We were given a short 2 week project working on an ident for the E4 channel. The first week we had to do design sheets, a storyboard and an animatic using a chosen 10 second sound clip. At the end of the first week we were told to swap our projects with someone else so in the end I had to animate someone else's idea and they animated mine. In all honesty, that was a bit unnerving but in the end I came round and started working on someone else's. 

It was difficult working on this considering the time I had.. I wanted to add more details in the tentacles, make them have a more fluid flow so to speak. There was a problem when it came to exporting the animation from flash so I ended up losing 45 seconds.. I will keep trying to export it and upload it when I can. I'd also quite like to actually animate the one I designed and enter it into the competition later on this year. I had originally planned to make it a stop motion and make the creatures out of paper mache and gears and have it set on glass layers (similar to how the animation mykonos-grandchildren was created). I thought it would be too much to ask someone else to do create it as I originally planned so just told the person to animate it in flash.

For my first brief in the Animation Course we were given a sketchbook project called 'Toy Story'. We had to find a toy and draw it in different locations and varied compositions. Here are some pages from my sketchbook.

His name is Sparx and he is a curious little dragon. 

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Started off with some observational drawings of Sparx..

I then decided to try bring him to life.. Have him standing and give him a smile. I plan on trying different facial expressions and more expressive poses. Perhaps make him a little more stumpy to give him more of a cuteness factor.. We'll see where it goes.

Meet Ayla. 

She is a girl that has grown up living the beach bum life and has to finally start a life in the big city. It's all still a really rough idea, I just enjoyed making doodles of her. 

Sketchbook pages.

I discovered a blog by Will Terell and that inspired me to loosen up my drawing, break away from keeping everything realistic so I did some studies of different facial features and hands. I found it to be very liberating to draw in this way and will post some character designs up soon. 

* Link to the Will Terell's blog: http://willterrell.com/