This *might* be my final major project for Uni, but I haven't decided between this or making a new version of Tea N Crumpets yet. I started doodling this character a little while ago and on the way to California last Christmas in a plane doodled out an entire rough storyboard for a possible short film. This week I've been drawing a bunch of art for it with some colour.
The story is all about a little girl called Lucy and the joy she gets from toying around and eating her lolly pop stick. However, the Lolipop itself doesn't see her as a sweet little girl but as a MONSTER who tortures and eventually chomps him into little pieces. The pieces of the lolly hatch a plan to escape from the acid in her stomach, back up and out of her mouth again, smashing her teeth out in the process. One second the film looks all cute and cuddly, the next moment it'll skip to the lollipop stick's angle which may be a little something like this: It'd probably end up being about 3 minutes long, and I would like to animated traditionally, but not quite as over the top as Rock Paper Scissors turned out to be (hence why that never got finished). There would also be no dialog. What do you lot think? Would you like to see this get done or would you rather have a brand new, bigger better Tea N Crumpets website? =D
Bleh. I might post something interesting soon, like bits and bobs I'm planning for my final major at Uni, which I went back to on Monday. I drew these up in class Tuesday.
Surely this is the best piece of animation I have seen on the telly in AGES. I came across it just the other night and I was in awe. It mixes influences from classic 30's cartoons (complete with rubber limbs) and beautiful, Studio Ghibli like backdrops. The commercial is advertising Sky being a carbon Neutral company for a year now, and plays to the wonderful music of Three Dog Night's Joy to the World. I found an article about the development of this 60 second work of art at Digital Arts HERE. No wonder the short is so good when you see the talent behind it: Directed by Richard Bazley (a lead animator on The Iron Giant), Peter Moehrle on background art (Lilo and Stitch) and art direction from Gethyn Davis . The last line in the commercial is "Believe in better", and I couldn't agree more. Believe in better animation on your TV like this! I dream to be this good one day.
I actually did something today that didn't involve um...doing nothing! I got around to colouring up this artwork I did about two weeks ago. Not enough creative juices flowing for it to be my own characters of course, but instead it's characters from the old Sega Saturn game Athlete Kings, AKA Decathlete. This is the only fully coloured art I've done in THREE MONTHS. I was hoping some commissions would get me in the flow of drawing again but I er...didn't get any. Oh well, will be going back to Uni in 2 weeks. This long, long break of playing lots of video games (and spending quite a bit of money on them) is coming to an end!
Remember when I said I would finish The Howdooyoodoo and update Tea N Crumpets? HAHAHAHAHA.
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The story is all about a little girl called Lucy and the joy she gets from toying around and eating her lolly pop stick. However, the Lolipop itself doesn't see her as a sweet little girl but as a MONSTER who tortures and eventually chomps him into little pieces. The pieces of the lolly hatch a plan to escape from the acid in her stomach, back up and out of her mouth again, smashing her teeth out in the process. One second the film looks all cute and cuddly, the next moment it'll skip to the lollipop stick's angle which may be a little something like this:
