Inspired by the gaming industry

                                                                      The Last of Us.

I had always been put off by the idea of working in the game industry for some reason, maybe its because i felt that games are a bit limiting with the things that you can put into them, whereas there are not as many limits with film. But after coming across this game and playing it my mind has defiantly been changed.

A game set in a time after the human race has been devastated by an infection and when nature has reclaimed back the cities and habitats of humanity. This game is very brutal at times and has a very standard story line when it comes to the theme of an infection overtaking. But I don't think it matters because the way this game is made in terms of the look and game play is truly amazing.

The main thing about this game that really has changed my perception of the game industry is the attention to detail in this game and the beautiful look of it. Environment design and concept art has always been a big interest of mine. Playing this game and watching this video has inspired me even more to pursue my love for art in a future career.

It truly is a beautiful looking game and weather your a gamer or not i highly recommend that you play this game to just see how well it has been done and why the game industry is getting bigger and bigger.

Student Ambassador Film

Within the first few months of being a student ambassador and an animation student me and the rest of the ambassadors on the animation course were approached with the task of creating a short video to explain and advertise what a student ambassador is and all of the things that come with being an ambassador. The brief was to mention specific things and that it had to be suitable for the university website. other than these small restrictions we were allowed to do what we wanted with it. Me, Tony Walker, Matteo Veglia and James Rowden who did the sound all worked together on this film along side are course work. we treated it professionally and went through the whole process of starting with meetings to get initial ideas from everyone, a short story board, a plan of how and when we would shoot each piece of animation/film and what was possible in the time given. we all had are individual strengths but as this was are first project together like this we all decided to chip in with whatever we could as we all had lectures and things going on at different times.

It proved hard to focus on this short film and get what we initially wanted to do done, as other work got in the way but all in all i felt that we worked well together as a team and i certainly learnt allot from this team project and got to work with some talented people on my course and people from outside the university such as Lee Bickerstaff who worked on the sound.

Looking back on it i feel like there was allot more we could have done with it and it could have looked better but for a first team work based project that we were being payed for we and the university were pleased with it so i was happy with it.

Check out the finished video on the falmouth university website here http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/becoming-a-student-ambassador   or below.

portraiture

Drawing portraits has always been something that i have really enjoyed doing since i first started doing art and I'm not sure why, maybe because i feel that i can get allot of emotion across in a portraits more than that in a landscape painting and so on. I still find it odd how popular portraits are considering we see peoples faces every day are of are lives and still find it pleasing to look at a piece of art that is of someones face. maybe its because it is something we all recognize easily and after all it is how we get are emotions across to each other. so i started doing a lot of portrait drawings mainly going for a realistic style just with pencil. First it started as just a hobby but eventually came to a stage where people paid me to do portraits.


Here is a selection of portraits, drawing and paintings that i have done in the past and recently.

 My first attempt at doing an animal portrait, and surprisingly i found it easier to draw an animals face.

 This portrait was done using nothing but a blue biro pen.

acrylic painting on canvas

this was done very quickly using acrylic paint on an old peace of cardboard.

This painting was done again using acrylic on a canvas board, but this time i tried to make it as realistic as i could using a photo for reference. 

End of first year at university

So its all over, my first year of university at Falmouth university is done and i can safely say it has been an amazing experience i have learnt so much, got to live in beautiful Cornwall, met some amazingly talented people and great friends. This past year has gone so fast but so much has changed and i have done so much. The course its self has been more than i expected, it was a very full on year with allot of work but it has taught me so much and i now have a clearer idea of what i want to do in the future as a career. I could talk for hours about what i have done and how great it has been. But i am just going to say it has been an amazing experience and i look forward to my second year as a student at Falmouth University.

Ident

The brief here was to create a 6-10 second ident for Falmouth University animation, this was a very small project and could be anything you liked as long as it incorporated animation some how. Because of so many other project at the same time i didn't have the time to spend on this that i would have liked, none the less i was happy with the final outcome. I chose to go for a more subtle approach and was inspired by silhouette art and the game Limbo ..

It Happened at sea

Here is the short sea tales film that myself, Matteo Veglia, Tony Walker and Ben Wdl have been working on for the last semester. It isn't finished yet but we are happy with the outcome. we have all put a tremendous amount of work into it and are looking forward to finishing it off. I have really enjoyed working with these guys on this project and feel that it was very successful and will look good when its finished :)

3D sculpting and texturing

This Project we had to model a close up of an environment using Maya and then putting that model into Mudbox to put extra detail in and texture it to make it look realistic. I really loved doing this project and when i got the hang of using the two pieces of software i didn't find it to hard to create what i wanted. However i do feel that my final model didn't look as well as i had hoped but all in all i was relatively happy with it and this is definitely something i would like to do more of in the future.