Work @ Wonky

About two weeks ago I was contacted by one of my lectures about available work experience at Wonky Films in Bristol. Having missed out on work experience over a summer I gladly took this opportunity. What they asked me to do was to put together a DVD menu for four short animations by Rhiannon Evans a Newport graduate. The first two days I animated a title intro that flowed into the menu screen which I created In Adobe Encore. I had never used Encore before this, and at first it’s one of those programs that never dose what you want it to, however by the end of the week I had managed work around this and was pleased with the final result. here’s what I ended up with.

Back!

After many complications and hidden charges we finally managed to get the internet installed in our house. Which means I can start blogging again, admittedly I’m pretty poor at updating it even when I have the internet. nevertheless I’m convinced I will get into the habit of posting as often as i can.

Alot has happened since I last posted. I’ve started my third and final year at Newport, pre-visualized and pitched this years film idea to my class, Went to Bristol for a weeks work experience and next week I’m going to Encounters film festival to see Richard Williams and Adam Elliot’s ‘Mary and Max’ for a second time.

I don’t really like to post without leaving a pretty picture or film so here is Jérémy Clapin’s ‘Skhizein’ It was at Annecy  a year ago and I missed my chance to see it. But it’s out now so if you haven’t seen it already take a look.

My New Apple Setup.

New mac

This was waiting for me when I arrived home from work…

Delivery

MBP!

Delivery!

Goodies

Young Lions Ad Contest

This is a video a few friends of mine put together for  Cannes young lions youtube 48 hours ad competition to raise awareness for climate change, in association with Oxfam. The video was actually done in only 4 hours, with a little help from me when it came to editing. We’ve now got until June first to promote the video as much as possible, so if you do like the video please pass it on..:)

for more information on this competition follow this link: http://www.canneslions.com/young_lions/48hrs.cfm

Tv-ident Final.

 

Here’s the final edit for the Tv ident brief. It was put together using a combination of toon boom, photoshop, After Effects and good ol’ fashion pencil and paper.

Extreme Ident

This is an illustration i did a while ago and I’ve decided to use this as the basis for my TV ident im doing for the Extreme sports channel. Ideally i would of liked to model and animate the cannon in Maya and composite it with the the head, but after helping out Chris I’m beginning to run out of time.

I’ll post more as it develops.

Helping out a friend

Early on in the year I was asked to help out a friend of mine Chris McBride for his final year film. So throughout most of monday I was given around 30 frames to colour and shade.

I’m pleased I did this because I learnt allot about working with someone else work.

Now I can’t wait  to see his finished work.

The Life and Death of Dirk Hurt

A tribute to the king of the death scene, B-Movie actor Dirk Hurt. This is the first draft of our group project this year. We want to do a re-edit which will probably be done once we reach our next deadline. 

You can find out more on what  I did for this project here, on my production blog: http://recodingconventions09.wordpress.com/

Soundscape

An animation with a strong emphasis on sound I created in my 2nd year at Uni. I made the dead line, however I feel there’s still more I would like to do to the film. It was created using a mixture of Flash, Photoshop, Maya and After Effects.