Festival on the wall - Team production

'Festival on the wall' is a festival which shall take place close to hadrians wall, this festival shall be the first of its kind in the north east. Contracted by the festivals orginisers Paul smyth and David hails led a team to create the advertisment for the event. The planned advertisment was a video that would be projection mapped at various locations. As part of this team I played a role in creating and producing the final advertisment for the event.

This process would explore skills in animation and VFX. Covering techniques such as frame animation and motion tracking. This experience provided rich knowledge into how many different techniques can come togeather in a team environment to create a unique and interesting result for advertisment. 

The production began by setting up a camera and shooting dance sequences off models against a green screen. The dances needed be no longer than 4 seconds long as they needed to be looped further down the production line.  

 

Each member of the team (Including myself) was tasked with designing a looped animation that covered specific parameters. The design requirements included:, 

• The character changing between 3 expressions.
• The animation must only include 12 frames.
• The animation must loop. 

Above is my resulting animation loop in its raw hand drawn form. I decided upon hand drawing my animation due to the textured effect the lines have in future stages of production.

 

Due to the fact that my animation had been hand drawn, I made the decision to colour each frame in adobe photoshop. This allowed the most efficent and effective workflow for the production. 

Once my looped animation had been finalisation I co-ordinated the collection of the remaining animations along with team leader paul to set up the final comp. Each recorded dance was cut up, and looped acordingly before I used Mocha AE to motion track the animted heads onto the bodies. Adding a gradient overlay resulted in my final dance loop.

With guidence from team leader paul, I led the development of the final animated comp by tracking and looping each memeber of my teams dance and comping into the final production.



Overall this live brief has allowed me to develop and learn alot about been a freelance animatior & illustrator. It has given me important experience when working on a project as a team. And has allowed me development into new skills, techniques and approaches to production.

Are you going to festival on the wall? Have you seen this projection around? Comment below!

Have a question? Want to get in contact? Email me at: Sickjujuu@gmail.com

Image manipulation - 3D Horror concept

During my time experimenting with Image manipulation techniques in my current unit at newcastle college, I created an experiment in order to understand how i can use 3D perspectives in order to digitise concepts for games, animations and movies.

The idea behind this experiment was to use Image manipulation techniques in order to generate a video that conceptualises potential level designs in a horror game. This experiment was also created to demonstrate how image manipulation techniques can be used in mediums outside of the VFX industry such as games design in order to convey ideas and designs.

Overall I enjoyed creating this animation and I'm satisfied that in coordination with the audio this experiment took full advantage of the effect this technique can have when digitising concepts and conveying intentions.



Thank you for taking the time to view my work! I shall continue to keep you upto date with current and future projects!

Animated banner now live!

Since the beginning of my pseudonym I have been experimenting and creating a short animation to serve as the banner for my blog. This animation would consist of a short loop of a tribal chief drinking some 'Bad Juju' causing him to puke up the title of my blog. And its finally complete! 

The inspiring style for this animation consisted of simple after effects animation with motion graphic traits. Due to my love of creating animation I wanted visitors to my blog to get a real picture of what it is i do and what I create. By designing this banner and having it greeting them when the page loads in, I feel it gives them a clear first impression of my work that i hope everyone enjoys!

The idea behind the content of this animation was from the play on words with 'Sick' and 'Juju'. Juju been bad energy consumed, and sick been the resulting expression. I found this concept to be hilarious and I hope you share in my enthusiasm :) 

If you cannot see the banner, you should be seeing this image at the top of my blog page: