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.

Degree Show Prep

Currently preparing for the University of Wolverhampton School of Art & Design's degree show... got some character posters printed today and I'm really happy with the result... I will post pictures of my exhibition space when it's complete.

I'm also currently enjoying organising my group's secondary exhibition space. In this room we'll be showcasing our CITV idents and other professional work we've undertaken throughout this academic year. I'll also be posting pictures of this exhibition space when it's completed.

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!

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...

"Frank" Line Tests

As part of my Character Development module at uni, I've had to create and design a character and animate a minute of line tests. Hope you enjoy the result!

Back to Uni

Ah, what a summer. Seeing Iron Maiden twice (once at Sonisphere Festival UK and again on Bruce Air Italy), meeting Bruce Dickinson, having a lot of fun and meeting some great people along the way... things I'd been waiting for for almost 7 years. But still, I'm really looking forward to the return to University!
Expect more updates soon as I attempt to get my brain thinking creatively once again...

TAP

As I mentioned a few days ago, myself and some other Animation students at the University of Wolverhampton decided to make a short film to practice our skills and for entry into various competitions/festivals. Hope you enjoy.



"'Tap' is a short film made by three first year animation students (Andy Edwards, Patrick Fowler and Tom Massey) at the University of Wolverhampton. As the three 'tap' into their ideas, they're brought to life before them."

"Tap" Preview

An upcoming short film made by myself and three other Animation students at the University of Wolverhampton.