GFF Pitch

the BEST album artwork EVER

frustration

Right so CS4 loses, i've had to revert to CS3 which i don't have a copy of, and in converting the work i've done i've undone all the motion tweens created in CS4. lame. I'm even considering going stop-motion with this, even although the whole point was to get to grips with flash. I've worked on a soundtrack on reason, its dead simple, i wanted it to be upbeat and a jaunty old tune, also loads of bleeps because the kind of sine-esque synth keys worked so well on the casiotone for the painfully alone vid. Its pretty much just a looped track after the intro - it makes it easier to work with in the animation.

Listen here

Titles

this will be the home of melty steve where he will clamber out of for the first scene

I thought hand drawn titles would be a good look, kind of reflects the characters/animation style. 

Walkees

So i've managed to mess about with flash for the first time and get this dude to walk across the screen, for some reason i'm having troubles uploading it here. I definitely need to mess about with the animation ALOT i don't want it to seem as smooth as it does and I'm gonna have to scan alot of stuff in to get it looking kind of hand drawn/illustrative a la the julia potts video mentioned before..

right, so i'm tryin to get my storyboard game down, this is the kid of basics of wht i want to happen with some shots missing...

for some reason i can't find some of the scans, right around here another icey guy will appear from the tray..

again, there is parts missing, here a hand will come in and wipe the melted icepuddles down a plughole..
..and here a hand will pour water into this tray from a tap

I'm in love with this video, animation by Julia Pott for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. his new album sucks bumholes, duno why it took me so long to realise this video existed.

Icey Love

If the North Pole
and the South Pole
heard about each other
they’d melt.
-Michael Crowe



"I think I mentioned that I think it should be ...
something that's white and frozen,
and then it sort of melts,
because of love.."
-Björk

Cupcake Dewds Travels

This wins.

Sweet Dreams from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

story ideas

i like the idea of havin a story that ends as another begins, which makes more sense when u see these, its an idea i kind of wana fuck with for my animation...the first is by the Furi Furi Company which was in a book i have called 'Design For Kids' the second is by Rafael Sommerhalder, an animation 'Flowerpots' which he won the Adobe Design Achievement Award with.

Flowerpots from Crictor on Vimeo.

Together

My Major Project brief as inspired by an O2 Live Creative Brief from YCN... 

Quote
“We believe a more connected world is a better world. From the birds and the bees, to smashing the Berlin wall, all human beings share the instinct to connect. That's why everything we do is there to make connecting simpler. With the people you like. Or the things you love. From music, movies and games, to football, rugby and facebook. We all like joining up. Doing things by yourself is ok, for a while. But we're better, connected.” 02

Context
Over the past century the ease that the world connects has increased rapidly, we can now upload images, videos and photos in seconds for the world to see. We can speak to friends over the other side of the world with ease on myspace & facebook. We can now more easily meet anyone from a potential employee to the love of our life, thoughts, opinions and ideas can be shared in a few clicks; as a result the world is smaller than it has ever been.

Brief
Create an animatic or video that heightens people’s awareness of the importance of connection; this can be from a strong emotional connection, to talking over the phone, to sharing videos on youtube.

Made For Each Other

Part of an advertising campaign for Lay's crisps. I feel like this kind of animation would work just as well in a short film or music video format as it does in advertising.

Videotype

Triangles In Space

Feed the Pony

This is a collaborative piece by me n my flatmate, watch us makin it speeded up here

Also, this is the blog we used to show research/process for the above

And this is my Comm Tech blog check em out yo

fistee cuffs

FFffuuuckk so so good - Konx om Pax artwork for new Hudson Mohawke EP, 'Polyfolk Dance' which is also ridiculously amazin.................
Keep updated on other LuckyMe related stuff here.

Just 4 kicks

Found this down an alley in Edinburgh, guess some people tried to copy the classic New York trainers-hangin-on-a-telephone wire thing. Except its a drainpipe. Looks quite cool tho..

Charles Avery

Went to see an exhibition by this dude, shit was crazy; he'd totally created this whole world and all these characters in it. There were illustrations, etchings, sculpture and text. It was good. Look at more pictures here.

Retro Boutique, Hyde Park

I like this shop it looks good an shit yeah? so i went n took sum photos...

Word 2 Tha Mutha

Sleeveless in Seattle

No 1 buys cds anymore, they cost money n blogs, netlabels, soulseek n torrents don't. But that means there's alot more creativity goin on in the packaging design in order to try n get ppl 2 actually pay 4 a cd, for example P.O.S's new isht Never Better, design by Eric Carlson its all interchangeable an ting...