Bradford and Things

I have spent all afternoon watching MonkeyDust so I’m sorry if this week’s blog is a bit vague. Really enjoyed the visit to Bradford; I found it interesting and useful to see such a wide range of animation styles and techniques. Two films that really stood out for me where Rune Christensen’s ‘Down The Road’ and Vincent Paronnaud’s and Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persopolis’ (sorry I don’t think any of the stuff on this link is subtitled). I thought that both had really good storylines and that has got me looking forward to the scriptwriting module but what I really liked in the films was the use of ‘economy of style’. I did not realise that what appears to be simple animation could be so effective and I want to try and adapt the drawing style from the films for my own character.

Moving on to this week: I found yesterdays session useful but a bit confusing; my chair looked OK apart from its rather hastily added legs and I couldn’t get the cushion propped up so it just sat on the chair and looked a bit boring, I suppose that I will become more comfortable with Maya the more I use it. Hopefully, if I get time, I will be able to practice more with it on Friday although my life does seem to be revolving around the exhibition project at the moment.

Not too sure what I think about tomorrow’s acting thing; I can see how it’s going to be useful to us but I do not think I am going to be confident enough to do it properly. Having said that everyone is most likely to be feeling the same and the guy doing it is a professional. I will probably write something about it tomorrow or over the weekend.