Bird on Wire

This is my new animation that I've done in the last few days. As you can see, I've tried a different medium of animation this time; whiteboard animation! It was so much fun! I loved it! Maybe even more than working with the Plasticine models. I think it's because you can do so much more and interact with the work your doing. I can portray emotions more clearly and it looks professional without much effort. This is only a short little animation because I was just sort of having a test to see what I could do! I think for a first go it wasn't too shabby at all. So yeah! Expect to see much more of this sort of work in the future!

The RAF production line continues!

Now that I've got various projects done and out of the way, I thought it was time to start up my model plane making again!

So the dope came out once more to stink up the room and make the hamster high again!

Oh and speaking of the hamster, she decided to go on a little adventure the other day with the aid of my mother. Honestly, you can't get the staff around here anymore. I leave for a few days with Mum in charge of the hamster and she helps it to escape! When I came home I went up to see her only to find her gone! So anyway, after much searching we eventually found her under my bed all cosy in her makeshift nest of shredded bedding material!

So where were we... Oh yeah the plane. Well as you can see, I've applied half of the tissue covering on the fuselage. This took about an hour to do I would say. It looks quite fiddly but it isn't really once you get the hang of it. The plastic cone has been added on the tip of the plane too. I had to do a lot of sanding to get that to fit on!

In case your wondering about the title of this blog I'll explain. It's a big coincidence what with this whole thing about planes but the RAF is actually my initials! Cool or what!

Movie reviews!

I've been away for the past few days hence the reason it went all silent on my blog for a short time but I'm sure you'll all be relieved to hear that I'm back now and haven't fallen off the face of the earth after all. HEY! I heard disappointed groan of yours!

I went to the cinema a couple of times when I was on my little vacation. I went to see the new Disney Pixar film UP and also Fantastic Mr Fox.

There's been a lot of hype about both films; UP especially. I think when films get a lot of hype and positive attention like this they tend to make people go in with higher expectations than they otherwise maybe wouldn't have. I don't know if this was the case with me but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The first half I felt was good with plenty of laughs and gaffs put into it but I found myself actually getting slightly bored during the middle of it. Nevertheless, I thought that all in all it was ok. Not amazing but not terrible either.

Fantastic Mr Fox is of course based on the book of Roald Dahl's. You can definitely feel the crazy vibe of Dahl seeping through the movie! It's wacky, witty and a little bit odd! The film has been done in traditional stop motion which was brilliant and very interesting for me, the budding animator! Personally, I really liked it but I don't think it's for you if you don't like films that are even the tiniest bit kooky.

So there was my attempt at being a movie critic! These are just my thoughts on the films so don't let me put you off if you wanted to see them. Go and have a watch of them and tell me what you thought!

Funnimation strikes again!

You know that animation I was talking about a few weeks ago and said to look out for?! Well it's finally finished! I completed it yesterday and treated my family to a premiere of it last night. This is the first animation I've done to a soundtrack in the backround. It was a bit of a challenge getting it all in sync but it wasn't too bad once you got used to it. The trick is to just keep checking every little section you've done so you can edit it to make it fit. Have to say though, the tune is terribly catchy and I would find myself humming it everytime I had done some which didn't half get on my nerves! Please please let me know what you think of it. It took me ages to do so it would be nice to get some reception on it!

Waving Away!

This is a pastel drawing I did the other week. It's the first time I can remember doing proper work with pastels like this and I really really enjoyed it! I loved the fact that I could really get stuck in with my hands to get all the desired effects. I managed to get it all on my face at the end! I think I subconciously scratched my face forgetting my blue tipped fingers! I don't think I got any in my hair although that would have been pretty cool to have blue streaks in wouldn't it!
To see it better just click on it and it will enlarge for you!

More family (possibly book) characters!

I finished the rest of this family ages ago but I've had so much to show you in the last week or so that they sort of got but on the back shelf! Poor little cartoon characters!

Here I have the Mum, Dad and Grandad. They don't have any names or have a surname yet so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. After all, as the saying goes; two heads are better than one!

I think my favourite one is the Grandad one!

My little pumpkin dude!

A friend gave me a pumpkin that she grew in her allotment the other day! I've never carved a pumpkin before so was pretty eager to try it! In fact, I got straight to work on it as soon as she left!

Had a bit of an accident whilst hollowing it out though! I now have a thumb nail that is sliced in two and a tiny bit of it hanging off! OUCH! It hurts a lot especially when I catch it on something and it pulls the nail even more. When I showed it to my Mum it turned her stomach and she rarely gets squemish... well, that's what she says!!!!!

Regular followers of my blog may be getting a sense of de ja vu right now! No?

I've based the pumpkin on a character I drew a few weeks back. I put on the painted cardboard pieces so it would look even more like the drawing! What do you think?!

Knitted monster's have wooly roars!

Finally finished my knitted monster the other day!!!!! I think it was a few weeks ago that I told you I was going to make one now wasn't it! Well here is the little guy who now takes pride of place on my bed!

I decided to use buttons for the eyes instead of crocheting them on because I don't know how to crochet and it would have taken ages! This is the first thing I've ever done and completed in knitting that wasn't a scarf so I'm feeling quite chuffed with it actually!

Not sure if I'm going to knit another one yet. OH! An idea has just struck me! The poor guy looks a bit lonely all by itself doesn't it. I'll make him a little buddy - quite literally! Well there I go. Off now to make another knitted monster! BYE!

I-AM-A-ROBOT... WITH-DVD'S!

I got these really cool prints yesterday for my room. I spotted them and love them straight away. I don't know why I'm drawn to them so much. Prehaps it's because I love building things and seeing how they work. It's also pretty retro too and I guess a little quirky especially when you think that it's for a 17 year old to have in her room!

It was a bargin too! They were only £3.99! I'm a stickler for finding those bargins out there. Today I went into town to buy some DVD's and got some of the ones I wanted off a market stall for two quid each! I had a good laugh to myself when I went into HMV and found the DVD's I had just bought for more than double the price!

I'm on a quest at the moment to create an awesome DVD collection... well, awesome for me! My collection might be someone's collection nightmare! I seem to be getting a lot of Sci-Fi and action/thriller ones at the moment. If you know of any cracking DVD's that fit those genres then please let me know! Tell me the films that you consider to be the best films ever!

Stick em up!

Hey guys! Do you like my stickered laptop?! These are the moo stickers I was talking to you about a few weeks ago. I had to order another pack of stickers to fill the whole thing so whilst I was waiting for them to come, I had just a border of the stickers round the edges.

I think it looks really cool especially where the dell logo has been cut around. It's unique to me and I bet no one else has the same stickers on their laptop. Actually I would be surprised if they did because a lot of the stickers are actually my own artwork in sticker form!

It took ages to stick on all 138 stickers but it was worth it!

I have to big up MOO here because I messed up my first order so they gave me a voucher for a free pack! This means that I only payed for one pack of stickers and I have two! I would really recommend you go there if you ever feel the need to pimp your laptop like mine!

Got a few stickers left over so just debating on what to sitcker up next! I'm thinking maybe my E-reader because the back is getting rather stratched so the stickers will help protect it.

It's a memory Stig!!!!!

Because of all the artwork and animation that's saved on my laptop, I've been getting quite worried about losing it all of it. Wouldn't that be just be pull out your hair awful?

My Dad encouraged me to get a memory stick as soon as possible. But who wants to get a plain looking memory stick? BORING! So I searched the net for a fun one and found this... A memory STIG!

How cool is that!!

cartoon family!

These are a few characters I've been working on in the last few days. There are a few more to the ones that I'm showing you but I haven't got round to colouring them yet! What do you think? I think that they could make good book characters if I worked on them a bit more!

Bus Stop Antics!

Ok so this is an animation that I made ages ago now but have only just been able to put it into a presentable state. This animation was done before I got better software so it's not the best. For some reason, it won't play very fast at the beginning but then goes to it's normal speed afterwards. This was my second ever animation so it has a lot of flaws but hey! I learnt a lot from it because of all the mistakes I made. I'm in the middle of making another one at the moment so hopefully it should be a bit better than this is!