professional project

It has been a while since I have updated my blog, generally because I have been in the zone working on my animation for the hand in to the professional project.

Once I get it finished I will be able to show some screenshots. In the mean time I have a link which may help towards my essay research for next year...

Advertising lab

A little more politics

Seeing as I wrote about the Labour Manifesto I thought it would only be fair to show the Lib Dem plans too.

I was really surprised when I saw that the Lib Dems had taken one step further on technology to produce a iphone application of their manifesto.

I really like the initiative they have taken to paving some sort of future, unfortunately it's only been half hearted as it's proved that they haven't blown their budget on the design. You can see the full story here and make your mind up for yourself on what you think of it.

The Bunker poster

This is a poster i recently did for a 3rd year fine art student, the poster was to promote a gig night at champions in Bournemouth which would help to fund-raise their final show.

Not to scale

This is an animation by company 'not to scale' called '3650.' It ties in with my professional project because it is about climate change and new energy. I really like the style of animation it uses a combination of CG and live film. I know I won't create anything as complex as this but it is a really inspiring piece of design work.

Another piece of work 'not to scale' did was with laterooms.com which can be seen on the motionographer website.

I don't want to get political but....

For one of the first times we are starting to see politics advertised in new ways, through the new manifesto launches some parties have

opted for animations to help with their promotion.

Here you can see the labour and green party's ideas. Both use a very different style of animation, and both get their messages across

clearly, using some interesting character design.

Pixles by Patrick Green

This video has been all over design blogs recently. I think it's because it's just a really well thought out piece of work, an awesome piece of animation.

This could be uselful to the sort of work I'm doing at the moment as it is quite an influential piece of work.

headgear animation

I have been looking through some of the work from headgear animation studio's and I found this piece of work done for the YMCA.

It uses a cut out style much like one I was considering for my professional project. From seeing some of their other work, they work with a lot of stop motion and claymation, and I thought it was quite an inspiring style of work...