evaluation

this turn has been very much a rush job at the end because of the dissuasion and main film.
since the dissertation was in on the same week i was torn onto what was more impotent for my time. the extra week mike given us was a life saver to say the least but i still have so much left to work on.

the biggest problem was the lack of information i was getting. i only heard that we were expected to work on a personal website when i hadn't heard much about it till days before the hand in.

i did keep up with google Calder but i could have filled it out a bit more in hindsight.
exploring and speacking people to invite was interesting and gave me time to consider where i want to be in the months following leaving college. famestore even thought they did not get back to me is still one my best hopes for any kind of work once i finish here.

as i have said befor this term has been a bit of rush job beacuse of no infomation about the indavigral website alone with the little time i left for blogging my findings.

market plan for the degree show

This post is bracking down what i can use to gain notice and rep at the degree show.
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poster: i have already spoken about making it an erlyer post

bissniss cards: i have already made some buisness cards in the past for my little brother the website vistaprints
makeing some for myself shouldent take too long since i already have an internet identaty.

first attempet of a persnal bissness card

individual contract of work

the contract i filled out with with rob saying that i'm basicly taken cear of most of the art work and drawing.

identifying our market & how other animators market their products

this post is split into two parts
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since i've changed project to just be working on robs sissors project our taget audence will be the same sort of kids that injoy work such as goosem tales for gruesome kids, tales of the crypt keeperr. goosbumps, witches, roald dahl, horrable history and a series of unfortunate events. the ages of teh kids could range from 4 to 6 up. they normaly grow out of them at age 12 to 14.

images from diffrent horror books aimed at children

some of these books were clasic enough to make animations of them like the film the BFG (big frendly gient) and tales of the crypt keeper that got three anamated seasons.

animation adabtastions of some of the books

so now we have to look at an aduence that is intrested in these same kinda of seaces. in order to make an adabation of the 'little suck-a-thumb'.

but its not just kids we are aming for. we know that we have to sell this to potanshal empolyers as well so the artistic style is also ment to appels to older gerorstions who look for these sort of styles.

inderpent short films with losts of potenshal can use a number of diffrent ways to get they're film noticed and even markected for some profit.

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since i have ian (brother) in the industry it is easy to get hold of all the kinds of diffrent show reals and cv's from his coliges and firends to help gude me to desying mine.

websites:

• persnal
• forms
• yotube
• twitter
• blogs
• deventart

film convections:

mechondising and selling products:

identifying an employer/ company to invite to the degree show

ian was kind enough to give me a list of compays in london i can reserch and invit to the degree show, so thats a good starting point.
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how am i looking for
as most know by now i am intrested in 2d, storyboreds and conspect work. i know few who speshalise in this fild.

names of potenshal companys and contacts

Framestore. http://framestore.com/: ian works there and knows current stuff. i also did work exsprince there for a week.

MPC http://www.moving-picture.com/:

Double negative http://www.dneg.com/:

Cinesite http://www.cinesite.com/:

Method Studios http://www.methodstudios.com/

Guerilla Vision http://www.guerillavision.com/: frends of ians works there doing stroybording

any of these holes good peotenshal to work for in the future and be woth inviteing

websight

this post is about the website we are making as a group and the indavigal one i'm makeing myself
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after specking to rob he said he'll take cear of the project website for now and i'll just work on my own for now

http://www.wix.com/rbowle2/scissors-animation

update, hes made the basic website and asked me for persnal detales to add.

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i have worked on websites befor and rob has serjected wix witch is ment to make html easer to use. i'll resycal some old images to start bulding and work on detales later down the line.

as for my persnal one you can go direcly there with

http://www.wix.com/sammathews67/steamsmart_website

i am useing a website called wix.com. so far seems very fidaly but since i've done website work befor is easy to figer out.

i've used a template and am just moiveing things around deleating anything that isent usefull. might have been easer to just start from scratch now i come ot think of it. made some swf files and added them in. will have to rearange them a little later to look nicer. also i need to change the border to suit the common screen.

up dated vertion. now has a with of 1000 pixals insted of 3000. also sorted out a few links and started tidying it up

added content. last years showreel and some of the video i had up on youtube.
need to add some of the projects and cv infomation.

bracking down the animatic

in the last few weeks i have been backing down the storyboreds for rob in to seans and diffrent images

each photoshop image is layerd to one sean out of the 31 in the short. under it is the corosponding after effects file and then the folder with the current exsported images.

then the final images are complet we will simpley replaces the images in the photoshop file. refesh in affter effects and expsort again.

diffrent layers to one sean taken at radom

whats to come in this term

in the next few weeks i will need to take into consideration work on with a number of diffrent people as a team. not only just rob but students from other subjects. we resently contacted 'twosound' to ask if he was able to do sound for us. we have yet to hear back but stay in hight hopes that he dose reply soon.

alone side the the main short film i am also working on the dissatation take is takeing alonger then i first though. note: will have to try added more time for it in my time table.

poster and degree show

mike has asked each of us to work on a poster and websight towords the degree show.

the posters have to be A1
1684 x 2384 ppi - 4 million pixels

the posters will depect the chartoers from the short film i am working on with rob.
i have done the basic sceaches and inking and sorting out colour as we speck.
the problem is since the image is so big. my computer cant handel the pixel size.
as each layer is aded the time it takes to takes to just save goes up.
shading is going to be a nightmare

intoduction and planing ahead for the term

i have fallen behind gratly this term and almost forgot about bloging as i went alone. so in the next few days i will be charching up with that i've been up to so far.

this term we have been asked to plan and keep track of waht we've got to do for our final year project.
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we have been asked to set up a dropbox account with the rest of our team on sissors. (just me and rob at the moment)

we were also asked to use google calinders to plan ahead for the term.

we had to take into consideration the use the time we have to work on each pojects with mike as well time set aside for the dissatastion, half term bracks; upcoming apontments like doctors, dislesic meetings etc.

a screen shot of the week ahead
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update.screen shots of the past three months

january

febuary

martch