The more I've been thinking about the colour I want to use the more I realise how important it is that I need to get it right because whatever colour scheme I go for has to play throughout the film going through all the emotions that the character goes through. At first I began with flesh tones with deep reds and browns because I assumed I'd have to use this so that I can express the deep anger and exploding frustration through deep intense reds that'll pop out from his cheek

This is the final draft of the animation film. All the Gifs that I've made in various PSDs in Photoshop have all been combined and joined together in this How this worked was I made a series of Gifs on different Photoshop tabs which were made in such a way that they could be placed one after the other to make this relatively long piece of film. I would compile them together in Premiere Pro. The editing happens in places such as when the character changes from curiosity into u

Victim or Martyr complex is when someone has desires or feelings of being a victim by seeking out suffering of some sort that feeds a psychological need or desire to avoid responsibility. This also applies to the victim mentality; however, this is personality trait. The reason why I mention this is that this topic fits in well with my thought processes because most of the things Sebastian Junger has said that have caught my interest have mostly been about why humans behave th

Sebastian Junger is an American journalist and author and also an anthropologist. He wrote a book called 'Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging.' which looks at why comradery and, as he calls it, 'tribal sentiment', is such a rare thing to see and experience in modern day society. He writes about veterans returning home from war have a hard time reintegrating back into modern society because all those feelings of belonging to a group for survival are lost as soon as they get hom

I was really interested in what John Oliver had to say in this interview he gave to Sky News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZF0PBDlKl4) during his promotion of his new series of 'Last Week Tonight'. He spoke about the importance of reminding yourself that every weird and terrible thing that's happening in the world right now is NOT normal, which is fundamental to his comedy act. 'If we just get callused to 'everything is hell', then it's too easy not to think that somethin

Following on from the previous blog, I said was studying the colours of Urbance for the electrifying energy that it has because I have a thought that these kind of bright, artificial colours could work really well with my highly emotional characters that I want to make. All these studies above I've taken from stills of the animation pilot episode. This face that I drew allowed me to see how and where exactly each colour could go to bring the character alive. Each colour combi

This animation blew me away. Its a pilot episode for something bigger and it has a colour scheme which it should show off a lot more. Urbance, according to its website, is a trans media project aimed at young adults that tells of this dystopian world where everything is being controlled by this organisation called COEVO (http://www.urbancetv.com/). In this world sexuality and entertainment are under strict supervision with many don'ts rather than do's leaving much room for re

This is a link to my second draft of the animation that I have made so far. The opening scenes have all been laid out and completed ready to move on but the emotional explosions there after in the film have a few more frames that need adding to. For instance the laughter needs a few more changes and variety to the expressions and the bean drawings that I have need to be filled in. There are lines that need more suggestion of perspective and refining. But that can come later w

This is an animation called ‘Barfight’ and it is, as the title suggests, about a barfight in some American, redneck bar. It’s a continuous series of violent events that seems to escalate evermore crazy and violent where the characters in this bar rip each other apart. It’s extreme and over-the-top which is what I want for my animations. It is also badly drawn which I love! If anyone were to criticise the animation itself then they would conclude that the artist is not very sk

The other animation I've been really influenced by is a music video for the Rock band; Royal Blood. This song is called Out of the Black and there are these interludes of these quick but extremely violent animations that are in sync with the entire song. The animations were directed by David Wilson & Christy Karacas and coincidentally Ian Miller was one of the animators involved. The animations are short and fit so well with the song on its own because the violent imagery and