Everyday I'm Shufflin'

Just from a layout point of view, some of you may have noticed that I've cleaned up the blog a little bit. Hopefully the layout is less cluttered, my reel ought to be viewable in the side bar on the right along with a direct permalink to the Sundae Afternoon journal.

Should be quite a bit to post soon, but I don't want to release anything without the client's blessing so it's all under wraps for now.

Stay classy San Diego.

Be Ye Fantastical?

Hello, just a brief post to mention a project I'm looking to start working on in the near future. I've been asked to work on a short film, by created an animated introduction. It's a modern adaptation of King Lear, with a view to interactive learning. Not sure how much more I ought to say before getting started, but I had a meeting with the director, on Monday, and it all seemed positive.
I'll post more about this in due course.
Bye.

Render Bender

Just a quick one to say that the edit of Sundae Afternoon is rendering as we speak. I'm considering making it a publicly viewed video too, so keep an eye out or give me so feedback on the pros and cons of allowing any Tom, Dick, and Harry to see your work.

Later

Technical difficulties

It's been some time since I last posted, but even longer since finishing Sundae Afternoon however, there's something I meant to get stuck in to which has been bugging me. I'm sure any animators can appreciate the madness of an After Effects or Premiere edit near a deadline. The necessity to finish a brief might take your eagle eye off a small technical hitch that will come back later and bite you on your arse.

Eagle-Eyed Viewer

Well, I found mine. Not to bore you all, but I exported my footage in separate layers, with an Alpha Channel as a PNG sequence. The point of this spiel is that one of my layers (the boy) was one frame out of sync, so he overlaps on every cut. Very noticeable on a projector, which is rather concerning so I've managed to source the rogue file and make a new edit which I should be able to export over the next few days. Hopefully the gaffe is only noticeable to me because I've seen the film so often, but who knows.

This and That

Hello all,
Just a brief update on the past few weeks. 

On September the 22nd, The National Gallery hosted private view for us students, from the CSM Character Animation course. It was to be the last time that the Gallery collaborated with Central Saint Martins in the particular way, so it was quite nice to be a part of it, and to see everyone's work up on a large screen, and to meet up again with people who've been a daily part of my life for 9 months, or so.

The films are due to be posted on the National Gallery website at some point in the near future, so watch this space.


In other news, I have just received an email this morning from Sparkle Animation, informing me that the work on The Tortoise is complete. I'm very excited to see the end results, but in the meantime, here's a trailer to whet the appetite.



Till next time :)