Linked In:

For a while I have been hearing about Linked in, So the other day I signed up. Yes its another form to fill in with your various information again, but its been very interesting to view my friends profiles. It lists their jobs and previous experiences. One such example shows how they climbed the ladder from Runner to Jnr. Animator for Framestore. So I will continue to stare in awe and hopes of my own such career path....Enough staring lets get on with it!

CCA animation project:

Here it is anyway, at long last, a bit of this years work:
Well, I ran out of time but I would like to come back and add to this. It's more likely that I will just make something from scratch for my next show reel. I enjoyed Uni but I looking forward to starting something new, this will serve well as a marker to beat. Anyway enjoy!



Personal observations:

Some of the syncing is out, not sure if it was a render issue or something I missed. I would like to have worked on the hands too as they just seem to tween from one static position to the next. Some minor jolting here and there too. Well it all serves well as practice to a small deadline.

Paul out

Some reference stuff:

Just for a giggle, I thought I would add a bit of my reference footage from one of my Uni animations from this year. Enjoy :)

Uni work stills:

Because I haven't managed to get hold of the final copy of my group project I decided to settle for now with some stills.






The characters I got to animate this year!

Degreeeeeeeeeeeeeee....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eee

Well that's that, I got my final grade. In the end I had to settle with a 2:1 yes I'm a bit disappointed that I missed out on a 1st. But its onwards and upwards. Determined to get a decent show reel together and make my mark. But where to start...

Well I just applied for jobseekers, that's a start I suppose.

Digital City: North East New Tech

As with every industry its not what but WHO you know and I happen to know someone who works will most of the North Easts...well the local North East Games and Tech companies at Digital city. So thankfully I was invited down to Boho one for the first in what I hope will be many of the North East New Tech events!

I know I'm just a humble wannabe Animator and this tech stuff tends to woosh over my head but most of it was pretty interesting, and I'm not just talking about the buffet. Had a preview to Google+ which was nice considering I'm yet to receive an invite (wimper*) but the best moment of the night was the "headliner" Atom Hawk. They gave a talk about what they were up to recently, but I was kinda distracted away from the main screen by the two artists they had either side doing a live demonstration of concept design. Other then making me realize how much my own pencil work sucks, it was a good inspirational boost to get myself up the backside and get on with things!

Guess its time to go pester some game companies...*GRIN*

The Final stage!

So here I am back for a final year of university. After a lazy summer of small infrequent jobs and generally doing not a lot its time to knuckle down and smash out some serious work.

So what's to come this year?

Animex: Always a great inspiration and a great chance to meet some great personalities from the industry, I always look forward to this.

The Vis awards: I believe this has been renamed for this year, a competition to potentially earn an internship. Once again I will be entering, mainly to get some kind of idea of the progression I have made within the year, the job at the end of it would be nice too.

Well, if I can get past the initial struggle that is the start of my 4 projects, hopefully I can get on with a full years animating.

...Wish me luck!