http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog SKETCHBLOG: Animation and other creative bric-a-brac. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:03:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've recently finished my most fun job for a long time - working at Sherbet, directing the animation on this ad for Irn Bru. The animation was done by first working traditionally with pencil, then tracing those drawings into Flash to duplicate the traditional brush-on-cel look. (Simply scanning the drawings into ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=353 I've been doing some ecards for www.wishawish.com in the hope of making a little pre-Christmas cash. You can see them here and here. http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=341 I've decided to beat the rush this year and post some seasonal work before they even get the selection boxes into Sainsburys, which is due to happen in about two weeks. Here's some cards I designed a couple of years ago. [gallery link="file"] http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=324 As a freelance animator,most of the TV work I do is designed by other hands, so I thouht it was worthwhile putting a showreel together that consists only of work I've done myself - both design and animation. The work here is a combination of work from student films, personal ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=319 This challengingly-titled pre-school show was made by Collingwood O'Hare in 2002-2003 and is currently showing in the UK on C-Beebies. The fact that the characters communicate with a very limited vocabulary, consisting mainy of each others' names and some expressive noises, meant that most of the communication had to be ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=316 Going back a bit here... this is one of my student films, which did the rounds of the mountain film festivals in 1997. This taught me that if there's a special interest group that has its own film festivals, then it's a good idea to make films on that subject. ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=275 I recently found this notebook amongst my stuff, from 1979 when I was 13. Although I'd been making flip-books since I was ten, this is the oldest one I've found.(Click on it if it doesn't play automatically.) http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=265 I had an interview today with Mobstar Media in Brighton, who needed someone to help produce a horrendous number of animated GIFs for downloading to mobile phones as screensavers, or something along those lines. They asked me to do a test, which was to create a couple of GIFs featuring a ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=262 Here's a family photo from about 1901, before and after being coloured in Photoshop. The colours may not all be authentic, but it's nice to see these people looking - I hope - a little more like they did in real life rather than distanced by the illusion that our ... http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=252 When I put my showreel DVD together recently, I did a few refinements on this animated history of Arctic exploration. There's an exhibition now on at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on this very subject, which I'm looking forward to seeing. http://sisterson.co.uk/sketchblog/?p=249