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--- Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some Breaking Bad cards to give your loved ones, from this wonderful person      -----

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--- It's been sinfully long since I've updated this blog with information relevant to what I'm doing, although what I'm doing is, more or less, a constant anyway and doesn't really need constant updates. However, since my last update, quite a lot has happened to Once a Thief (not so much my life. That's been the same for years). To begin with, here's one of Li's renders of the environments

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- is the line that kept going through my head yesterday when I was watching The Artist. It's really quite a fantastic film, I must agree with the critics. I think it's the first wide release silent film since Mel Brooks' Silent Movie came out over thirty years ago. It had a simple enough story - a famous silent film actor struggling in a world with developing sound in film -  but it worked to

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--- It seems the design of my site's gone to shit over the last month or so. Going to fix it as soon as I get my computer back this month --

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--- I don't usually celebrate New Year's, at least if I had any say in anything I wouldn't. Normally I'm dragged along to something or another and it's fun, I guess, but really if I had a choice I'd never celebrate it again. Not out some in-built grumpiness and dislike for worldwide celebrations (well, not much) but rather out of it not seeming worth it. Better, more interesting people have

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---- STAVE FIVE The End of It The bed was his own, and the room was his own He was pleased that he was finally back alone Not a ghost or a spirit or a spectre around No rattling chains, no phantomly sounds Just him all alone in his room painted grey Bathed in the dawn light of this Christmas day But, wait! thought our Scrooge, have I slept through it all? He opened the window

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-------------- STAVE FOUR The Third of the Three Spirits “A third ghost!” he cried. He couldn’t believe All the things that could happen on one Christmas Eve The Spirit’s form hidden in a great heap of black A sole hand outstretched, the bones of which cracked Though Scrooge was now used to these ghosts in the night This new apparition consumed him with fright Scrooge looked

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-------------- STAVE THREE The Second of the Three Ghosts Scrooge stayed in his bed, and looked all around But he saw nothing and heard not a sound Expecting a ghost, he sat bolt upright But nothing appeared in the blackness of night He waited, and waited, and waited some more And became aware of some light on the floor He saw that the light came from under a door One he

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-------------- STAVE TWO The First of the Three Spirits One o’clock tolled, Scrooge stirred from his sleep And heard, by his bed, a sound slowly creep His bed-curtains moved and then swept open fast Scrooge looked in the face of his Christmas Past The spirit was old, but small like a child His face was wrinkled, with a smile that beguiled His long hair and dress were both a pure

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Today, I start posting up the five staves of the rhyme of A Christmas Carol I've been working on sporadically over the last couple of Christmases. This time, though, I've decided to finish it (I still haven't as I type this but hopefully in the next three days I will have).  Here is the first, the second to come tomorrow! --------------- STAVE ONE Ebenezer sat down at his

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Nothing screams busy schedule like a blog post at five thirty in the morning. I should be updating this more often because there's so much happening each week that I can never be bothered to post all about it at these sporadic intervals, plus it would help to document when everything was done, which will be incredible useful when it comes to writing the inevitable reports and talking in the

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-- It's great when things get done, isn't it? It's even better when the deadlines aren't looming closer and closer, and you're left wondering if you'll get it all done in time, but it's still pretty great. Christmas is coming, which is pretty cool, up until you realise that the end-of-semester hand-ins are due, too. And there are so many of them. Character animations - of which I'll post up

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---- It's certainly been a pretty busy week or two. Somewhere I stopped playing Arkham City (which was a great game, by the way, and the challenges certainly live up to their name) to work on uni stuff. My main project for the year, Once a Thief, is going well. Thumbnails have been worked out, a story has shaped itself, and the characters are developing more and more. We have another member on

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---- Day 30 - A Congrats Banner for Finishing It's a bit old and tattered, because this whole thing took me quite a while to finish, but I think the soda's still good. Right, now to do some real work. Expect an actual, real blog entry soon! Woo ----

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---- Day 29 - Somewhere You'd Like to Be Right now? Bed. Been far too lazy today ---

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--------------- Day 28  - Anything You Like I haven't drawn anything Batman-related during this entire thing and I find that wrong

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-------- Day 27 - Someone You Love My wonderful girl, Johanna ------

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------- Day 26 - Something You Don't Like More "something you hate" but close enough. Those are probably the worst five words you can put on a book cover ----

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------ Day 25 - Scenery This seemed fitting, as it will probably be the scenery I'll see the most over my life -----

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----------- Day 24 - A Couple  Wanted to put them under Favourite Animated Character, but thought to put them here instead, as one of my favourite on-screen couples. ----

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------------ Day 23 - Something You Miss See, now this is what TV is lacking these days ---

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----------------- Day 22 - Something You Need  After spending ages trying to decide what to draw, I realised, I really needed some tea. Preferably in my Mickey Mouse mug.  (This is supposed to be Day 23, apparently, but whatever, I switched them up)

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--------- Day 21 - Something You Want A big, Scrooge vault full of money, of course ---

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------------- Day 20 - Something Orange At lunch at hers, Heather carved a pumpkin in the shape of the Headless Horseman today. I figured that fit the bill quite well -----

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------ Day 19 - Something New I had a couple of ideas for this (one of which was the box for Arkham City - that game's taken up my entire weekend), but ended up drawing the characters for my upcoming project, Once a Thief. ---

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------- Day 18 - Just a Doodle  Just a squid having a smoke underwater -------

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----------- Day 17 - Favourite Plant I had a Venus Fly Trap once. Wilson killed it. Rushed it a bit, because I'm too busy playing Arkham Asylum --

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--------- Day 16 - Inspiration  Instead of drawing directors, or authors, or animators who inspire me, I put in some of their best creations --------

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---- Day 15 - Family Portrait Simple sketch today. Me with my mum and sister. --

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---- Day 14 - Favourite Fairy Tale I dunno if Sinbad's adventures count as fairy tales, but I don't care; they're bad ass. Rushed the pose and this drawing a bit, but it's not all that bad. ----

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--- Day 13 - Comic This is a, uh, comic, featuring the large red, demonic stuffed duck we have in our apartment.  --

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--- Day 12 - Your Most Recent Accomplishment The comic I did over the summer, for a couple of friends, which can be found on my Google+ page here. It still needs some editing, but I know I've reached a point where I'm just gonna leave it. The short story I wrote first (to structure it) can be found in the Downloads tab. ----

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--- This is gonna be my first ordinary blog post, one that isn't a 30 Day Drawing Challange (that's coming up in a minute), in a long time. And there have been a few reasons I guess for me not having posted anything. Simply, there's been a lot going on over the last week and a bit. Lots of things to do, but not enough things to talk about. There's been development in Once a Thief, but not

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----------- Day 11 - Turning Point in Your Life I'm uploading this a day late, because I was a bit tired yesterday, and didn't have the energy to do this whole thing. This was when I left New Zealand to come back here, which was definitely probably one of the major turning points of my life. Also, yeah, my sister should also be in this picture And a new (real) blog entry

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------ Day 10 - Favourite Candy You can taste the rainbow all you want, but it won't be nearly as good as two electric fluorescent shades of added flavour --------

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---------- Day 9 - Your favourite TV show Another one that was hard to pick. But incredibly easy to draw, if you're not up for drawing the cast or whatever. Yeah this was a bit of a lazy one, but what the hey. ---

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------ Day 8 - Favourite Animated Character I could not decide who to draw here. But eventually settled on Yakko Warner of the Animaniacs - one of the best animated shows to ever hit the screens ---

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----------- Day 7 - Favourite Word I rushed this one because I started it way too late. It's not awful, but I could have done way more on it --------

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--------- Day 6 - Favourite Book Character Really couldn't decide between these two excellent Discworld characters. Death and his adopted granddaughter Susan. I think I might end up redrawing this one later, in more detail. -------------------

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----------- Day 5 - Best Friend It's fellow animator Chris Wilson! You can follow his blog here or his Twitter here  I will do a proper blog post sometime soon. Once I have more interesting things happen, that is -----

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---------- Day Four: Your favourite place Only been there once, but damn did I fall in love with that place ---

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---------- Day Three: Your favourite food Why I put a sad cow there I don't know

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---------- Day Two: Your favourite animal Day two. Apparently my favourite animals are tortoises. But that seems like the sort of thing that's liable to change very soon. Tortoises are cool because, I dunno, long necks? Shells? Who knows!  I'll be updating this blog every day for the next thirty days with a new drawing!  ----------------

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---------- Day One: Yourself Day one of the thirty day drawing challenge. I wanted to draw myself differently because I've done regular self portraits before, and fairly recently. So here is me if I was Dr John Zoidberg from Futurama I'll be updating this blog every day for the next thirty days with a new drawing! ----------------

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Have been spending a lot of time working on developing ideas, concepts and themes for Once a Thief - a short animated piece about two burglars who plan on stealing a huge diamond from a museum. OK, well that's not entirely true. I spent most of the last week watching TV with my flatmate. A few days back, we ended up watching four different variations of Batman serialised for television. The 60s

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-- Oh, blog, it's been weeks and I haven't posted anything of interest. Blogger's even managed a whole turnaround of design in my absence too. But during my disappearance from you I've been figuring out a lot of things to move me forward in this final year of study. I've once again settled on a more solid idea for a story- a short one currently called Once a Thief about two thieves who try to

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--- Eesh, I haven't posted anything on here in a little while, probably mainly because I haven't all that much happening. Still in the summer holidays there are about three weeks now until I move back up and start my final year, a year I still am not prepared for at all. But we'll get there when we get there. While I should have been working on my 3DS Max or, heaven forbid, Maya work, I've

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== I haven't posted anything animation-based in a while, it's all been short stories, but here's another one, that isn't mine this time. It's called The Egg by Andy Weir, and I don't know if you have read it but it's an incredibly well-written story, almost Gaiman-esque in a few ways. -- The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing

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------ Art is dead At least, that was the expression I was hearing a lot over the last few years. I was an art critic and my friends and family liked to tell me that art, in fact, was dead and had been for years. Sometimes I was ready to agree with them; I spent so much time in galleries, looking at the new exhibitions – the splattered messes, bland colours, repetitive

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----- In the dead of night they awoke, and in the darkest spots of the woods, where the moon barely shone through, they met their lovers. The spot was isolated so their meetings would not be interrupted, and the darkness didn’t bother them; they could see well enough, after all, they had had centuries of practice. Some of their lovers brought lights with them, to see their handsome faces

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--Somehow, here, I'm too distracted. I don't know why but it's annoying. I spend hours which I should be using to work or whatever reading the latest news on The Dark Knight Rises or Arkham City (by the way the gameplay looks incredible, better than Arkham Asylum, and I love the Catwoman gameplay too), or catching up on image blogs or Youtube subscriptions or, you know, just helping around the

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-------Settling in for the summer is always a difficult thing to do. You have to sort of rewrite how you work, now that you're no longer driven by any actual deadline. It's a case of making yourself do something - reach means to an end - or do nothing for several months and watch clouds go by or something. And it's so easy to slip into the latter.Thankfully I'm organising myself with a pretty

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Hey, so I've lost all the graphics on my site for some reason. I may have inadvertently deleted them all from Picassa. Uh, yeah. I know.So anyway, I'm reuploading all the site-important stuff now, like the banner, the menu button jpegs and so on, and will be reuploading each image (as I can) to their original posts. Bear with me, thanks--

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---You know what's a horrible pain? Coming up with all kinds of ideas for animated shorts, only to be stopped in the middle of the thinking process by the little nagging voice at the back of your brain that tells you there's no way one person on a single computer with limited knowledge of animation or 3D software could do.It's very annoying.I just came back from a walk to get some good stories

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---Still struggling with an idea for September. I know I have plenty of time, but it's best to get things started soon. I wanted to have a trumpeter as my main character for the story I'm planning, but the guy I got to do music can't do the trumpet, which is fine. It just means I'll have to think of something else, or change it to violin.Even then I don't even have a decent plot or anything. Just

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--Well, here we are. I spent far more time over the last few days redesigning the entire site, when I originally just wanted to plan it, for a bit of fun. That became a massive overhaul of design and while the general layout stayed the same, I went for something a bit lighter in tone and wider. I think it looks a lot better now, with more room to breath and a lighter colour scheme.The official

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-----I wanted to post something onto the blog, but realised I didn't want to type much. So instead of putting it off till tomorrow, here are some of my favourite Engrish-isms. If you're not familiar, the concept behind Engrish, is simply people taking photographs of mis-translated (to humourous degrees) signs, warnings, packaging, or whatever.Here are some of my favourites. All are from

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---It occurs to me that I'm in Sheffield for only about thirty more days before I have to pack everything and go home over the summer. Yeah, it's that story again. Strictly speaking, I'll be coming back next year for my fourth and masters year. But for the last time. It may seem a bit forward-thinking to be considering this time next year, but things like that almost always happen faster than

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---This post was originally going to be about gaming, and E3 and all that crap, then I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to say, so screw it. Here's a Cracked article about gaming and E3n 2011 which is probably better written than anything I could have done instead.---I really can't figure out what to do for next year. I haven't got a single idea that would work for a student animation

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--It seems I've done nothing all week but do comics. No, that's not meant to be in the plural. Comic. Just one, and I've only done 7 pages for it so far. It's taking an insane amount of time, but I'm really happy with the way it's progressing.If you want, you can check out these 7 pages in the downloads page, at the bottom. I don't really have any proper comic online publishing thing set up on

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--I'm enjoying working on side projects. You know, the things you never get the time to do until you're on holiday or unemployed. The things you can never really finish because everything starts up again far too soon.But we'll see what happens. For example, I've begun work on the comic version of the Cold Places story I wrote some time back. Here's what I've done so far, a page of half and we've

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---... from movies' greatest dads----

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I present here a rather strange short story titled We Dine Alone I scribbled out on my way back from Cornwall. It's one of two I wrote while down there, although I can't find the paper I wrote the other on at the moment. When I do, I'll post it here. ----- We dine alone, facing each other, on opposite sides of the large dining room table. It’s not comically long, but it accommodates the

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---Well, I think I've done everything I need for the year, course-wise. There's an end-of-year show I need to prepare for, but that's more or less it.My showreel is up on Youtube, although I'm not entirely pleased with it. There are clips from early this year, such as all the Spring Heeled jack stuff (although the graveyard render has reworked textures and lights), and there's loads of stuff I

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---It's the end of the year, again, save for a few bits and bobs which still need doing over the next month. I've finished Toil and Trouble, finally, and have posted it up. And now there's not a lot left to do until next autumn. Summer's going to be the same as it always is, no questions there, which will be both relaxing and stupidly boring.But I have the same usual plans this year, which mostly

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So this is it - after months, I've finally finished the animated short for my third year Toil and Trouble. I've blogged nonstop about it, but I've finally finished the thing and I'm actually really proud of it.Considering how it started:I'd say it's really worked out well. Plenty of work went into it, but I'm very happy with the result and can safely put it away now and look forwards to new

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I haven't had a great deal of time to blog over the last few days - there's been lots of visual effects work, picnics, traveling and just about tonnes of other things slowing me down. I've almost finished the project - and with a week or so left to do it all in, hopefully I'll soon have it uploaded here.Apparently we have to create a showreel for another module, which will be a bit of a pain

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--Three weeks until the deadline, I've got all of the raw footage I need for Toil and Trouble. All I need to do now is special effect work - mostly Harry Potter-esque spells which, once I've learnt how to do them, shouldn't take too much time. It's a part of the film I've had to take a lot of care to get right - including adding the same green light to every scene where these spells are fired. I

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This is a very cool animated short from 2009, linked to me by a friend, called Alma. It was directed by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas and will, interestingly enough, be made into a feature film by DreamWorks which, to me might not be a great step forward. After all, it's almost perfect as it is and will kind of seem a bit like Coraline if anything else.But here it is. Hope you enjoy it as much as

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Well, it's been some weeks of animation now and I'm about two thirds done. I've done a minute and a bit already of raw work and have given myself another two weeks to finish it all off. After that I have to add a load of magic in After Effects.All of this work means I haven't had any time at all to do anything else, which is a bit of a shame, seeing I've had plenty of other ideas for animated

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--In between looking for employment, I've done a tonne of animating lately, and am quite tired of it. I've almost finished the puppet one, which is due in Friday, annoyingly enough, and have been doing a lot of progress on the Toil and Trouble.I'll post something up a bit later when I have energy to upload things online. In other cool news, this, taken from my friend Jonathan's animation blog:"

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-----This is out of context. It's actually from his lovely It Gets Better video.But still. Hilarious.--

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Been doing a lot of actual animation lately. Hooray. Now with the rigging out of the way (well, sort of), it's just now down to putting things in scenes and making them move how I want. It's painstaking, in that each movement has to be timed, positioned, tested and then tried again if it doesn't look right, and that all takes a long time because of how complex some of the scenes are - and with so

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--Here's part two of my top twenty films. Expect some more (or less?) interesting blog entries later this week or something10. Red Cliff (2008)John Woo's latest movie, and his first film in his native Hong Kong since Hard Boiled in 1993, Red Cliff is a war film of massively epic proportions, detailing the famous Battle of Red Cliff which led the way to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The

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---I don't have a great deal of energy in me to do any work, and I'm sitting at my desk, watching Supernatural of all things (Wilson's making me watch it).So in the spirit of having nothing else to do, except for wait for renders to finish their job, I'm going to rattle off a list of my top 20 films of all time. Well, the first ten anyway. I'll do the other when I get back from London or

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---The Oscars are about to start and I'm still debating whether or not to actually watch the whole thing. I've spent too much time lately sitting in front of the computer trying to rig the same things over and over again to very little avail and I reckon it's time for a break. Sooner or later I'm gonna want to throw my computer out the window and animate using shadow puppets or something.Still,

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--Been doing some quick sketches on my tablet.

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--Good news, everyone!Remember that short story I was mentioning a couple of weeks back? Well, I've actually finished it. It's up on the downloads page, or you can download it from this very link (gosh!)I couldn't think of a good title, so I'm calling it Snowfall in English (actually, since writing this, I've renamed it to Cold Places) with the even worse more blatant Japanese title 雪女の死. And in

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---Hey, I've been doing this blog for another year. That's yet another year more than I originally thought it would last. Look at me, actually sticking to things.Speaking of, actually, here's some of the latest work on the Toil and Trouble short, due in by around May. I'm keeping to the schedule, for the moment, so there's no big rush at the moment. Here's my finished Crone body, not yet rigged.

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I've done a bit more work on the site design here, adding in a gallery tab at the top there. I've added in two slideshow galleries - one of my photoshop work and another with pencil sketches and drawings. I'm going to add in some 3D stills once I have enough good ones and my showreel when I've actually made it.I was going to post something about lessons or something but instead I'm going to put

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---Routine isn't a word I like to describe my daily life. After all, you get your classic image of routine - the guy waking up at the same time every day, has a shower, the same breakfast, kisses the wife goodbye and leaves the house at more or less the exact same time every day. Then he waits in traffic in probably the same spot, playing the same music station, arrives at the same parking

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Gonna post up a few things I've been working on. Well, the one thing I've been working on, but working a long time on it.I think I've finished, more or less, this entire set for the short. As of tomorrow or the day after I'm gonna get back into the character design and make some decent models. Here's a development video for lighting and texturingAnd a lesser quality video of a much better design,

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Criteria: They say your life flashes before your eyes in the moments before you die. What would you see? What would one of your characters see?---What was it? Gunshot. Yeah. Right through my forehead. I was blinded, very temporarily, by the muzzle flash. It's weird, I actually felt it break through my skin, my skull, and my brain, as if everything was slowed right down.And right there, time

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---I tend to have my priorities confused when I worry, especially when I travel.See, I was traveling back up to Sheffield on the train, as I seem to do frequently and was probably reading or playing a game on my phone which involves tapping the screen until you get points when a man entered the train car. Being close to the door, I glance up, and he's standing there, looking a bit tired and

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New Year came and went and now it's just another day, part of another year, all of which kind of don't matter really unless you had any appointments then. Then again, when it's all cold and the nights are long, you really need something to celebrate. People woke up on New Year's day to find that the world hadn't changed much, and went about their daily lives. The night before promises were made,

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---Everyone, have a very Merry Christmas! From me and Riki Takeuchi's brilliant brand of overacting!Regular posts resume sometime soon, probably!Woo!

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---It's Christmas Eve: here's today's Christmas Countdown thing (there are two today, even):First, this terrifying Santa-thing from The City of Lost ChildrenYeah. It makes sense in context. Sort of.And, this jolly yuletide piece from Weird Al

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--Why have I spent most of the night looking at two-bedroom aparments in New York? Seriously. I went on all kinda of websites advertising very similar apartments in the city, and then decided to look at what starting animators earned, on average, in the States.I spent literally two hours calculating living costs and all sorts for absolutely no purpose. I'm not graduating for another year and a

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It's late, and I should be sleeping or whatever, but I don't have any commitments. There's a load of work I need to do by the 12th of January, which mostly involves texturing and rendering scenes on the computer, but that can all wait until after Christmas.At the moment I'm catching up on films I've been putting off watching, things that need writing and books that need reading. In all honesty,

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Used with(out) permission from Neil Gaiman's short story collection Smoke and Mirrors---------------Nicholas Was…Older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.Once very

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--Wahey, I've almost finished everything I have to do before Christmas. In fact, after having finished my animatic and y visual effects project - probably the two most important things at the moment, I can relax for this week. We have some report or whatever to hand in by Friday, but it's easy stuff, barely worth a mention.So before I return to farmlands and boring stuff, I have a week of not a

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--The Christmas Countdown picture today - from the Mr T Treasures collection

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--You know that Christmas Carol, the one I really don't like. In the Bleak Midwinter. At the start of the song, there's a bit lyrical vomit where the writer didn't quite know what to write, so he ended up putting "snow on snow, on snow, on snow".Well, I actually know what he was talking about now. See, the last week, it's been snowing like mad, then stopped, then started again, and stopped again.

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The last few days have been, interestingly enough, surrounding Batman.See, in working on my visual effects thing for class - which involves adding effects to film as well as writing up about a desired topic, I came up with the idea to write about the art of matte painting; you know, where an artist painstakingly paints a scene that's almost real to the eye, on which live action footage is placed

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---Here is my animatic for upcoming short Toil and Trouble I've done so far, with some pretty weird sound effects (to give it a bit more life). No music yet, I'll post it up on youtube when I do---

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Here's another quick extract from my upcoming story, concerning a previously established character:---- The setting sun bathed the entire city of Qang Chu in red, or rather, more red than it already was. The light hit the red flags hanging from the red temples, and the red market stalls with the small red lanterns. It was, it appeared, the colour of choice of the people of Qang Chu, or even the

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--I spent most of the day helping to film Wilson's visual effects project. It rained like mad, and was probably the coldest day of the year so far, which made standing outside on the deck and, especially for Wils who was doing all the filming, taking shot after shot difficult but ultimately rewarding. There was a very realistic gun involved, which we had to take some care around so we didn't

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---I thought, for the sake of something other to do than animatics and Dragon Age: Origins, I would list out my top ten favourite directors working today, and why.So here we go:10. Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away/Porco Rosso/Princess Mononoke)A no-brainer. One of the top people working in animation currently, founder of Studio Ghibli (and director of some of its top films), there's something about

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.I think I've had enough of storyboards to last me a lifetime, having finally finished all 62 of them and then scanned them into the computer, before fixing them (because they all scanned in lopsided. Thanks, Wilson's scanner..) and changing the levels and stuff on them, and then finally cropping them into individual files.It means I can get started on my animatic very soon. Once I have a rough

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.MuahahahahaLove, Norman xx

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