Artist Research - Kyle Cooper.

Last Monday we were looking at title sequences for films, we started by looking at the title sequence for 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - which is noted as one of Kyle Cooper's influences and then we moved onto his title sequence for the film Se7en - a film I've never seen before! Watching this sequence I thought it looked a lot like one of my favourite TV shows opening sequences - American Horror Story - and low and behold, a quick google search later, Kyle Cooper is the creator of the opening sequences for AHS too! I thought I'd share the three from each season as they're all different, as is the scenario of each season.

Have you seen AHS?

Stop Motion Throwbacks

In one of my current modules, we're looking at stop motion. This isn't the first time I've played about with animation, or specifically this type of animation, so I thought I'd share the two animation pieces I've done before. My first crack at animation was on my art foundation in my photography/film module. Unfortunately at the time I thought only saving it through the tumblr account I used for the entire project was a good idea - nevertheless here it is - I explain more about the piece on the post. The second piece of animation I have created was last year at my previous university. With that piece we were given an obscure word which we had to explain the meaning via the method of stop motion animation, only using the letters in that word. I won't tell you the answer as (hopefully) you can guess what it is.

Golopshusly Forswunk - Alice Thomas - GD4 002 from Alice Thomas on Vimeo.

In regards to my current project, we're actually doing something similar. Over the Christmas break we had to buy a second hand hobby book and only using the letters of the title of the book, visually represent what the book is about. I'm currently going through and editing around 500 images to create three separate outcomes. Although the editing itself is fairly straight forward, I'm peaking at 1-2 a minute so thus very time consuming - stay tuned for those pieces!

Is this thing on?

Why hello!! Since I last wrote on this blog I've moved cities and universities and been rather busy over on my beauty blog. After a semester off, I'm back in university and back with my nose against the grindstone, and with a piece I have present being a website - I thought instead of starting afresh I would return to the familiar waters and write on here again. This week we have a non-teaching week which gives me the perfect opportunity to catch this blog up to speed with what I've been doing and spruce it up a little too. After a much needed catch up I plan to update every Thursday with content regarding what I'm up to in the studio and an ad hoc basis with other bits I'd like to share. In the mean time, here's my course's website - typenowhere - to give you a taste as to what I'll be up to!