animation

i created this story from my museum/market drawings.

its based on a chicken thats forming itself back to life after being eaten.
in his quest he goes to the chicken factory to get his head as well as his legs back. in the end he gets most of body, looks kind of deformed and then meets all of his other deformed friends.

still working on this, its not a bottle, its a chicken leg!
so need to change that.

my tutor, fiona, said to cut some of it down, so im going to work on that as well as finish the rest of it off. this was over 900 frames, thus 900 drawings. plus this is just a quarter of the whole thing, so i need to do another 2700 frames...TOMORROW!!!
guess its not movie night tomorrow any more.
:/

drawing project

i really liked this project, i don't do much observational drawings, so i dont really have my own drawing style. the above is just a lot of experimentation, so don't be put your head down in shame if it wasn't up to your expectations, me being an art student and all lol.

borough market

im actually in love with this place! if there was more vegetarian stuff other than cheese and vegetables, consider me bankrupt.

snippets of my 5 minutes a day book project

Une femme est une femme

Absolutely adored this movie, it just had a really unconventional way of story telling. . I really liked the long pan’s used and the text interfering its emptiness. It had a creative way of editing, especially when the angela and emile argue, then it suddenly cuts to them making out. You fall in love with Angela character, mainly because of her beauty as well as her cute comments at Emile’s expressions. She plays a stereotypical ‘house wife’ character, this emphasised with her cooking the dinner as well as wanting a baby. I really like how Godard has directed this, the costumes, sets, makeup give us an insight of life in France in that time. He used a lot of music to exaggerate some of the narrative ie when the couple are having an argument, loud orchestral music is played in the gaps. The scripting of this movie is amazing, I wish I could get hold of it. French seems like such a pretty language, I really want to learn it now.

the long goodbye

This movie is 40’s detective movie and has its conventional protagonist, Phillipe Marlowe. I love how he’s made out as an intelligent detective, yet he can’t even trick his cat into eating a different brand of cat food, this kind of foreshadows the detective ways, in how he cannot fake anything, and this is evident throughout the movie, e.g. when the two officers come to him to ask him questions, he tries to act smart but the officers can see that he’s hiding something. It was strange how Marlow had naked woman doing yoga ? Across his apartment, yet the camera would never focus on them, they didn’t really interest Marlow. This movie is set back in time, everything is again very vintage like, life being very free and simple. It carries the ideology of having the woman as really weak and this is shown when Gould can’t control her husband thus wanting a separation. The ending was unexpected, I didn’t think that Marlowe would actually kill his friend, the one who he was protecting throughout the movie. I like how it finishes with Marlowe walking into the distance, dancing happily as if he has nothing else to solve.
Thumbs up at Arnold Schwarzenegger's popping up, made my day.

slacker





Slacker portrayed life in Texas as very slow and strange. I found some of the conversations really interesting, like the one about space, smurfs and some others. I really liked this 60’s world, everyone laid back and free. I also enjoy how the movie is filmed, cutting through different stories as people walk pass. It makes it seem like everyone that passes you has some sort of importance. Sometimes because of the slow-paced atmosphere, my mind would drift off but I’m guessing this was the directors intention, showing how life really is, not a conventional ’movie’ with the main protagonist and antagonist. I don’t think I wouldn’t actually pay to watch this movie, I would probably watch it if it was on TV on a Sunday afternoon. The 60’s street fashion is something which kept me amused, I just loved more or less all of the different costumes each of the characters was wearing as well as the run down quiet area the movie is set in. I’m actually in love with the whole vintage lifestyle, so simple and so free.

book project

I didn't do as much work as i wanted to in this project as i got a job as an christmas temp at game and that was my priority as i was saving up for a canon 550d.

I wasn't that happy with my book which would have been obvious because i didn't spend very long on it, i will re-do it when i have some spare time.

I first started thinking about 'a paranoid' book', and had an idea of using security camera's, because of the way they are so public showing its audience that people in that building are paranoid of their belongings.

I then thought of using flies, as of having 'a fly on a wall' being a very discrete way of something looking over at you. I thought of developing these two ideas further and then created this.

It's a fly with security cameras in its eyes, but i wasn't sure how i was going to produce this as a book, so this idea finished at this.

I then decided to change the idea of a 'book' and deconstructed an old book of mine. I really liked this design, and thought it could be a lamp shade of some sort, but still was unsure about how the idea will go further, so i started a new idea.

I then scrapped the idea of a paranoid book, and decided to choose a book of very little/a book that’s isn’t there. I thought acetate pages, would be good as showing a book that’s not really there. I thought of adding little things such as plants bits and snippets from the beginning of ‘the curse’. I liked the contrast between these two aspects.

Max then advised me to add evidence items, instead of words and leaves, so I added lipstick marks, a hard eaten chocolate, a train ticket and a plaster with blood on it to give a sense of evidence from a crime scene.

I didn’t get any sold : ( but I knew I wouldn’t because I didn’t spend very long on it and I wouldn’t personally pay for it myself.

But it was an overall good experience, I need to stop leaving things to last minute.

i decided to change my blog layout...

hopefully this one looks more 'professional' and 'arty'