Portfolio

I would like to make a portfolio tailored to puppet making, model making and stop motion animation.
Unfortunately, I only have 4 images that I am proud of to put in a portfolio so far, as I have only done one module for the skill I intend to continue with.

Because of this, I intend to spend third year making more models, developing my set building skills and improving on stop motion to get a decent portfolio of work for when I finish my degree.

Second year showreel

Pop-Up Show.

On Friday, we had a test screening of our applied animation projects. This was to get feedback on our animations and prepare us for the Pop-up show that our course will be putting on hopefully.

For the Pop-up show, I want to finish my food documentary animation and have that edited and ready to show people, and if we have to show other work we have done in this show too, I will include my E4 and Shark idents and the robot dance from last year, as well as maybe my Pirate moom for character and narrative from this year.

Social Media Presence.

This year, I have been using social media a lot more to promote my work and show the world what I am doing. I was always posting my animations on youtube, but this year I have expanded to using twitter more to inform people of new videos I've put up.

I have also found that instagram can be a great way to promote my work and get a wider audience interested in it. I have been posting updates of my Applied Animation project on instagram throughout the making and animating stages, and the ability to hashtag animation, stop motion and puppets has meant that my work is reaching people specifically interested in those topics and as a result, more people interested in the industry have been liking my posts and following me on instagram. When my applied animation project is finished and on youtube, I will post links so that people will be able to watch it who have seen all the behind the scenes photos already.

Instagram is also great for finding other people doing similar work and wanting to do similar things with stop motion puppets which is giving me more ideas for how to improve what I am doing, and also creating a little bit of competition which will inspire me to work harder.

Putting hair on puppets

This video was very interesting and taught me a very good technique for putting hair onto puppets. It looks quite fiddly and confusing but it is definitely something I want to try out.

I am finding these Kool Koala Productions videos very useful and I will continue to use them in my future endeavours into the puppet making world.

Kool Koala making puppets

For my independent study task I have been researching different ways to make stop motion puppets and this seems to be the cheapest but most effective way to create puppets in a professional way. 

These videos are really helpful and interesting, as they show in detail how they make the puppets, tell you what materials they use and how much they cost. I will definitely be trying these out next year. 

The third video gave me some really good ideas for suspending the wire armatures which I wish I had thought of while making my armatures for applied animation.