Cyclotropes at Flatpack Festival

Last weekend I went up to Birmingham for Flatpack festival where I ran a workshop on 'how to make a cyclotrope. We had lots of people come in throughout the day and draw there own animations and attach them to bike wheels.
We has a camera set up with a live feed which ment we could watch the animations live as the wheel spun round. here is a compilation of some of the films that were made.

Flatpack Cyclotropes from tim Wheatley on Vimeo.

SPACE STATION

Over the last few weeks ive been working on some maya models for a local artist who is making a film to be screened at an exhibition in the ukrane. He wants a lo-quality 80s style wire frame graphics mixed with google sketch up look modeled spaceships.

I made the following two tests in maya and used after effects to comp them together and add glow.

Lino Prints

this week I have been working on some new lino prints, the first one here of the woman with head in hands is for the last shot of my film. it is the close up which will  have a tear animated down her cheek. The bckground needs to be taken out , ill probably do this in photoshop. I also need to colour is using water colour. Below that is a reprint of my tree cut, done in a new yellow ink.

 

 

Shot_6 family leave house

this week I animated shot six, that involves the family coming out there home and looking happy. I did this shot in 1 afternoon. I need to add the background in and take it into TVP to colour it. the production stage is going well, only having a few problems with flash and switching files between cs.5 and cs.6.

Also this week i have been working with a local artist who has a residency in the Ukraine, He is working on a installation that focuses on space travel among other things. I am working with him to create some low-tech looking space graphics using Maya and aftereffects. here are some models i have made and some tests i did

market scene; full line animation

this week I finnished the line animation for the market scene.

Today I started colouring to test the characters in the backgorund, heres what its looking like, i think its looking great!

Colouring Market scene

Today and this week I have been finishing off the aimation for the Market scene. The line animation is now complete. I have been testing the colouring pipe line to see how it will work and how long it should take. I am going to colour it by exporting the lines from flash and bringing them into TVP, in TVP im painint chite behind the lines as a base and then adding watercolour paint ontop (this is all digital). The i export the colour and line from TVP and add the background in After effects. here is one frame at the different stages:

 

 

Stopmotion, attempt 2!

Today, me and Matt scouler re-shot the stopmotion/pixelation section of our film. After all the footage was corrupted last month when we had finnished animating we had to start all over again.

this time we know what we were doing but it still took a long time to get the the animating stage. We had similar computer promblems that wouldn't let us save images to the hard drive and a cameras that wouldnt be detected on the pc. After 4 hours off setting up we animated the sections very quickly and easily. It took us about 45min to and hour to animate the whole thing.
Its was a shame we lost the first attempt but it ment when we came to re shoot it we were more confident with the technique and have a really nice section of animation.

It still need a bit of tidying up and a few frames removed but here is our animated hand.

(video coming soon... processing on youtube)