Character development ish

I'm hoping to make a puppet over summer as well. But i want to get something different to everything else i've done so far. Which has been attempting to stick to human proportions or there abouts.

I recently purchased the "Making of Paranorman" book, which i recommend to absolutely ANYONE. Flicking through i saw a selection of the background characters and how they were so oddly proportioned but still didnt look weird in any massive way. This is something i want to develop my skills in, knowing which proportions you can play around with but still having the characters as recognisable humans.

I think these are the characters i want to develop and build one of them. I want to get more of a contrast between fat and thin, elongate the face of the taller more, give him more spindly fingers, play around a lot more with proportions

Summer work!

Believe it or not i've started drawing again! Considering the embarrassing amount of time off i've had i'm relatively happy with the outcomes. Need a lot more practice but planning on going everyday when i have a shift at work that finishes at half 3 so heres hoping I improve over the second month of summer at home.

Final first Year Showreel

Below is my very final first year showreel, including some of the work i did on the Paddington bear sting

Most Promising first year Award

At the glammies award show i was nominated for most promising first year with the following video, after seeing the competition i didn't think i would win so was speechless when my name was called in the cinema.

To see all of the other first year entries as well as all the other award categories follow the link below

http://cci.glam.ac.uk/glammies2012/awards/

A massive thank you to my tutors this year, friends and family and generally everyone whose supported me

Paddington Bear sting

Final animation of the year, group project for the glammies award show

Animated in around a week and a half between myself and Sean, 2D animation, set design and character build by Jake, Gregg and Hannah, find links to their blogs in the description of the video

For more information on the making of, visit Jakes blog at 

http://jakeharv.blogspot.co.uk/

1st year showreel

I know I haven't posted in the majority of my first year at uni, but its pretty much over! heres what i've been up to. Think the last post was character design project, this showreel shows the following project - Timing and Mechanics, Figurative, Animals & Birds and Character exploration

Character Design Project

 My most recent project at Glamorgan has been a character design one, the following are the sketchbook pages & final character model pack for my character.