Red Bull Canimation The Big Experiment

Ok well i've now managed to get my Animation up and running on red Bulls Canimation site loads of problems to start with so had aweeks delay on the upload to site so i now need loads of people to vot buy watching and comenting the sharing with other people the animation here is the link to my Animation called
"The Big Experiment." Link:   http://canimation.redbull.co.uk/gallery#32473385 This will take you to the page and mine will be the one ready to play. click play i get a vote the please if you like it comment in the comment section.and  thats it any body who wants vote can vote.

My work The Big Experiment

Here are Canimations complete instruction on voting........

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Animation competition claymation

I have been busy preparing characters for this short advert decided on a simple white back drop and soft lighting created from Some white canvas and basic desk lamps and home made tracing paper (shops were closed !) There is a not much time to do this Animation as the deadline is 15/ Nov/ 11 

Here are some images of my pre-production work.

                                         Here  is my humble Studio ( Summer House\Shed)

I'm using a Nikon D500 camera

I have added a third light for back lighting, which is not shown here. And tracing paper as defuseses for the bright lights. 

I made the eyes out of plastic beads sprayed white and then painted  a Black pupil on. The hole is great for turning eyes in different directions using a cocktail stick when Animating.

These little characters are set up to look like they are sitting in Petri dishes in a lab (they are in fact up turned muffin case packaging lids) the original plan was to green screen these guys and place a Lab back drop image in seen later but i like the clear white back ground and am on a short deadline
enjou and will post clip when production is complete.









Have just purchased Stop Motion Pro HD Action So that i Can use the live view software and also do without the Water mark you find with the trail version. will post more shortly.

working on a new animation

I have been looking into Green Screening using Stop Motion Pro 7.5 had a few teething problems with software (basically Stop motion pro green screen software is pretty poor at the moment so they advise using After Effects\premiere...... at the end phase or your Animation. To me that a real pain

I hope they develop there own software to the same high standards. Anyway on this Animation i don't have the time scale to mess about with lighting cliches. So i will leave green screen for my next Project. Anyway I've decided to use three simple characters who will morph into others and clown around, roughly a 30 second add.

In this image I've taken a trial version of SMP7 (Stop Motion Pro 7) and Reworked it in after Effects.

Paul Gatward Creating Stuff

Hi My names Paul, I am Artist who has a constant disire to Create suff. i have interest in Illustration, Animation and Fine Art. I am currently in my final year of my B.A. Hons Illustration/Animation
It is One of the best choices i have made in my life and could easily do another 3 years I have been very busy learning software programes for animation ( Flash,ToonBoom,StopMotionPro,Photoshop) and my Last Project was great fun Working on a couple of Claymation Gargoyles Here are some Shots for you to Enjoy!

Here I am animating it’s a slow progress as I have never done claymation before. I can spend over an how just sculpting 1 frame I am running on 24 fps and some times you have to edit a whole second due to it not flowing right or that for e.g. A tail breaks and you haven’t noticed because you have been working on the Face.

Working with Plastacine is frustrating at times because no matter how great your armature is, if the clay is cold it can crack when warm it melts. These elements fight against each over all the time. Producing large cracks which then have to be covered . When the lights are on the room gets warm the clay that is being sculpted at the time is becoming very manageable ,a good thing. However the clay that isn’t get any movement especially if its a large area wants to separate. e.g. the back and lower neck of gargoyles.  

Have had some problems with software of stopmotion pro 7.5 and the nikon camera  the light keeps changing on the images taken due to nikon camera  exposure  keeps changing , this causes a slight flicker effect i have blogged this and it seems to be due to lens type and software. So no time to fix it for this project  maybe in the next.

I have Other work that im just starting on that involves Morphing shoul be a lot of fun will post about it shortly.