tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28194314820974317982024-03-05T19:38:25.116+00:00Lightfoot-Art BlogOfficial blog for Lightfoot-Art.co.uk, updates about work and projects from Ali Lightfoot.Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-38183119825619950352016-11-29T19:34:00.003+00:002016-12-13T22:05:49.798+00:00Utter Balls<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Been working on a classic "bouncing ball" animation for a sing-a-long video.</span><br />
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Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-53326853177651371842016-08-10T20:02:00.000+01:002016-11-29T20:05:51.907+00:00NEW SHOWREEL<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my 2016 showreel, which also handily gives a rundown of most of the projects I've been working on during late 2015-16.</span><br />
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Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-42912856414671714002015-07-30T20:09:00.000+01:002016-11-29T20:10:23.105+00:00It's not MY Life<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got an in-house job at a company/campaign called <a href="http://youtube.com/YourLifeTeam" target="_blank">Your Life</a>. It's ostensibly video editing work, but I will post any animation-based updates on here as they come.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-60303400597880507082015-06-05T21:08:00.001+01:002015-06-05T21:08:21.028+01:00Oh, Be-Hiive<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Online creative magnates, <a href="http://hiive.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hiive</a> asked if they could display some of my work at a venue for one of their Swarm parties. I said they could and they sent me some photos of my images on display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-32518260247186927412015-05-14T17:21:00.000+01:002015-05-14T17:21:23.415+01:00News<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently took on a commission that's a little exciting. I've finished the first part of the overall workload (unfortunately it's the smallest part) but it should be complete in around a month.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, due to the nature of the project, I can't reveal any of the details until it is made public. As soon as it is I will put all the material on here, but in the meantime, sit tight.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-5625999062551478572015-04-04T23:48:00.000+01:002015-04-04T23:48:50.807+01:00Hotting Up<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pitched a brief, by a company, based on an pro-NHS campaign. They wanted me to come up with some ideas on how to animate the script they'd written.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sent a written treatment and they requested some style boards for further consideration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-84103226191277699912015-04-03T00:55:00.003+01:002015-04-03T00:55:55.056+01:00Strolling<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of an application for an animator position, a company asked me to complete a walk cycle, based on a character they'd already drawn up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't get the job, in the end but I thought I'd post the cycle I did anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The art was copyrighted to them, so I've created rough alternative parts to replace their original pieces. This is purely for the purposes of showing off the animation I did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because I've replaced the parts, everything looks a great deal rougher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It was interesting, because I'd not really done such tween-heavy animation before, but I was pleased with how it came out. Especially for only about a day's efforts.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-43043674580415730772014-12-15T15:00:00.000+00:002014-12-15T15:07:00.860+00:00Blitzkrieg Bop<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been tasked, by a band, with designing a logo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At present I've been given some sample images - one explicitly being the lightning bolt design they want - depicting some classic comicbook-style imagery. Including some pop art and Kryptonian sigils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm awaiting to hear back about a few queries I've had, including colouring, etc. Since I'm unsure if the logo I've been provided is their existing design or just another example piece (it does look a lot like it belongs to Black Adam.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, I've been doing some rough edits on the design and playing with colour variations. Also investigating typefaces, as they would like the band name included in the design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm having to be careful since the colours most of the example images are using are the classic red & yellow, which - when applied to a lightning bolt - basically give you the logo for The Flash.</span><br />
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<br />Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-26802746880326463582014-10-29T16:06:00.000+00:002014-10-29T16:06:03.224+00:00Fight For Your Right...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently applied to work at another company that responded asking me to complete a design exercise audition type thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just learnt today that I didn't get an interview, so I've decided to publish the design I did for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to jazz up a plain text television pitch, for a new show, ready to be sent to a major network. The content of the document is strictly confidential (so I've blurred out the details) but, for context, I will say it was a kinda "teen tropical holiday/party themed reality show".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wouldn't normally use such a garish colour palette, but it fit with the subject matter of the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-74772084620880817782014-10-01T16:18:00.000+01:002014-10-29T16:21:44.389+00:00Tiny Twelve<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been some time since I've heard from the company that requested <a href="http://lightfootart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/face-off.html" target="_blank">this test commission</a>, so I'm assuming I have not been selected.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To that end, I am publishing my design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a likeness of Peter Capaldi (in costume as the Twelfth Doctor) in the established style of the company. I'm quite pleased with it, even if they obviously feel it's not enough to hire me over.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-41623419146814711722014-09-18T13:33:00.000+01:002014-10-29T16:37:11.268+00:00Sibling<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An offhand comment on Twitter lead me to draw this stupid portrait of my brother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not perfect, and you can tell I put more time into the face than anything else, but it's a good exercise in digital drawing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-88392219156343027892014-09-16T11:24:00.000+01:002014-10-29T16:14:25.774+00:00Face Off<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I applied to a company that creates stylised likenesses of celebrities for use on a variety of products, their response was to request that I demonstrate my capability to create imagery in their established brand style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having tweeted it without context, people have managed to identify the individual in question. Which is a good sign.</span><br />
Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-45266582128767727632014-07-13T16:12:00.000+01:002014-07-13T16:12:13.317+01:00Playtime's Over<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently, finally, was granted some progression on the web design job. I was given access to a separate live domain the group have, to which I have uploaded my full site for a full final review. Then, hopefully, they can populate it as they see fit, I can hand over the access information for associated 3rd party sites, they'll pay me and I can walk away from the whole thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project has caused me a great deal more time, effort and stress than I anticipated and I will be relieved when it is over. Thankfully, they seem happy with the website I've created and, at the end of the day, that's all that's important.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-63518355702674243472014-07-09T16:30:00.000+01:002014-10-29T16:32:28.973+00:00Comical<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by a project called <a href="http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Twitter The Comic</a>, wherein a group of artists illustrate selected tweets and turn them into short strips, I have decided to practice my comicbook illustration by producing fully-fledged comic pages based on tweets I find amusing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are some preliminary sketches based on two tweets I saw today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'll post more when I've collated some finished pages.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-74988199569994195842014-06-29T00:59:00.000+01:002014-06-29T00:59:04.056+01:00Book It<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just finished the final touches to my "Gilliam Animation", which I've tentatively titled Book - for want of a better name - and uploaded to Vimeo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(You can see it <a href="http://vimeo.com/99432007" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's taken me far too long to complete, what with laziness, tedium, losing a load of work and being put off and having to find the right live-action elements to include. But it's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's almost ironic that the part of the process I knew the least about and had never attempted before, took me the least amount of time. I started this morning and finished a short while ago. (That was compositing the animation with the live footage of the book.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think it worked out well too, considering I took the lazy approach and avoided using After Effects and masks - instead winging it with the limited effects in Premiere and a prayer that the clumsy edits won't be noticeable during viewing. (I don't think they are.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm actually incredibly pleased with how it's come out. Especially how well I managed to make digitally animated scans, combined with footage of a blank page, look like closeup shots of an actual book.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was challenging given the inconsistent colouring of a lot of the source images (that I probably should've corrected at the first stage rather than last) and I ended up using a lot more and far different effects than I imagined when I first conceptualised it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In particular not being able to chroma key the image backgrounds and having to add digital shadows to mimic those of the page-turn to make them more seamless.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had to write a load of nonsense to make the scenes look more like real book pages. They're not even complete sentences; there's nothing before the left edge of the shot.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not going to pretend that I don't think I'm a genius for adding a layer of mirrored text to emulate the look of the adjoining page showing through the paper.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-36673710601611209722014-06-26T05:00:00.001+01:002014-06-26T05:02:23.744+01:00Machinations<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my last post, I mentioned my film The Machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a dark animated short based on Franz Kafka's story <i>"In The Penal Colony"</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a complete version of it, that I have submitted to festivals, but I personally think it's too short and unfinished (the time constraints of uni, necessitated severe edits to the script).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment I wish to extend it to the level I think is the bear minimum for release, and then hopefully add a little more until it is "properly" finished - at which point I'll release it again as a "director's cut".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just so you know what it's like and it exists (many people haven't seen it) here are some screenshots I've taken at various points of production.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The submission also required a poster, so this is a rough design I threw together to fulfil that demand.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-5888688376880240192014-06-26T04:44:00.000+01:002014-06-26T04:45:12.935+01:00Stephen Lives!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since its inception, I've wanted to revisit one of the films I created for my 2nd year of animation during my degree.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film was called Stephen and it was never fully realised to the level that I desired. I recently poured through several of my old harddrives, pen drives and other storage in an attempt to recover the original .fla file with which to continue the film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately all I could find was the final, unfinished export of the film and an even further unfinished .fla file. Half the final version was missing, but yet I still had the exported version taunting me and reminding me that it once existed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had all but resigned myself to the notion of having to painstakingly recreated all the scenes that I had watched over and over as part of the final export.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world may never know about this chap's weird muffin obsession.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got in contact with my father and convinced him to let me borrow his old external harddrive to search for it. It was a long shot, but low and behold, it paid off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm now in possession of the rough early edition of Stephen! Ready to roll into production...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just as soon as I finally get that damn Terry Gilliam-inspired short out, and also finish the director's cut of my final year film The Machine...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got my work cut out!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Full scene list from the recovered version of "Stephen". The tick shows the half finished scene I had at the end of the only versions I could find before.</span></i></td></tr>
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Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-1849549488205914292014-04-19T20:18:00.000+01:002014-05-23T00:23:07.583+01:00Faces in Places<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been doing a fair bit of travelling recently; taking <a href="http://lightfootart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/started-new-sketchbook.html" target="_blank">my sketchbook</a> about with me to practice sketching during my downtime. I realise now why there's so prevalent a cliché of illustrators drawing on trains.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The challenge is getting faces without people noticing you staring at them. Easier when they're further away, but harder to see details.</span></i></td></tr>
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<br />Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-79028281580615151582014-03-30T17:30:00.001+01:002014-05-23T00:16:15.620+01:00Logo a-go-go<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I've been working to implement the notes and suggested improvements given to me from the meeting last week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I'd throw out a little update while I have an opportunity in the middle of it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the changes is that header image/logo. The suggestion was that the sunburst was too subtle and it needed to be brought out (the consensus was make it brighter and/or yellow). So I did.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here you can see the original logo that is currently used by the group. I believe it's an old woodcut print.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the original design that was pitched. As you can see the colours are all integrated with the general palette of the site itself. However the sunburst's green is very close to that of the background (although, that was intentional. It was more of a nod to the original logo design/a means of making the background less boring.)</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the first alternate logo I drew up. One of the suggestions, aside from making the sunburst yellow, was to make the background red to match. I felt this was too bold a step, so I went for a slightly less harsh orange. However, this really offsets the light green of the font and additionally doesn't sit cohesively with the rest of the website. Perhaps changing the font colours would make this a better looking design overall, but it would still stick out on the page itself.</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the third change I made. I am probably going to stick with this come the review. I'm still not totally happy with it, but we'll see what the board thinks. I tried switching back to the original green background with the new yellow sunburst, but it was too dark. I moved it away from blue towards a lighter green. I additionally drew some of the saturation and orange hue out of the yellow as the warmth made it quite jarring against the green - even with its adjustment. I think it makes it harder to read the font over the top and draws attention, but I don't know how much more subtle I can make it without it changing to a horrid greeny-yellow hue/switching back to the original colour.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It remains to be seen what the feedback is on the change - perhaps they will agree that the first logo was probably the best colour choice after all. Addtionally, I checked what typeface I had used for the logo, so it can potentially be used for rebranding. It's Myriad Pro - an Adobe font - commonly utilised by a number of established quality brands, including: Apple, Rolls-Royce and Google (for their Gmail logo).</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-26592368464289575652014-03-26T17:31:00.001+00:002014-05-23T00:15:59.550+01:00Painful Progress<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, after an excessive amount of time, I was called in to a meeting with the board of directors to talk about the website.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first I was expecting to just be discussing with the chairman, but walking in I was greeted by the entire board and expected to do a presentation with absolutely no prep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It went surprisingly well, the only downside being my inarticulate explanation (literally no preparation, I swear to Moses) and accidentally clicking on nearly every dead link on the example site.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully they were all pleased and in agreement over the overall design of the site, so that means no tweaking from me and I can finally finish the bloody thing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only things they asked for improvement on were the main header logo. They wanted the sunburst more prominent and perhaps a change in colour to pick it out more from the rest of the site. But they liked it so much that there was talk of adapting all their letterheads and the like to match it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally, they also asked for a few more pages to be added to the navigation, and room to add login and member page functionality - which, at first, I thought was being asked in an attempt to trip me up. Thankfully, I kept my cool and managed to decipher what was required. Also I remembered I hadn't been briefed really on any of that, so it was hardly surprising I was taken off-guard by the request.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully, though, once I have completed these tasks it can be uploaded to the server to be populated by whoever is supplying the finished copy and photographic imagery. Then I shall be done with this whole shebang! Onto the next quest! </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-82567531378654967932014-03-15T21:12:00.000+00:002014-05-23T00:22:01.990+01:00A Foot Note<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I drew this critter on a whim, late last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed his hands and feet were quite catastrophic. I've been meaning to work on my hand and feet drawings (it's something a lot of people struggle with) so I started doing studies from image and live references.</span><br />
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<br />Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-9981358495044681622014-03-07T21:30:00.000+00:002014-05-23T00:15:26.403+01:00Flexercising<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I watched a video, the other day, by a Youtuber I follow who is also a bit of an art geek. He has recently enrolled himself on a cartoon course and was relating the various tasks they'd been asked to perform on the course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They reminded me of some of the drawing exercises I'd done over the years I'd been at uni.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of which was making a series of quick 30-second drawings of random objects. I found a random object generator online and used a timer set at 30 second intervals to draw the objects listed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously they're largely imperfect and rough-looking, especially some of the things I obviously find more challenging to draw, but it's a good way to reacquaint myself with drawing, make quick visual decisions and learn what areas I should focus on for improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30 seconds is a surprisingly short amount of time to draw some things, which you don't realise until you're doing it.</span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-35522337805616602462014-03-04T00:07:00.000+00:002014-05-23T00:14:30.217+01:00Started a new sketchbook<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using this to carry with me for sketching on the go. Had to do something garish, terrible and stupid so I felt less precious about marking in a fresh book.</span><br />
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Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-82384073023850411632014-01-28T19:30:00.000+00:002014-05-24T14:36:58.802+01:00Terry-ble at updating<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been working for some time, on-and-off, on this <a href="http://lightfootart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/gilliams-wish-wellingtons.html" target="_blank">silly little competition project</a>. But I've been very bad at keeping anyone updated on its progress. There came a few stalls when I had some crashes and lost a lot of work - and some of it can get quite tedious to animate, so it's very demotivating to lose it. Additionally, I also intend to splice in some live action footage of an old book. Finding the right book for the job also hindered progress, but I have something now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few images to show what caught my eye in the British Library's collection and illustrate the work I did to make them "animateable".</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This, I believe, is the original, unedited version of this image that I downloaded.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here you can see the edits I made to the base image itself...</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...and this shows the embellishments and extra elements I added to animate the image.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Side-by-side comparison of the original (right) and the edited version, with cut out elements in the centre.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still of one live-action book shots, onto which I intend to superimpose the animations.</span></i></td></tr>
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Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819431482097431798.post-59400628628626384222013-12-17T03:37:00.000+00:002014-05-23T00:13:43.762+01:00Gilliam's Wish Wellingtons<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it was brought to my attention (by my good friend and fellow artist/animator, Sajan Rai) that the <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/" target="_blank">British Library have released a veritable digital treasure trove of old book illustrations</a> that are now public domain.<br />Thus anyone can use them for any purpose without need for royalty payments and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He suggested that he, I and another friend (Ben Wingrove) have ourselves a small competition to see who can create the best Terry Gilliam-style animation based on some of the imagery available. I'm quite excited by this concept and can't wait to dive in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Immediately I'm getting ideas from images on the first page. I think I may go a little more towards the style of Mister Harpoon (as he is calling himself now) and the work he did on The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting. It's an Australian sketch show, which I guess is a modern spin on Monty Python's Flying Circus (live action sketches interspersed with humorous animations). </span>Ali Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07523488315361101000noreply@blogger.com