I have finished my three week flash project. The six of us at Cyfle where given our first industry animation project.
Three briefs where given

Calon, three scenes from Bobinogs.


Griffilms a viral internet animation of Mr stunt butt.


Dinamo, dialog based animation in the style of The Moose.



I was given the Griffilms project and completed a short viral animation involving mr stunt butt sniffing a flower and sneezing a lot. Was fun to animate and i did enjoy the project even though the subject matter was not to my taste.
Once i have permission i shall put a link up to my animation.

Eisteddford

Flash stings i developed and animated for the Eisteddford, its really basic because it was designed for mobile phones and it only took a week so the animation could be better! :D

Final Digital story telling project

My digital story telling project is finished!

A bit more

These are my two fave pics i did for the project, i wont put any more up until its all done, dont want to spoil it! :D

Digital story telling pre pro

This is what it all should look like.


These are some of the sketches i did for my digital story about me failing my driving test 4 times before i past... these are all my examiners i had. :D

Digital story telling

Today we had a writing seminar with Ian Staples it was really good. We had a great laugh making up stories about peter peter the pumpkin eater! Then we got serious and discussed our stories with him and got some great feedback. I just finished writing what i'm going to say and will start recording tomorrow. Still don't know what style to use. I'm sure i'll come up with something. :D

Also Richard Webb from Moseleywebb came and visited us and showed us some of the flash work they do, looked interesting.

Presentation

We were set a presentation to do on a CGI animator, i was given Steve Williams, he has worked on many things latest being The Wild. My presentation on Show Zoho

Shrek 3

Well we went to see Shrek last night... the animation was ok, and some of it looked nice but there wasn't much story. However it wasn't as bad as i heard it was going to be and there was one part in the film that made me giggle uncontrollably i wont say which bit just incase anyone hasn't seen it yet... it involved a baby ogre head and the donkey thats all im saying!

Puss in boats is by far the best character... so cute!

Mike Collins

Had a wonderful talk from Mike Collins yesterday morning, his art work is incredible! here is a pic i found of him on the net...

Joanna Quinn

Awesome morning here at Cyfle, Joanna Quinn and Les Mills came for a visit and talked about their work and how they animate. Her illustrations are beautiful and her style of animation work really well. We hope to visit their studio Beryl soon.

3rd July

Went for a visit to the The Bait their work was very eye catching and interesting.

Later we had a Freelance talk from Ric Villeneuve which was very informative. He gave us ideas and tips on showreel's and animation. As well as an in depth look at being a freelance animator.

Meanwhile i have been working on a presentation for this friday on Steve Williams a CGI animator and director.

Talk from Bruce Steele

We had a visit from Bruce Steele today and were given a talk about special effects in advertising and shown examples form work produced by Glassworks. Very interesting, i especially enjoyed the hair monsters, how they were constructed and animated. The pre production artwork looked lovely.

Dinamo visit

This morning we went to Dinamo studios, it was really good. Owain and Aron were lovely and showed us around their studio and told us about what software they use to make different animation they work on. The studio environment was really friendly and i cant wait to go back again.

links

Here are links to some of the places i have visited or talked to so far on this course...
Calon
Griffilms
Film agency wales
Skillset
Dinamo
i'll keep updating.

Calon visit

Our first visit around an actual animation studio... was amazing! The group and I went all around Calon this afternoon. We saw the sets of Hanas Helpline and met a lot of people involved in the making of the show. Lynne Stockford was lovely enough to drive us to the location as well as introducing us to everyone. The sets were beautiful.
After our visit there we went to their other studio and looked at some Bobinogs animation and storyboards. Learnt some very interesting tips on using different software. We also talked to Andrew Offiler in his outstanding office!!

So far so good.

Hello

Hello everyone, Im Kei and this is my blogspot. Im an animator and at the moment im doing a training scheme with Cyfle... stay tuned. xx