It made a nice change!
Friday, August 23
Tuesday, August 6
Hilda Quick at The Minack Theatre
One last Cornwall-themed blog post!
During my trip to Cornwall, I was fortunate enough to visit The Minack Theatre - which is a pretty impressive outdoor theatre, which is made all the more impressive by the fact that this theatre was planned, built and finanaced by just one lady - Rowena Cade (1931-1983).
Whilst at the theatre I had a peep in the Rowena Cade Exhibition Centre - which told the life story of the Minnack's creator. Part of the exhibition featured a small section showcasing the first programmes and posters designed for the plays performed at the theatre; and I fell in love with them!
These are a few photos I was able to take in the exhibition centre, but unfortunately they're not the greatest quality but I can't seem to find any better equivalent on our glorious internet! So here we go!
I'm not sure how they were produced, they look sort of screen-printy/wood-blocky/lino-cutty! But I like them nevertheless!
I really like how the following characters flow and how fluid their poses look!
Its a shame I can't find better quality images, as I particularly like this design for the production of 'The Tempest'.
So here I am just posting a lot of photos and I haven't even mentioned the illustrator's name! The illustrator of these wonderful pieces is a lady called Hilda Quick. Hilda was born in Penzance and trained in art at the Central School in London where she specialised in wood engraving (so I was on to something earlier on - wa-hey)! And then later she studied in Paris.
It was during the 30's that Hilda produced these amazing illustrations for The Minack, but she also helped Rowena Cade with the design of costumes and sets for the theatre's plays.
Hilda Quick also worked on a bunch of other stuff, including the Complete Works of Edmund Spencer for the Shakespeare Head Press. To find out more information about Hilda's other work, you can do by visiting this link 'ere: cornishmuse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/hilda-quick-and-minack-theatre.html
During my trip to Cornwall, I was fortunate enough to visit The Minack Theatre - which is a pretty impressive outdoor theatre, which is made all the more impressive by the fact that this theatre was planned, built and finanaced by just one lady - Rowena Cade (1931-1983).
Whilst at the theatre I had a peep in the Rowena Cade Exhibition Centre - which told the life story of the Minnack's creator. Part of the exhibition featured a small section showcasing the first programmes and posters designed for the plays performed at the theatre; and I fell in love with them!
These are a few photos I was able to take in the exhibition centre, but unfortunately they're not the greatest quality but I can't seem to find any better equivalent on our glorious internet! So here we go!
I'm not sure how they were produced, they look sort of screen-printy/wood-blocky/lino-cutty! But I like them nevertheless!
I really like how the following characters flow and how fluid their poses look!
Its a shame I can't find better quality images, as I particularly like this design for the production of 'The Tempest'.
So here I am just posting a lot of photos and I haven't even mentioned the illustrator's name! The illustrator of these wonderful pieces is a lady called Hilda Quick. Hilda was born in Penzance and trained in art at the Central School in London where she specialised in wood engraving (so I was on to something earlier on - wa-hey)! And then later she studied in Paris.
It was during the 30's that Hilda produced these amazing illustrations for The Minack, but she also helped Rowena Cade with the design of costumes and sets for the theatre's plays.
Hilda Quick also worked on a bunch of other stuff, including the Complete Works of Edmund Spencer for the Shakespeare Head Press. To find out more information about Hilda's other work, you can do by visiting this link 'ere: cornishmuse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/hilda-quick-and-minack-theatre.html
Friday, August 2
E4 Sting 2013 - Stolen Kiss
This year, I finally managed to get my bum into gear and enter a small hand drawn affair into the annual E Stings competition! Although depite starting 2 months in advance, I still had a bit of a rush before the deadline; as well as a day of crippling doubt in which I was thinking of starting my E Sting all over again! But I stuck to my original idea (as common sense reared its sensible head), and here is the end result...
E4 Sting 2013 - Stolen Kiss from Nafftastic on Vimeo.
The idea came from my recent reading of the epic novel 'Gone with the Wind'. I wanted to try and capture the love/hate relationship between the two main characters, Scarlett and Rhett whilst combining it with the E4 aesthetic and sense of humour. So thar we have it!
Now heres a quick "low down" on the process of making this video!
Firstly, I had to figure out what sort of medium I wanted to do it in. I knew I wanted to do most of it by hand if possible, but as a completely hand-drawn animation would have been a rather time consuming process, I went for the next best option... puppet animation!
I went a-researching, and found some pretty lovely animations made by the very talented Oliver Postgate:
(Noggin the Nog was my favourite one).
Inspired and feeling much more informed, I went on to storyboarding and playing with composition...
Once I was happy with that, I cracked on with drawing out all the puppet's body parts in all the various positions I could imagine they needed...
I then used watercolour to paint all the limbs...
These limbs were then all cut out and scanned into the computer.
(I ended up with a big old pile of limbs).
And the computery stage began! I animated the everything in Flash and added a few special effects (like the glowing moon).
I completed the animation by using After Effects to add music (provided by E4) and a nice grainy film texture to give the my animation an old-y film feel!
And that was that! I entered the competition a day before the deadline, and I've been having a look at other people's work since! Here are two of my favourites whom I think are two definite contenders for winning the competition this year!
E4 Sting 2013 - Stolen Kiss from Nafftastic on Vimeo.
The idea came from my recent reading of the epic novel 'Gone with the Wind'. I wanted to try and capture the love/hate relationship between the two main characters, Scarlett and Rhett whilst combining it with the E4 aesthetic and sense of humour. So thar we have it!
Now heres a quick "low down" on the process of making this video!
Firstly, I had to figure out what sort of medium I wanted to do it in. I knew I wanted to do most of it by hand if possible, but as a completely hand-drawn animation would have been a rather time consuming process, I went for the next best option... puppet animation!
I went a-researching, and found some pretty lovely animations made by the very talented Oliver Postgate:
(Noggin the Nog was my favourite one).
Inspired and feeling much more informed, I went on to storyboarding and playing with composition...
Once I was happy with that, I cracked on with drawing out all the puppet's body parts in all the various positions I could imagine they needed...
I then used watercolour to paint all the limbs...
These limbs were then all cut out and scanned into the computer.
And the computery stage began! I animated the everything in Flash and added a few special effects (like the glowing moon).
I completed the animation by using After Effects to add music (provided by E4) and a nice grainy film texture to give the my animation an old-y film feel!
And that was that! I entered the competition a day before the deadline, and I've been having a look at other people's work since! Here are two of my favourites whom I think are two definite contenders for winning the competition this year!
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