The routine humours the flood

Today was a rough day on me, and I handled it poorly.

I looked it up and apparently it's interpreted as stress and fear of not being able to control things going on in your life.

I'm no poetry lover, but I love T.S. Eliot.

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To be honest I'm not sure if this is stop motion, some parts kind of look like 3D, but either way it's pretty awesome. I love the part near the end where he's dragging himself with a fork on a beach.

I think I'm going to start a stop motion blog to post all my animations and inspiring pieces like this on, I'm not sure if there is anyone still following this journal that's all that interested in stop motion or animation in general and really lately that's all I've been doing.

Stop motion is very exciting for me right now, I finally feel like there's actually a place for me in the animation world, it's even gotten me excited about classical and 3D animation where before I just found it all very depressing. I have so much to learn though, I was snooping through work done by people a year ahead of me and it was mind blowing. Some people just really get it, and it's intimidating...but I think I enjoy stop motion enough that even though I might not be amazing at it, I really want to try and work to be better. I'm really grateful that we have a wonderful teacher like Chris Walsh here to support and encourage us, he's so passionate about the medium and it's really inspiring.

Anyways, I could blather about this forever.

Great timing!

Today in lecture we had someone from the stop motion industry come in to talk to us about the stop motion biz etc... After being pushed by friends I got up a enough courage to approach him and after making a fool of myself I mentioned that I had just finished a 24 hour stop motion film, and he asked if he could see it!

I'm sure he's just being nice and supporting little iddy biddy student egos, but I'm so excited that someone who worked on Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox is going to look at my silly little film!

I'm also nervous and anxious because it's really amateur and I'm not sure what he's expecting...but still! STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!!
I just sent it to him about 30 minutes ago. So exciting and nerve wracking!

And now, to bed!

My first stop motion short!



I took part in a 24 hour film challenge at school, so this is what it is.
Puppet, set, lighting and animation by me.

The song playing is "continue" from the video game Ico, beautiful soundtrack.

Also it's pretty obvious that I used a trail version of stop motion pro, sorry about the water mark, I just don't have an extra 280 bucks kicking around to buy the program right now :]

Hope you enjoy!

Man this place is becoming a graveyard, between school and my laziness I wonder if I'll ever get more comics up. Plus my computer keeps getting devoured by viruses...must stop downloading teh porns.

I have been doing some stop motion lately, so I'll probably post some of that within the next week (yay it's reading week!!), but until then have some dancing batman, because one can never get enough.

So, one of my teachers posted this music video a friend of his worked on, and I started to think that I might do my fourth year film in stop motion.



I don't know what it was about the video but I had one of those rare clear moments where somewhere in my brain I heard myself say "I think this is something I could do".
It's the first time I've felt excited for fourth year so I'm going to hang onto it as tight as I can.

...just need to survive the third year group film first :B

Comics will come when I can make them, I wanted to post stuff from Poland but I haven't touched my journal since I got back. It's 24 days worth of stuff, I don't really want to draw 24 comics right now.

I always think of my brother when I listen to or play earthbound, we played it non-stop when we were younger. I think he's mostly forgotten about that though :P