Pennies For Sharks-Low res version

http://vimeo.com/18988978

'Pennies For Sharks Poster'

Filming for the newly titled film, 'Pennies For Sharks'

Koala Arcade

Character Models

Koala Arcade Animatic

Here is the short animatic for the film I am currently working on.

New Character Designs

This is a new character design for a personal project I am currently working on, however, it may contribute towards my final degree film if possible.

Directing Animation- 'The Blean' Animatic

Here is the animatic for the directing animation project 'The Blean', of which I am currently working on. The jolting cut in and out shots will be dolly shots in the actual film itself but due to technical issue I was unable to portray this in the animatic.

Plot:

Deep in a dense forest there is a tree unlike any other. The shoes that hang from the tree represent the different stages within a persons life. Each stage of life is plucked from the tree by a lone bird, who will then replace the plucked shoes with the next stage of life (e.g babies first shoes, replaced by babies first walking shoes)

However Due to limitations, the full plot may not be fully represented within the film.

I have re worked my storyboard, and I'm much happier with it now, the frames were far too distanced before. However, I'm still not sure if its quite there yet. Below are some more shots from the set production.

I have been story boarding all day today, and I'm still not finished, more than half of it is still scribble.

Some frames that are not scribble:

Directing Animation-Production Design

These images are for my 'Directing Animation' project, which forms part of my degree. Here are some stills taken during the construction of the set, I will hopefully be posting an image of the finished set very soon :)

New Project

I am currently looking for new project ideas, which I will pursue in my on time. I love films that show a strong visual style as well as fantastic stories. One of my favorite examples of strong visual style in the film 'Nine' directed by Rob Marshall.

Directing Animation-Visulisation

This is an early visualization for the 'Directing Animation' project I am currently working on for my degree.

Group Project- Set Design

We are currently working on a project titled 'Krapp's Last Tape' based on a play buy Samuel Beckett. My job for the project was production design (below). We are currently in the early stages of filming and hope to finish next week. The film is a stop-motion piece, featuring elements of 'Flash'.

Visualization For Personal Project

Here is another visualization for the film I am currently working on. I find these useful when trying to discover a visual look to the film.

Visualizations For Personal Project

These are some of the rough visual ideas for the personal project I am currently working on. These visual experiments will contribute towards rough story-boarding, set design, lighting, narrative and character design ideas.

Set Designs For Krapp.

When working on a group stop motion animation project which for now I will call 'Krapp' (Which by the way is the name of the main character not a description of the film) we all gave our selfs different sections. I was put on set design, which I have now completed. We will now argue together as a group about the storyboard and shot list before building the set and character, shooting the film and editing. Here is one of the pages of the set designs I have done, it's not the final version but Its pretty much the same.

Krapp is a man obsessed with his past self. As a result, he listens to tapes of his past and refuses to throw anythingaway. reminiscent. As a result he become consumed by his past and his surrounding room.

Alex-To Finish Or Not To Finish

As you may know from my other blog, we have been working on a film titled 'Alex'. It was originally suppose to be a mixture of film and animatic, as requested by the project, but at the request of our tutors, we are now filming the whole thing. The film is currently on hold due to us working on a new project, but we do hope to finish it and hopefully enter it into some festivals.

Where The Wild Things Are

This film looks lovely and visually very different from other films, I can't wait to see it when it comes out in October 2009.

The Devils Back Bone- Guillermo Del Toro

Being a fan of Guillermo Del Toro, particularly of his visual style I decided to watch 'The Devils Backbone' which is one of his earlier films. I didn't find it particularly scary but it was very good non the less. 

Sand Animation

This was sent to us from one of our technicians, I think its amazing. A wonderful, original idea for a performance.