Masters Blog

I have a new blog which covers all the course work I am doing on the MSc Animation & Visualisation Course.

http://lillydurrantanimation.blogspot.co.uk/

One of the most enjoyable projects so far was the '48hr Film Project'. This is the finished film I helped out on:

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Time for an update!
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Working for a year and a half on one project can be an exhausting process with many many ups and downs, challenges and triumphs along the way. It was a good moment when I finally sat back in my chair in the edit suite with the final edit of our degree show film 'Krokodi' done!

Here's  a link to the work I did for 'Krokodi': http://krokodi.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Lilly

And here is our short film 'Krokodi':

I learnt so much working on this film and felt I was leaving the Undergraduate course with many 3D Generalist skills, and valuable Director & Production Management experience.

The Degree Show came and went by very quickly! Joanna put together a great website for our class:

http://animation2013.co.uk/

I also did some themed baking for the opening night to celebrate the premiere of our film:

"Burger" cupcakes and "Krokodi" biscuits

A highlight of Degree Show week was going along to a screening of everyone’s films at the local cinema DCA – and all of the films looked and sounded amazing on the big screen!

Something new was tried this year. A few of us took our Degree Show down to London where we showcased our films in the screening room of MPC – Moving Picture Company, and invited local VFX and Animation companies along. We were also grateful to visit The Mill whilst we were in London and get some good feedback on our work.

Back home I finally stopped, read a book or two (that have been waiting patiently on my shelf for a while), watched films and caught up on lack of sleep from over the past few months!

It was great to see everyone again at Graduation :)

During the first part of my Summer I worked with a group of MSc Animation and Visualisation students on their film ‘Roses & Dust’.

Watch 'Roses & Dust' on Vimeo

My role was Character Animator and it was a good opportunity to get back into animating, after not having much chance to do any on ‘Krokodi’. It also gave me a good insight into the Master’s course... which is where I am now! Back at uni, starting the academic year as a MSc Animation and Visualisation student. My goal – to have an animation showreel by the end of the course :D

Observational Drawing

 Just a quick selection from my observational drawing sketchbook - drawn in cafe's and on trains:

Life Drawing Year 4 - Semester 2

4th Year Bake Sale

To raise some extra money to go towards our degree show - I helped organize a bake sale. I done a bit of midnight baking on Monday for Tuesday's sale - 53 cupcakes in total! Vanilla jam swirl cakes, ginger spice cakes and chocolate cakes :)

I went through a lot of icing sugar :p

We set the stall up outside the Art Shop and were open for business from 10am till 3pm. We have lot's of great bakers in our year and we had everything from "glazed" carrot cake to apple and cinnamon tarts to Pac-Man cupcakes! 

A montage made up of Robbie's poster he put together for the sale; Charlie's chocolate cupcakes; Joanna's  Pac-man, panda cupcakes and apple tarts; and my cupcakes

Table set and ready to go!

And I am very pleased to say we raised over £180!!! Thanks to everyone who contributed cakes and biscuits to sell; and a very big thank you to anyone who came along and bought something! Lot's of very happy animator's! :D