Scribbles.

Literally just found these out. Hadn't posted them yet, so I thought i'd share. Some scribbles i'd done over the Summer:

Group Project - Yes Yes Yes Yes No

As part of our Second Year, we've also been asked to work in groups to produce a 90 second animation. However  the script for our project can only contain the words "Yes" "Yes" "Yes" "Yes" and "No". This can be narrated, spoken by a character or within the animation (On a sign, floor, etc) There cannot be any other dialouge, except for uninterpretable mumble and non-digetic sounds. I'm working with Luke and Lee, we wanted to base our idea around Cornwall after a brief lecture from Kathy. We decided it would be nice to use our local area, especially as I am not from Cornwall.

Our beginning idea began around seagulls and the nuisance they cause, primarily around St Ives where they are known to steal food from local trade and tourists. Luke has a good knowledge of the area as does Lee, we began formulating ideas and researching St Ives. We thought using the Sloop Inn (one of the oldest pubs in Cornwall) would also be a nice feature. So I began researching there too;

 From there we began a first priliminary story and storyboard. We decided on the idea of a pirate coming into St Ives' harbour after a long trip out to sea. He points and says "Yes" as he sees the harbour. He comes into land, and walks up into the town and to the Sloop Inn. There's quite a few tourists sat outside enjoying lunch and drinks, as the Pirate walks up, the mood turns awkward and silent as the tourists stare in disbelief at the Pirate. A large tourist's ice cream drips off to form a "Yes" on the floor. 

 The pirate walks into the Sloop Inn and orders chips and a drink at the Bar. (We decided on having Betty Stoggs from the Skinners Ales behind the bar, or a character with similar traits. As he turns around to leave Betty Stoggs checks him out and gives an "ooh Yes". From there a close up of him carrying out his food with really disgusting dirty nails. A seagull sat on the roof notices him. He calls in his seagulls friends, there they formulate a plan to steal the chips.

The seagulls swoop down and begin taking his food. At this point we finally see the pirates face as we decided to keep it hidden from the viewer. The pirate isn't happy about this, he looks up to see the seagulls circling him from above. He grabs his chips and drinks and runs to his boat whilst screaming "Noo!" The seagulls gather behind him. Once on his boat, he begins to slace at the seagulls with his cutlass. He notices his cannon and begins to fire cannon balls at the seagulls.

One of the seagulls is hit by the cannon ball. The pirate laughs as the seagulls get angrier. However he hears a noise behind him, only to realise the seagulls have eaten his chips which he left on the deck. He clears them away, only to see a plate rocking slowly from side to side. The pirate then looks to the side, only to see St Ives completly destroyed from his cannon balls. The camera then cuts to the seagulls flying away with chips in their mouths.

I also did a few quick sketches of the pirate, however we've decided on Luke designing the Pirate, Lee the Seagulls and I am doing the backgrounds.

University Year 2. Pre Production Project.

Start of my Second year at University, our first project is a Pre-Production one. For this project we were given 4 cards; Setting, Character, Genre & Style. I was given The Moscow Underground (Setting), Comedian (Character), Genre (Pre-School) & 1950's Textiles (Style) So far this is what I've come up with:

I began doing quite a few mind maps, get some ideas going. I decided my main character should be a Clown.  I've also decided I want a variety of Animal character, classic circus animals such as lions, bears, seals, horses etc. I began looking at Children's animations and tv shows, mostly through YouTube, but I put together a quick mood board of some which I found inspiring:

I wanted to use a collage-style as conveyed within Charlie and Lola, however as I'm using 1950's textiles as my style, I thought I could use bright coloured paper in blocks. I also looked at Something Special which uses Mr Tumble (bottom right) as their main character who is a clown. His simple yet bright coloured costume was highly useful as it uses an array of shapes which I could portray onto my character.






Pingu at the Circus helped give an idea as to convey a Circus primarily for pre-school television.

Chuck Jones also began producing the Loony Tunes cartoons, along with Tom and Jerry & Woody Woodpecker. I began watching these to see how the 1950's style became apparent in the backgrounds and characters.







I began looking into 1950's textiles, some of the bigger designers such as Stig Lindberg, Marian Mahler, Mary White and Lucienne Day.

Lucienne Day

Stig Lindberg

Marian Mahler

Mary White

My Grandparents also sent me some photos and clothes from the 1950's for me to use. These have become incredibly useful as I want to achieve not only the textile styles but the fashion of the Fifties too.
(I've had to blur the faces for privacy reasons)

From there I began brief designs of my clown character who I've named Tilly.

I also looked into Circus tents briefly to give me an idea of the shape and size.

From that I created these colleges and drawings, using the style of 1950's textiles...

Röyksopp

Make me happy.

How cool is this?!

Awesome. :D

A much more personal blog...

A close relative of mine has just had a baby! Yay! The entire family are delighted and everything is funkydory!
I decided to make a hanging mobile for the baby. Textiles is one of my big areas within art & design; hand sewing, embroidery, screen printing, knitting, I absolutely adore it. I'd bough an enourmous pack of felt on an impulse buy at Trago Mills, I'd been pottering around with it, making things like this:

 Vintage Rose brooch.

I told you I like the new My Little Pony...

I made Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie brooches.

All hand designed and embroidered by me.

I figured felt would be the easiest material to use, having already experiemented with it. Considering it's light, durable, simple to cut and stitches beautifully. Plus it's soft and has a massive appeal to children because of it's range of bright colours. Not forgetting the popular toy Fuzzy Felt.

I had already decided I would hand stitch it all, I felt my sewing machine would probably eat the fabric. Additionally it also gave the mobile a very quaint 'handmade' feel. I chose animals as my theme, something simple which I could be creative with.

I made Alfie the Lion first...

Then Billy the Elephant, Toby the Parrot and Fred the Tiger

By this point, I'd turned the dining room into a mini studio:

 

Dad helped me make a frame out of MDF wood, which I painted a bright green. I also decided to attach the animals by ribbon to the mobile. 

Using Bondaweb, I glued on pieces of fabric to the back of each animal. This hid the exterior stitching plus the eye catching fabrics hopefully will keep the baby amused, especially the pink sparkly one.

Here's the card I made too:

I know it's not especially exciting, but I'm not a fan of big flouncy cards with masses of text and twee illustrations. I thought something simple and modern with a handmade touch would look nice. I added a crayon string from the balloon as well.

Rarity, Rainbow Dash & Pinkie Pie (c) Lauren Faust & Hasbro