Bertie Crisp will be screening at Lincoln Shorts!
Lincoln Drill Hall
7th March, 2012
7th March, 2012
For more information, please visit:
To book your tickets, please go to:
29 Feb 2012
12 Feb 2012
Skwigly Interview!
While I was at the Encounters Festival with Richard, we met up with Ben Mitchell- a writer for an Online animation magazine called Skwigly who wanted to interview us on our grad films (Bertie Crisp and Damned)
You can find our interview here:
30 Jan 2012
BAA Sting
This is my 'BAA Sting' made to promote the British Animation Awards.
(For their 'Sting' Competition)
For more information, Please visit:
http://www.britishanimationawards.com/
25 Jan 2012
British Animation Awards!
Bertie Crisp will be screening at 21 Different Venues, as a part of the
British Animation Awards- Public choice (in Programme One)
For more information, please visit:
20 Jan 2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
So this is the title sequence I created fr the BBC's 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' Which was first broadcast on the 10th of Jan at 9PM on BBC Two and BBC HD.
The main Idea for it was to convey a journey form London, to a place called Cloisterham in the countryside. Below are some of the first concept for the sequence, as it started out much more 'inky' with blocks of colour to show what was countryside and what was London.
There was much more detail on the buildings as they were drawn in ink, and the coloured ink seeped and spread as the camera tracked across the paper. But the problem with this graphic style was that the camera had to track much slower to give the ink time to draw in the detail and the colour, which heavily reduced the distance that felt travelled- Cloisterham had to feel very far form London.
The lines had to be much more simple- had to feel as though they were racing over a distance. So eventually, they became more and more simple, until all we had were streaks of ink.
We also went back to looking at Victorian ink drawings- we needed to go into detail at either end of the sequence so it was clear that we started in London, and ended in Cloisterham. The camera would have to track slowly/ pause over these drawings to give them time to develop.
One of the main problems we had was the camera movement. The camera doesn't just track from Left to Right, it also tracks back from London, and then tracks into Cloisterham. Theoretically simple, but because this project was fully digital- it meant that we would have to use a plate that quite a lot bigger than HD (@_@) ... and we had quite a few problems getting any computer to cope with it.
In the end, I made a low res plate and animated the camera move over it for reference.
The Victorian Drawings are animated Backwards- Drawn on several layers, I erased them bit by bit per frame. The main Ink lines are animated Frame by frame by duplicating the previous frame, moving it into position, (using the low res reference) and drawing the ink bleeding further.
The main two programmes used for this were Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects.
Below are some of the final storyboards of the animation, though the zoom, position of the title card and what was cut to at the end were changed during the anamatic stage.
The main Idea for it was to convey a journey form London, to a place called Cloisterham in the countryside. Below are some of the first concept for the sequence, as it started out much more 'inky' with blocks of colour to show what was countryside and what was London.
There was much more detail on the buildings as they were drawn in ink, and the coloured ink seeped and spread as the camera tracked across the paper. But the problem with this graphic style was that the camera had to track much slower to give the ink time to draw in the detail and the colour, which heavily reduced the distance that felt travelled- Cloisterham had to feel very far form London.
The lines had to be much more simple- had to feel as though they were racing over a distance. So eventually, they became more and more simple, until all we had were streaks of ink.
We also went back to looking at Victorian ink drawings- we needed to go into detail at either end of the sequence so it was clear that we started in London, and ended in Cloisterham. The camera would have to track slowly/ pause over these drawings to give them time to develop.
One of the main problems we had was the camera movement. The camera doesn't just track from Left to Right, it also tracks back from London, and then tracks into Cloisterham. Theoretically simple, but because this project was fully digital- it meant that we would have to use a plate that quite a lot bigger than HD (@_@) ... and we had quite a few problems getting any computer to cope with it.
In the end, I made a low res plate and animated the camera move over it for reference.
The Victorian Drawings are animated Backwards- Drawn on several layers, I erased them bit by bit per frame. The main Ink lines are animated Frame by frame by duplicating the previous frame, moving it into position, (using the low res reference) and drawing the ink bleeding further.
The main two programmes used for this were Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects.
Below are some of the final storyboards of the animation, though the zoom, position of the title card and what was cut to at the end were changed during the anamatic stage.
For more information about 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' please click on the links below:
26 Dec 2011
16 Dec 2011
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
So my latest job had been creating the animated title sequence for the BBC's 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. Its a Charles Dickens Novel, his last one that sadly he never finished- but now the BBC have. (or at least had their go)
'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' Episode One premiered at the BFI last Thursday, and will be aired on TV at 9.00-10.00pm on Tuesday the 10th of January, on BBC Two.
Unfortunately untill after the programme has aired I am unable to release any of my production stills, videos etc. But stay tuned! :P
For more information, please visit:
15 Nov 2011
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