Guide To Fetal Development

Today I have gave birth to a revised version of an old animation; Good timing as today happens to be my birthday!

Short insight into fetal development within the digital age!

Guide To Fetal Development began its own life as a doodle I did during my summer job a couple of years ago. I felt that it was a funny concept and that it could translate well into animation. While at art school I sneaked into the animation department an drew seventy odd frames which I then scanned and coloured on photoshop. The animation was for a class project that had to be done within twelve hours… here is the original. 

It was fun for me as I had not created a pencil drawn animation since my first year at ECA, but admittedly, slightly rushed. This week I went back an smoothed out the frames. I created the above GIFs which also hibernate on my tumblr.  Given the subject matter of the film I can only say that I am a hypocrite; Here I am firing links to my tumblr via a blog!

The film was screened at Hidden Door Art Festival in Edinburgh earlier this year and has a couple more public screenings on the way.

Tapes From The Revolutionary [GIF run]

As I approach the last semester of my time at Edinburgh College of Art I have began filming a new documentary with the working title Pigeon. The film is about a fellow filmmaker…

I met Andy as he walked past me armed with a camcorder. I was intrigued to watch his tape. He said I could. The tape presented a seventy year old artist who walked the streets of Edinburgh capturing his surroundings. For whom and why? I decided Andy and his tape would make a good subject for an observational documentary

To get a feel for the look an mood of the project I have created these GIFs to act as a sort of mood board. I quite like the idea of GIF mood boards, I was there first dad!  Some of the GIFs are from Andy’s camcorder and others are from my childhood.