Well, year 1 of the course has now been finished as well as musclebird and the ITV fixers, and with my girlfriend running off to the bahamas to study marine biology for a week, I found a lot of free time to play with- so I worked damned hard on this rude little number.
I ripped the speech and SFX from Sonic Adventure DX, then composed it together. This contains the actual voices of the characters!
NSFW! (It’s all suggestive anyway, there’s only one rude word :p). The voices are Ryan Drummond and Deem Bristow, Sonic and Robotnik are copywrited characters owned by SEGA and SONIC TEAM.
I’ve had to put personal projects on hold all month as this coming week I have the two final deadlines for my first year of animation at UWE (exciting stuff), and I’ve had to put all my design and animation efforts into these.
Except for one other project.
ITV will be launching a new segment onto their news (most likely in the south west region as I recall), and being animation students, everyone on my course was given a brief to pitch an idea for an intro.
“Brilliant! Something else on TV will be just dandy.” Is what I most likely thought as we were briefed about the specifications. Luckily only 6 of us made pitches, so all were chosen to be produced, and below is the current version of my intro, named ‘computer fixer’. As usual it was made entirely in flash, and the audio and logo were provided by the ITV fixers team. Enjoy!
Excuse the 5 second pause at the beginning, necessary for the TV people.
Well, now that I have stuffed myself with an uncountable number of creme eggs, I think it’s time to get to work.
I still have plenty of work to do for my course at university, and I aim to plough through within the next month to do at least 90% of it by the end of the month. This is because the end of the month marks the animation trip to Germany! Like I always say, I will try to update more often, with more interesting content. Posting a month apart with no images or videos is not really what I aim to do, but I’m afraid obcom is the lowest priority of things I need to do.
I am also considering a start on developing an advert for the Doritos competition, but university is taking up my time :s
Okay, well here’s a picture of something I made earlier for a newgrounds collaboration;
Now I know I’m not the greatest blogger in the world (1 per month… oops), but today I feel like throwing in a tonne of animated goodness your way.
Okay, to start off I have spent the last week and a bit on a sort of end-of-semester holiday and have spent the majority of my time sleeping. Yesterday however I did managed to haul myself out of stasis and go to the Hen and Chicken in Bristol for and animation night where I bumped into loads of animators, Aardman mostly- but also a few students/graduates from Newport’s animation course, one of which I was surprised to find out is the animator of the fantastic ‘I can’t colour in’ stick animations Felix Massie.
At the animation night we were shown his latest completed work Keith Reynolds can’t make it tonight, an excellent flash animation which has won Best Overall Film and Best Script at the International Film School Wales.
Got a cold today and I’ll be going home for a few days, probably upload a few photos of interest. Speaking of which, here are two dogs fighting over a rope swing :)
Yesterday I went down to Aardman animations here in Bristol after being invited to while I was down in London, so this is still part of my Skittles advert prize :D!
I forgot to go to Uni in the morning, so it really did feel like I was sneaking off behind my friends’ backs. On my way there I didn’t really think much about what the others on the course would say, I was too excited.
The people at reception are very nice. If you’re in the area and feel like a nice ‘hello’ just walk in, feel welcome, then leave fulfilled (don’t really do that, it’s just a little weird). I however had an agenda! So I took a seat underneath the large Chop Socky Chooks poster and waited to meet John Woolley (producer) again (met him at TBWA in London).
John led me upstairs, where I saw the producers’ workspaces, then we moved onto the canteen to grab a cup of tea. Oh look, three Oscars, half a dozen Baftas, and numerous other awards standing up in the large awards case that John told me visitors were sat next to.
We then discussed my course for some reason. I really did want to ask about the studio, but I was only polite to answer. We then moved on to see the few, large CGI based rooms of the building, then down to the 3D section where I saw loads of Aardman models from the past, present, and probably future.
Hello everyone
As some of you may know, I won the chance to think of an idea for a new Skittles advert, and overlook the production of it for TV.
Well the good news is that it is finished and will be on TV this Saturday afternoon during friends on E4, and then at four other times on different channels throughout the week. So if you’d like to see the final product of my idea then please flick over to any of these programs on TV next week
17th 17:55 ITV2 Judge Judy 20th 07:54 C4 Everybody Loves Raymond 20th 12:15 Five Home and Away 21st 21:50 Five US CSI
22nd 17:45 E4Friends
I would like to tell you that here at obcom, I am developing 2 new games!
Each game is a sort of remake of currently existing games, quite old ones too, but I am putting all my effort into making these games to a very high standard and I am trying my best to not cut any corners and make them as good as I want them to be!
I will post updates for each of the games separately, most likely starting tomorrow. For now I will tell you the game names;
1. Game Wars
2. Get Blue Spheres
And a screenshot from the current stage of Game Wars’ production :)
Well, as the title says, these are among the first of my stop-motion creations. The first isn’t meant to have sound by the way, we had to create a relationship between objects without facial expressions or sounds. Please enjoy.
