Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Paint Paint Paint
I have decided to give painting a try, I mean, not quite paint on canvas yet, but making colour marks rather than drawing lines.
This was an idea I had about doing paintings with bits missing.
I started sketching with a fat brush in Photoshop and then set about colouring it all in.
Now that that's done I'm going to buy a canvas and get my oil paints out and do it for real.
It feels a bit like a cheat doing it digitally first, but I discovered I quite enjoy cheating if I admit to it.
(Ex catholic guilt)
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This was an idea I had about doing paintings with bits missing.
I started sketching with a fat brush in Photoshop and then set about colouring it all in.
Now that that's done I'm going to buy a canvas and get my oil paints out and do it for real.
It feels a bit like a cheat doing it digitally first, but I discovered I quite enjoy cheating if I admit to it.
(Ex catholic guilt)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YAbssOI4MlFyqiC97KDZZgehEOItiDmMDhxZiia4DPj-weuAHwXOkVv0ri5Sp6GgI7DsX6DczEUOPA_cGdwR6gj5wYM_48Xfx81thz3AbvMFi3NP3zEwXkEi8iWnhhQ-jS78JA/s320/Comp101.jpg)
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
B A A Sting 1
I also had some spare time to animate a couple of stings for the awards...
Here is the first one:
Here is the first one:
Long time
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Hithere, I'm back again after animating the titles on Aardman's new film: "Pirates"
It's too early to share any of the material with the world as the film won't be out before March.
So here, meanwhile is the trophy I build for the British Animation Awards.
Someone's going to win it...
B A A Automaton from Felix Sputnik on Vimeo.