Monday 21st November 2011
- Did first two pages of Chapter 2 during weekend.
- Day started 9:30am.
- Mainly continued with colouring Teleport machine.
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Day started 10am.
Brief meeting with collaborative group about what time that afternoon we should have our tutorial. - 3:20pm.
Little bit of mix up with one to one tutorials but, I had mine with Demitrios.
He looked at my Work Experience form and told me to add what I was doing specifically, but to be honest I don't that until I start!
He also told me to re-write my programme and add exactly what I am looking at.
Followed Demitrios' advice and added some more things to my Pro-Practice Programme, but not my Work Experience Form.
Charactershop:
The Big Screen Test
Every animation studio would literally kill to have their work playing in cinemas alongside some of the greatest Hollywood kids movies, including smash hits from Pixar and Dreamworks.
Luckily, CharacterShop didn’t have to kill anyone to realise this lofty ambition – we just had to produce ‘The Boy with the Golden Toothbrush’, a stunning 5 minute mini-movie for Aquafresh Kids which will be showing at Cineworld cinemas during their sponsored ‘Movies for Juniors’ programme on weekend mornings.
Telling the story of how young Olly finds a magical Golden Toothbrush in his attic, which transports him to Nurdle World, where he finds out all about tooth care for kids. Showing in full, glorious HD technicolour with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, our animation has never looked and sounded so good.
Brushing your teeth has never seemed so much fun – look out for more Aquafresh animations soon on Boomerang and the world wide web!
This is the dream I like to achieve! Not making adverts for Aquafresh, but having my stories animated on the Big Screen!
Here at CharacterShop we’re into characters in a BIG way. In fact, we love them so much we named the company after them!
Over the years we have created many hundreds of different characters for our clients and for a huge range of audiences – from pre-schoolers to teens to grown-ups. Some are designed simply to entertain and amuse and some to deliver a more serious message. We’ve even performed surgery on client’s existing characters – a nip here, a tuck there and hey presto – a beautiful new look!
Once we’ve made a character look great – then what? Well, then we bring them to life – we make them move, walk, talk, jump, juggle, sing and dance. We’ve done it for TV series, commercials, DVDs, websites, comic strips, games and even live shows.
So if you want to really bring your project to life, then call in at the CharacterShop and let our award-winning creativity give it some real character.
See you soon!
This is interesting. It is in Birmingham which is convenient for and they look like they do the type of animation I have been fascinated regarding how it is done.
I notice that it is mentioned that they mainly do short stories and adverts, and that they will help you to bring your character to life. I feel that this is ideal for me as I have created my own characters, just need some help to bring them alive!
The fact that they do animations for a wide variety of audience and several different genres, I felt that my adventurous love stories for teen fits in perfectly!
I guess short stories and adverts are a good way to promote myself, so I hope they could help me one and be lucky enough to have a world wide audience.
Other contacts can be found at:
May try to phone and ask to have a tour round as well.
Rita showed a photo of the Gallery Space which she and Jo saw in Solihull the Tuesday before.
This was what was mentioned:
Confirmation of individual role
Dorota – Printing of publicity and catering
Sharni - Design of exhibition fliers
Michelle – Curator / liaising with gallery staff
Jo – Communication –Setting up social network – photography- film
Rita – Admin
Discussion
Stuart Suggested because two of the group were interested in showing film in the exhibition that we could inquire if the gallery had facilities for setting-up a listening area (T V with headphones) Rita said she will approach gallery and make inquiries.
Publication of exhibition
It was suggested that the group should research the possibility of publishing the exhibition to a wider audience though publications such as pamphlets / hand-outs.
Suggested contacts were
Newspaper Club
Robin and Harry (An endless Supply)
Also it was suggested that we could publish the exhibition though the social network such as Twitter and Facebook or making a website.
In terms of what work to put up, I changed my mind and decided to put at my posters I did last year.
Regarding flyers, I wasn't sure what to put, so I asked Dorota.
Thursday 24th November 2011
- Day started 9:30am.
- Drwe some more pictures for Chapter 2. Hal and Granddad.
This drawing of Granddad looks like is ready to fight "Put 'em up!" But he is actually working behind the teleport machine, which I will add later.
