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E4 Ident: 30 Second Animation

For my E4 idea i wanted to animate someone falling because i had been inspired by a specific shot of a piece of animation that I enjoyed on youtube. Pork Soda Spinimation:

It was interesting piece of animation that i wanted to explore. However i struggled to think of a unique idea that would fit the E4 Ident theme.

I decided to move away from the drowning/floating aspect of the animation that had inspired me and think of other themes. I opted to go with falling and with that i began to think of Alice and Wonderland, specifally when she falls down the rabbit hole

With this inspiration of both Alice and the animation that had originally triggered my inspiration I’ve come up with an idea that follows the ‘plotline’ of Alice falling but taking a strange E4 abstract turn. Using the Pork Soda Spinimation vibrant and abstract colour scheme i wish to apply to the alice falling through the hole and falling into the E4 logo.

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Bentley: Sting Project

For the Bentley sting i have chosen to do something fun and unexpected from Bentley. I have begun to look at Bentley’s and posh car owner history and how rockstars are the ones to buy them and lead to trashing them.

I want to create a stop-motion piece that explores the wild side of bentely rather than the more posh/sophisticated side. Something that would stand out amongst other car adverts/sting.

In association with Bentley and rockstars, specifically dead ones. I’ve planned out an animation with ‘rocking skeletons’ on top of Bentley as they burst out from the ground of a graveyard.

I’ve turned to Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride for inspiration and design for the skeleton’s specifically the musical sequence “Remains of the Day” where several skeletons are seen using instruments.

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Nick Nacks: Sting Project

For the animated advert we have to create i have started the project by looking at previous adverts created for the product. These adverts are oddly bizarre and make little to no sense hence the reason they stand out.

With this in mind the goal for this animation to be bizarrely odd and stand out in it’s strange way of promoting the product.

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Abigail Bullock

Abigail Bullock (also known as Toastyhat on Tumblr, Toasty on Twitter and EmptyFeet on Youtube) is an artist and animator who has created a series of works that have been strongly inspired by books, web series and podcasts. She mostly well known for her Homestuck work that she does (webcomic series created by Andrew Hussie). She also creates storyboard/animatics from her on original ideas that she gets inspired by songs. Because of this work she had created as fan she helped work on the webcomic with some animation for the final flash/animation of the series. She also worked with WhatPumpkin a studio that was creating a video game based around the homesick universe, making character animation, background animation and clean up. 

She is now currently works as a storyboard artists at Powerhouse Animations.

Some of their work that inspired me:

Homestuck:

Personal/Orignal Work:

Her own Interpretation:

Her work was the first piece of animation that helped me understand that animation was something you could do. Her story on how she originally was a fan of something then ended up working and helping with the same project they were inspired by inspires me.