Future Shorts

Missed opportunities, theres nothing more in life than regretting a missed opportunity. The first time i watched this i felt his pain and could see how much he was suffering. This inspires me to take each opportunity i pass by every day and grab it with both hands. Never leave myself just satisfied and always chase the goal

Adverts & Influences

For our next project we will have to create our own films, I'm just looking at adverts that i appreciate the filming of and potentially take ideas from all of them, and interprat them in my own way.

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. 60.000 pictures were shot, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again with no post production! It was inspired by "A wolf loves pork", from Taijin Takeuchi and directed by Peter Göltenboth

An amazing 6 minute short film for Johnnie Walker whiskey featuring Robert Carlyle walking the Scottish highlands recounting, in full detail, the story of how the Scottish farmer turned his product into the world famous brand it is today. Other than the great story, it was filmed in one continuous shot. It took Robert 40 tries to finally get it right. It was directed by Jamie Rafn.

Lurpak's kitchen odyssey has been picked up a silver lion at Cannes as well as drawing in notable press from Shots and Campaign. It was directed by Martin Krejci.

Joel Simon

I picked up on two things whilst reading a small interview with Joel, and i picked up on two Q + As.

• What do you do for inspiration:
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• Like everyone else. I watch DVDs (and all the extra features and commentaries), read books, chat to people, surf the net until my eyes hurt, doodle and drink strong coffee.
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I always wonder myself where people get their inspirations from. I can watch tons and tons of videos, look through photographers images and clearly like many things i see but don't feel inspired. Until i lay down in bed, look up at my wall, and an idea will spring to mind. I don't believe that you can only go and look for inspiration, i am a strong believer of inspiration finding you.

• Have you any tips for new comers and beginners:
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• I always advise beginners to try to do a bit of everything, every task in animation, then to discern which aspect of animation is the most appealing... is it writing the story, conceptualizing, or the technical aspect like staging scenes, lighting, or is it pure animation- creating expressions out of models, or modeling.

I bang my head against a wall 50 times a day questioning myself all different types of things like, am i good enough to become a professional? Where does my profession lie? I am 20 why can't i create a masterpiece that will give me a million views on youtube? But i am just at the beginning of my career, infact i haven't even started. So these questions at times may seem important but on a day to day basis it's irrelevant. I am studying film games and animation for a reason, and should believe what i want to do will find it's way when i am ready.

http://www.anim8stopmotion.com/interview.php?id=5 - The rest of the interview.



In 2003 he established Flickerpix Ltd with an aim of producing top-notch character animation for all ages. Joel directed children’s series Buska & Barney for UTV; comedy series On The Air for BBC, numerous animated TV commercials and more shorts like the Bombay-based Horn OK Please (15 international awards to date, IFTA for Best Animation 2007).

In 2008, Flickerpix became part of the Waddell Media Group. The studio has broadened its portfolio by producing animation in a variety of new animation techniques, sometimes combining CG, motion graphics and traditional illustrations. Joel is currently the creative director of Flickerpix.

This mixture of techniques was used on the 15 part BBC series Days Like This, which brought to life ordinary people’s personal testimonies of an extraordinary day in their lives. These two clips below are 2 which i enjoy very much, along with Kris Kelly's Blue Chopper. I didn't realise that Kris was part of the animating team for 'Days Like This' and Joel Directed and produced.

Kris Kelly

I can't really find out too much about Kris Kelly over the net, i found his Linkedin along with various parts of his work. This one video really touched me on a personal note. I'm very close with my own brother who infact is 2-3 years younger than me and i'd categorise him as one of my closest friends. If i'm in need of any help he will be the one to offer it to me. I was very short on money, on a couple of occasions, and he's been extremely willing to help me out and this clip of the kids brother giving him what he had, to keep his younger brother happy was very inspiring. I'm lucky enough to have a brother like that.

http://vimeo.com/user2674861

Story Board & Final character: Curley

Useful books

I had purchased a couple of books at the beginning of the course, Digital Animation by Andrew Chong, The Fundamentals Of Film-Making by Jane Barnwell, and a couple of others. The one which so far has helped me and I used as a reference is Animation from pencils to pixels by Tony White'. It has been recomeneded by Roy Disney, and it's about classical techniques for digital animators.. such as myself.

I needed help and some guidance for drawing my character and this book helped make it a lot easier.
He also had a very useful section on concept and environment design.

Colour Studies

Looking at loads of different colour studies, basing some colors on other famous bears such as Winnie The Pooh! And Yogi Bear. As much as I all of them and feel they could all work in their own ways, I will be choosing the one that stands out most for my characters criteria and match his personality.

Completion of Curley!

I found it hard to create the side view of my character, it took a lot of time and patience to finally get it as accurate as i felt i possibly could.

After growing some confidence in my own drawings for my character, i felt i could move on from the angry intimidating look and show his charming side.

Baloo! Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson was an art director, writer and animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Anderson was a key player in some of the most well - known animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwards, Pinocchio, One Hundred and One Dalmations, and my faveourite out the lot based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle book

These are two of Andersons Sketches of Baloo, who eventually became the famous loveable bear in the jungle book.

Anderson designed all the characters in the jungle book film production. You can see why he was chosen, just these two sketches u automatically feel emotionally attached to it. 'Why's he holding this boy upside down and just laughing? Why's he scratching his back ? ooww that looks really itchy' and almost makes you interact with the quick cartoon image.

Environment and Elevations

 'The Shed' is Curley's chill out zone. At the back of the garden he has his playstations and xbox, comfortable couches, peaceful no-one disturbs him. There is a stoned path that leads from the shed back to the house.
Behind the shed is a forest full of trees.

This drawing below is the elevation, from the perspective of the diagonal angle, you can see pretty clearly the size of the shed. 

The two pictures below is what is inside to the left of the shed, where the TV is, and to the right is where the huge couch lies.

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