Dangerball!

Thought Den had an office party last week and I created a dangerball character to go on the invites (dangerball is a staple of these types of events).

 

For those that don't know, dangerball is any ball game in an office (usually football).

and he has lots of different hats

Animation Showreel (July 2011)

A selection of my best animation work to date, mostly from my 3rd year at uni, but a little from 2nd year too.

Roles Breakdown:

OWN LITTLE WORLD (2011) (4 person group project):
Story
Character development
Boat design
Houdini text
Animation

GODZILLA Vs GLOBAL WARMING (2010) (5 person group project):
Director (inc. art direction, story)
Production

OCTOPULT (2011) (2 person collaboration):
Art Director (Asset creation and aniamtion)
Game Design

Music is "Gameboy Tune" by Tomas Dvorak

Mini Business cards

So I thought I'd get around to designing some business cards as my degree show is not too far away. The guys at Thought Den got some business cards from moo and, as they looked so nice, I thought I'd give them a try.

It is fairly pricey paying for express delivery (as I had left it so late) but their print quality is really nice, and I am expecting it to be worth it.

These are the designs I've sent off to be printed. Each is a favorite still from one of this years projects.

moo mini cards are 7028mm

I exported the images at 870*378 pixels (as reccomended by moo)

With moo, you can submit any number of images for the front of the cards along with a single image to be on the back of all the cards. Hopefully it isn't too confusing and clearly describes how I can be contacted.

Lunchometer In Colour

So here is what I've made so far for the lunchometer project.

colour scheme using kuler

luncho biting

Lunchometer Sketches

This is the start of my 2nd week (of 5) with Thought Den. Thought Den do fun web and mobile and interactive installation stuff. Here is their blog post about me (and other things too of course). Currently, I am doing lots of researching and designing the visuals for a web app going by the name of lunchometer.

header sketch

page layout sketch



animation & icon concepts

Own Little World Release

Own Little World explores the childish nature of imaginary games and a naive perspective of grief and loss.

Final Major Project - NCCA Bournemouth University

Thomas Kelly- Director, Art Direction, Cinematography, Character and Camera Animation, Concept.

Alex Goodfellow- Rigging, Transitions, Character Animation.

Chris Carter- Text development, Character Animation, Story.

Steven Bills- Modeling, Textures, Set Dressing, Rendering, Compositing.

Scott Hazell- Music

Benjamin Riehl- Production Assistant

Film Website: littleworlds.co.uk

Production Blog: ownlittleworldshort.blogspot

Compositing

This was an assignment I had in 2nd year. Basically, we had to composit 2 images or sequences together, one of which had to be live action (although they could both be live action).

As I had enjoyed the green screen filming workshops so much, that although I knew it would be a lot more work, I wanted to composit a moving image sequence.

So I went out to get some interesting photographs, making sure to record camera height and map out the light sources so that the exact lighting could be replicated for the green screen shoot. I was looking for a night time, or an indoors location as the lighting would be easier to replicate.

nice background photo I took but didnt use

The shot I decided to go for was one where it looked as though I was walking through a gigantic version of my bedrooom. I then set up my bedroom with appropriate lighting took some shots, and also took some shots with a makeshift chrome ball (an onion wrapped in tinfoil) to help with lighting information.

my bedroom

my bedroom with "chrome ball"

Once the greenscreen studio was set up I realised that it wouldent be physically possible to replicate the shot. This was mainly due to the height the camera would need to be at, and the angle the camera would need to be at to the green screen and stage. So a slightly different shot was shot for the green screen plate.

still from green screen shoot

The still photograph of my bedroom was redone with consideration to light sources and camera distance in the green screen shoot, and also made a little more visually interesting. The image sequence was then composited with the photograph using Shake.

composited sequence