Lego Rodents!

Me and John wandered over to the Lego workshop at Waterstones a few days ago, and hours of slowly nudging Lego blocks culminated in this -



I edited this at home with Pinnacle Studio rather than in uni on Premier, which had it's ups and downs. Knowing how to use Pinnacle Studio, where everything is and what all the little icons do, is obviously very helpful, but I'm sure that I'll figure Premier out given time. It would have been a lot quicker to edit (and possibly have made a smoother looking movie) on Premier, as Pinnacle doesn't have the handy little function where you can tell it that a series of photos are meant to be played as one continuous chunk, so I had to drag and drop each photo in and then shorten it...which took some time!

No mice were harmed in the making of this movie. However, I almost tripped up a small child.

Whiteboard Animation

Here's a compilation of everyone's animations, I think the one I worked on is about the 9th one on there. It's the one where the box morphs into a little fat alien, wiggles about a bit, then realises he's actually too lazy to walk, so sends out a call to his extra-terrestrial buddies and gets them to beam him up and over the tree.
This was a lot of fun to do, and has made me appreciate the hard work that goes into animation even more (I'm sure Disney have never resorted to conveniently placed UFOs to transport their characters about)! I'd love to give this another go with more time on my hands, it's really satisfying to see characters you've drawn actually moving around.

Pinhole Cameras

Alright! I'm Kez, and this is my first blog post, which I guess is quite an historical occasion...

Anyway, here's the photo I took with my Guinness can camera -

Embarrassingly enough, this was actually my best attempt. The first was just a blank piece of paper with a little black smudge, and the second was a kind of big grey smudge with little white speckles. The object in this photo was actually a pretty modern looking bike stand, but here it looks like some kind of giant, ethereal floating sausage. Interesting fact - The little spots and smudges all over it were caused by my own grubby little fingers and the final dregs of Guinness lurking at the bottom of the can!