Vocational Study

Here is my 8-bit animation for Vocational Study:

It's a simple animation I've quickly made, you could say it's a test on 8-bit animation test.

Vocational Studies - week 1

Vocational Studies just started this week, the live brief is basically animating Birmingham City University Employer Engagement.

Apparently the script isn't ready but the second year of Viscom are working on it with the professional Script writer.

They're expecting a motion graphics video to promote our university, but I reckon I can make something more to their expectation.

The good thing is that, we're be in groups and I'll be working in the CGI group.

One of our task is to think of making visuals of the work Creative Community.
And We've have to come up with 15 frames for the visual animation.
My concept:

And here are stuff I've made in Maya for the last couple of days:

I've made the mind bubble from Illustrator and imported it into Maya. The background is a nurb plane with paper texture.
Raytracing shadows are amazing but takes ages to render. The idea comes from the art direction of paper mesh or traditional materials and Little Big planet.

Cavell Ord Shrimpton (one of the new motion graphics tutor) suggested me to change the mind bubble texture into more cardboard based so I later did and it looks sweet. She also suggest the background have some creative stuff in it such as finger painting or face paint.

At the moment, my ideas are little black stickmans all gather (therefore community) would all mind bubble of the same thing and a lightbulb appears (An idea/creativity) and it rotates revealing the text Creative community.

181 stuff

Hi guys, here is some update on the 181 stuff I'm doing:

181 promo:

I've played around with after effects to create it, I really liked the stencil alpha effects but the animation of the stripes needs to be better.

The 181 awards ident:

I've animated it and the feedback I've got from people were positive. People thought the glow of the golden trophy was a pretty touch-up.
I've talked to people and they said that if I use the 3d file such as object file, I'll be able to make a replicate trophy from the product design group.

181 Grad Show

Hello followers of my blog. I like to mention that my Course grad show is called 181. So we're pretty much organizing the show right now.

Here is something I'm working on at the moment, I'm making an ident of the 181 awards:

It's obviously inspired by the Oscar and the baftas Awards.
Some Visual references:

From the feedback I've got, they like it but they're expecting more of a edgy cabaret feel to the grad show - sort of burlesque.

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