a rakes progress rakewell final animation, (the ascension into insanity)

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a guy i was randomly making

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lxcS3dARE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EsF7eooEPk

some fun claymation

On the wall

this was inspired by a camera tripod.

Wigs and shizz

So plastic bag + masking tape + thread= beautiful head of hair even the most manly of men could enjoy.

Its not just me that think this looks like a gun right?

I guess you have to look everywhere for inspiration. And I looked at a camera tripod for the layout of a SciFi gun....funny how minds work huh?

Killed with colour...

Literally killed with colour...I wanted to have an experiment with that style of life drawing I was doing....i think I like it I'm not sure but either or I'm going to be playing with it on photoshop.

Im Going To Animate......this is either going to go really good....or really bad....

For A Rakes Progress...i want to break it down and create something new and fun with it....its a story of a young man on a self destructive path with money he was given....so isnt that a rather normal event now days.....i figure lets have some fun with this situation....im tempted to make a couple of seconds of film...maybe a couple of minutes who knows...but im taking alot of inspiration from ego raptor and things like adventure time, simple but great animation that will be well enjoyed....im not quite sure how its going to work but im going to be story boarding and time lining it scene by scene then animation one scene at a time, however many i get done is where i will leave it, although i have a pretty good idea how im going to get it done just no idea of anything else...it will be a challenge but so worth it in the long run.

a rakes progress, StrangeFace

http://www.strangeface.co.uk/productions/a-rakes-progress/a-rakes-progress/

the strange face is a theater production group  that do a version of A Rake's Progress using masks to bring a more comedic and cartoony feel to the characters, aswell as also making them look a little more creepy. i love this mask work and would really love to move into a production route with my work.

Some old design work

I know its old and its just a picture of my screen but I really like the look and the process of this character I designed.

Little bit different

I decided to try something new with this and just try and go straight for it in pen to get the shading and effect, purely for the purpose that there isn't the option to remove my mistakes.

Norwich Animation

http://www.nua.ac.uk/baanimation/ Nowrich is another university i looked at, the first thing that stuck out to me was the fact that the reprasentative said you dont need any animation experience, we teach you from the ground up. i really like that since i havent had much experience in animation and like the fact that i would really be learning something new.

UHanimation

http://uhanimation.co.uk/ this is a site that i was given at the University Fair we went to in london, its a site from hertfordshire with alot of the final work or all the graduats, going back a long way. It consists of the 2D and 3D animation aswell as the game arts and animation, and also the VFX. the work is really impressive, like really really impressive and now im thinking about going down more of an animation route it is really high on my list of top choices.

mask

this is a resin mask i found done by an artist on facebook,  really like it and i love the fact that even though it is resin it looks like real metal. 

face builds in Manchester museum

A Rakes Progress Textiles

mirror the time lines.

im also considering mirroring time lines, so i could remake the rakes progress 8 pieces but in a future setting kind of like the preditor style masks i posted earlier.

Steam Punk Might Steam On

A Rake's Progress is set around 1732...for twist thats perfect, i really dont like the term "steampunk" since i think it is something that is really overdone, however to stick a twist on a story and make this in a screen situation i love the idea of this.

http://www.strangeface.co.uk/productions/a-rakes-progress/a-rakes-progress/

a rakes progress comes to you done by strangeface, a theater production crew that use masks to portray the charecters, to add both a comedic value and in my personal opinion a little creepy.

Volpin Helm of Ygnol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMLnY5fUoYM&list=PLOC7Zsw0CjxmRwAOroYkuj_kcYnvELc_z

the work of volpin is amazing, i really like the detail that goes into his work and the final resin casts. resin is something i plan on working in alot, i would really like to work with silicone aswell, however it is really exspensive so instead i shall see how a few thick layers of latex holds up.

Life drawing fail

I was trying some life drawing if a friend for a picture, I didn't think it was bad, however I needed to take more time and attention to detail and work on getting a good facial contrast instead of it being mid tone grays.

http://www.ucas.com/how-it-all-works/undergraduate/filling-your-application/your-personal-statemen

william hogarth make a number of etchings of his painting.

A Rake’s Progress

William Hogarth (1697-1764)
A Rake's Progress (1733)

The eight paintings in William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1733) tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father. It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730).
The series is principally known through the engravings made by Hogarth from his paintings in 1735. In an advertisement published in November 1734 Hogarth invited potential subscribers to visit his studio in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square) to see the paintings before subscribing to a set of engravings.
The paintings were in the possession of William Beckford until Soane bought them at auction in 1802 for 570 guineas (Mrs Soane bid for them at Christie's on her husband's behalf). The canvasses of A Harlot's Progress, also owned by Beckford, had been destroyed in a fire at Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire, in 1755.
The paintings were originally hung at Soane's country villa, Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, but were moved back to Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1810. In 1824 Soane re-hung them in his new Picture Room at the rear of No.14 Lincoln's Inn Fields together with the recently acquired Election series.
1. The Heir
The scene introduces our hero, Tom Rakewell, who has inherited a fortune following the death of his miserly father. Tom is pictured in his father's house which is beginning to yield up its hoarded wealth.
Tom is attempting to pay-off a servant girl, Sarah Young. She holds a gold ring, revealing that Tom has seduced her with the promise of marriage. Behind Tom, a lawyer, employed to compile an inventory of his dead father's estate, is stealing gold coins. A starved cat searches for food in a chest full of silver, whilst servants find treasure hidden in the fireplace and behind wall hangings.

2. The Levee
The second scene sees Tom in his new palatial lodgings where he is holding a morning levée in the manner of a fashionable gentleman.
Amongst the assorted visitors who have come to offer their services is a jockey, a dancing-master (with violin), a music teacher (believed to be based on Hogarth's great rival Handel), a landscape gardener, a poet and a tailor.
On the wall behind hang some of Tom's recent acquisitions three Italian paintings - Hogarth was known to dislike the fashion for acquiring Old Master works (which he branded 'dark pictures') at the expense of paintings by British artists.

3. The Orgy
It is three o'clock in the morning and Tom, drunk, is enjoying the attentions of prostitutes at the Rose Tavern in London's Covent Garden. A night watchman's staff and lantern lie beside him (souvenirs of a rowdy night in the surrounding streets). Two of the ladies are relieving Tom of his watch.
In the foreground a woman is undressing ready to perform poses on the pewter dish that is being carried into the chamber.

4. The Arrest
Tom has squandered his fortune and narrowly escapes arrest for debt on the way to a party at St James's Palace. It is Queen Caroline's birthday, also St David's Day, and the two bailiffs wear leeks in their hats to mark the occasion.
Tom is saved by Sarah Young, now a milliner, who pays his bail money with her meagre earnings. A street urchin steals Tom's gold-topped cane, whilst a lamplighter, distracted by the commotion, accidentally pours oil on to Tom's wig.


5. The Marriage
Impoverished, but accustomed to a life of luxury and excess, Tom decides to marry an old hag for her fortune. The shabby setting is Marylebone church, which at this time was on the northern fringes of London and well known as a venue for clandestine weddings.
Tom is clearly more interested in the pretty young maid then his one-eyed bride. In the background Sarah Young and her mother are being prevented from entering the church.
Two dogs in the foreground (one of which has lost an eye) present a grotesque parody of the marriage.

6. The Gaming House
Tom, wigless and cursing his fate, has gambled away his second fortune.
The setting is White's Club in Soho. Tom is not the only loser - a dejected highwayman (with pistol and mask protruding from his pocket) sits by the fire, and a nobleman, eager to continue playing, pleads for an advance from a moneylender.
The gamblers are oblivious to the fact that the club is on the point of destruction. Only the two croupiers appear to have noticed the smoke curling in from behind the panelling.

7. The Prison
Tom is now an inmate of the Fleet, London's celebrated debtors' prison. Beside him lies the rejected script of a play he has written in the hope of securing his freedom.
Other prisoners in the cell are trying similarly hopeless schemes. One man has written a treatise on how to pay 'ye Debts of ye Nation', and another is attempting to make 'fools' gold.
Tom, exhibiting the first signs of impending madness, has sunk into despair. The beer-boy harasses him for payment whilst the gaoler demands the settlement of his weekly bill. His wife scolds him for having squandered her fortune.
Sarah Young, who is visiting with her child, has fainted from distress at the scene.


8. The Madhouse
In the concluding scene Tom has descended into madness and is now in Bethlem Hospital or Bedlam as it was known.
He is surrounded by other inmates who are suffering various delusions. These include a tailor, a musician, an astronomer and an archbishop. In the door to one of the cells is a man who thinks he is a king - he is naked and carries a straw crown and sceptre.
Like the real Bedlam, Hogarth's Madhouse is open to the public. Two fashionable ladies have come to observe the poor suffering lunatics as one of the sights of the town.
The ever-faithful Sarah Young sits, weeping, by Tom's side

Little observational study

I think the title speaks for itself on this one.

The wonder web!

If there's one thing you should definitely its cover your class room in wool. Believe me there is a point, we were looking at the fact that something with such little positive space can make use of a lot of negative space.