hi, just today i found the e mail addresses of several video games companies and sent them a message asking there advice about the industry. heres a framework of my letter:
Hello, my name is Luke Lister, I am a student currently studying a Design for Digital Media degree at Leeds College of Art and Design. I'm very interested in animation and illustration in the video game industry.
The brief I'm currently undertaking requires that i source a live or professional brief and i am writing to you to seek advice on the kind of briefs and work a paid 2D artist would undertake and what would would be expected of them.
Also any advice on the kind of work that i would build a portfolio with, or how to showcase my work and general advice would be greatly appreciated
if you are interested in seeing any of my work i have a gallery on Deviant Art here, http://mr-king55.deviantart.com/
thanks a lot for your time
Luke
i changed it slightly for each company i sent it to to acknowledge them individually. basically if you can help me make a better letter or tell me a better way to go about asking for help please let me know!
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Working as a team
recently on Deviant Art i offered to do requests and its made me fairly popular, i guess its pretty nice to raise my celebrity but the benifit i'm hoping for is to get more of a taste for producing work to some one elses design and to get that kind of 'this is what i wanted/ didn't want' feedback.
also i'm trying to get people to collaborate with me to create even more work! hopefully this'll kepp me busy.
also i'm trying to get people to collaborate with me to create even more work! hopefully this'll kepp me busy.
Edge
edge magazine is essensial reading for anyone interested in video games, as well as the usual reviews and previews its filled with usefull information regarding recent changes in the industry and company profiles and trends and such. tis great.
if anyone knows of any similar or better reading materials i could be looking at let me know!
if anyone knows of any similar or better reading materials i could be looking at let me know!
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
why pokemon is better than pocoyo
because pocoyo is a baby elf... and elf endorses pokemon.
so there phil!
working hard?
ever scince my personal tutorial with mike i've been trying his advice and making as many drawings as i can i'll post a few here but there are more on my DA page http://mr-king55.deviantart.com/
Friday, 9 November 2007
Ident Evaluation
Evaluation
At the start of the project I chose to try the custard children’s TV show ident brief and create approximately 30 seconds of footage for a TV ident. I tried to make images, which looked like maybe a traditional cartoon or a child’s drawing and push myself to use after effects as the driving engine of my work. We had to source our own images, sound effects ant text for the production so everything needed to be researched and considered carefully in order to create something that fit the brief and my own storyboard criteria. After coming up with an idea and making a story board I looked a lot at short children’s animations like ‘purple and brown’ and ‘morph’ and idents from other kid’s shows like ‘smtv live’ and ‘milkshake’ for inspiration in terms of how things should look, character design and so on and I think my research helped me greatly in my decisions about aesthetics and style. In these initial stages I should have made more of an effort to think up a broader range of ideas to give myself more of choice of ways in which to execute this project and demonstrate a bit more creativity and imagination but unfortunately this was not the case and I guess my sketch book suffers a little as a result. Also early on in the project I looked at existing products that had made use of after effects such some video games and animations to try and get an idea of what can be achieved with the software, I think this helped me formulate a plan of action regarding how I might use after effects myself.
After idea generation and initial research I made an animatic or rough version for a crit so I could get some feedback and what works and what can be improved. The crit went pretty well and I took my feedback, made notes and set to work on making the changes and considerations suggested to me, this should be fairly well documented in my sketchbook. I had to start considering typeface and TV safe zones which I sort of skimmed over really, I should have found time to look at more examples of text and logos before generating my own and I guess I should have made more of an effort to generate a range of fonts and styles before choosing like I did. This is another area of my sketchbook that is weak as a result but I’m confident that the text in my animation matches the style and feel of the ident I created.
On the whole I think I’ve made a pretty good sketchbook, it documents my ideas and the process that I went through to create my ident and I’m quite proud of the ident itself too, it accomplishes what I set out to achieve and fulfils the brief too. It’s not perfect though. One area in the animation particularly stands out, where the custard pours down onto the slug there are missing frames due to some difficulties with importing into after effects but these faults are something that I’ve identified and given the chance to spend more time on the brief I would correct them. After effects has been a great asset to learn about and hopefully I’ll be able to make good use of it in future projects.
At the start of the project I chose to try the custard children’s TV show ident brief and create approximately 30 seconds of footage for a TV ident. I tried to make images, which looked like maybe a traditional cartoon or a child’s drawing and push myself to use after effects as the driving engine of my work. We had to source our own images, sound effects ant text for the production so everything needed to be researched and considered carefully in order to create something that fit the brief and my own storyboard criteria. After coming up with an idea and making a story board I looked a lot at short children’s animations like ‘purple and brown’ and ‘morph’ and idents from other kid’s shows like ‘smtv live’ and ‘milkshake’ for inspiration in terms of how things should look, character design and so on and I think my research helped me greatly in my decisions about aesthetics and style. In these initial stages I should have made more of an effort to think up a broader range of ideas to give myself more of choice of ways in which to execute this project and demonstrate a bit more creativity and imagination but unfortunately this was not the case and I guess my sketch book suffers a little as a result. Also early on in the project I looked at existing products that had made use of after effects such some video games and animations to try and get an idea of what can be achieved with the software, I think this helped me formulate a plan of action regarding how I might use after effects myself.
After idea generation and initial research I made an animatic or rough version for a crit so I could get some feedback and what works and what can be improved. The crit went pretty well and I took my feedback, made notes and set to work on making the changes and considerations suggested to me, this should be fairly well documented in my sketchbook. I had to start considering typeface and TV safe zones which I sort of skimmed over really, I should have found time to look at more examples of text and logos before generating my own and I guess I should have made more of an effort to generate a range of fonts and styles before choosing like I did. This is another area of my sketchbook that is weak as a result but I’m confident that the text in my animation matches the style and feel of the ident I created.
On the whole I think I’ve made a pretty good sketchbook, it documents my ideas and the process that I went through to create my ident and I’m quite proud of the ident itself too, it accomplishes what I set out to achieve and fulfils the brief too. It’s not perfect though. One area in the animation particularly stands out, where the custard pours down onto the slug there are missing frames due to some difficulties with importing into after effects but these faults are something that I’ve identified and given the chance to spend more time on the brief I would correct them. After effects has been a great asset to learn about and hopefully I’ll be able to make good use of it in future projects.
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
gobblynne
i just had a look on myspace and it seems like gobblynne made a bullitin post yesterday with a bit of information about a website called www.imaginanimation.net and a link, it looks really useful, there is a bit for news and information about jobs... a bit of everything you want to see really. its basically a rather big network of animators...i think i'll join
check it out for yourself
check it out for yourself
travelling man
a great source of eye candy in terms of graphic novels and comic books, but it doesn't end there on saturday the 27th of october they had a workshop on comic book creation.. i actually missed it because i couldn't get out of work (bums) but a friend went and is gonna try and teach me. i know its second hand information but its still gonna be useful.
hopefully i'll manage to get on another workshop sometime soon, i'll just have to keep an eye out for upcoming information.
anyway, for anyone interested in travelling mans merchandise heres a link to there website, should keep you pretty well informed.
travelling man
hopefully i'll manage to get on another workshop sometime soon, i'll just have to keep an eye out for upcoming information.
anyway, for anyone interested in travelling mans merchandise heres a link to there website, should keep you pretty well informed.
travelling man
David Shrigly
After a crit just before reading week i was advised by mike to go have a look in the leeds art museum because of an animation by David Shrigly. a really good one..
theres a whole exhibit on cult fictions comics and illustration. the animation was just alittle bit of it. The whole thing was an inspiration, to look at so many illustrations and styles was amazing. exactly the kind of thing i like.
anyway have a look here
cult fiction info
and if you like the look then go to the museum, its rather good
Gobblynne animation
Through myspace i've found an illustrator/animator who uses after effects pretty heavily in her work and has a similar style to myself i guess. after talking with her alittle bit it seems she's quite willing to help me out when she isnt busy. score.
i was pointed in the direction of creative cow for tutorials and such and it seems pretty helpful.
anway if you want to have a look at any of her animation work here's a link to her myspace page, there are videos and still images to have a look at.
Gobblynne Animation
i was pointed in the direction of creative cow for tutorials and such and it seems pretty helpful.
anway if you want to have a look at any of her animation work here's a link to her myspace page, there are videos and still images to have a look at.
Gobblynne Animation
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Portfolio
Im currently in the midst of making a web portfolio with fio but since getting back to college it kinda took a back seat behind the projects we got set so i made an account on deviantart with the scans for our website to put me on.
if anybody is interested the link is below.
Mr King DeviantArt
if anybody is interested the link is below.
Mr King DeviantArt
1st post
hi, this blog is for my research and findings in relation to the DDM project, 'Personal development'
I'll try each week to find new things relating to my personal and proffesional interests (thats animation and illustration) and post up whatever i can find on here as often as i can manage.
thanks for reading
I'll try each week to find new things relating to my personal and proffesional interests (thats animation and illustration) and post up whatever i can find on here as often as i can manage.
thanks for reading
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