Yikes!

Oohh my, I have neglected this little corner of the internet for some time!

I miss writing, and I need to do this more. I hope you are all living life to the mostest and that you haven't missed my waffling too much!

I've been keeping my instagram drawing/painting feed fairly updated, it's probably the quickest easiest outlet at the moment. I've also been selling some animation and art books, to make way for an upcoming move. I hate to part with my books but I can only carry so many.

These last few months have been a whirlwind of excitement and Cat and Moth has been taking over my life, literally! It's sooo much fun working on a short film full-time, if you ever get the opportunity I would grab it by the horns.

Working on Cat and Moth has been a huge learning curve in terms of directing, managing, creating, writing, everything! And it really has got me thinking about ways to write and create stories via film post-C&M. Next, I'd love to be able to produce stories from start to finish in the quickest, dirtiest way possible, which isn't always possible with animation. I was particular inspired to hear about Edgar Wright's story about creating lots of sketches for Beadles Hot Shots, where technically it was meant to be the audience sending in their skits, but there were never enough, so Edgar as an apprentice had to produce a ton of content, unbeknownst to Beadle. I like that phrase, it should be a title for something "Unbeknownst to Beadle", in Italics.

You can check out the whole interview by Adam Buxton here.

I think this quantity of exploration will be an exciting new endeavour. I can't wait to pick up a camera and have a play.

Is there anything you are desperate to try? What's stopping you?

Enough waffling from me today! Hopefully I can make this a more regular occurrence.

Over and Out!

Catch up!

Well quite a lot has happened the last couple of months, so here are my current updates....

Currently I'm concentrating on learning the torso, I hope at some point i can start writing about bits of things again! Cat & Moth is snowballing into production, and it's incredibly exciting!

And I can finally share what I've been working on at MPC:

Whoa!

Wowowiwiwoiiwweee.....

What a month! I started at Studio AKA at the beginning of August, and what an awesome place! My first piece of work is even out already. I had about a week to complete the 50 seconds of animation on me tod, and the director basically let me do what ever I wanted!


And I can't believe I didn't share this either. It was a crazy month. This is probably the first weekend I've been able to catch up on things. Anyway, here is the 2D character test I did for the film Cat & Moth that I'm directing:

Ditto Character Test from India Barnardo on Vimeo.

Hope you are all having a wicked September, Autumn is pretty much here!

Updates!!

Whooaaa there nelly, have I been a busy bee or what?! The last time I posted here was March? Yeesh, time flies.

OKAY soooo, where do I begin?

Firstly, I shall do a new "Bits of Things" post soon, I have neglected the postage terribly, and I've been burrowing away at perfecting heads.

Cat & Moth has really taken off, with the addition of Artella as a crew finding tool, it's been brilliant.

I've been adding all my drawing stuffs to tumblr and instagram as of late, as it seems easier to keep track of! I'd love if you gave me a like or follow over there!

What else.... ooohh I finished Animsquad, my that was awesome, I miss it so, and feel a bit wobbly without the routine! I'll have my shots from there to upload at the end of the month.

And breath, phew, I think that's it. So watch this space, I have some of the head structural stuff as I mentioned, AND a couple of new books to add to the mix that I'm almost done with.

Thanks for putting up with me!

Over and OUT.

Happy (belated) New Year!

Okay, sooo it's way past me being able to say Happy New Year, as February is almost done!

And with that, also is Ballerina and Montreal *sad face*. Ballerina was such an awesome experience, and I've loved living in another part of the world. We move back to Blighty soon, with new adventures afoot. Including unemployment, education, friends and family ;).

I actually can't wait to properly concentrate on Cat and Moth, and my own animations for a while. I've joined up to Animsquad, so I'm looking forward to hopefully digesting what I learnt on Ballerina.

I hope you, in the wide world web, are all staying healthy and happy. And here's to an amazing 2016! BRING IT!

What are your (rather late) aims for the New Year?

Merry Christmas!!!

oooohh my, where has the time gone?!

Okay so firstly, CTN was mega! I got to hang out with Ted Ty (our boss) and Sergio Pablos, he's such an awesome bloke, and daaaamn good. We got to meet Andrew Chesworth, such a lovely guy! Eeeek so many awesome people. A lot of the crew from Ballerina were there too, it was so great to run around with those guys soaking up all the inspiration. It's such a wonderful weekend to meet new people and soak up all that knowledge. I really enjoyed going to the story and storyboarding lectures, they were so insightful. Oh and to top it off, I won a raffle ticket to the Disney screening on the last evening and got to see sneaky peeks of Pickle and Peanut, Zootopia and Moana!

Secondly, Ballerina is coming into the home straight now, I can't believe how fast the last year has gone, I don't want it to end!

Thirdly, I never announced the opening up of the Cat and Moth site! It's finally live and I've been preparing some juicy goodies for any followers. Cat and Moth is also on twitter, facebook and instagram, so please give it a like or follow to follow our progress :D

 

Fourthly, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Worky works

Soooo I haven't really posted an updates for a while on this here main page

I've been super busy with work, a course and various other things I've decided to launch onto my plate this fine 15th year into the 2000's.

So on this page you'll find out more about the project below, Nokia X. It was my first project leading as an animator! It was such an awesome experience, and I really loved working with the team. Much fun was had. We've been working on and off this project since September, and it's nice to finally have it in the public domain.

I've also been hard at work at iAnimate. An online animation school run by Jason Ryan, over in the states. It's superb, I recommend it to all levels. The amount of content and instruction is insane. For example  last night our instructor gave us a 5 hour review, 5 HOURS! Crazy. Well worth the pennies. I've learnt a ton and we're only half way into this block. I'm keeping all my updates here http://indiasplingplong.blogspot.co.uk/p/anim-pops.html

And here's my latest "finished" assignment (nothing's ever finished!)

WS2 Assignment 1 from India Barnardo on Vimeo.

I'm also working on my short film bit by bit, and hopefully will have more stuff to show soon, as I really want to start teasing you people with it! :D. I'm so stoked about it, I just need the time to finish it now. As well as that, i'm trying to learn a bunch of software, more rigging stuff and more drawing and painting. I had compromise on the running and most other social aspects of life. My boyfriend helps me to stay in touch with reality, just about ;).

So yeah, hopefully there will be more updates of lots of fun things soon!

Day 296

Day 198

Wow! I went to a screening today with a Q&A session afterwards with John Lasseter(!) at the BFI Southbank cinema. It was really interesting. We didn't have tickets but they had reserve tickets on a first come first serve basis and we went down there about 3 hours early and ended up with front row tickets. The screened the new Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation short too.





I did some sketching whilst we waited:







I did some other drawing tonight for Cat and Moth, but I'm not going to post it up :D

Oh and the BFI also had Disney 50 on display and had some concept art etc.









And it rained a lot today:



I also did this next 5 shot exercise suggested by an animator from Pixar, Emma Coats. Here is the original photo.

Day 189

Blimey, can't believe it's July already! And it's Friday...again! Crumbs, time is dissolving.

So exciting progression on the Cat, saw some test render's today, for ideas of the overall look of the piece. So we'll see how that translates. Hopefully I can get a big chunk done this weekend.

There was a great article, that I read yesterday, about staying motivated once you reach your goal, here on kennyroy.com . Not sure if you have to be a member to read it or not though.

Also, on the blog, this great short film called Blik. I love the style and the simple yet very effective story telling.

Here is the sound clip for the animation I want to do. It's a good website for a mixture of well known and not so well known films for some inspiration :)

Article on Toy Story shorts.

Some sketches from the day:




pixelovely:

Day 188

Full steam ahead!

Well I really need to knuckle down this evening...

I've got to work out the 11 second club, and do some draw over's on a 3D sculpt of my Cat design. I really need to come up with something by Friday, so I can spend Saturday and Sunday filming reference and drawing thumbnails.

I should also be starting the wand project soon!

Update: so at lunch I came to the conclusion I will never be funnier then dumb and dumber and that film is too close to thunk of a different context. So on to a quote from the man who knew too little, I've never seen it and don't know the context, so it gives me some leverage to thumbnail what I first imagine rather the actors performance.

"time out! I hate to break put of character, uh, but, you cannot shout into a person's ear. It does damage. If yo..you know.. The spitting I don't mind"









Traffic square this morning:



Another kind of HP on the way home:

Day 176

Ordered Super Sculpey this week and decided to start with my Cat character I've been working on. I painted her with Galeria Acrylic:

Some photos from my flat:









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