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Thursday, April 26, 2007

The Sound of the Washing Machine of Life

I have two friends called Adrian Wilkins and Denise Bryan... They travelled the Silk Road for a year or so and created this kalaidoscopic Cabinet of Curiosities on their website silkthreads.org
It consists of eccentric collections of sounds and photos.

Adrian is the sound artist and I asked him if he could record their washing machine one day, for me to put onto the Washing Machine of Life animation.

So he did a beautiful job, and recorded the whole cycle then picked out the perfet 5 second clip.
Here you go, headphones on and zone out to the Sound of the Washing Machine of Life.

Labels: adrian wilkins, animation, denise bryan, silk road, silkthreads.org, sound, sound art, sound recording, washing machine

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The Washing Machine of Life

I just created a birthday e-card.

I started it last year, playing around with the Twirl Tool in Illustrator. I thought I could make the rainbow letters just swirl into shape. So I exported various stages of 'twirls' as swf files from Illustrator and then into Flash. It turned out ok but not that exciting... I liked the abstract shape created when all the letters were totally lost. After a long time I went back through the files and I found an unfinished one that went quite fast. It had this mesmerising washing machine spinning effect. So I played about a bit with it a little bit more and it turned out like this! The Washing Machine of Life.

I've decided to show characters and designs that I do, as I go along on here and put the t-shirt link on too. So here you go:

Labels: animation, birthday, e-card, Flash, Illustrator, swirl, t-shirt, tee, tool, tshirt, twirl, washing machine

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

I LOVE GLITTER!

I'm spending too much time writing this blog and not enough time DRAWING. Bad bad bad.

An email just popped into my inbox! First person has just signed up to join my cartoon + animation + character figure drawing group yay!

Labels: animation, cartoon, character design, figure drawing group, glitter, gold

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

London Cartoon, animation + character figure drawing group

I've set up the group! I'm now the organiser of the London Cartoon, animation + character figure drawing group on Meetup.com

Now I only need to find a venue and a model and members!

Are you just longing for a chance to draw or photograph a model pretending to be flying through the air or hiding behind a lampost? Could be for you...

Who?
For cartoonists, animators, charicaturists and character designers.

What?
Opportunity to draw or photograph (with model's permission) a model in action and in character poses. Quick poses and poses to request. eg model expresses anger or model flies through the air (ha ha ok, balances on a box?).
Clothed / costumes / nude?

The session won't be a class although we can share tips on technique.

Option to go for a drink after the session.

Benefits of group

More dynamic than the usual figure sitting on a box draped in sheets setup
Useful if you're rusty on drawing and want to get back into it.
Useful if you have a specific project on the go and need reference sketches.
Ever just got totally stuck on hands?!
Good to meet other like minded people and exchange ideas or discuss solutions to common problems

Location
Central London
A room / studio with comfortable chairs and preferably decent light.
Possibly with easels, but that isn't essential at the start.
Currently looking for a venue - if you can help, please mail me.

When
Monthly at first but aiming for weekly if there's a good turn out. First meetup currently scheduled for Monday April 16th.

Duration
2 hours, 6.30pm - 8.30pm?

The Future

Plan an exhibition of our work?
Go to events such as the Pictoplasma conference in Berlin

Please go to the group and RSVP 'yes' if you would like to come.

Labels: action, animation, animator, cartoonist, character design, charicature, charicaturist, drawing group, figure drawing, meetup.com, photography, pictoplasma, pose

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