personal development plans

Hehee

Just to get all you peoples jealous... I be writing this of my boyfriends iPad! Which I'll probably be using more than him... Mwahahaaaa!

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26 May 2010

Philips

Another one you guys may appreciate. I saw an explanation of this advert in the Metro - under the D&AD section and defo wanted to check it out when I got home. Again, insanely brilliant.

And I'm sure you'll now want to watch, the making of.....

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24 May 2010

Even though I am against Nike (I work for adidas) this advert really blew me away. The amount of effort, thought and work that went into creating it is insane. The whole idea behind the advert is about what goes on through players minds when they play football. Will they be a hero in their country or bring mass devastation. There has been a huge buildup to this very long advert, and its finally released. The big problem however, is that one of the players that is featured, Ronaldinho , is not playing in the World Cup anymore. Like it says on the Creative Review website, that makes the advert seem HUGELY out of date immediately. Big companies like this obviously plan months and months in advance for an advert of such size, but this is an example when forward planning is not a good idea!

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22 May 2010

one for the retro gamers

apparently it's the 30th anniversary of the release of the original pacman game. if you go to google's main page today, you'll see a playable version of pacman in place of their usual google banner:

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18 May 2010

infographics revisited

i just stumbled across this on the intarwebs. a cross between an infographic and a stop-frame animation. i hate to think how long this took to make!

EDIT: i've just discovered there's a whole series of these animations. you can find them here. i love 'em!

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THURSDAY AND FRIDAY SESSIONS

How-do folks.

Just been chatting with Alex and she says we all need to be in Thursday and Friday mornings to find out important stuff about the interactivity of this brief.

See you there blog monkeys.

Much love

x

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16 May 2010

This is crazy, pure clever. By a dude called Doug Cunningham, who has taken an album and animated to it, with pure surrealism and some clever ideas and at times a complete leave of reality! I really like the soundtrack and the use of different styles (old hip hop characters) on collage type backgrounds and embedded films. Really cool, you need 45 minutes of pure concentration to give it justice and need to watch it a few times to really appreciate it, but definitely worth a watch. Be warned it has the marmite effect but I am a fan!

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14 May 2010

Brilliant animation

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No more MMU sessions

Just for those of you who didn't turn up to this weeks MMU lecture (all of you!), we have now finished our lectures at MMU.

"But Robert, according to my chart we have a speaker coming in from Factory Records next week...."

Oh yeah? ....well, in what felt like a disappointing repetition of last weeks general election we had a vote. Either we come in for the guest talk from Mr. Factory Records....or we stay home and get on with our assignments for Mike (which in translation = skyve). Of course I was screwed over again by my fellow students and I was one of only three people who voted to have the guest. Cheers.

So that's it....bye bye MMU.

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Team logo

Me and Karl for obvious reasons, decided to call our team........."Northern Monkeys" and this is my idea for a team logo! what do you think?

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13 May 2010

Light Night

First of all - has anyone elses Blogger change? How do you add photo's now? Hugely appreciate feedback about this...

Back to the blog, check out www.culture.org.uk and have a little look at the Light Night evening. Its being held tomorrow in Liverpool. Its where Liverpool opens up after hours and has a mix of art, performances, music, shopping and culture.

Really seems exciting. You may want to pop down.

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9 May 2010

Liam Spencer review

The other day I came across this artist, and hiswork really impressed me.

Liam Spencer was born in Burnley (UK) in 1964.

He studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating in 19

86. After living and working in Manchester for many years, he came to public attention in 2000, with an exhibition "Urban Panoramas" at the newly opened Lowry arts centre in Salford.

When I first saw his work I just couldn't believe that they were oil paintings. His work is based in paintings of cities, mostly by night.

In my point of view, they are photographs perfectly converted into paintings. I find so interesting the way he didn't miss a detail, i.e. car lights, traffic lights, the wet floor of the street,the colours... It is just unbelievably well done.

He has done paintings of many different cities, including Manchester, New York, China, London and Istanbul.

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6 May 2010

Twisted Nerve

I was a bit irritated about todays lecture with Richard Haynes, not regarding the guest himself because I found his talk very interesting and actually quite scary in way...because of how someone with skills like his could be out of work. In particular I found his point about the difference in frame rates at Cosgrove Hall and Aardman quite amazing....

....but I was irritated. Each pathway has had a guess speaker come in and talk about the different challenges they've faced over the years.....Animator, Photographer, Jeweller (took place at Northenden apparently), Graphics....and todays final speaker was a New Media Designer. Or rather....it was meant to be. It wasn't though....it was another animator.

I know that animation is a part of my pathway but this speaker was mainly concerned with animation using plasticine and models....not new media.
Still, I suppose this assignment for Mike will give some idea of the tribulations of a new media designer when I delve in there myself....but it would have been nice to have a guest speaker.

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5 May 2010

Review Richard Haynes, today's speaker.

Richard Haynes 05/05/10

Richard Haynes is an animator and illustrator who mainly works in stop-motion animation.
He has always been passionate about drawing and acting, so he thought animation was perfect for him. He did Art in A-levels, and a Foundation Course where he produced a live action film at the end, which helped him helped him entering the Degree course he was applying for: Arts Institute at Bournemouth. There, he specialised in traditional drawn animation (stop-motion). At the end of the Degree he did a final film called The Typewriter - which couldn’t be longer than two minutes.
Richard showed us the rough animation he did on Christmas 2002 and then we saw the final one, made in June 2003.
He sent the film to the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and thanks to that he is working in the industry, as he met a producer from Cosgrove Hall.
He told us that the producer liked him because of his way of presenting himself, he pointed the fact that this job it’s all about meeting people.
Cosgrove Hall proposed him to do model animation, which was a challenge for him. He did little animations for kids called: Little Robots. Richard told us that every tiny model cost thousands of pounds!
He worked for them for five years. Now, Cosgrove hall has closed, because of the recession.

Recently he’s been working in Aardman Studios, where he has been working in Shaun the Sheep for 8 months.
Richard said that with Aardman everything was very different because when the contract ended, he knew he had to go find another job.

He showed us some of his showreels, which contained a lot of model animation, such as Shaun the Sheep, The postman Pat, Little Robots, Squidge and the Hardnuts (computer and model animation), etc.
I asked him if he had ever created the puppets, but he said that his work is just focused in acting and performance.

Haynes told us that what he likes about stop-motion animation is its believability, the fact that the characters actually exist, and children love that. So do I!

Mike asked him if he thinks Manchester is a good place for animation development, and Richard said that Manchester has been fantastic for him and that it has a good future in animation. He also said that in the BBC there’s a lot of animation going on.

I enjoyed very much this talk, Richard was very enthusiastic and you could tell he love his job.
I am not sure if I am going to do animation in the future, but this talk made me think of an animation technique I’ve never thought before: model animation, and the fact that you don’t need to be good at drawing to do that.

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4 May 2010

Noise festival get invovled

At the weekend I thought it might be time to go through the degree work and sort it, and I came across this postcard advertising the Noise festival.

Heres a little about it:

NOISE Global Creative Community.

NOISE is a global creative community, offering emerging artists their own online galleries to showcase their talents, as well as opportunities to have their work viewed by industry leaders across many disciplines.

NOISE offers a space for artists to shape their own online creative communities, building support networks, and exposing artists to like-minded creatives from around the corner or around the world. NOISE recognises and rewards outstanding talent across many fields of creative endeavour, so NOISE artists benefit from the feedback of their peers and industry professionals.

I don't know if there is an age limit as it says young emerging artists, and on the postcard says 25 and under

anyway its good place to get noticed and its world wide.

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la liga - otra vez

sara has threatened me with a UEFA enquiry, if i dinnae update the league table immediately to reflect the fact she wrote TWO reviews last month and not one. so here ya go:

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3 May 2010

Creative Boom Liverpool

Hi guys,

Today I became the Editor of Liverpool Social Boom! Hooray. I am very excited about building the site and making Liverpool a much better city to network in.

http://www.creativeboom.co.uk/liverpool/contributors/

We do advertising on the website. The Creative Boom main website gets over 225,000 hits a month!!! The Liverpool hub is quite recent and so its my goal to make it huge. There are hubs for cities all over the uk, including Birmgingham, Manchester, Cardiff etc.

I would love if you guys could attend the next Social Boom. I know a lot of you have joined the group, for those who havent please do;

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114862175214553

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Doritos Ad

Like Rob said below, I also decided to create an advert the evening before the deadline. I filmed Thursday eve for an hour and then edited on Friday. At 11.45am we discovered that the deadline was lunch but I finished the edit anyway for my own portfolio. Only a quick little thing but was very fun to make;

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league table

hi folks. it's that time of the month again:

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2 May 2010

Doritos King of Ads

Well....if you were in on friday then you probably saw mine and Kitty's gutted faces when we found out that the deadline for the competition was at midday and not midnight as I could have sworn (in fact...I did swear) that i'd seen when I read the brief...twice!

So as you've probably gathered I missed the deadline, I would easily have been on track to submit for midnight but it turns out that when I got home the internet connection was down so I wouldn't have been able to submit it anyhoos.

Even though I didn't get to submit it, this quick project was fun and it has been a bit of stepping stone as it made me test my time planning skills. It's been a confidence booster.

Doritos 'King of Ads' 2010 - unsubmitted piece from Robert Shaw on Vimeo.

After our infographics presentation on Thursday I made my video public on my vimeo account, I couldn't believe it when I logged on today to find that it has already recieved over 3,500 views! ....bonkers!

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1 May 2010

Virgin Media Shorts

My fellow bloggers, I know there was some buzz about a comp brief to create a advert but for those who missed out I found out there is a new brief for those passionate media seekers.

Virgin has launched a comp (supported by the uk films council) to find the next best thing since slice bread.

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/

the deadline 28th June so theres loads of time to correct and work on this brief.

Here's what's up for grabs:
12 film makers win a chance to show their work on 214 cinema screens nationwide
1 lucky winner lands £30,000 to make their next film.
1 People's Choice winner takes home thousands of pounds worth of new film kit.
Plus, we reward the college or school with the most entrants with loads of shiny new kit, too.

So enjoy...

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MAPS in the Northern Quarter this weekend

Alright blog rats.

Just a quick heads up for any of you kids wandering what mischief to get in to this weekend.

MAPS is a music and art festival going on in various venues in the N.Q. right now!!!

Here's their artwork.....

And here's some stuff about them....

I went down last year and it was pretty good, loads of new music and artworks and general merriment.

Here's the website....

http://www.myspace.com/mapsfestival

So if you're sat at home twiddling your thumbs and watching repeats of Friends on E4 and wandering what's going wrong with your life STOP NOW!! and get into town.

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