finished animation!

My animation for Reading Single Homeless Project is now finished!
So i can have a little rest for a bit zzzzzz.

(it's best to let it stream all the way first because it goes a bit jumpy)

my animation set up...

Here are a few photos of my animation table and of the set spread over the different glass layers....

Kin - featured profile

so i went onto the Kin website today and got a nice surprise when i saw that my profile is this months featured portfolio!

my very own animation table

With some of the money I got for the funding i/my boyfriend have built my very own animation table! i have always alwaysss wanted one but not been able to do it before! Here are some pics of it being made, i don't have one of the finished table yet because the lights and camera are still being sorted out but it should all be done soon!

STEP 1: first i did loads of sketches on scraps of paper and envelopes that nobody apart from me seemed to be able to understand.

STEP 2: then i bought loads of steel.

STEP 3: my lovely assistant then gave

me a hand cutting it to the right size,

wearing all the correct safety gear

of course.

STEP 4: then everything got painted

black.

STEP 5: then we tested it out in the

garden to get the measurements for

the glass.

IdeasTap fundinggggg

Well I should have updated this ages ago because in July I got some funding from IdeasTap to make my very own animation. To get the funding the proposal had to meet certain criteria, and one of those was working with a charity. I decided to work again with RSHP (the Reading single homeless project) and to make an animation for them to celebrate their 30th Anniversary. So, for this I trekked down to Reading to speak to people who work at the charity and people who have been helped by them and what they think about it all. It was really good to meet everyone and at the moment I'm just working on sorting out all the sound we recorded. I'll keep you posted on how it's going..

animation screening

i have just received an email saying that my animation 'celebrate' starring bob ordello is going to be shown at the children's matinee on Bold Street in Liverpool. That was a nice surprise...

so at the moment...

After getting back from London i'm feeling inspired, so i'm working on designing myself a shiny new website, ooh ahhh. i think i'm going to stick with a similar style to my current one and also to the RSHP one. i like the handmade, messy kind of look.

After that i think i'm going to start writing a short animation. I have one small idea at the minute but it needs quite a bit of working out! I have recently acquired a basic camera frame that i can use for my stop motion so i'm looking forward to trying that out too!

RSHP website redesign

In february i was commissioned by the Reading Single Homeless Project to redesign their website. The old one was quite plain, clinical and there was too much to read so i changed the design to something a bit more interesting.... a pin board! Take a look at their brand spanking new website here!

cards commission!

Microzine (a shop in Liverpool and London) has comissioned me to make cards to sell in store as well as at the Wimbledon tennis championship and at the Golf Open!