A Wee Monster, Animatic Ready!

Today I quickly lumped together Nikki Christie's 6 headed Monster I've been working on for use in her 3D animatic, take a look here: http://djcadmonsters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/monster-2-animatic-model-complete.html

Dancing Nina: Story boarding...

I've made some progress with the new storyboard and choreography for the film I'm co- Directing with Freya Allen, Dancing Nina:  http://dancingnina.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/storyboard-progress.html

Progress with Monster 2

Check out my progress for Nikki Christie's film "Wee Monsters" here, I'm just getting down to the details of her 6 headed beast: http://djcadmonsters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/monster-2-tooth-and-claw.html

DOJ-CON Mascot Competition is Go!

Overnight some mysterious elf has plastered the University with these beauties. I'm excited to see how many entries we get, and all the ideas all the crazy talented anime folk will come up with. The competition was launched online a few days earlier on http://dojcon.com/  GET DRAWING EVERYONE :)
Like us on facebook if you're into this sorta thing http://www.facebook.com/dojconanime

Co-Direction and New personal schedule

Ok, so, from today Freya Allan has joined my team to Co- direct Dancing Nina, the newer, shorter, 2D version. She'll be making sure I don't go crazy and make this film into something that doesn't make sense any more and generally bossing me around like dictators- i mean, directors, are meant to. I'll be doing the same back as she'll be helping with animation and such.

Here's my new rough personal schedule, enjoy it, I know i will. (heavy sarcasm).

P.s. All the "Kelpie" entries have question marks because i haven't seen their personal schedule yet so don't know if mine matches up. Also the term "level 2/3 slaves" is used lovingly.

Horray for partnership! cue terrible photo-


http://dancingnina.blogspot.co.uk/
http://djcadmonsters.blogspot.co.uk/
http://kelpiefilmdoj.blogspot.co.uk/

Naked folk (13/09/12)

Going back to life drawing after summer is never going to have beautiful results, bare with me, i'm sure they'll improve...

Bracing myself...

First of all, this blog is now going to include my university personal course work as well as my free time work- so it'll be a lot more boring, you've been warned. Basically we all found out this morning we should be keeping personal record as well as group record of our projects. I simply couldn't be bothered thinking of more crackin' a name than "In Soviet Russia Art Blogs You" and since the flow of new posts on this is never ample I thought I'd just make THIS my course work Production Diary (+ occasional outlet for artistic frustration) I'm working with 3 groups so I'll mark what production it's for clearly and link to the group blog

This particular masterpiece is a rough personal schedule I'm working on in Excel for Dancing Nina  http://dancingnina.blogspot.co.uk/ It's also a screen capture because I didn't know how to post the pdf in blogger- but, like I said, it's a working progress.

It only runs until Christmas assessments atm, and according to our new briefs we need 10% of our film fully finished by that assessment, which is why it looks so tight. 10% of our film is roughly 18secs so if we split the animation we will each animate 6secs. We spoke briefly today about which shot we would use for this 18 sec clip, I'm voting for part of the dance sequence.We could simultaneously bag a "money shot" and one in which the dramatic lighting will cut out most of the background and props (a spotlight effect on the 2 dancers) hence why I have prop modelling scheduled for myself while someone else is taking care of the rigging/texturing of the characters. Anyway this is very early stuff so it probably won't stay this way- plus most likely, I've forgotten something.