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Short Film: Second block

23 July 2006

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Here's the 2nd third of my short film, in blocking... Not really a whole lot more to say about it! Let me know what you think as usual!

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Short film: First block + a competition(ish)!

16 July 2006

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Have you missed me?It's been a while since I posted, mainly because my layout was finished 2 weeks before the end of the term, then we had a week off, and finally my first block last week was a bit rubbish.Our schedule is this... each week, we work on a third of our short (last week was the exception). We block the first third this week,...

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Short film: layout completed

15 June 2006

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Just a quick entry to update you on the progress of my short film. I've finished the layout, save for some very minor tweaks. My mentor has said she's happy that this layout is in a finished state now, so that's pretty good.A layout is basically a walk-through of the film - you may have seen some of them on DVD's, Pixar usually...

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Laugh at me whydontcha

27 May 2006

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OK... Here it is. A once in a lifetime chance to see me trying to act on camera.Please don't laugh.This week I had to record myself pitching my story. In my live Q&A this week we'll be watching each others pitches and giving feedback, but I've decided to take the plunge and post it here so that you can give me any feedback you...

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Can Digg really threaten editor-led news?

24 May 2006

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It's often been said that community-driven news sites, such as Digg, are going to be the next potential threat to the traditional editor-led online news sources. Personally, I can't see that happening with anything like the present formula, and here's why.A good editor-driven news source should aim to pick stories based on their value...

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Peanut butter animatic time

21 May 2006

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The next stage of the process of my short film was to make an animatic; basically, moving storyboards. You may well have seen this on the extras of animated movie DVD's (Pixar usually includes them for example). The idea behind them is to quickly draw the film out, the collate them as a movie to get a sense of the timing, camera angles and so...

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Story time: part 2. Input needed!

21 April 2006

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As you may have read in an earlier entry, I'm working on my short film and the past couple of weeks, I've had to come up with ideas (the movie is to be 30-60 secs long). I had to discuss my ideas with my class on Wednesday, and I've ditched one, leaving me with 2. I'm not sure which to go with yet, so your input would really be...

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Do I get a 360?

07 April 2006

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My fellow IPS staff are currently conspiring to make me buy an XBox 360 which is unfortunate.The reason I mentioned to them that I was considering it is because I recently bought Oblivion on the PC, but it's giving me grief. I'm fed up of tweaking the ini file to get good performance, and I'm still suffering from intermittent crashes,...

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Story time!

06 April 2006

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I've started the long process of creating my short film, which I will be working on for the next 6 months. My new term started on Monday, and my mentor is Melanie Cordan, who has worked as a Senior Animator on LOTR, Toy Story 2, Shrek, Madagascar and is currently working on Shrek 3 and Over The Hedge.As I explained in my previous entry, the...

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Animation: Final (updated!)

27 March 2006

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First off, apologies for not updating my blog in over a month. The past few weeks I've had several technical issues that have meant my piece only ever looked half done. I didn't feel there was much point in showing you something that was half smoothed half not and so on, so I've held off posting this until now, when it's at a point...

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