Life Drawing

Here is a selection of my most recent Life Drawings. I found a great class in Hastings that is only £8 for 3 whole hours! Plus they get a great rang of models so far I have had a different model each week. A welcome change from the same old Myra from uni. Sorry Myra, but you were very uninteresting to draw, especially after the first 10 times.

I used a pencil (9B), and some charcoles (black and brown)

I want to practice drawing faces at my next session.

My Mutant Rat Sculpt

I really wanted to continue my Rat vs Crocodile project so the next step I took was to sculpt the mutant rat. This was to get an idea of his shape and proportions, and brush up on my sculpting skills!

I like the way this has turned out. I think when I make the actual puppet, I might play around with his hunch back. Maybe shorten his neck and lower his head.
I sculpted this out of stone coloured newplast plastercine, with a wire armature inside.

Full Crocodile Vs Mutant Rat Storyboard

Thank you to all the people who supported my work and voted for my storyboard to win, but I dont think I have won :( at least not on numbers!
But there is still a slim chance, because the judges get to pick a wild card option regaurdless how many people voted for it. So hopefully they will like my entry.

I'll let you know what happens with that, but in the mean time, here is the full length version of the storyboard.
I really like the idea of this project and I have decided that winner or not, I will continue to work on it and make the animation myself. It may take me a while, but I really want to do it. To start things off, I will sculpt the mutant rat!
I'll post pics when he's done, but for now,
enjoy!

Vote for Me!

Here is a link to my entry for the Ray Harryhausen Competition, I had to shorten it, so I will put up the full version on here for your viewing pleasure in a week or so, just to make sure you click the link and vote for me!

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/ray-harryhausen-animation-competition/entry/2509

Ray Harryhausen Competition

Ok so I didnt win the Red Bull competition, but at least I tried right?

Well for my next project I found this awesome Ray Harryhausen Storyboard competition!
The prizes are amazing and the brief is simple;
Draw out a storyboard for a Harryhausen-esq story that is between 30secs and 3mins long.
Prizes: the winning film will be made and screened at the Barbican in London,
the winner will meet Ray at his own home in London
and get a one on one, hour long lecture with tutors from the national film and television school!

How could I say no!?
So I thought to myself, I want to do a myth or legend that has never been done before. I decided to go with the urban myth that crocodiles live in the New York sewers. But what if there is something else that lives in the sewers that is equally scarey!? Perhaps a giant mutated rat? If the two should meet, who would win?

Well who do you think would win?

Red Bull Animation Competition

Please watch my red bull animation entry and help me win a laptop!

http://canimation.redbull.co.uk/gallery#31862588

Thanks!

Catch up

Ok not much has happened since my last post. Thats pretty much why I havent posted.

• Box legal - There were only 2 entries in total, mine and Nile Plumb's. Nile was in the year above me at uni. We were both given £250 and told that what we did wasnt what they were looking for and to try again when they relaunch their competition in a few months time. I think that they are just looking for a cheap alternative to supporting the animation industry and getting a professional advert.
• I did email them saying I could animate what they wanted but it would cost more and be longer than the 2 mins they wanted. They said they didnt want to work with anyone directly.
• No one will give them what they want through a competition because its just too long and complicated!

In other news I went on holiday to Greece and it was good.

I was unemployed so signed on to the dole but as of this afternoon I have been hired and now work in the Pawn industry, please read that carefully. Not animation but at least I can fund my work and goal of learning to drive.