This blog is dedicated to both my artistic influences and my personal development. I can be contacted via email if anyone is interested in my work:
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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.
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
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.
This collage version of myself and my cat Spider are the small beginning of an animation I am making over the summer. I have all of the background to make yet , but as you can see, the paper version of me is very happy with the way she turned out, that happy in fact that she is dancing right off the page.
It's a nice change for me to make something as colourful as myself for once and I must say , I do quite enjoy my personal approach to collage and am very happy with the results.
I will always continue to produce my melancholic ink drawings though as they shall always be a huge part of my personality as well as my unique skill set.
Last night whilst laying in bed I came up with , what I feel is a really good idea for a map. I'm not going to say too much about it as I want it to be a surprise, but what I will say is that the idea I have in mind I have never seen anywhere else before. All I shall say it that it involves story telling.
After my past frustrations involving maps I can safely say , I can't wait to start this one.
I decided to make a short film with the images I made today. I would like to point out this is not my final film for the summer project, just part of an idea that I just had to do whilst it was swimming around inside my head.
I thought about how to represent myself in a series of images, and then, as usual turned to my books for inspiration. One of my favourite been the Picture of Dorian Gray. It's no secret that I adore the dark elements of art and story telling, so I thought it would be an interesting idea to portray myself in a portrait like Dorian Gray's, I also wanted to have flashes of what kind of things go on in my head and the things which inspire me.
Obviously the debauchery and horror are showing up as wounds upon my 'portrait'
This is by no means perfect, but i decided to upload a short test film of my progression throughout this project. I'm pleased with the concept of this and also the makeup.
I'm not too sure about the quality of the pictures, as I did this on my own and so, had to take the photos of myself, resulting in some of the poses been slightly different, although when I look at the film I do like the uneven effect.
Anyway I shall be uploading lots more of my work over the summer as I am brimming with ideas that are all fighting to jump out into the world and make people smile.
The music for this was inspired by a 1940's horror film named Carnival of souls. Its very dark and atmospheric featuring a young organ player who doesn't realise she is dead, to cut a long story short, this character has these 'trance' moments where her beautiful organ playing turns into something macabre, chaotic and frightening,, with this in mind and the imagery from the film of the carnival where the souls live I made up this 'music'
I think it fits in very well with the theme as when I hear it it sounds very chaotic and not melodic in any way, The sound of the repetitive notes along side the twinkle of the music box I feel make for a macabre carnival sound. Perhaps the carnival that goes on in my mind.
