tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60773548862693327262024-02-18T18:47:23.053-08:00Matthew WoodAnimator and Visual Effects ArtistMatthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-59192233329206879132013-07-03T11:05:00.001-07:002013-07-15T06:25:58.141-07:00ThatMovingThing 05 - Cosmic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The fifth installment (my third) of a tag competition/collaboration (collabetition?) - found here:</div>
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thatmovingthing.tumblr.com<br />
in which myself matthewood.co.uk and Rosie Roche rosieroche.co.uk do... friendly battle on the fertile grounds of motion graphics, each using the last frame of the previous clip as our starting point with a word or phrase as the theme for that round. Check out the tumblr for the other clips and maybe some behind the scenes (I can hear you gasps of amazement from here).</div>
Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-6282656416703180612013-07-03T10:43:00.000-07:002013-07-03T12:52:54.511-07:00ThatMovingThing 02 - Panther<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Panther</b><br />
Black and deep purple. Growls and howls, and some vaguely African patterns… a panther eye!<br />
The first ‘part’ is a Flash animation – I originally drew a sketchy ‘thunder cats’ style shiny laser beam but scaled it back to conform to my more geometric 3D, Cinema 4D again as I’m still loving it’s quick results.<br />
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The third installment (my second) of a tag competition/collaboration (collabetition?) - found here:<br />
thatmovingthing.tumblr.com<br />
in which myself matthewood.co.uk and Rosie Roche rosieroche.co.uk do... friendly battle on the fertile grounds of motion graphics, each using the last frame of the previous clip as our starting point with a word or phrase as the theme for that round. Check out the tumblr for the other clips and maybe some behind the scenes if you're lucky.Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-81212768987874600902013-07-03T10:29:00.002-07:002013-07-03T13:10:03.548-07:00ThatMovingThing 01 - Camera Lucida<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The beginning of a tag competition/collaboration (collabetition?) - found here:<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.thatmovingthing.tumblr.com">www.thatmovingthing.tumblr.com</a><br />
in which myself <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.matthewood.co.uk">www.matthewood.co.uk</a> and Rosie Roche www.rosieroche.co.uk do... friendly battle on the fertile grounds of motion graphics, each using the last frame of the previous clip as our starting point with a word or phrase as the theme for that round.<br />
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50mm Lens Modeled/Animated/Rendered in Cinema4D (my first really attempt with the software... I wish I had given it a shot earlier). Comp and everything else in After Effects CS5.<br />
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Camera Lucida:<br />
Latin "Light Room" as opposed to camera obscura "Dark Room" - so I played with the duality of light and dark while being all together too literal and modelling a camera lens (even though the Camera Lucida device looks nothing like the camera lens I have depicted).<br />
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Also had fun using After Effects' Audio Effects to create the ...'soundscape', the source of which is a series of noises from an old SLR... so I'm all over the shop as far as continuity is concerned.<br />
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<h2>Unnecessary Gif</h2><br />
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The site that's on my business card:<a href="http://www.matthewood.co.uk/"> <i>www.matthewood.co.uk </i></a><br />
That's 'Matthew' and 'Wood' with some frugal overlap - unfortunately the internet saw me cutting corners and has justly punished me by forcing me to include the three 'w's for 'world', 'wide' and 'web' if I type it into and address bar. This is the least piggish of my internet presence piggy backing since I have my own URL, however I did it through google sites so I can't actually do much more than bully the design wizard until it cries and develops a twitch, by which I mean: lets me upload a header.<br />
Blogs that site links to:<br />
<ul><ul><li><i><a href="http://matthew-wood-vfx.blogspot.com/">http://matthew-wood-vfx.blogspot.com/</a></i></li>
</ul></ul>A new blog dedicated to Visual Effects (of the digital variety) as well as including any and all work I do in my third year at university.<br />
<ul><ul><li><i><a href="http://matthew-wood-dev.blogspot.com/%20">http://matthew-wood-dev.blogspot.com/ </a></i></li>
</ul></ul>A blog that will likely suffer from neglect and may well be stapled onto the end of the VFX blog (so thats 'neglect' and abuse really)<br />
<ul><ul><li><a href="http://matthew-wood-animation.blogspot.com/"><i>this one what you is on.</i></a><i> </i></li>
</ul></ul> It's a little be more yellow than all the others, its called 'animation' but really it's full of pretty poor sketches and stuff (but you know that, you're sitting right on it)<br />
The website site also links to my vimeo profile<br />
<ul><ul><li><i><a href="http://vimeo.com/matthewwood">http://vimeo.com/matthewwood</a></i> </li>
</ul></ul>So I'm spreading myself a little too thin and intend to try and include some sort of blog aggregation (even though I'm sure your blog aggregator is doing a fine job of feeding you bits and pieces as they float to the surface). I'll go and see if google sites can handle that.<br />
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A blog inside a blog blogosphere - I just blew your blog... I mean mind.<br />
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(oh my gosh! not even a doodle to accompany all that text, sorry, if I have some time I'll append this with oodles of doodles)Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-64528052775855122882011-03-06T17:23:00.000-08:002011-03-06T17:23:23.326-08:00Web Design.Got a log in your bonnet? (b-log that is!).<br />
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It's been a while since I did any web design, so it’s been fun to customise my blogs, I say ‘customise’ since you’re really just working around an existing structure in a very primitive development area, it’s like solving a rubix cube with four foot long chopsticks (four-foot long, not four foot-long). If anybody knows of a way to code for blogger outside of blogger I’d appreciate a note.<br />
My latest blog designing has been for my (slightly less) latest project. An animation for the Resuscitation Council UK. My banner says it all:<br />
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I’m still in the pitching phase since several ideas are being carried forward from the initial pitch but I’m confident mine will be developed further, not in its current form but I’ll be putting in the man hours this week, expect some posts. In the mean time you can check it out here:<br />
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Where I'll be updating more regularly and posting info.<br />
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Give me a beat blogosphere!<br />
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MattMatthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-11774995247202801822011-02-23T16:36:00.000-08:002011-02-23T16:36:01.908-08:00Roll Up! Roll Up!...your pitched tents......I'm moving you.<br />
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Actually you can stay here if you want but there's going to be a lot more activity over on my new blog<br />
<a href="http://matthew-wood-dev.blogspot.com/">http://matthew-wood-dev.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Which opened with:<br />
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Along with a ramble about indigenous peoples and my trying to find a voice, If You Have Seen A Voice Matching the Description Given Please Return It To...My Larynx along with any artistic raison d'être that may have gathered while it was out on it's own.<br />
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You stay here blogosphere, I'll go get help!Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-82678900850856474732011-02-05T19:14:00.000-08:002011-02-05T19:14:11.149-08:00Toxic Mutant Character DesignWell in the interest of google ranking boosting and just generally making it easier for you to find things based on the post headings I’ll be using more appropriate/descriptive titles for the posts from now on.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is from a small game project (2008) for which I developed some character designs based on rough outlines of individuals working separately, the idea was to bring all the designs together and construct a story and world for them all to exist within, we ended up putting them on a boat full of toxic waste, which enabled us to have a rag tag crew (since the character were quite disparate) and then mutate them to accommodate the more radical characters (the giant "Mindless Killing Thing' (MKT) being one of them). The night before the deadline we realized we needed an intro clip for the DVD; so I wiped this up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">I lost the original images so this is just a record of the character designs, which is the only reason I’m putting them up since the motion design is terrible, though I blame my old computer at the time which never could playback at full frame rate no matter what I did.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I like the captain (he was my character) and the stereo typed kangaroo is pretty fun, and it's nice to see that I've always liked this mustard colour.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hard-a-port Blogosphere!</span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-8373551279862176872011-01-23T13:33:00.000-08:002011-02-05T15:52:24.333-08:00Sovereigns of the Palaeolithic Epoch<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="toctext"><span lang="EN-GB">Made my now almost biannual frivolous purchase recently; I’m a frugal and completely immaterialistic sort of a guy and so I rarely buy anything that I don’t absolutely need or can’t consume (i.e anything that isn’t food) so when I do splurge it’s a small thing that I know I’ll love forever. My last purchase was <a href="http://www.jamesjean.com/blog/B77424/hint-mint">James Jean’s Hint Mint collection</a> which met the criteria quite well in that I love the boxes and can consume the mints (though I have only had a few of the ‘</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Minty Mamba</span>s’, the other two are still sealed (I’m sailing dangerously close to nerdom here). You’ll know I’m a follower of Jean from <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/woodendesigns/index.html">my tribute site (created as part of an assignment)</a> Note: can’t believe I missed a chance to see him in London!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span">Which leads me onto my most recent purchase (since they, along with Doc Hammer, Chri...Jason Public and Jean are on my 'people to see in the flesh before either of us die' list):</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Queens of the Stone Age – Better Living Through Chemistry Music Box!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Get one for yourself here:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.lo-fi-merchandise.com/go/lofi/_dbe,products,4869,l-en.xhtml">http://www.lo-fi-merchandise.com/go/lofi/_dbe,products,4869,l-en.xhtml</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">See it in action here:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/chAWZtLwTac?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">So happy with it (and QOTSA in general) that I started sketching and ended up with this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-du76ZSyWnAj_OG_o4ib5vRxkvhO2Bmp5Iki_4YAGZKx3lgFWmjv_KSCR4Qqw6Q_u7c97O66_Z5yfTihReIky6wMffTLNAB1tlyEmxrQEvtfmPCqa6r8EeTTueUuGuylt8HUsZgbKX0/s1600/005_Blog_QOTSA-MusicBoxYEY_01_5th-23-01-11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-du76ZSyWnAj_OG_o4ib5vRxkvhO2Bmp5Iki_4YAGZKx3lgFWmjv_KSCR4Qqw6Q_u7c97O66_Z5yfTihReIky6wMffTLNAB1tlyEmxrQEvtfmPCqa6r8EeTTueUuGuylt8HUsZgbKX0/s1600/005_Blog_QOTSA-MusicBoxYEY_01_5th-23-01-11.png" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Used images to inject a bit of cool into it. Found them here(s):</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://blog.signalnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/84.jpg">Vinyl image</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://lettreperdue.tumblr.com/post/340660458">Snow Scape</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://digitalartempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tape-previews07-12-09.jpg">Tape</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Realised that I’m showing none of my working on the blog (mathematics teachers everywhere are crying) Here’s the initial sketch:</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Started drawing a fluffy feather jacket thing and bent it a bit to suit a ‘tribute’ to the sex, drugs and sexy drug that is Queens of the Stone Age. Needs to be way more erotic but I wasn’t in the mood to get graphic, so as a terrible threat I might leave some space in the blog for a better more accurate tribute to QOTSA... expect to be turned on!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Open up your arms</span> blogosphere,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">(you get a kiss when I'm happy (just have to work out the single letter symbol for a backhand slap and I'll be able to let you know when I'm unhappy as well))</span></span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-12587001079270099192011-01-16T15:13:00.000-08:002011-10-02T14:32:21.063-07:00Strictly Pastels<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Chalk pastels from a while back.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIim3_6b-2c3rPXBdGwrHv0Wh_W2HNZhkEOJtntlRaSwGlzTKe77LZv75urjcnkdpg1w18FMW2K7mY2_Mr202Uy3DaoDeqvsZkn4va30-jM7R1uF7XhiALNoSOkoVP-q_BmSUM8lwpx8M/s1600/Blog_flamenco-dancer-16-01-11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIim3_6b-2c3rPXBdGwrHv0Wh_W2HNZhkEOJtntlRaSwGlzTKe77LZv75urjcnkdpg1w18FMW2K7mY2_Mr202Uy3DaoDeqvsZkn4va30-jM7R1uF7XhiALNoSOkoVP-q_BmSUM8lwpx8M/s400/Blog_flamenco-dancer-16-01-11.png" width="283" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A not so very long time ago I took a whole bunch of art supplies off someone who wasn’t using them with the intention of doing all the art class stuff that nearly everybody else in the creative arts faculty has done, most of them have even done an art foundation *whooo* – foolishly when in school I studied academic subjects and so have a complete lack of formal training when it comes to art – not that I’ve let it stop me and I’ve brushed up on colour theory, composition and all the ‘learnable’ stuff – I just hadn’t tried any of the practical things, like finger painting. So while I was working at a supermarket I took time to go through my bag of ill gotten supplies and try each of them out. This was my first attempt at chalk pasteling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You extend those lines blogosphere,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Matt</span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-5312770545879921992011-01-15T13:01:00.000-08:002011-01-16T15:33:28.769-08:00Got INK?<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Actually I don’t any more, I just went to check whether it was india or sumi (so that you could be better informed) and found that I’d not put the lid on properly luckily I foresaw this and had it in it’s own little plastic bag within my art bag (small plastic bag that houses every art supply I’ve ever managed to blag, this ink represented my second ever art supply purchase (charcoal being the other)) but I also had the nib in there which is now caked. So it’s anonymous ink for the time being – I’ll head back to the same shop and let you know when I post whatever I create in the future. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlg0qXFVOnn8UKVWbxZZKZwjF5xuOFMY1FvL2mfI-yM-VlddIhW9MZMvb5iE92CdxXgpyu0DlJjYNlGUqV8H0LS5jRrPOg-wLrVQwXLc2bNVAjjFrPLffh22Rww_t5pfQalpSSv6aLNA/s1600/Blog_Hokusai-Eel-Fish-Ink-16-01-11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlg0qXFVOnn8UKVWbxZZKZwjF5xuOFMY1FvL2mfI-yM-VlddIhW9MZMvb5iE92CdxXgpyu0DlJjYNlGUqV8H0LS5jRrPOg-wLrVQwXLc2bNVAjjFrPLffh22Rww_t5pfQalpSSv6aLNA/s1600/Blog_Hokusai-Eel-Fish-Ink-16-01-11.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Over in the real world: I’m going to be looking for some work experience. Preferably in visual effects but I’m open to working in animation. So if you’re in Bristol or London and want to have a hard working slave work experiencer any time between now and the end of easter then please let me know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The only bit worth putting on the world’s wide web is the ‘tongue’ of this monster, that’s how I would have done the entire thing if I’d known how the hell to ink with a nib. Well I do now. So watch out!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stay in scale blogosphere,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">p.s – it’s a fish because I was going to do an octopus (octopus ink!) - so you can see that I’m pretty much just drawing so that I have good puns for the blog post titles – that’s how an artist should work right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">p.p.s - not a great post. I'll do something good tomorrow. Promise.</span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-90369524461596043992011-01-13T10:41:00.000-08:002011-01-16T07:51:52.912-08:00Post Haste!<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Just a quick one – I’m thinking instead of individual sketches just doing a digital oil painting and charting it’s progress, something a bit abstract with a vivid colour that borders on too busy, maybe a bit visceral as well. Wouldn’t post this but I said I’d post every day so here’s a rough layout of colour. Let’s see where this goes...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Matt</span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-38403886030619450432011-01-12T09:12:00.000-08:002011-01-16T07:52:13.339-08:00Ug-me (...like ug-ly)In a strange fit of self-deprecating narcissism I've been all edgy and done an unflattering self portrait. It was a Biro doodle that turned out ok so I scanned it in and then got all self conscious about it before uploading here so I threw some colour and ‘shade’ on it as we all do when we cover our shame before going out in public – so unless you’re a naturist your judgement will go unheeded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorry to any American viewers, those are actually teeth in my mouth, I'm not eating an entire packet of <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/suckorcrunch/">polo mints</a>. The text is the back of the story I drew on (I also wrote the story (aren't I clever?!)</td></tr>
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In other news, you may recall the <a href="http://matthew-wood-animation.blogspot.com/2010/11/paint-01.html">image</a> I posted a while back in which I showed a character I was rigging. Well <a href="http://robfinnmatt.wordpress.com/">we</a> finished* the animation and handed it in (it was an assignment for university) along with a lovely production bible and DVD cases. <br />
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* the animation was in fact not finished, so I'm here to announce the actual start of production. Thanks to an assessment period and an inter-term break we now have almost a month off and intend to finish 'PAINT' before...some time before we go back to university proper.<br />
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In other other news: I intend to upload a sketch a day until I return to university proper. If I miss a day I'll upload two the next and so on ...expect a post with 30 sketches in it in about a month.<br />
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You stay shot from a good angle blogosphere,<br />
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Matt<br />
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xMatthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-267870102376826732010-12-05T12:18:00.000-08:002010-12-08T13:25:23.682-08:00Mo More Movember<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/MyLEGOItems/images/1033/pic620F5AC9-6052-4535-903D-A94DA32DE1A9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div>Well, according to the Gregorians it's now December, so Movember is technically over but the spirit still lingers on my upper lip, the fuzzy little face warming soup strainer has had a good run but it's off to the facial hair knackers with it (actually I found crumbs in it and I a bit disgusted myself). In honour of the soon to be fallen I present this quick vector image.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and yes - I do look like a lion</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Thank you to all those who sponsored, if you'd like to donate follow the yellow brick link <br />
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Smooth as a babies proverbial blogosphere<br />
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p.s - yes, I know it was really a pope that the calendar is named after, you boffin!Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-25900388150438012902010-11-30T16:17:00.000-08:002010-11-30T16:17:35.318-08:00Business Socks... I mean 'card' (not <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU">socks</a>). Scared into action by this here <a href="http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/why-smart-graduates-carry-business-cards?CMP=twt_gu">guardian article</a>; I have designed a logo and started on a business card. Actually it's part of a professional practice module but the article helped to spur me on since I was wondering if the old card was a bit tired - sure it gives you a chance to prove your design skills while providing valuable contact information, but is it really effective in getting you work? The answer is a resounding- "so what?" - for a small investment you increase your chances of being contacted and with consistent branding make sure you're remembered. I think it's likely worth it even if it simply serves to let your potential future employer know they're on the right website when the logos match the card in their hand (clutched to their job giving bosom if you’ve designed it right?)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Say it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPoKiGQzbSQ#t=02m14s">Missy</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div><div><div>Get it? the 'M' becomes a 'W' upside down (maybe even inside out?). The problem I’ve got is that it looks far too sterile and frankly…too much like a logo, by which I mean like a corporate logo – something designed, not a visual representation of who and what I am – but what would be? A stonking great mug shot with a list of services? That’s not what you put on a business card! (it’s more the kind of thing you’d expect to see pinned to the wall inside a lonely phone box) – I’m probably going to hand draw the logo for a more personal feel – might sketch out the font as well. See it soon and exclusively on this blog! </div><div><br />
At the end of the day – no one wants to have to commit a spate of gruesome murders just because they have a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y">‘bone’ coloured business card</a>. (did I miss the point of that book/film?)<br />
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</div><div>Feed me a stray cat blogosphere.</div></div></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-78055672781737197642010-11-29T15:46:00.000-08:002010-12-04T09:13:34.572-08:00Paint 01<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">‘Paint’ is my biggest project in the works right now. A 90 second animation to be entered into the <a href="http://www.depict.org/">Depict </a>(very) short film competition. This is a group project including<a href="http://www.wilygrasser.co.uk/"> Finn Hodgkin</a> and <a href="http://www.robertthomsonart.blogspot.com/">Rob Thompson</a>, together we are ‘Power Walk Productions’ – you can follow <a href="http://robfinnmatt.wordpress.com/">this blog </a>for updates but we’re woefully behind with the whole documentation side of things – we’re a bit behind schedule in general actually – aforementioned fractured wrist isn’t helping and a bout of food poisoning has us about a week behind – I’m hoping to gain ground come the animation stage.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Expertly modelled by <a href="http://www.robertthomsonart.blogspot.com/">Rob Thompson</a> – inexpertly rigged (facial) by me.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the featured images you can see me preparing to freeze transformations of the curves that will be driving facial deformations (pulse pounding stuff I know!). Hoping to have the whole face rigged tomorrow - maybe I'll let you have a look.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">p.s - as you may have guessed; the '01' in the title alludes to the number of posts I intend to make...fewer than 100.</span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-74247121625703027812010-11-28T17:38:00.000-08:002010-12-01T03:24:14.463-08:00Cash In<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiniPYcJoTuSQxAbrGSmol8NCxY4IraMGwzNluJ74k3GTfKJBo-O_ZBg1sxmDR8bGB-WXYbLjqVjEakyKlkDng6SA9EtdfI8MSklthDyU9cpeo_VuHW8g0MHfa-lOB59vmVfoz_xnVTcLI/s640/Post-IMG-25-11-10--JohnnyCashProject.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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The culture show featured the <a href="http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/">Johnny Cash Project</a>, I gave it a go.<br />
You may pick a frame of the video for ‘Ain’t No Grave’ (or choose one of three a randomly generated frames) and ‘paint’ a portrait of the man, ideally representing what Johnny Cash means to you, personally I’m not a devoted fan so my frame was rather dry but there’s some interesting one’s already up there.<br />
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The site has this to say:<br />
<blockquote>“Strung together and played in sequence over the song, the portraits will create a moving, ever evolving homage to this beloved musical icon. [-]</blockquote><blockquote>The Johnny Cash Project is a visual testament to how the Man in Black lives on – not just through his vast musical legacy, but in the hearts and minds of all of us around the world he has touched with his talent, his passion, and his indomitable spirit.”</blockquote> Data visualiser <a href="http://www.aaronkoblin.com/">Aaron Koblin</a> and producer <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/12/muse-diss-rick-rubin">Rick Rubin</a> are credited.<br />
Have a go. As per usual it's user voted so I'd suggest lolcatz versions of Cash with celebrities in the background, though there are several rather nifty features so do have a gander if you have the time.<br />
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Walk the line blogosphere,<br />
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p.s - I had way too many 'Cash' puns for the post title - 14 puns - but <i>you'll</i> never hear them!!Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-83748296704409511742010-11-16T13:01:00.000-08:002010-11-27T05:02:41.474-08:00Taking a break...fracture<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Short version: Came off my bike on some ice – fractured wrist – got cast – realised I couldn’t operate a mouse (or hold a pencil)– argued with 3 different doctors (one might have been a nurse) – got cast removed – regretted decision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Can’t help but think they might have missed the problem area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(the censored wavy mass is my unmade bed – easier to censor than address the problem (I’m like a government (take that society!)))</span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Longer version: At the start of the academic year I vowed to take full advantage of my free bus pass (valued at £200-£250) but after a week of watching the jam packed busses sail past (because I live next to a Venetian conserve transportation route?...no) I decided to get a bike – something sensible, second hand and cheap – so after ignoring all but one of those criteria and purchasing my rickety 1960s racing bike for £160 I set off and realised I could get there faster than the bus if I wanted to – I didn’t come off once despite getting my wheels trapped in slippery tram tracks on more than one occasions and any number of attempts on my life by <a href="http://bristolcars.blogspot.com/">hate filled passing motorists</a> - it was all going wonderfully well until the 14<sup>th</sup> of November was a little bit frosty and my bike, tired of it constant verticality, chose to embrace the frosty ground in most shameless a fashion. So after assuring passers-by that I was fine and straightening some of my bike out I resumed my ride to uni. On the way I played the Gollum to my Sméagol: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“this really, really feels like it’s fractured”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“it’s your right wrist – it can’t be fractured or you won’t be able to work”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“yer – but it’s fractured – can’t just deny it and keep going”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“can and will!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“ok”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“Chill out dude, it's just a magical ring. (well in The Hobbit it was - LotR made it the all powerful central macguffin)”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So yer – fractured wrist not great for animating.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You stay relativity unbroken blogosphere, </span></div>Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077354886269332726.post-13143777082296297882010-11-01T11:13:00.000-07:002010-11-24T14:59:23.587-08:00It's Alive!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdj-1zyDunwtLRugQvzJ8jvLZqswQNa6T8v56WIsNnow7t6Vw09JxuEyqYthzEs1hXN7vm7pRma968W0g_AUa2o1a1xK21jmXKGestUTnCmIStm3H0dyoKczkIL409VBd8g9HNgxFloBQ/s1600/Post-IMG-24-11-10--FirstPost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdj-1zyDunwtLRugQvzJ8jvLZqswQNa6T8v56WIsNnow7t6Vw09JxuEyqYthzEs1hXN7vm7pRma968W0g_AUa2o1a1xK21jmXKGestUTnCmIStm3H0dyoKczkIL409VBd8g9HNgxFloBQ/s640/Post-IMG-24-11-10--FirstPost.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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This is the inaugural post of my flagship blog, just testing the water (the greasy surface of which I have broken once before in the form of a collection of internet items of interest (which in hindsight would have been a much better name that what I came up with) <a href="http://mattslikeslinks.blogspot.com/">Matt’s Mellifluous Menagerie</a>, I will try to continue posting there since this blog is intended as a portfolio/archive of my personal work rather than a collection of everything I like - since, like all good artists, I'm unlikely to be happy with anything posted here so I wouldn't expect much cross-blog-pollination (inter-blog-lovin'?)<br />
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You stay beautiful blogosphere,<br />
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Matt <br />
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p.s - sorry for the low quality image - and the fact that it's misappropriated when I specifically stated that everything would be my own work, ok - everything for now on....starting...........now!Matthew Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206233304578223016noreply@blogger.com0