Apex Animatic

This is the animatic (of sorts: more a rough animation test really) for the Apex project. I think it's shaping up well. This is a digital test and I still hope to shoot the moving background in stop motion with some movement in the objects (rotating flowers etc).

Some other obvious discrepancies-
- The end won't last as long once the full view is seen.
- The duck will be reacting to it's environment much more and will be less robotic.
- Perhaps some foreground effects can be added digitally (like snow falling in winter).
- The father time and mother nature characters will obviously also be animated.

Memory Animatic

Here is a rough (somewhere between an animatic and full animation) of what I'll be producing for the memory project. I did this in photoshop, just adapting the image and saving the next frame as a jpeg. It's basically just a digital version of how I plan to produce the final (mixed media on glass maybe) which will hopefully have a more ephemeral quality. 

Luke Pearson

Just set this as my new wallpaper. It's by Luke Pearson and was for an exhibition by Edinburgh's very own Analogue Books called 'Turn up the Colour'. Missed the exhibition unfortunately (it was in August 2010). I think it's cool: true to Pearson's apparent love of drawing rocks and mountains-

  

Finally about ready to start manufacturing the seasons wheel for the Apex project with time running out!
This is a digital mock up of something like what I hope to achieve (click it for a better view)-

Innovation with Impact

Here's a video by Gentleman Scholar in which the visuals are driven by and respond to the audio track (Bill Gates talking about 21st Century Development) in the kind of way I hope to achieve in my memory project.

Having watched this and upon review of my memory animatic I think that there should simply be more happening (more movement, more change) in my project.

Lauren Child

I'm thinking that the illustration of Lauren Child is definitely a good source of inspiration for both of my current animation projects. The sketchy, and innocent style of her characters (like Charlie and Lola) might be something that I would consider for my memory project, although the style I hope to achieve will hopefully be much messier. The use of textures and sampled patterns in her illustration is just the sort of thing I'll be doing for the Apex project. The image below was for Liberty Fabrics who she designed some patterns for based on her illustrative style and sampling old liberty patterns.