A wellyboot of animated happenings

A friend of mine is soon to release an EP (exciting!) and has asked me to come up with an album cover! I'm at the beginning of the process, so I'm just about coming to grips with the massive amount of responsibility that's been given to me.  As a massive music fan, over the years certain album covers have come to define the music itself. (T.Rex Live in Concert 1993; David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust; every Led Zep album; Pearl Jam, Ten; Funkadelic, Maggot Brain; Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction; Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon; Foos, Santana, Blur, Stone Roses jOY DIVISION STEVIE NICKS AC/D- okay the list is quite endless.  The (allegedly) cold, hard truth is that the album cover has to reflect the songs perfectly. So after a good week of listening to nothing but the wonderful Will Dunn's unfinished EP, I felt brave enough to begin coming up with ideas.  When in doubt - run to collage. That's my motto. So I did. Results

The Destination of Leavers Survey is a national survey that is sent out to all the people that left university. The aim is to find out what they've been up to since leaving and how the university helped set them up in their desired field. I'm making a short video for the FXU at Falmouth university to promote this survey! From a professional design perspective, this has to be informative and relay the strong importance of people completing it. I've opted for a simple paper background, nought' too fancy. Simple graphics in cool teal/green will aid the visuals for each point that's made. I also mashed up various parts of the Falmouth and Penryn campus to create a single building representative and recognisable as the whole of Falmouth University. It's set to be 20 seconds long (although I reckon the information they want told will stretch it out to at least double that time.)  It's been great to work with the FXU to make this video! I hope to wor

So I'm working on storyboards for Dino Diner! It's a third year animated short about a failing chef who owns a diner. "But Amy, WHERE COULD THIS STORY POSSIBLY GO?" Don't worry, I hear your cries. Sadly you'll just have to wait and see. Here I've given a harmless sneaky peak at some of the storyboards. Dino Diner is to be made in 3D. I'm an unnatural 3D'er and the mere thought of Maya sadly sends my brain into turmoil. Still, visualising these shots doesn't seem to be too different to 2D. There's a whole 3D space to consider, but that is as it should be in a 2D storyboarding anyway.  Excited to see where this goes!

To begin tying in roman baths with 1950's textile design, I've taken some my recreated designs of Lucienne Day's work and taken them into photoshop to play around with how they might sit in a background design. In my opinion, the mix of roman/greek style baths and these deigns work well together as they seem to compliment each other. There's a sense of growth and delicacy about the designs that seem natural on top of the buildings in these mock ups.   Below, I used colour schemes with less distractions such as colour. By using simple tones of the same colour, it brings out the beauty of the building and the pattern. They stand out as effective concept pieces, as well as pretty lil pieces of art.

   The wonderful woman you see above you is prominent 1950's textile designer Lucienne Day. I've been researching 1950's textile design to use as a style influence for Falmouth University's Animation and VFX second year Pre-production module.  When I was first assigned textile design, I wasn't expecting to enjoy it. A classic example of just how wrong I tend to be. Upon finding Lucienne Day, I fell in LOVE. Her patterns are abstract and fresh, with perfect colour combinations and inspiration taken from growth and nature. In order to better understand her style, I gave it a go myself! I focussed on colour and form. Whilst drawing, I recognised a lot of similar traits in her work to mine. Some of her pieces had an odd slant to them, a kook or kink in the line-work that settles her pieces firmly into the abstract genre. There's also a strong sense of balance and composition that she's clearly taken into consideration.  As I am to match thi