Stop Gap Go Animation

About a month ago I finished working on a rather interesting animation involving a potato! This animation was for a company called Mindflow Solutions.



It was really fun to work on, but also a bit of a challenge due to the textured stylings of the animation - which were inspired by the works of Eric Carle.

During the animation, the potato changes shape multiple times, which required me to illustrate each frame of these transitions to ensure they looked realistic (as realistic as a metamorphosing potato can look)!

I enjoyed animating the breathing potato the most!

I really enjoyed working with textures again, as I feel they add a nice homely feel to a piece of work; and it was nice to do some character design. I quite like my little potato character, and I actually felt sorry for him when he was upset in the animation.
I used a mix of Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and After Effects to make this animation, it was great to get into Flash again as I haven't used it in such a long time, but having looked at a few After Effects tutorials, I would love to learn to animate in that program - it looks so slick!

So there we are, a potato animation! Whee!

Happy Belated Valentines Day!

Just a quick post. As per usual, I made a little Valentines present for my boyfriend, and this year it was a wee little heart-shaped comic telling the story of how we would have met in the 1800s (or in Jane Austen's day, as I called it).

This little book was a lot of fun to make, I used indian ink to ink this piece and red pencil to do little high lights where I wanted. I also attempted to stitch the pages together, and I can tell you now that it doesn't look pretty, but oh wello, it gets the job done!