The Snowman and the Snowdog!

I was fortunate enough to be able to work on this project from July-October this year as a rendering department assistant. I officially was a ‘matte artist’ and I also rendered (coloured) the characters in two shots of the film!

Here's a link for the film's website

If you are in the UK, Please watch tonight on Channel 4 at 8pm!

It is also repeated on Christmas Day at 13.55 and Sunday 30th December at 17.35

The Making of Documentary: ‘How The Snowman Came Back To Life’ is on Sunday 30th December at 18.05, straight after the film.

Hope you all watch and enjoy! Merry Christmas!


---jkl

A few background characters...

As background characters are needed in my film, I thought it'd be a fun thing to draw my friends on my course as children to be the background characters!! Just a quick set of sketches - It'll be so much fun to do in the final film though. Might as well make the most of it and I think they'll really like it! :)

---jkl

Christopher Robin and Mollie...

Please click on the image to enlarge...

I'm using Ernest H. Shepard, illustrator of the original Winnie-the-pooh books, as inspiration for my final film development.

I came across this charming photograph of the real Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne's next door neighbour's son) with, I can imagine, is a special teddy called Winnie the Pooh...

I loved the image so much, I wanted to interpret it with my own character, Mollie and her special friend, Babbit!

I love old photographs so much..!

Please check out my film development so far @ arabbitcalledbabbit.blogspot.com


---jkl

Babbit - Final Year Film!

 

I am now officially a third year Animation student! So it's final film time. Scary!

I have started a new blog where I will be posting the whole process over this next year!

Please visit and have a browse, any feedback would be most appreciated.

Here's the address: http://arabbitcalledbabbit.blogspot.com/  Please follow.

Thank you Bloggers :)

---jkl

Fifi and the Jam Jar (Animation)

Fifi struggling to open a jam jar...

As part of my second-year Animation course at University of Wales, Newport.

Fifi is now about 16-17 years old. Her design has been changed slightly too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PEq7M9UTH4

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Recent Animation Exercises

Here is a link to my Youtube channel. I've uploaded some of my animations I've done over my course. I uploaded 6 new videos yesterday which show my latest Character Performance module.
They all need a bit of tweaking, but I'm learning so much every time I do each animation. It's exhausting but exciting!

http://www.youtube.com/user/DaiskiAnimeJ

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