animation festival with a friend

Whilst I was on my trip to London last year visiting escape studios I met several other people who were interested in taking the animation course I was also looking at.
I kept in touch with these people and one of my friends Adrian has agreed to enter into an animation festiva with me this year at some point.When we look and see what fesitvals are available this summer we will get together and come up with an appropriate animation skit and enter the competition/festival.
This would also be a good way for me to showcase my masters skit at the same time if it fits the criteria of the festival. Either way it will be a great way for me to get my work out there in the public and to promote my artwork aswell. Also it will give me the oppertunity to continue to ork on my producer/director skills as we negotiate and work on the project together, helping my team building skills aswell as allowing for me to branch out on my artistic knowledge.
This will most likely happen over the summer as I wont have much time to dedicate to another project until after my major project submission deadline in April.

early website idea designs in photoshop

Very early concept ideas for how my website can be layed out.

trip to escape studios

On the 16th november I went down to london to take part in an animation course open day. Escape studios are a recruiting/training studio that train you for 3 months on there animation program. They train you to work at an industry pace to an industry standard and continue to work with you after you have completed the course and find you work in the industry.

I met alex williams who would be my tutor there and he has worked on titles such as lion king, who framed roger rabbit, iron giant, monster house etc. Once we started speaking after the tour and I mentioned the work I am doing on the masters course Alex offerd to check my showreel and critique it before I come on the course.

I also met fellow students who were thinking of taking the animation course and after mingling with them met a girl who is a pa to an animation director for starburst studios who, after talking to her kindly offerd to help me get work experiance in the studio and gave me her contact details.

This has proved to be well worth the trip down to London as I have made several friends and contacts through fellow students looking to take the course which could lead to work experiance oppertunities to promote my work and a chance to show my showreel to high end animators within the industry who can crit it and tell me where im going wrong and advise me on which studios would be most interested in the work im producing at this time.

research on different website layouts

Here are just a few of the website layouts ive been checking out to get inspiration from. I like the more hand drawn ones, but I shall keep on looking and try and merge the layouts from a few I like with some of my own ideas. These are just initial ideas of what I find visually nice .

final film

Here is the final film version which I have emailed to Lor. It took most of the day to put together in after effects and to export it out in the right settings. But I managed to put it all together just before deadline. Lor is happy with the results as am I.

completed rain layer and editing tutorial

This is the final completed rain layer I have been working on which will be layerd up into after effects over the final film. I emailed it to Lor to see if she liked it and she does.

Lor also sent me across some final audio she wants to use to see if I thought it went with the animations.

Another thing I put together for her is a small editing tutorial in photoshop to help her understand how to put all of the scenes together.

msn musings

Having spoken again to lor on msn these past few days it has been decided that it will be easier for me to do the editing and then render the whole project out. This is because with the amount of time it would take to learn the new software there wouldnt be any time for Lor to actually put the entire project together and render it out, and with the deadline next week we dont have time to waste learning new softwares so I shall do it all.
She will email me/upload her scenes onto rapid share and I will download what shes done and put it all together with my scenes.