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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Remember I was getting Mike to build one of the puppets for me? Well here he is, in all his glory! He's a great little chap, and moves really nicely and sturdily too, couldn't have asked for anything better! All

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To go with the preacher scene, I was having to make a lot of 'sausage'-mouths for the kind-of-lip-syncing (I say kind of as there will be no actual words spoken, just the appearance of speech, so much easier). On the

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As a part of this project I really wanted to get the story into a printable-book form, so I've been slowly converting images from the animation into a bit more of a kids-book-friendly-layout. It's all going pretty nicely, and I'm

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It's all been a bit quiet for the past few days hasn't it? That'd be me beavering away on Flash for the cartoony segment of my film. See the bunch of assets above for an idea of the kid-friendly style I'm

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One of the problems I've had with flash in the past is everything looking so blocked-in colour-wise. I wanted to keep everything textural and a bit handmade looking for this piece, as well as keeping a more simplified cartoonish visual

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A few stills from the completed scenes so far. Also good news in that I was right to avoid using the MILO camera, I've managed to do what I wanted just fine at home and it's turned out nicer than

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This is a lovely example of using textures in a digital context, and aslo aimed at the age range I'm going for in mine. Notice the soft lighting on the textures to make them stand out. In fact, a lot

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I am still alive see? Just a couple of the stills I'm working with as part of it all. One from the beginning and one from the end. Anyway, must crack on.

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Taking over the spare room... A lot of experimenting to get the right layout and lighting is going on (with more to come I fear), but this is it in one of it's iterations. Not a whole lot of room as you

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