Gecko Studies

After a lot of web searching, i have found a reasonable located animation place in leeds, which im going to send them an email to them, once ive got my online portfolio set up properly and also a few others. This is a relativly small company, which do a numerous amount of different things, from Modelers, Animators, Character Designers, Storyboard Artists and Riggers. They seem to do all sorts, which is good, as there maybe a broad range of different tasks to do.Gecko studios

Personal development-part 2- wat i want to do, but cant!

I think i wanna go along the lines of this type of animation, want to have a go at something like this anyway, its just finding a brief which could match it.

Im having trouble at the moment and other things

Not getting very far with finding briefs for personal development, i have found the odd one, but they havnt really interested me yet.
On another note i found a rather interesting small animation company who have made succesfull animations for various tv shows and adverts. The animation is very much varied, its just an example that i have found of a small company which does small scale animation jobs etc. clickclick

Edditing

Well I have been furiously editing down in 'the dungeon' (the basement) and the suite is really well equiped and I have spent more time downstairs, over the past week. And i am very pleased with the work that i have produced. The only thing which has been a pain, is the fact that i had trouble capturing at the start etc. I would have had that extra edditing time etc and wuld have got the piece even better perfected.

Future thought

I have just found yet an amazing series of short comical sketches, about an unfortunate guy etc. I really like the style of anmation, also it kind of reminds me of the old pink panther cartoons. Which are funny because the main character is constantly a victim of his fate. And we are lauphing at his expense, his pain etc. If i could create a series of animations featuring the same anti-hero, it would be my complete dream.

Its Jerrytime!!

Ive found this really nice example of 2d animated photo montages. Like the montypython style. It has a very strange and bizzre plot. It is based on a series of short films about a guy who narrates and stars in his own show. I really love the style of format, its telling the story and beeing the story at the same time. I think the main reason why i love it so, is its out right wackyness and isnt of typical animation and film formats.

monty python

As some miight be aware of an early post of my attempts of a monty python style animation, i do quite love the 2D photomontage animations thingys that monty python flying circus created. There have been many different companys trying to re-create these styles. There have been tv adds etc, which have copied the style, and always pull off that kind of, 'olde' look to it. Im not sure what you wud call it, but i call it genious. Obviously the newer animations, that come from the origional monty python animations, from Terry Gilliam, are very clean, and in the desperate housewives intro sequence, there is that escence of 3d, mainly due to after effects 3d engine. I like how it is replicated, and modernised, but at the same time, it is a shame cause i like 2d-ness of the monty pythons animations and the highly absence of 3d really does make it extra unique.