Merry Christmas!

So my blog posts have been pretty scarce the past few weeks because I've been working away on my final hand in for the term, which you can find here: https://vimeo.com/55555173


Its been a mad busy few weeks with 16 hour days at uni, but I am very proud of my finished film, and I got it all done a day before the deadline (had a well deserved lie in this morning)

I cant wait to go home, I've decided to spend the holidays teaching myself to knit properly, so hopefully i'll be updating my blog with dead cool stuff.

Merry Christmas everyone!

BAF Day Two

I began the day with my favourite selection of films, again by students.
Nyosha was a great stop motion film mixed with 2D animation, telling a true story from the holocaust, it was really effective using animation to tell a story on a difficult subject matter.

Next was Carn, a story of a boy who makes a deal with a wolf,  I really liked the style of this animation, it reminded me a bit of shadow puppets.

The next selection I saw I wasn't too keen on, apart from Ursus, which was a story of  a bear in a circus, it was done in charcoal and I liked the use of contrast, especially how they used black paper with white chalk to really emphasize the dark.

Then I was straight into a talk with Mark Shapiro from LAIKA studios, as the head of marketing, Shapiro showed a lot of behind the scenes footage and all the viral campaigns that were released, as it came out just after the Olympics  they made special trailers to relate to the hype which I thought was clever. There was a chance to see the puppets after but because of life drawing I didn't get  to see them.

My final event for the day was life drawing with Joanna Quinn, this was really great and we did alot of life drawing exercises that i'd never tried before. One that I really liked was spending 5 minutes drawing only the outline of the figure, then five minutes just focusing on the middle and the detail. They can all be found on my Flickr.