And so the 'mystery animation' is complete - it basically follows the somewhat troublesome relationship between myself and my landlord, the incredible Mr Ahmed. And so with this in mind, I give you the first episode of The Incredible Mr Ahmed - make sure to stick around after the credits ( Read more... )

It is extremely rare for me to post links to stuff on the Intertron that haven't been made by me, but this should be made compulsory viewing for everyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

Amazing.

I haven't really talked about any of my animations recently, for two main reason - one, because Steve 3 and its progress is being kept a complete secret (well, other than the fact I haven't even started it yet), and two, because I'm getting extremely irritated with trying to do proper drawings using a computer. It seems the better I get at drawing ( Read more... )

Preliminary colouring done, using Photoshop - I'll be adding shadows and light effects soon.


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I drew this earlier this evening, it's the first 'properly done' sketch I've done in a while ie. where I pencil the picture then ink it all up. It's not exactly perfect, but I quite like it anyway.


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BT stuck to their word (this time) and so I'm now - finally - back on the internet. So without much further ado, here's a proper livejournal update!

The night Danny got really, really drunkIt was Monday night in the first 'proper' week of uni, and everyone had decided to go out drinking. Ollie, Tom and myself had chosen to occupy Jesters - ( Read more... )

Ok, well it now looks like we won't have the internet until the 31st of October - after setting up the hub and then re-setting it up about 5 times with no success, I called BT and they went 'um... we messed up your order, sorry ( Read more... )

I'm at the Avenue Campus right now and I thought I'd just let you know that I'll be making my triumphant return to the Internet this coming Monday, so my regular livejournal/facebook updates shall resume normal service very soon. This is, of course, assuming the men and women over at BT successfully manage to turn on our broadband and deliver our ( Read more... )

I'm going back to Southampton tomorrow, and we haven't got the Internet sorted out yet, so I probably won't speak to some of you for a little while. So yeah - see you all at Christmas!

After yesterday's journal entry, I decided to have another look on the Internet to find an easier way to convert DPA files and low and behold, I found one. And so, I present you with 'The Deluxe Paint Animation Collection' - 12 of the best/worst animations made with DPA, each complete with its own little story about how it got made and who made it ( Read more... )