Whillock: April 2012

I made an owl out of material scraps. Model-making and thriftiness practice.

Ashton to Audacity

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Audacity free audio editing software (above) is rather nice for getting rid of noise and doing a bit of audio editing for someone with my degree of knowledge of soundy things (ie none).Big thank-you to Ashton Lewsey who was kind enough to narrate

Getting Back into Flash

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So the time has come to get back working in flash again for the 2D animated segment of the animation. Hopefully I'll remember a few bits and bobs from last time so it won't be like starting from fresh again.

Working with Michael Price

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During the course of this project, I'm getting help from the very talented Michael Price. After seeing some of his other work and models, I was very keen to get him involved on the fabrication part of this project, so

Mini Project: Digital Drawing Practice

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Another bit of digital drawing practice, getting used to new things and learning on photoshop. The more practice the merrier. Some days you feel like you're improving, but some feel like you're going backwards, just have to keep plodding on.

Mini Project: Show Avatars

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Just testing out some avatar ideas for the end-of-year show stop-motion people. The idea was to keep it simple and tie all the people together, but keep it quirky and obvious as to what the medium was.

Testing Titles

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Guess what' it's called? Seriously though, I think I'm pretty happy with that top one, below are some of the earlier goes and ideas:

Doing another set of storyboards to make sure I've got all the scenes nailed down, and adding a bit of colour to it as well. Also, getting the 3rd set built, little bit of stained glass style work to be