First test for new film 'Busy Lately'

Well hopefully this will the first of many posts about my new film 'Busy Lately'. Most of the design work is done and I am just testing out the animation style and how interprets into an editing suite.

Thought i'd share with you the first line test so I hope you like it. Much more will be following in upcoming posts

           

Sleeping Betty by Claude Cloutier

And there was me wondering what I was going to post today. That was until I visited one of my favourite blogs 'On Animation' and found this beauty of a film.

Produced and animated by Claude Cloutier 'Sleeping Betty' is a film that follows the short story of a sleeping princess and her fathers sometimes surreal attempts to wake her from her slumber. The random originality of all the characters and gags are a triumph especially my personal favourite the witch who comes in hoovering with her broom. Oh and the horse riding the taxi, theres just to many. These all coming from a man who says he is 'not' a funny man.

It just shows that there are some animators still out there producing films using traditional hand drawn techniques and with such talent and draftsmenship. There isn't a frame throughout that piece that doesn't purvey weight, character and pose. A brilliant piece of work and I look forward to seeing more and learning more about Claude Cloutier.

                 

Please watch this and enjoy every 24 frames of each second!

Secret Garden Party Animation

Over the last month I've been working with Atomic Arts to produce this years Secret Garden Party website, and I say produce the website I mean doing the animation. Secret Garden Party celebrates its 10th year anniversary this year so it was great to be apart of it all.

IMAGES  ARE PROPERTY OF PETE LOVEDAY

I animated some great illustrations by the talented cartoonist Pete Loveday. They are all over the website and more are to be added in the coming weeks which I will make sure to post up.

Meanwhile click on the picture above to head straight over to the website and check it out, or alternatively click on this link  http://www.secretgardenparty.com/2012/#!/home/

Did some great work for Alice Dupre again last month and it seems like another brilliant outcome. The project was for Charlie Simpson (formerly of Busted fame) on his new music video for 'Farmer and His Gun'.

The premise was a story similar to the great classic Watership Down, with the video following a lonely rabbit who finds love and all done in the style of a children's book. Washed over the top was a great watercolour effect that proved very effective and stopped it becoming a boring old Flash animation. Alice's style is one that I really like and had a great time on her Ikea internet commercials she did last year (of which you can see here on a previous post http://tcs16.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/happy-to-bed-animation.html)

Lets hope that this video pushes her into the animation elite and then hopefully they'll be a lot more of where this came from. Check out her website at www.aloveday.co.uk

As for I animated and cleaned up the dog in the middle of the piece and cleaned up the female rabbit and all the small little blighters at the end of the video.

I hope you enjoyed it!