Whillock: 2012

Just some simple new photos for my book.

A Mixed Bag

First time attempt at cotton felting, and a brain slug from material scraps. Quill pen made from a buzzard feather. Quill pen made from a Pheasant feather An older print from a bit of acid engraving. I'd love to have

Rufus!

Another puppet done, this one will be going up for sale on Etsy as a bit of an experiment. Think of him as Ratman #2

Bits and Bobs

A simple planter made of a lightbulb and wire Festive rag rug wreath for the coming Crimbo. And a bit of rough sculpting and testing: Fester Fish and some spider-head-thing.

Happy Halloween!

Takin' Photos

A little bit of photography for some lovely illustrative work by Georgia Gloss

Resin Testing Continued

A little more experimenting with resin whilst doing other bits and bobs. I wanted to see how it reacts to sculpey after I'd tried plasticine, so figured I'd remake my plaster hand moulds in something a bit more sturdy. It

Maquette - Hidden People

Plasticine Maquette (left) of one of Graham Annable's (Grickle) illustrations of "The Hidden People" and a digitally coloured version of it (right).

Maquette - Frankenstein's Monster

My own take on Frankenstein's Monster, in plasticine.

Self Plasticine

Exactly what it says on the tin.

I'm Back Baby!

Well hello there stranger. After a bit of a hiatus from blogging I'm back. Had a bit of a grotty cold over the last few weeks which has slowed me down, but other than that there's been good news in the form

The End of University

Being Dead, Uni Year 3

Wrapping up my final week at University, I finished with a satisfying First Class Honours, which has made the work seem worthwhile. On top of that, I won the Trevor Beattie (TA2) Award for Stop-Motion, presented by Ian Mackinnon (of

Books for Sale

Being Dead

I'm selling the last few copies of the first batch of the book "Being Dead" off on folksy, so head on over if you fancy one!

Being Dead

Well, here it is, the final completed film! If you go to Vimeo, you can watch it in HD. Thank-you to everyone who helped in one way or another, hope you all like it, let me know what you think!

Evaluation

For this project, I had set myself the personal learning outcomes of developing a substantial and well-rounded piece of work, that would stand well on it’s own as a piece. Also, that it should be based around the topics I

Presentation

Influences

Here are a collection of a few of the things that've inspired me throughout the project, be it for the visual aesthetic, such as the ones above, or for the narrative structure like the ones below. SunGuy heavily influenced my

Shots and Angles

During the filming of the piece, I wanted to incorporate a few different shots and angles, but had decided against using the MILO for two reasons: 1) After seeing some of the other students having used it, it was incredibly

Fontastic Feedback

After giving my printed book a bit of a pass around, Steve reminded me of something that hadn't crossed my mind, but is actually perfect for this book. The writing font wasn't quite right so he suggest doing it hand-written. This would

Mini Project: Lulu Book

This being the first time getting any of my work printed into a book, it was all untrodden territory, but after reading a few reviews I decided to go with self-publishing website Lulu.com. It seemed to have a good range

Meet James and Kate

Meet the Preacher