Time plan/Targets

By this time next week I hope to have my drawings/assets all drawn up in photoshop ready to be animated in After Effects. After that I hope to have the Whole thing animated before the 26th April.

Ask a friend of mine who is studying music production if she wouldn't mind making some sound effects/music for the finished E4 Sting.

Finish some drafted posts on my blog that I haven't got around to finish yet.

E-STING proposal

The idea of this project is to create a short animation that promotes the television channel E4 within an ad break with certain rules that allow it to be shown before and after the watershed without any things deemed unsuitable for the younger audience, such as extreme violence, swearing and things of a sexual nature. It must also contain the E4 logo either as a reveal type situation or it can be shown throughout the ten seconds.

  
When thinking of an idea for my E-Sting I had been looking at some old artwork of mine and I came across a doodle I had done about two years ago, it consisted of two giant bunnies with laser eyes destroying a city on a floating island. This is the basis of what I want but a little more friendly. I like the idea of games like Super Mario Bros where he jumps on objects and they ‘pop’ and Crash Bandicoot when enemies turn into apples, so from this I would like the buildings that he is shooting lazers at to turn into giant carrots, thus leaving him on the island alone with carrots.

So essentially my idea doesn’t have a particular storyline its merely a skit to make people remember the channel and I find the things that are quite surreal and weird are often the things that make people remember and come back. So in a nutshell my ten seconds will be some giant bunnies turning a city into a bunch of carrots with their lazer eyes.

The whole thing should be done as a cut out style either in after effects or cinema 4D. So I can make all of the assets on photoshop and open then into the program ready for animating as I feel that this is the best way to give it the charm and feel of a 2D game.

To potentially promote my final animation I could enter it into the E-sting competition as it would be viewed my a large audience particularly if it won, alternatively and what I think could be beneficial is uploading it to the likes of YouTube, Vimeo and my blog for extra views.

Morphing sloth

 Metamorphis animation that I made in photoshop of a wheelbarrow turning into a sloth. I would like to go back to this at some point and add some animation to the sloth and add some more detail.

Paul Hess

An illustrator who came into college who mainly uses Water colours and karisma pencils.

I absoloutley love his paintings of cows! 

Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham's work has such a good flow to it, I really like his line work as it has such fluidity and movement that his illustrations really stand out to me and they are utterly stunning even without lashings of colour as they are subtly hued to look more organic. 

The textures made with his shading are so natural and all of his work has so much emotion and life in it.

Ralph Steadman

Ralph steadman is my all time favorite artist, His work is instantly recognizable with the ink splatters and his messy line work along with dashes of colour. I am highly influenced by his work and working style, as I use marker pens and inks pretty much in the same way as Steadman.

His most famous work is probably his artwork for Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' I feel that his style was perfectly suited to this drug fueled psychedelic story and it even adds to the scattiness and charm of the characters. 

Logorama

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

Logorama has been brilliantly thought out considering the use of hundreds of logos representing  things like buses, buildings and even people. Its narrative and characters are awesome as is the actual animation used, not in the style I would have used but it fits the purpose well.