http://www.milktwosugars.org/

This is the link to a guy called Bobs site, who joint runs the drawing evening 'Any Which Way'.

I love the colours and quirky animation, i am hoping to produce something this way. Along with the technologies and processes i am exploring in 'The Sandpit' brief, i hoped to look into where illustrations and what format they end up in. This is an example of something they could be produced for.

Cafe Revolution 2.

Here are some pictures from the latest evening of 'Any Which Way' held at Cafe Revolution in Huddersfield. Growing ever more popular, as everyone worked it got hotter and hotter and more and more packed. I even found coloring tiring!

In the future i hope to introduce these evenings in Leeds. Tying in with my project in 'The Sanpit' brief, this is also an example of what format an illustration could finally end up as/in. This is an example of working with NO TECHNOLOGY. It's interesting to see whats different about your work when you use a computer and when you don't. Different ways technology effects you?

Final Cut.

Final Cut was introduced in 1998, with a mac and windows version. In 2003, Apple announced a program for Premiere users to trade in their discs for a free copy of Final Cut Express. FCP benefited tremendously from the relative maturity and stability of QuickTime together with the new FireWire technology as it was applied to video editing. In April 2004, version 4.5 of Final Cut Pro was introduced, and rebranded by Apple as "Final Cut Pro HD", with the release of Final Cut Pro 5.0 in May 2005. The lastest Final cut which was released in April 2007 is Final Cut Pro 6.0.
These are just a few of the films edited using final cut.

• Full Frontal (2002)
• The Ring (2002)
• Cold Mountain (2003) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Walter Murch)
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
• Open Water (film) (2003)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• The Ladykillers (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Super Size Me (2004)
• Corpse Bride (2005)

Learning to use Final cut seemed quite easy as the software is easily accesable and easy to understand. This is an already formed animation that we took apart and learnt how to put together. I hope to produce my own...

This is the one of the earliest stop motion films. Its' Walt Disneys' Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie and was made in 1928. 

Here is an animation i found, which i think is really great, and is a good example of how illustration can be easily manipulated to produce an amazing life like piece of animation. Also watching it after the Steamboat Willie animation from 1928 really shows the comparison between what it was then and what it is now... It is the trailer for the upcoming film made by Louis hudson of Dice Productions, All Consuming Love (Man In a Cat). Coming out of a cats' ass near you! 

This is a really quick little animation i put together. Well its so awful, i wouldn't even call it an animation. but it was just me having a go and making something and making it move with my camera and using final cut...

 

Narrative Construction.

...and interaction on my mobile phone.
Putting together a narrative through 'chinese whispers', we produced separate images to communicate each sentence of the narrative, taking the pictures on a mobile phone. Then to use the technology of bluetooth to send them from the phone to the computer.
A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device which is used for mobile voice or data communication over a network. As the mobile phone has got more popular and newer and newer phones are being invented the technology becomes greater, with the phone developing we have seen... SMS, email, packet switching for access to the internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and recieving photos and video, MP3 player, radio and GPS. What will they think of next...apparently mobile TV is in the pipeline, it's just finding adequate battery power to supply the tuner and perhaps digital radio?
Here are some of the photos of images we created for the narrative, both the first and second time we did the task, taken on a mobile phone. The quality is shit!...

Film.

That is the storyboard we put together using some of each of the drawings we did.

In a group of three we created a 30 second piece of action, on one of the finest pieces of technology, the video camera. The video camera is used for electronic motion picture. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird. Video cameras are used in two modes, live broadcast an example being television and also videotape, recording things. Cameras are used everywhere and for so many different reasons. Videotaping is key in society today for CCTV, and it is said now that England is recorded as the country with the most cameras watching us.

Before actually getting the shots on camera we had to each draw a story board, either close-up,longshot or extreme angles. It was important to discuss, the shooting order which we wrote down to make the filming possible, the length of each shot, point of view and also writing a short risk assesment. This consists of cautions we were to take during the filming and taking the concern of others saftey and also that of the expensive equipment we were using.

Here is our final storyboard ready for filming and also a few little annotations to help the people editing our film. 

This is the clips that we put together for another group to from their initial film idea from their storyboard.

This is our film which we put together...

The sandpit.

A new brief...
Communication Technology - Research, explore and document your relationship with communication technology.

It is Love.

Sabrina Ward Harrison.
Messy Thrilling Life.

This arrived from the USA today, and is now possibly one of the best books i own. The surfaces and illustrations/photography is amazingly put together to create subtle soft images.
LOVE