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This is a simple, simple rig I created for ‘Jöns and the Spider’, a beautiful looking cut-out animation by Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Soyoung Hyun – both studying at the 2nd year of RCA.

This was done for the talended Mr. David Prosser who is working on his 2nd year film now. I was asked to animate these short shots for his film in Photoshop. Only few more weeks to go so all the very best for all the 2nd year people!

These are some shots from my film I am working on now, Ordæmonium. It is about a character who struggles to overcome some of his fears and nightmares and the film is an insight into his state of mind.

The film, if all goes well, will be finished by the end of May and hopefully will hit the festival circuit afterwards.

a.k.a Take Fine Walk in London-town.

Lets hope copyright folks will not gut me.

This was an illustration I made prior starting working on my new film, Ordaemonium. I was trying to capture the essence of the character, however the end result probably no longer relates to the film.

Soundtrack from the BFI archive

©2009 Royal College of Art

I was inspired to have some experiments after reading about Chaos theory (about dynamical systems that depend highly upon the initial conditions and the consequent unpredictability of the results – often referred to as Butterfly Effect).

I wanted to try to recreate a self-organising (pattern creating) behaviour by setting up a visual feedback loop. The idea was to have this system result in fractal like visual loop that establishes self-generated patterns (as the input feeds on the output, e.g. like the Mandelbrot set does). I used my macbook’s web camera and failed the task but will have another go with better equipment once I lay my hand on a hdmi-dvi converter.

For the time being this is merely an artistic impression.

Voilà, another of those hopelessly tacky and romantic illustrations. It started its life only as a doodle but I decided to finish it in Photoshop as I liked the main figure. Note to myself: I still suck with colours.

Budapest:

Ultraquick, ‘freezing in the cold’ sketches, quality wasn’t a consideration

This is our contribution to the image workshop.
Shot with a Rostrum camera on 16mm film.


Credits:
Laurence Weedy (putting stuff on the table)
Gergely Wootsch (pushing buttons)
David Dixon (technical stuff, lightbulb replacement)
Joe King.


Property of Royal College of Art, London.

The sequence is a series of film strips shot with my Canon AE-1, I scanned strips in and finished the job off with Digital Fusion.

I shot stills of neon lights, a book, and handrails at the Victoria Dock in London with multiple exposures.

Finally, time has arrived to once and forever say good bye to Middlesbrough and University of Teesside. Having spent the last two years of my life there I don’t mind moving on but of course I miss many things, including the relaxed life drawing sessions, Southfields pints, acoustic nights in Dickens and the many friends that were left behind.

http://vicandric.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/congradulations/

And of course, the unmissable industrial sight:

We paid a visit to the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht! -> http://haff.awn.com/

Not only Utrecht was great, but we had the perfect cinema weather too, I got to see many good films I missed before.

Some of the highlights were, in my humble opinion, Don Hertzfeldt’s “I’m So Proud of You”, Jérémy Clapin’s Skhizein, Passeio de Domingo by José Miguel Ribeiro, La Maison en Petit Cubes by Kunio Kato (This year’s lucky Oscar winner).

I must say the Cartoon d’Or 2009 reel was the best one I saw – my personal favourites were Please Say Something (David O’Reilly) and Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Bastien Dubois). I spent as much time in the cinema as it was possible but I only got to see a fragment of the films that were showcased. Not surprising, the programme was a whopping 111 pages long!.

Here are the pictures of the trip on Flickr

The Rejects

I was digging through my old pictures and I came across my scans of the darkroom misfits. I just realised that the texture on the pictures provide something much more exciting than the original photos gave. It is good to come across old memories.

This was a concept image for a pitch that did not make it. Thanks to the wonders of the digital technology the finished digital version got corrupted.

Sunset viewed from my window. The sight is always the same but the atmospherics effects are just simply endlessly varying. Shot on two different dates.

Oh and kids, don’t drink too much coffee.

The usual sketchbook update. I had a really brief idea for a character, maybe if I get some time I will develop it further.
The another one is just during a well deserved coffe break in Starbucks.

I was working on the preproduction of the ident of the 2010 Animex festival with the guys from the Wishing Well Animation studio run by Ben Klimmek and Lars Ellingbo.

Preplanning and rigging the main character were some of my main duties. Here is a snippet from the storyboard:

Sketches from a project I am working on. Lizard and mammoth fishes.

Given company name: The Wishing Well.
Given task: Create Business cards for the company.
Think, think, think. What can you do with a well? Well, drop something in it. How about ink?

First, find a clean, preferably squared glass (non of those I could find) and fill it with water. Drop some Pelikan ink in it and photograph the event (after you carefully set the lighting up). Congrats now you have a library of masks you can use.

Since ages I felt the urge to take my old analogue camera out and make some pictures. So I finally ordered the equipment I needed (Ilford HP5 35mm, ID-11 developer and a tank) and set off to find the source of the smell in Middlesbrough. The developed films have been scanned in with a Plustek OpticFilm7300 3mm film scanner.

Live music in town at least! The festival had some surprisingly strong artists, performers, inlcuding the Zutons. Luckily, I had my camera with me. You can check out the complete set on flickr here.

Sumo vs. Superman.

My favourite from the set, a spontaneous find. I give you The Pure Evil: