Considering something like this every day/week what are your thoughts?

Happy Easter! Go watch The Pirates! in cinema in 3D it’s great!

Here’s a photo of the boss on a temporary set.

The Boss at work on his desk

The boss model ‘spose he needs some hands…

Here’s some progress on a model now, like a boss!

I’m working on a few projects at the moment currently a live-action horror film and a few small animations for myself they’re going well with low or no budgets at all.  I’ll post more news as I can.

I’ve dictated this post using Siri on my new iPhone it’s pretty cool,  much faster quicker I can tell you. What else can I say I really want to get into comics now I got hold of some walking dead and detective comics as well as some other graphic novels to get me started I still need to finish Watchman though…

Those who know me know that I love my videogames especially indie games with good gameplay and story something which has been lacking in most mainstream videogames for quite a while Portal and Mass Effects aside, I love TellTale games and can’t wait till their Walking Dead game is released.

Still thinking about redoing this website making a little bit more corporate but a bit more interactive at the same time leave your thoughts and comments below.

Woot keypad arrived

Animation is going slower than i would like, but I’m putting it down to experience.
I’ve learnt that i really need to get a stage and tie down solution for my puppets, I’ve been making them quite quickly and on the cheap too out of aluminium foil and wire. So they’re not as sturdy as a good ball and socket armature and the legs are ever so slightly different lengths, anyway it would really be a great help in this to have a way of securing their feet, alas I have to deal with balancing and dodgy walks for now. A stage will be on my todo list for animation room this year.

So I’m taking my time, been learning the program a bit more it’s really nice and a great upgrade from version 2 (dragon stop motion, also had a name change) I love the tabbed interface, much better than before. So I’ve been playing with the audio editor, lip sync and x-sheets, which are like a spreadsheet of instructions for your animation (kinda like music notation but for animation) didn’t get much experience with them at uni. and they are used everywhere professionally so about time i did it.

Finding the lip sync good, but not as easy as a program I used to use called Papagayo, I used a Modded version tat added some features, improved others after the company stopped supporting it. but it’s still very early days for dragonframe 3 so all could change later on. I was impressed by the speed I recieved a response to a bug report i submitted which acknowledged my bug and said version 3.0.3 will be out soon to fix reported issues

Overall still very impressed with dragonframe, seems so much more powerful and smart than stop motion pro, which retails at a range of prices for various features. I hear SMP v7 is much better than 5 or 6 so haven’t made a good comparison but i did try it in trial, still preferred dragon as it’s mac and pc compatible with the same license and no features docked.

So far i have completed the audio of the animation and i’m quite happy with that, save for one slow down/jutter of the voice in editing and the first 11.5 seconds of the animation, i’m now filming the final scene as it’s the same camera angle and set and will go back to film the bits inbetween afterwards.

Here a shot from the set of my next animation.

Fancy a brew?

Prop making for new animation. PS I still want a coffin coffee table.