re:VIEW - School of Art & Design Degree Show 2012

On Friday 1st, the School of Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton held a private viewing of their annual degree show. The evening was a great success and our department received some fantastic feedback. It was a great experience to have my work showcased in this way and I really enjoyed speaking with the industry and public who were in attendance. The show is open to the general public from Wednesday 6th - Saturday 9th June 2012. For more information visit click here.

Here are some photos of my exhibition space in progress and the CITV/professional practice exhibition space I organised.

CITV @ School

Here is the final result of my new CITV ident.

New CITV Ident

Began my second CITV ident this evening... got nearly half done and hoping to finish it off tomorrow, will post on my YouTube channel soon.

CITV School Ident Animatic

A pretty much complete animatic for my new CITV ident, which I will be pitching this Friday.

A school boy's day is made more exciting when CITV brings some fun into the classroom.
A flash animated ident that exposes every child's desire for CITV to bring some colour to their school day.

CITV Character Designs

Just thought I'd put up the designs and concepts for my new CITV ident as I did for the last. Having a production meeting with my tutor and classmates tomorrow and I'll have all this plus an animatic ready to pitch next week :)

CITV Ident #2

Here's a peek at the main character of my next CITV ident. In the ident, CITV adds a bit of excitement to this boy's school day.

The Final Push.

Firstly, a belated Happy New Year! Secondly, yes, it's the final push. The final semester of my animation course at the University of Wolverhampton. This next few months (hopefully!) see the completion of my first short film and the start of a good footing towards the industry.
I will begin animating within the next 2 weeks at the latest, and will keep this blog up to date with all my progress.
Once again, I will be making an animated ident for CITV. So I'll keep posting on that the same as before!

CITV Ident

25 of us presented our finished idents to CITV's Creative Director yesterday. My ident was chosen as 1 of 5 deemed to be ready for use, so I'm very happy with that! As long as it passes their checks and they definitely want to use it, it should be put out on their channel some time next year! Fingers crossed.

Finished CITV Ident

The second CITV ident pitch is this Friday and after many hours and some serious cramps, it's finally finished.

Hopefully they'll enjoy it!

Still to come...

I attended the fantastic FLIP International Animation Festival in at The Lighthouse in Wolverhampton this weekend and will soon be writing a short review of Friday's events (including the Bill Plympton masterclass). Sadly I was unable to attend the Saturday, but thoroughly enjoyed my time at the festival.

www.flipfestival.co.uk

Also, it was nice to see an article about my uni's collaboration with CITV in today's Express and Star!

Pitch

The CITV pitch took place last week and everyone seemed to enjoy my idea. I got some very positive comments from CITV's Creative Director, so I'm very happy with that. The next step is for everyone to animate there ideas and present them again on 16th December. A handful will then be chosen to use on CITV. Fingers crossed!

I'm also working with Dezigned2print on some cartoon illustrations for an advertisement. This would be my first commissioned design work, so we'll see how it goes.

CITV Animatic #1

Here is the my first CITV idea in animatic form. The sounds aren't finalised, just there to give a better impression of what's going on!


"A little robot is annoyed when he can't switch on the CITV logo. He kicks it in anger and gets a nasty shock! A funny, bouncy and quirky 2D flash animation."
There will be a practice pitching session at uni tomorrow, with the real pitch happening on Friday 21st. Hopefully my tutors and class like my ideas!

CITV Ident Pitch

Here are some sketches and designs for my CITV ident pitch. Click images to enlarge.

'Helicopter' Robot.

Small Robot.

Large Robot.

3 Wheel Robot.

'Spider' Robot.

Small Robot Poses.

Unused Robot Idea.

Robot Sketches.

Plugging In.

More Poses.

CITV-bot.

CITV Robots

This is the group of robots who will be starring in my CITV ident. In the ident, the robots work together to assemble the CITV logo. I'll post scans of the final and some discarded robot designs this weekend.

Works In Progress

With my university projects fully underway, I'll be posting a lot during the next few weeks.

The pitch for the CITV commission is scheduled for 21st October and CITV's Creative Director will be in attendance. I'm very excited for this one and now have my characters and story finalised, so more on that some time next week!

I also now have a starting point and character for my major project film. I'll post some initial drawings of these soon.

In other news, the fantastic DepicT! competition has announced its shortlist for 2011. It was great to be a part of DepicT! and Encounters Festival last year, and I'll be watching the competition with much interest! The shortlist can be viewed by clicking here.

It begins...

Well, it's been a long summer of travelling, resting and working... but now it's back to uni and getting the cogs moving again! Time to gather up all the ideas floating around and put them to use with my final project... more on those within the next two weeks!

Uni have also given us the fantastic opportunity to pitch ideas for an ident/sting to CITV! I've been working on an idea since I was told, so I'll publish some designs and sketches of all that soon. Very excited about this one!

That's all for now, concepts/designs/doodles to come soon!

Teaser...