Animation Fascination...

For my most recent project, I am animating, and loving it. Granted so far I have produced a total of 30 drawings to produce what seems little more then a few seconds of film, but after years of seeing my drawings as still, to see them move is quite amazing. I will admit, I find these far more interesting then anyone else will, but really, I might be a little bit proud of these, if that's allowed? So I'l fill you in on the project, I'm animating fashion, whether this will become a showcase of clothes or a story in it's self remains to be seen, but right now I'm just trying to get to grips with the software (Teaching myself means this is a slow process) but I'm optimistic, the theme of my animation is going to be based on a collection by Alexander Mcqueen circa spring/summer 2007, and perhaps one particular dress, crafted almost completely out of artificial (i presume) roses. (A drawing of which I made in my 'time to get back to work' post) and drawing the dress really fascinated me. Infact the whole collection gave me an eerie Victorian vibe from which I am basing my animation on, I'm bringing in some kind of spooky Versialles interior of which I will post pictures up soon I'm sure. I would also like to state I realise their not the best quality and very short but still worth a little watch? I will be posting more drawings from this project but for now here are my little, teeny tiny animations........

Time to get back to work

After a long, long summer, of relaxing, holidaying and basically neglecting work and blog, it's time to get back to things. And it's straight in the deep end. I'm working on a project which involves finding a place for your illustration within the industry, the point of the project is to keep illustration relevant, with photography replacing all the things Illustration was once used for. With my drawings I always imagined creating an digitally illustrated catwalk, I'm doing this by animating my drawings (on a very basic level as I am a complete animation novice) I was inspired McQueen's Kate Moss hologram way back when. Designers are always competing with their catwalks, finding new ways to make sure their clothes are photographed. So having just begun the project I only have some very basic sketches to illustrate my ideas so far. My vision is having my sketches animated on screen, by photographing my drawing after every line is drawn and eventually after editing it into a film. By the end of November I will have the finished product up here, but in the meantime these are the sketches I have done in preparation.

My very first post!

Ok so this is my very first post, and it makes sense to have one of my oldest sketches. It's rare that I do a sketch which Im not tempted to change or throw away, so this one has survived for around 2 years. It's pretty simple, It was most likely a sideline to a fashion project, inspired by the pages of vogue magazine (before it became uninspiring) So I will be adding plenty more images, mostly I've been doing fashion sketches, but I fully intend to put some of my illustration project drawings up. I really spend a lot of time being critical about my drawing, so any outside comments would be refreshing for me! As this is my first blog im not really sure how it all works, so this is just a little post with just one drawing! Anyway, Il probably spend some time switching and changing but hopefully this one will stay up!