English Rose - Finished

English Rose - Finished

Ok while I was modelling my Avatar today I got a chance to add sound to one of my flash animations. Anyway here it is basically the idea behind it is the same as with my logo, in that it looks at the idea of the places you've been and lived directly influencing who you are. I also used this as an opportunity to adress one of my own personal issues, I'm from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire and I've lived there all my life and for some reason I'm quite proud of that but now that I've moved away I feel slightly more distant from the place I grew up.

Basically I used the song 'English Rose' by the Jam (no copyright infringement intended only used out of a huge amount of respect) and put it into a different context. What I'm trying to say with this animation is that although I've left it's still my home because of the people I know there and the experiences I had there have directly influenced who I am.

Anyway I hope you like it I know my description of the video is incredibly corny and I apologise sincerly, however although I'm from Huddersfield however it doesn't mean I'll ever say its a particulary brilliant place and I've made fun of it slightly in the video in a subtle way, but it's an important place to me so I felt that it was only right to get this into my Identities package.

Avatar Update

Avatar Update

Ok I've now pretty much finished the body of my avatar and the head is almost finished so its all coming together nicely now. On the left is a picture of how it looks with the smooth modifier on and I'm pretty happy with it. One thing I've noticed after putting these screen shots up is that the legs look tiny compared to the body, basically it looks like Jonny Bravo. But thats pretty simple to fix I reckon.

But yeah I'm really happy with it so far. What I have noticed with other peoples avatars is to make the jeans they've added a picture over the UV unwrap thing, it looks wicked and I'm going to use this method but what I've also done is model some of the major parts of the jeans, like the pockets and the boxer shorts over the top. So should hopefully have this finished completely very soon.

Update & Final Element - English Rose

Update & Final Element

Well it's been few weeks since I've posted anything worth while up on here. Well I'm sorry I have been working very very hard these past few weeks trying to get this whole project done and it's coming along quite nicely. So I should be posting them up very soon, my avatar will be hopefully done by the end of tomorrow, that is unless anything goes majorly wrong but I will post up something about it because it's actually come a long way since my last post.

But the reason I wanted to stick a post up is because I have totally changed what I'm doing for my final element, I was going to try experimenting with film and layering I think I put a post up about it somewhere. But anyway I was struggling majorly with this in that I couldn't find any way to make it about me, or at least say something about who I am without it seeming corny, one idea I had was layering a load of words over the top of film that described me (I know terrible). Anyway I was looking finishing my logo off that is meant to represent 'my journey' and I realised how important where I grew up was in making me, me.

So anyway I wanted to do a bit of a tribute to that. Basically my idea is based around the song 'English Rose' by the Jam, 'No matter where I roam I will return to my English Rose'. I do want to explore and see as much as I can in my life and I see University as being the first step. However what I wanted to show here was that I guess Huddersfield in West Yorkshire will always be my home and the most important place in my life because the experiences I had there made me who I am (God that sounds corny). So basically it starts with a short of Earth then that zooms in, then Europe, then England, then Yorkshire and so on.

I've also gone to town on the images for this creating them all my self, I'm actually very happy with them basic but quite cool I like to think. But yeah I think that it's going quite well really, it's pretty on the brief as well because it explores an aspect of my personality and who I am. It does work so well with the music as well a beautiful nostalgic song and the symbol for Yorkshire is a rose so result. It's almost finished I've just got to fine tune the last few images and stick them onto my animation and I'm done but it's looking pretty good so hopefully I'll have it finished for tomorrow, but I've got an essay to be writing as well so who know but yeah I'll post up them video very soon....