animation

Dream Animation Stills

Dream Animation Stills, Giles Timms 2008

Some stills from a non-narrative, dream short I am working on. I have been really lucky to work with Ceri Frost, an amazing and inspiring composer.

Hand drawn and Photoshop elements animated in After Effects and Flash.

Flash Game: Idle Animation and Background Painting

Background Painting: Sea, Giles Timms 2008

I’ve almost finished a small flash game project that I’m working on at the UCLA Animation Workshop. It’s inspired by the wonderful games of Amanita Design.

Above is the sea background that I created. It’s a combination of hand drawn and photoshop colored elements.

Below is a link to the flash file that shows the game’s sea animation and the main character along with his idle animation (click on the image :)

Chiodo Studio Visit: Rick O’Brien

I updated my blog to the latest release of wordpress today (version 2.6.3) and was able to add a really cool plugin for NextGen Gallery. NextGen Gallery allows you to implement and organize galleries and albums on a wordpress site like flickr. I really like NextGen’s implementation and it’s easy to install.

Anyway, with the gallery plugin installed I uploaded the second set of photos from our Gnomon Stop Motion class visit to the Chiodo Bros Studio in Burbank. This set of photos focuses on one of their talented artists, Rick O’Brien, and his amazing painterly work. Rick spent a lot of time with us explaining his texturing and painting methods and concepts – it was great :)

To look at more of Rick’s work, visit his Monument Project and Blog.

Chiodo Bros. Studio Visit, Stephen Chiodo

This weekend, as part of the Gnomon stopmotion class we went to visit the Chiodo Bros. Studio in Burbank. It was amazing :) Here are the first series of photos from the trip. To see our class project, visit our stop motion wordpress blog.