'BOTTLE ROCKET' TITLE SEQUENCE

This incredibly simple title sequence represents what I want to achieve stylistically. I like the idea of using texture in my animation, but I want to contrast it against flat, pastel colours.

ALTERNATIVE TITLE SEQUENCE FOR 'THE DARJEELING LIMITED'

Again, this is an alternative title sequence created using stills on after effects. I love the use of different textures and the change in perspective like when the camera turns 90 degrees and then the train runs along the bottom.....

ROYAL TENENBAUMS ALTERNATIVE TITLE SEQUENCE

This alternative title sequence for 'The Royal Tenenbaums' was made on after effects. I know it is fairly basic, but I like it a lot and it is giving me a less terrifying idea of the possibilities of this brief.

RON PAUL 'IMAGINE' KINETIC TYPE

I think that this is a good example of how consideration of font is important for the animation.... this animation shows how different fonts are appropriate for different words and meanings.....

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Some mythical beasts.....

Fantastic Mr Fox book trailer

This animation is a trailer for Roald Dahl's children's book 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. It features drawings and animations inspired by the story and Quentin Blake's illustrations. Made over the course of one day by children at Manor House Library, Lewisham, London. (October 2009)
What I love about it is the use of the children's drawings which are used in a kind of collage.....

David Shrigley temporary tattoos

David Shrigley made temporary tattoos for visitors on Thursday 14th October at Frieze Art Fair 2010. A short film was made of the event view here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwilrqiHMs and images can be seen here: http://www.stephenfriedman.com/#/news/current/david-shrigley-tattoos

Some people then had their temporary tattoos made permanent!

I love these illustrations, and quite want a David Shrigley tattoo myself! However in relation to this brief, I think that due to the target audience I am working with, as a playfull touch I could include something like temporary tattoos, (perhaps stickers would be more appropriate!), that could be included with the DVD for submission....

DAVID SHRIGLEY ANIMATIONS

These animations represent the kind of tone of voice I want to get across in my idents and title sequence. I love the humour accompanied with the childlike representations of the characters. I think the simplistic black and white works really well, and is like nothing I've been looking at previously. I think I had got extremely carried away with he idea that my animations must be as complicated and vibrant as possible, to make them eye catching and interesting, but now I feel very differently. I think that the simplicity of these animations is what makes them work so well....

DAVID SHRIGLEY

I have been considering "Top 10 best children's stories" as my idea for this brief. I want to create animations invoving playful, childish moving illustrations, possibly of characters from childrens stories, as well as mythical creatures. 

I was given this book for christmas :

David Shrigley is a successful artist who works in a variety of medias, but

I had not seen his work before and instantly fell completely in love with it. I find his illustrations hilarious, and I love even more the fact that they are so childish. I have shown his work to a fair few people, and I have found that only the more child-minded of them found it tickled them in the right place! Others commenting that it was "weird....?"......which makes me love his work even more. I think an accurate description of these cartoons would be 'cartoons for adults'.

These are some of my favorite cartoons from the book :

At this stage, I am not sure whether my 'Top 10 best' target audience will be for adults or for children...  I'm not sure that it would be a program that children would watch, so therefore I may be dealing with an older audience, who might appreciate a darker humored animation.

TOP 10...

//CHILDREN'S STORIES//

Animated Lullaby for ReneeAndJeremy.com - Children's

Music

TOP 10...

//CHILDREN'S STORIES//

I think that this track "Alice" by Pogo could have the perfect atmosphere for this idea....

TOP 10....

//CHILDREN'S BOOKS//

IDEAS :

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PINNOCHIO

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

CINDERELLA

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

THE BRATCHETS

SLEEPING BEAUTY

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES

QUOTES FROM MOVIES

//TOP 10 MOVIE CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME
//TOP 10 MOVIES OF ALL TIME
//TOP 10 BEST FEMALE MOVIE CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME
//TOP 10 TARRENTINO CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME
//TARRENTINOS WOMEN
//TOP TEN FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
//TOP TEN CULT FILMS


These are some of my ideas for the "Top 10" brief... I like the idea of using famous, memorable or even just interesting taglines/quotes/lines from the movies/characters as the starting point for my ident designs....


Here are some of my favourite quotes and taglines from and about a selection of films...


Inglourious Bastereds:


"You haven't seen war untill you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino."


"If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds"


"A basterd's work is never done."


Adolf Hitler: [at the premiere of "Nation's Pride"] Extraordinary, my dear. Simply extraordinary. This is your finest film yet. 


Pulp Fiction:


"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character."


Natural Born Killers:


"In the media circus of life, they were the main attraction."


Dr. Emil Reingold: "Mickey and Mallory know the difference between right and wrong; they just don't give a damn."


Wayne Gale: Their subsequent trial turned into a sick, pathetic circus. The trial of Mickey and Mallory Knox was SUCH an event, that it made the crime spree that preceded it pale by comparison. The nation caught Mickey and Mallory fire! 

ARTICLE : Pulp Goddesses: Tarantino and His Women, VOGUE

If I asked you to name a Hollywood filmmaker who creates strong women characters, I’m betting you wouldn’t instantly cry out, “Quentin Tarantino.” After all, ever since his debut with Reservoir Dogs, with its polychromatic crew of all-male crooks (Mr. White, Mr. Pink, etc.), he has been known as a maker of so-called guy movies. Yet while it’s true that Tarantino’s movies are violent and filled with macho palaver, he’s come up with more powerful and interesting female characters than Martin Scorsese and Nora Ephron combined. Take his new movie Inglourious Basterds, an erratically entertaining World War II fairy tale that opens this Friday. Judging from the ads, you might think it an ultra-violent action picture all about Brad Pitt leading a band of basterdly brothers to slaughter what he calls “Nazzies.” In fact, it’s nothing of the sort. Sure, there are a few bloody moments to placate Tarantino’s fanboy base, but the movie is essentially slow and talky, and unlike most war pictures, it boasts two key female characters. The movie’s emotional center is Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jewish movie-theater owner who dreams of killing Hitler to avenge both her family and her people—the role is actually meatier than Pitt’s. (She’s played by French actress Mélanie Laurent, whom I profile in Vogue’s September issue.) Although Diane Kruger gets less screen time as Bridget von Hammersmark, a sexy German movie star turned anti-Nazi spy, she’s the most comfortable I’ve ever seen her on-screen. And the most alluring. Enthralled and attentive—Tarantino’s superb with actors—he makes Kruger far more radiant than she was as Helen in Troy. This should come as no surprise to anyone who saw Uma Thurman dance with John Travolta in Pulp Fiction or remembers how Jackie Brown swooned over Pam Grier—here is one director who knows how to adore actresses. Steeped in film history and a worship of actors—I suspect that he himself would rather be a leading man than an auteur director—Tarantino is not one of those filmmakers whose feminine ideal begins and ends with Megan Fox.He likes to give actresses something they can sink their teeth into—big emotions, nifty dialogue, and action sequences that show off their physical grace. You get all three of these in Kill Bill’s Beatrix Kiddo, which isn’t simply Tarantino’s best female role, it’s the great role of Thurman’s career—funny and vengeful, loving and kick-ass. Beatrix is one of our era’s most memorable heroines, and in a better world (or at least if Kill Bill hadn’t been released in two parts) Thurman’s performance might have won the awards it deserved. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that Tarantino’s female roles are thunderbolts of feminist insight—Jane Campion he ain’t—or that they capture women’s lives in all their richness and complexity. You’d never confuse Beatrix Kiddo with the heroine of anIngmar Bergman psychodrama. Instead, like Bridget von Hammersmark andZoë Bell’s cackling stuntwoman in Death Proof, she’s a pop fantasy who has sprung full-blown from the skull of a man who, in his forties, often still seems like a goofy, overgrown teenager. But Tarantino’s heroines aren’t fantasies because they’re women. They’re fantasies because his psyche is saturated with movie mythology. His male characters are fantasies, too. What separates Tarantino from so many other directors who turn out male pop extravaganzas—you know,Transformers and G.I. Joe—is that his cinematic universe makes plenty of room for women. He likes them white and black, Latina and Asian. He likes them heroic and he likes them villainous. He likes how they move, how they banter, how they look in cool clothes. When most Hollywood directors tell you, “I really love women”—and trust me, they say exactly these words all the time—what they mean is that they love them in their arms or in their beds. Tarantino is a rarity: He loves them in his movies. —John Powers

Photo: Clockwise from left: Uma Thurman in Kill Bill (Miramax/Courtesy of Everett collection); Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds (Francois Duhamel/The Weinstein Company); Pam Grier in Jackie Brown (Everett collection).

I am a huge Quentin Tarrentino fan, the main element that I enjoy about his films is his strong female characters. In my opinion, he portrays women like no other director I have ever seen, making them interesting, strong and dominating rather than the sidelining love interest o the typically male lead. 

Avicii & Sebastien Drums - My Feelings For You (Official Video HD)

GRADUAL REVEAL MTV MOTION GRAPHIC

This shows another example of revealing the imagery/text in a gradual and interesting way.
I want to experiment with this in my animations.

MOTION GRAPHIC

This motion graphic is again, done by a student. This just puts in perspective the possibilities if I keep at it. I would have made the assumption that this was a professional piece of work....
I think it was done using Illustrator to create the images, and then AfterEffects to create the animation, including the impression of the zoom, in and out. I think the way that it is revealed in this way is done by manually covering and revealing areas using solid objects, like we learnt in our last workshop....

COEN BROTHERS IDENTS

I discovered these idents for Coen Brothers films, which I really liked. I discovered the designer was Leeds based and after further investigation realised, embarrassingly for me for not realising, was on our course in 3rd year.... oops. But I really like these two in particular...
I think this is partly because I am a huge fan of the films of the Coen Brothers and would love to love to design a title sequence or ident like this for them :

ANIMATED TYPE FROM MANNSCHAFT, AMSTERDAM.

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