Love By Numbers SLAP!!

I've got a few more screen shots of the Love By Numbers I've been working on! I finished up to a scene in which the wife suddenly slaps the husband. I feel quite chuffed with the movement of it, its seems this animation is making me tinker with pacing more intricately. *sighs* I remember the beginners days when it was considered some sort of amazing feat just to make a something resemble movement. But yes, the slap seems sudden enough to me. I'm thinking of adding a background to it, as it seems a bit bare compared to the rest of the animation...I thinks....

And these are what I have been working on today!


Um, I think the neon sign works okay...I think it goes on for too long so I think I need to have a bit of movement from the lady....Maybe the whole thing could flicker on and off and therefore reveal the lady in a different pose...she could looked shocked, or judgey, or flick her hair....I don't think the lights need to flicker on and off to do this...but may look effective if there be some victory anyways....
I used a fish net tights texture for the background, which I think works okay....not sure if its too dark or light or what not...(too dark compared to the lighter colours used in the animation so far)



The stretchy bed scene.
Not much movement in this and so was quite shocked how quickly I made it move....
Now I need to make it fade from the bedroom scene to the husband and wife sitting at the dinner table...some movment in making the characters fit the pose...

VOICE VOICE I NEED A MALE VOICE Dagnab. I don't know where to look and I'm too embarrassed to ask anyone; and I don't wanna use somebody who doesn't want to do it cause it'll show through in the per-for-mance. Dag nab. I want to e-mail Adam & Joe and beg them to do it for me, but I know they wouldn't. Of the pain of it all. Hmmmmmmm.

Collections: Lots to just draw in this project. Lots of RE-DRAWING OF THINGS I'VE ALREADY DONE BECAUSE THEY SLIGHTLY DON'T LOOK RIGHT CAUSE I AM POO. Oh well. Shall try and do a teeny bit of that tomorrow....You can do it, Claire!


Going to the races on Thursday....maybe I'll bump into a professional voice actor there or something....

Fairy Tales

I would quite like to do another little project that would be a sort of continuation of The Little Red Riding Hood animation I did in 2nd year. I'm not sure I'd have time to make a full animation, but it'd be nice to make some key frames from a fairy tale and put them in my portfolio.

I'm thinking of doing 'Sleeping Beauty', as have just read one of the more original versions, and think it would be quite nice to do. I think because my Little Red Riding Hood animation was absolutely influenced by winter and a lot of the decorations that are sold in my work, I thought I could choose a different season to work with, I'm thinking of depicting Spring, as it allows me to use quite bright and cheery colours....
(I thought I could keep with the whole Christmassy feel, and even though I think it would look nice...I really want to explore a different colour schemes, such as pastel colours. Green, pinks and yellows. I'm going to photograph some of the stuff in my work again and see if they can act as inspiration...as we're selling lots of happy Easter stuff at the moment.)
I've read Charles Perrault's version to give me a more traditional view of the story and mainly to try and get the Disney version of the film out of my brain because I KNOW that that will influence my work in some way, but I want it to be smaller way, not obvious.

My Red Riding Hood Animation

So its either Sleeping Beauty, or perhaps Cinderella....

And on another, completely different note, I have no idea what to get Andrew for his biiiiirrrrrttttthhhhhddddaaaaaayyyy. Boo. Oh the dilemmas.

Prostitute legs

Have finished animating the prostitute legs. Not sure if they move well enough...they seem to take their time walking across the screen...might have to speed them up a bit....

Now to move onto the slapping by the wife...yes. Then that should be the end of the first section with the man talking...

Ooooh, so much more to do....


The Collections animation is going okay, but its just such a long process drawing out the whole bloody thing all the time. BUT tomorrow I should have finished drawing out the practice run for the quote: "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much" And hopefully if that looks okay, then its all about polishing off the little bits of each animation, and making a little into and conclusion to it all, compiling it together and THEN adding sound...basically the hard bit will be over....its just tweak tweak tweaking time! Thats a slight relief....as long as it goes smoothly! :D

Its just the Love By Numbers that may be a bit of a bitch to do....I think its the one to have patience with as I consider it to be my main project.

Just think! If I finish the Collections brief in good time, then I can actually do another brief to do with fairy tales and what not....

The Procrastinator

Woo! Look at me procrastinate! Isn't it just god awful? Yes! Whee! Look at me go as I do it more!

Lets look at a video about Procrastination just to add to the moment! Huzzah!



And here is a picture of a tree to make us think of summer and how exciting and lovely it will be when it finally comes.



Well, I've just finished the three little animations of a couple "bonking" (as some people say) in various situations; validating what seems to be the looming fact that I should go into the porn industry after finishing uni and making pornographic, wait wait, BAD pornographic animations for those that simply yearn for it and nothing else. Its actually shocking when you realise 'hang on, how do bodies thrust/gyrate again?'
Okay, okay, all of this is making me sound very pervy and bad; which I am not. I consider myself to be quite prim and proper; but I be making an animation for my 3rd and final year of university that is going to be in a degree show and its all about this guy whos wife won't have sex anymore, so hes thinking of getting a prostitute. Lets find SCREEN SHOTS!!!


Woo! Restaurant Sex....sort of....


Car Sex


Annnd Shower Sex..

I'm not sure if they look okay...but they're all gonna be on screen at the same time, so I'm not too worried about it, as long as people get the gist of the sexy time thats occurring. Not sure if I'll have to take out the background in the restaurant one...annnnd whether the sizings will have to change so they're more similar...hmmm hmmmmmm.

Right. I should probably go do some more practical things. And wait for the new episode of Skins...theres nothing like watching 16-17 year olds screw up their lives....ha...serves them right for being young and sprightly....