I know what I said....

Screw you! :P

I'll start making frequent posts from now on (I am talking weekly or whatever...) Anyway! alot has happened since my last post, not suprising really considering the gap. Mostly good rather than bad.

Anyway in my last post I mentioned the BBC project that has been on the BBC Norfolk website. Anyway the animations have recently been shown on the "Big Screen" in Chapelfield and I was one of the few animators interviewed by Stephen Bumphrey of BBC Radio Norfolk. Well I say interviewed.... I did less talking than everyone else lol!

Also I was doing a competition brief involving a rat in the city (it was in my last post) well I started of ok with the project but then it just got less interesting and I had to stop. Although I still need to finish a storyboard and make that into an animatic by the assesment... not long now :S.

And now I am working on my self initiated project. It is a chance to do whatever you want, with in reason of course. Some not even doing an animation or animation related stuff! I am creating small bits and pieces for next year's all year project, mainly because I already have an idea plus I wanted to try the technique; Rotoscoping Rotoscoping (check it on wikipedia)... which I gotta say is a bit of a bitch. But looks good even though I only drew it rough.



As for personel life, well I gotta say nothing's really jumped out, but three friends and I have decided to move into the city so we're closer to Uni, etc. We found a really nice one thats only like 4 minutes away from the Uni and 2 from the city centre and 3 from my mother funking comic shop!!!! ok calm down.... Anyway we obviously agreed to nab it and we are just waiting to get back to them. Unfortunatley they dont work at weekends and its Mayday on monday so we wont be able to put the deposit down until Tuesday... which sucks balls... but at least this way no one else could grab before us anyway and once we've done that we get to move in at about late July.

So I am gonna be very careful with my money although I am ok anyway so I am just going to work shit loads over the summer and (although I didnt want to) get a job in Norwich. But any big things I wanna get... better get them now when I have money (and of course I have a birthday coming up!) I dont mean I am gonna by a lorrie load, I am just saying... well I do want a PS3 :D

Well anyway gotta dash lots of work to do... about 2 weeks to go... gulp!


Oh and before I leave got a Bloody fantastic artbook just come in the post today... took bloody ages to get here though...

BBC Project Finishedey!

Ok I REALLY will try to keep a weekly blog... I will...


Anyway Been a while since my last post as I finished the project I started in the previous post. In fact the Animation is up on the BBC Norfolk Website. So thats good news me thinks :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8527000/8527133.stm

Well alot has happened since my last entry, so much I really can't remember.... sorry. What do we think of the remaking of films, huh? I saw the Wolfman about a week ago and seemed really good (obviously that was loosely based on the 50's film of the same name) films like these I feel need to be made as some films are just too old. Now I am not talking about say a remake of Dukes of Hazard.... That was a terrible idea. I mean films as old as say King Kong, now that did need a remake. There are also rumours of a Creature from the Black Lagoon remake. Which is why I went on Play.com and bought myself the DVD for £2 (aswell as the original Wolfman, dunno thought I'd try it) but after that I have suddenly become hooked with Play.com. What's the point in HMV anymore, huh? Anyway I went bonkers and bought those two DVDs aswell as Hot Fuzz, Clash of the titans (also been remade, and looks awesome), Ghost in the shell 3, The complete Tintin (which is 10 discs) and I payed just under, thats right under £20! What the hell! Screw you HMV!!!

Anyway in other news, I got my Cintiq screen. And it seems really easy to get ued to. If you want to see any of the drawings I have used my Cintiq on check them out on my Flikr or Deviant Art account, however they are only cintiq coloured not drawn. But it still doesnt seem that hard as I am creating a webcomic using all Cintiq made illustrations, I mean something small like just a one page comic at a time designed for the net, hopefully the first issue will be up real soon.... Unlike Smith!

Right better be off I am working on a new project involving this little fella, have a good one ;)

Hey... Sorry I'm late!

First Blog of 2010! What a huge gap. But hopefully I will be making it a sort of regular thing from now on...

Anyway I am just sitting here having a break from work and watching Being Human. I probably shouldnt since my tutor and the person from the BBC want to see our work so far tomorrow at 2pm and I only have a sketchbook of some sketches and about a page and a half of storyboarding and they want a complete storyboard, Mood board (which shouldnt be too hard) and a line test by Thursday! HOW AM I GONNA DO THIS! Oh well I like to think I always pull through.

The Project for the BBC is about "Objects" and how important a certain item is in history. I am creating an animation on the Stone Mason's Mallet (partly due to my father being a Stone Mason) and the animation involves a stone mason from the 16th century working on a sculpture and as he works on it time passes and he changes from a 16th century man to an 18th century man and then finally a modern man and finishing the sculpture of an angel. And all the way through this each man uses the exact same wooden Mallet. This is because even today Stone Masons still use that same tool they have used for thousands of years. Hopefully this animation highlights that the tool is still important today and has created important buildings and sculptures for a very long time.

Also I will be investing in a certain product which should help with my work... alot! A Wacom Cintiq screen. Something that allow me to do which I could never do with a Graphics Tablet :D

HOLY CRAP!

Its the 22nd and I have bought one present..... ONE!

I better get on this.... only three days til Christmas :S

Debi Mae West Animation

Debi Mae West Lip Sync
Originally uploaded by BENECILIN

Just put my favourite Animation I created on Flickr. It's a 2D drawn Lip sync to the glamorous voice of Debi Mae West.... Just throwin' that out there.... I'm done....

FIRST EVER BLOG!

That's right it's my first ever blog.... not sure what to write really but here I am!

It is the start of my first week of my Christmas holidays as I just finished my first term of the second year studying Animation at the Norwich University college of the Arts. And I have SO much Christmas shopping to do... I haven't even thought of what to get people, let alone buying anything yet. I am only just starting to get in the Christmas mood as I just heard on the radio that we only have TWO weeks! I know. Anyway so I stuffed so much Christmas music into iTunes and of course into my iPod and forced the music down my ears and told myself IT'S CHRISTMAS!.... Its sunk in I think. I am gonna start shopping tomorrow so.... the 15th, But still I have absolutely no idea what to get. We'll just see how it goes.

Anyway on a side note, like it says on this blog I am an Animation Student and if you want to see any of my work I am on...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benecilin/

http://benecilin.deviantart.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/BENECILIN


And I am also social networking....

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=577351562&ref=profile

Anyway til next time ;)