The Press Pack

For our Professional Brief, we have to produce a press kit, which supposed to be produced to industry standard. Which must include our final film (marks for presentation) bios of both Charlotte and myself, print quality stills from the film, a full list of credits and a brief synopsis of the film. So today Charlotte and I have ordered our blank discs and cases and cd labels. I am a little nervous about the labels to disc procedure but I am sure we can work it our, and we have about 50 spare labels, to fix mistakes. So fingers crossed and pictures to come :)

Particles

Invite Artwork

So Andy (course leader) ask that each project submit a piece of artwork from their final film for the graduation film screening invite. And so below is the submission for The Lady in the Rain. Can't believe we are graduating. eek.

Postcard

So the odds and ends day.

Today, after Charlotte completed the rough cut for Lady in the Rain last friday, we have both decided that it would be a good idea to work on the other projects on the go, so as not to fall behind. So this morning I have been completing my creative CV, which I have decided not to include any artwork on as that is what my show reel is for and I would not like to try too make a statement about my artwork and style with just one single piece.

lauraannhough.com

So lauraannhough.com is alive and kicking now which is very exciting. All I need to do now is sort out the artwork and videos for the website and it should be done.

Business Cards and Postcards

Innovation Project- Lighting

Lighting is an important feature that can sometimes be overlooked in animation. For my final project the mood of the piece will be greatly effected by the lighting effects that are used. Taxi lights, street lights and the lights in windows are all something that I will be hoping to work on.

From the brief amount of reserach I have done so far there does not seem to be a lot of obvious lighing effecting in 2d animation so I will be taking my influences from 3d examples and hoping to achieve similar standards in 2d.

The software that I think I will eventually end up using is Adobe After Effects, although I will be researching alternative methods.

the countdown begins

So as the last term of my degree is about to begin, I have been working on my professional website. My dad kidly offered to pay for my own domain name for a year. lauraannhough.co.uk is mine for a whole year but I have been developing my moonfruit based website up until a few days ago and as I have not yet got to grips with this new site I will be keeping both, so I have something to hand in come the professional practice deadline

starting to animate is not going too well, struggling to work out how to extend the time line i am sure i will eventually figure it out. This is an example of some layouts I have set up

A mispent day...

So today Charlotte and I tried to do our weekly rush to check the quality of the puppets on the large cinema screen, but hadn't realised that the session had been moved til later. When we did turn up at the correct time we then couldn't view them as we had saved them all as psd rather than tiff or jpegs, and the academic offerings the available computer were of no use. So tomorrow we are hoping to sneak into the cinema in a break between seminars to check them.

I have been making the sky background for the opening and clsoing credits, it will also be used for the last shot, in which the man disappears into the sky and becomes one of the stars. Below is a very poor quality copy of the piece, as the original that I have been working on is far too large to upload. which is a shame.

We are still waiting on the final puppets from Scott, which hopefully will be ready tomorrow.

sky for opening and closing credits