Google Stop motion Project

A few weeks ago I finished a stop motion animation project for Google, it was a great project to work on and lasted 3 weeks, my role was lead stop motion animator, prop maker and editor of the final film.
This short animated  film is aimed at their Internal Services, to promote Women Engineers and scientists in the workplace.
The animation was of everyday objects in a Jan Svankmajer style, all based around an average Google employee's office desk. Pages of a book were animated as turning themselves, shelves moving up and down and a shoe knitting itself.....
The film hasn't been released yet, but when it is a link will be on this blog for you to look at.
In the mean time here are some photos of myself and a colleague working on the project.......

Ball and socket armature joint test...

This is the Ball and socket Armature that I made last year, it is created from Brass plate and Aluminium rod, cut to size and jointed together, the aim of this project was to make sure I used recycled materials (which I did) and to keep the costs of creating this type of armature as low as possible! This video is a test of the joints it is now fully completed and looking good, I was going to skin this armature, but I think it looks beautiful as it is ..

The completed Armature in all its beauty...

Fluxion

A group project, created in After Effects and Photoshop, my involvement was Storyboards, generation of ideas, animator, test animator and all round helper >_<

My Final Year University Stop motion Film 'The Beautiful Cell'

Here is my 3rd year University film 'The Beautiful Cell' it took around 8 months to complete, everything was lovingly hand made by myself, all the sets, Armatures, props, script, story....... and so on!

Here is my 3rd year University film 'The Beautiful Cell' it took around 8 months to complete, everything was lovingly hand made by myself, all the sets, Armatures, props, script, story....... and so on!

The Incredible Journey The salvage and return of the SS Great Britain

This was a project i worked on in my second year of University, The SS Great Britain " The Incredible journey" I animated a few sequences but here is one of them, the Boat is being pulled underneath the Bristol Suspension bridge and crowds of locals are throwing rose petals down onto the boat .

Flight animation

My first year flight cycle, this was the third attempt at animating it and I am fairly pleased with it, a few things need to be improved the head etc so going to reanimate it this week and also the other cycles that we made, walk , bouncing ball, water balloon etc.

Attack of the cones - Animation tests

Some animation test I made when working on our 2nd year University film "Attack of the cones".

The Beautiful Cell test animation and rejected scenes

Okay, so we know the film has been finished and all but one cannot upload it as one wants to submit it to festivals, however, here is some of the first scenes I animated and then either cut or reshot them a little bit better >_< enjoy!

Stop motion Pull

This was one of the first animations I made at University, in my first year and im still rather proud of it, brings back lots of fond memories! this was also the time I realized that 2D Flash and stop motion animation were my favourite mediums to work in.  >_< as you can see from the video I also discovered the legendary Jan Svankmajer and tried to incorporate his surrealistic head movements into this animation, lots of head rolling indeed!

Animation

A group film "Attack of the cones" my involvement in this film was animator, set creator, cameraman for the live action segments and editor.