com/"> here!</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on in the night myself and Gareth got
to have a drink from and more brilliant chit-chat with Tim Alan as well. After
the boat party we all made are way to a different pub and carried on with the
friendly animation and all things nerdy conversation, before calling it a
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On the 18<sup>th</sup> of September I was getting ready for
a 4 day trip down to Bristol for the Animated Encounters festival. This was my
third year going down to this festival but the first time that I’ll be going
down on my own. This gave me the perfect chance to catch up with as many of the
online stop motion twitter gang as I could, as well as some old friends who
left university my first year. </div>
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I also wanted to make something that I could hand out to people
as a gift and so that the people I know online would recognise me and come say hello.
I came up with the idea of making some badges 28 to hand out and 2 different
designs for me to wear.</div>
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Day 1:</div>
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After leaving my house at 6am been stuck on the train tracks
for over an hour I finally arrived at Bristol for 10am after getting my tickets
for the day’s events I had a look around the lobby of the festival and unlike
previous years they have models sets and props on display. They also had some
live animation going on.</div>
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The creator of Angry
Kid Darren Walsh was animating a new Bob episode. Like angry kid this was shot
using a real person wearing a helmet were the front face can be replaced with a
number of different masks to create lip sync while the actor has to stay very
still and get moved like a puppet. This was fascinating to watch and amazing to
see it all come to life over the 4 days.<br />
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After I looked around I got to meet up with a stop motion
twitter friend and hostel room buddy <a href="http://ghanimation.blogspot.co.uk/">Gareth Hurst. </a>We got are passes, programs
and headed over to the next screening. </div>
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The Trials of Life</div>
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This was the second set of animations to be screened at the
festival as I missed the first one thanks to the train delays. All the
animations in this set were all loosely themed around the everyday lives of
people and have some very hart felt emotional shorts. My highlights from this
screening were: Head Over Heels, De riz ou d’Armenie, I Am Tom Moody, To the
Heart of The Matter and Being Bradford Dillman</div>
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Aardman: Early Years Claymation </div>
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This was the first of 3 Aardman themed events of the day.
This one focused just on the very early Claymation work of the studio. All the
shorts shown in the screening are available on the Aardman classic DVD. However
it was brilliant to see them on the big screen and see all the small details,
With an introduction by Aardman cofounder Peter Lord<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My highlights from this screening were: Next,
Pib and Pog, My Baby Just Cares for Me, Adam, Loves Me … Loves Me Not, Early
Bird and Not Without My Handbag.</div>
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Aardman: From Pigs to Pirates</div>
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This was the second set of the 3 Aardman events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the last screening this was showing
allot of the shorts that can be seen on the Aardman classics DVD. However this
time they played the most recent CGI, Stop Motion and 2D shorts. It was
brilliant to see a lot of these short on the big screen and there were some that
i had not seen yet, as they were made after the Classics DVD. My highlights
from this screening were: Stage Fright, Humdrum, Angry Kid, Fly, So You Want to
Be A Pirate?, Len’s Lens and Blind Date. </div>
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Aardman: In Conversation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This was the third Aardman themed event of the day. Unlike
the last to this was not a screening but an interview with the 3 company
directors Peter Lord, David Sproxton, and the creator of Wallace & Gromit
Nick Park. I have meat David and Peter before a number of times and they are
very open and friendly chaps but I was most excited to see Nick Park as he hardly
dose talks of this size. Although most of the stories they were telling I have
heard before from books, interviews and DVD extras there was something about hearing
them from the people themselves in-person that was just unbeatable. I could of
listen to them tell stories all day but sadly it came to an end. When it did the
3 of them got mobbed by the fans, myself, <a href="http://tommygrainger.blogspot.co.uk/">Tommy </a>and Gareth stood back and
waited for them to be less busy.</div>
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I first got to speak to peter, were I shook his hand told
him thank you for doing the talk and was great to see him again. I gave him my
card and he said “I think I seen these before?” then when I gave him a Viv
& Mandy badge he said “ah now yes I have seen these two before! I hope
you’re doing more?” well as u can guess I felt like I was going to pass out
with joy when he said he knew and remembered my work. Peter then did me this
little singed drawing of Morph on my festival program, that I will be getting
framed very soon. </div>
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I then moved over to Nick Park and got to shake his hand and
have a very small chat with him, I was trying not to focus too much on W&G
as I did not want to boar him with just how much of a fan I am! I gave him a
card and badge told him a little bit about Viv & Mandy and that he may have
seem them before as I post them on the Wallace & Gromit creations site. </div>
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He took a good look at card and said “oh thank you I will
take a look over your work” he them looked at the badge and said “yes I think I
may have seem them before I like their faces…very funny” well once again you
can bet that i felt like I was going to freak out when Nick Park says he think
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daft I shook his hand and said a good night and thank you </div>
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Here is a photo of me, Tommy and the man himself Nick
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Me and Gareth when back over to Peter and we evented him to
come to the after show drinks with us. To are shock he said yes and we got to
have a 30 minuet chat and walk to pub with peter lord, in that time we got to hear
some interesting stories and news that I can’t go into on here sadly. When we
got to the pub Peter then got in a round of drinks and went to around pub
chatting away. Me and Gareth stayed till bar shut and said a hearty good night
to Peter and friends and made are way back to the hostel.<br />
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Daniel James Animationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417046678951189890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161001964538242818.post-9979898100340979092012-07-26T05:12:00.000-07:002012-07-26T05:12:40.203-07:00Corpse Bride Photo ShootIf you are like me you are a massive Stop Motion nut, so I fort
it would be a good idea to share with you guys some Photos I took of my
collection of these beautifully made Jun Planning dolls from Tim Burton’s
Corpse Bride. Based on the stunning Puppets made by Mackinnon and Saunders used
in this visually inspirational Stop Motion film.<br />
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Made to the size of the real
puppets, I know that these dolls are the closest thing I will ever get to
animating and owning the puppets from this film. I have been privileged enough
to hold and pose some of the puppets used in the Corpse Bride, and I have to say
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Way back in in May I found out that Viv & Mandy in the
Big Clean up Part 1 is now a 2 time Award winning animation. It won in the categories
of, The Best Stop Motion and over all second Place of the Staffordshire University
Animation Bites society festival. Sadly I could not make the festival as I
was on my way back from my first day working at CITV, but I did make the after
show drinks, where I then got handed the awards. I would like to say a massive thank
you to all who voted for my Film it means a lot to me and makes all the hours
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Here are Viv & Mandy posing with their Awards.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The last project I have been helping out on
for my assistant animator brief</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US">is a stop motion trailer for ‘The War of the Worlds’ by Zeke Ares, but due to
copyright it was changed to the new title of ‘Surge’. I have been very excited
about this project for a long time. Zeke told me he wanted me to be working on
this way back in 2011 as I am a big fan of War of the Worlds and I jumped on
the chance to work on it. I was made the lead animator right away, so I knew I
would not be doing much on this project until we came to animating, but as
things were being built I could not keep way and helped.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">As soon as Zeke had the first small tripod (core
pod) puppet test made he handed it over to me so I could do a walking test and
show how a stop motion tripod would move. I spent the rest of that day
animating the test, taking my time so I could get the motion right. The end
result was that the core pod did move very slowly but I was happy to get the
motion of three legs right. And for the final animation we would speed up the
moment of the legs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Happy with the test, I wanted to do more
tests as we had this idea of making the core pods jump and land on people. To
make this jump test look more like a shot from the film I took Zeke's old War
of the Worlds inspired diorama he made back in 2011. I spent two days animating
this test as I had to work around the limitations of the set, mostly waiting
for the glue and paint to dry. The puppet also had to be screwed to the sets
and attached to a jumping rigged which was painted out in the editing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I showed Zeke the test he was over the
moon with the test shots he turned round and told me he wanted to make me the
Co-Director of the project. This would give me more of a creative input as to
how some shots would look, as well as sharing story ideas, and to help out when
doing the after FX and editing. I jumped at this chance and was so pleased that
he had let me be such big part of his final film. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I won’t go into too many details on how the
shoot went as the film will not be released online until 2013, and there will
be a more detailed post on the animating and editing side of the production
then. But what I will tell you is that Zeke and I did the entire Stop motion shoot
and we had a brilliant 2D and after FX team. There was also so one big shot
that we shot using 3 cameras from 3 different angels all at the same time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For more info Check out Zeke’s production
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<span lang="EN-US">If you can’t Waite until 2013 here are the
two test animations I did to give you guys a tees of what to expect. And as
always your comments and feedback are welcome. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Back in January as part of my assistant
animator brief for university I was allocated 25 hours to help out and assist
on the 3rd year’s final films of my choice.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first of thestop motion films I have
been helping out on is called ‘The Monster Picnic’ by Lynda Barnes. After
talking to Lynda about what she wanted me to help out on, we decided that my
job on this production will be to sculpt the full size maquettes of the two
main characters. The maquettes will not be used in the final film but will be
used when building the sets and props so she has a scale to work to and from.
These 2 sculpts are made in plastecine with a wire frame, using Lynda’s final
designs as a reference for me to work from. These sculpts took roughly 4 days
to make, and Lynda was very happy with them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I very much enjoyed working on these maquettes,
and really liked how the little guys turned out. Click below to watch the final
film directed and animated by Lynda Barnes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second 3rd year film I have been
helping out on is called ‘The Obsession’ by Kyle Bennett. I had been talking to
Kyle the year before about his project and we decided that my job on this film
would be to help out with the puppet making. Starting off with the armatures
for the two main characters. I told him that he would be better off investing
in ball and socket armatures, instead of using wire, as theses puppets would be
under a lot of wear and tear. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once the ball and socket armatures arrived
and we measured out, cut and glued the metal pieces for the two armatures. With
the pieces cut and the joints made, the armatures were very sturdy and now ready
to apply the foam to.</span></div>
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foam to the armatures, by drawing out the outline of the puppet on to a sheet
of foam, cutting it out, covering the armature in spray glue then applying the
foam to the armature, holding still till the glue had dried. With the armature
now covered we had to cut away the excess foam to get the required body shape.
Myself and Kyle repeated this process for both characters. I found myself
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<span lang="EN-US">Due to other commitments and uni work going
on at the same time that was all I had the time to help out with on this
project. Click below to view the final film directed and animated by Kyle
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