Next on the agenda is Barcelona!! me and Len took a little mini break after the chaos of the group animation and went off to explore somewhere new and had a fantastic time. The weather wasn't great, and we had to do it on the cheap, but I would definitely recommend it if you've never been before. A totally inspiring city.

We spent a lot of our time there touring galleries and other cultural hotspots after we found a "where art thou?" map in a cool little nick knack shop. We found some brilliant local illustrators and designers and even got a invited to an exhibition opening on our last night there.

My definite favourite discovery was Conrad Roset, a local Catalan illustrator. The majority of his work seems to focus on drawing nudes, but his style is absolutely beautiful.

The first picture is of the print I bought from his exhibition for a measly 16 euro! I love a good bargain!

As you can see he also does some pretty sweet character design, I'd love to see some of these guys turned into toys or something.

Update

It's been a LOOOONG time since my last post so there's alot to catch up on. First things first, we completed the group animation project about Zeus so I've got some show and tell on the cards:

It seemed to take forever to pull everything together, especially sorting out the set and props. I'd never realised how much hard work it can be working with other people, each of whom are supposed to be working to their own assignments. Needless to say things were a little hectic on the last few days before hand in, but over all I think I'm pretty pleased with the final animation. It has plenty of pretty noticeable flaws, and every time I watch it through I notice something else we forgot to polish off or add in in the final rush for the finish line, but I think it has its own charm, and for a first full stop motion animation it aint too shabby.

C4D video tracking and compositing

Just a quick test piece I did in college, using Cinema 4D, a bit of video footage and a channel 4 logo I'd put together previously.