Every breath you take

Well since I was already dressed up I thought I may as well make another video for you, as per usual I start laughing in the middle of it, but I still like it,, I'm terrible for remembering words to songs, even the ones I really like , and I do really like this song, even if it is rather 'stalkeresque' it's still beautiful.

A girl enchanted by books

I made this piece this morning. I must point out that my original idea was to film this, however I didn't have anyone to film for me.

 I will admit that once I have ideas in mind, I have to do it straight away and experiment, I am a very impatient girl where ideas and executing them is concearned. So with noone around to help

  I decided I would continue with the techniques I have been using and thought it would be quite charming to experiment with stop motion techniques on real life models,, or me as far as this is concearned. I think I actually prefer the look of this to what I might have ended up with if I had filmed it live. I like the jerkie quality and as I'd intended to speed this film up anyway to give the asthetics of a silent 20's film reel I feel that the speed of the movements within the stop motion have given this film a quirky yet somewhat '20's' macabre feel to it.

Again this is part of a larger project I am working on

Experimenting with 3d characters

I made these short test films today, they are far from perfect but I made them to test out an idea I had of bringing my books to life and felt instead of making other characters I had all the books and characters I'd ever need right here in my room ( well all the characters I'd need for this particular project anyway)
   Again I don't want to give away too much of this idea and spoil all the fun of watching the end result.  But in short my idea involves me trying to portray what goes on in my little mind on a daily basis, and the influence books and the  characters within them have made upon me.

Dancing with myself

I've been working on this all day and have only just finished it.

I am extremly happy with it. There are however a few mistakes that I wasn't aware of when I was filming, but for the moment I feel they are quite minor. The picture does seem to appear quite jerky at times, I think this is due to the fact I did this all alone and occasionally knocked the tripod whilst i was moving my characters.

This been said i feel that for a second attempt at stop motion this is rather charming. I'm pleased with the contrast of the jive dance and the rather melancholic version of Billy Idol's 'Dancing with myself'

I did consider having something more up beat to match the jive dance but then thought that the juxtaposition of something sad along side something jolly and bright would work rather well. I think it represents my characer very well.

After working on this I feel extremly excited to explore animation techniques and also want to challange myself to perfect my stop motion skills.

Test dance 2

Another short test film. I thought I'd test my characters dancing skills before I let them be in the final piece, but having watched these moves, mini Charlotte has now been offered the leading role

My set development for the new animation

Just a short test film for my next animation

This is just a short test film i did moments ago. I am attempting a spinning motion for my character, although I'm not sure if I'm happy with it yet,, it isnt't bad but I think i may possibly need to make a side version of my puppet/doll, I'm not sure yet.