My Fish for E4

I've been working hard on my 3d fish for the E4 compeition. I think he looks really cool so far. Here are some of the building steps so far.

My Website

For John Kelly we are creating websites to promote our work. So far I have animated buttons, given myself a name and created the main page and the Who am i? page. You can see it below here.

Place to Play - Research

I'm going to research the following: -

• Vision Tracking
• Object Tracking
• Ultrasonic Range Sensors
• Vision Systems
• Parking Sensors
  
• Thin Film Flexible Display
  

Ze Frank

Ze Frank is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Frank was born to German-American parents and raised in a suburb of Albany, New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1995 with a degree in neuroscience. Information given in the show indicates that he has a sister and that he was educated at a Montessori school. Beginning at Brown, Frank played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called Dowdy Smack until its dissolution in 1998.

In 2001, Frank created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Frank's personal Web site. The site grew to include interactive group projects, short films, animations, and video games, many Flash-based, including children's educational videos featuring handy tips such as "Don't vacuum your face".
Frank won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Website and was featured in Time Magazine's "50 Coolest Websites" in 2005. Frank debuted onstage at the Gel conference in 2003, and later spoke at the TED Conference in 2004 and 2005. Below is a video of one of the presentations he did.

In March of 2006, Frank launched a daily video blog known simply as the show with zefrank. Each tightly-edited, three-to-five minute episode combined Daily Show-style commentary on world events with songs, observations, and occasional games or challenges for his viewers to participate in. the show quickly became the most popular portion of his site and helped to increase Frank's visibility in the blogosphere.

Second Life

Again this is something that happened in Berlin so when I've done my other blog thats still in my mind, I'll write about it.

Trip to Berlin

Ok I went to Berlin to the Transmediale Festival. At the moment I'm not going to write about it because I want to write something else first but I want it to go in the right order of things so when I've done my other blog thats still in my mind at the moment, I'll write about Berlin.

Fish Fart - Esting

Esting Idea
This is my final idea choice for my Esting.

FISH FART
A fish swims along with a friend. He farts and you see the E4 logo float up. The other fish shakes his head and swims off. The Farting fish then looks up at the logo and smiles. The camera then zooms in on the logo.

Additional Ideas
1. Lots of fish then swim to see it.
2. The bubbles around it could have words around them saying things like: - music, entertainment, comedy.etc

Fish Designs

Fish Storyboard

Animated Series Ideas

THESE ARE THE IDEAS THAT I HAVE COME UP WITH FOR MY ANIMATED SERIES THING

1. This idea is called 'The Student Life'. I’m going to gather as many funny stories and memories from students from Schools, Colleges and Universities and make them part of it. So the series would actually be an animated series of real people’s funny memories.

To do this I set up a group on a social networking website, http://www.facebook.com/ as it is very popular among University and College students. I have 20 members at the moment but sadly only 1 person has left any stories. I’m hoping it will spread across Facebook as many other groups have done before.

My group website is http://hud.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232490978

I thought that this would also make it popular with students and interactive as well because people have to send in their stories. Like a constant competition, where the prize is to have you and your friends animated and your stories told! The one problem with this is that you don’t get to know your characters unless I had a host character who introduced the story or something similar. Another idea is to have my own characters who act out the students stories.

2. This idea is pretty similar to the first idea but each episode shows a character doing a different funny thing to survive school. Such as how not to get stuck in a locker or how to arrive to lessons in style.etc.

3. This is a series about an adorable looking dog that seems to always get himself into the wrong situations or happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sort of like an animated series of the book ‘The Book of Bunny Suicides’ but my dog.

4. You may have heard of a new online animated series based on the Radio 1 show, The Chris Moyles Show. A company called ‘Popnoodles’ created a south park type animation version called ‘The Little Chris Moyles Show’.

You can see the episodes at http://www.popnoodles.com/

My idea was to do a similar thing but with Scott Mills, another popular Radio 1 DJ. I could also get the sound from his show as they did with the Chris Moyles one and make the voices high pitched. It is very simple animation if I did the same kind as Popnoodles but I could make it a different style so it’s not the same.

5. ‘101 ways to die’ This Idea is very similar to the dog one but every episode is another stupid way to die. Such as sitting on the toilet and it exploding or walking out in front of a Hearse!

6. This is about a cat who is always hungry and every time it’s food time the phone or door rings or other distraction to stop the owner from opening the tin to give him his food so he comes up with different ways of trying to open the tin. Sort of Tom & Jerry style or even Warner Brothers. Just silly humorous ways for the cat to do stupid things.

Back at Uni

Awww Im back at Uni :)
As you may know I have been ill so I have missed a few lectures but I dont think that I missed much.
I've already been given 3 projects.

1. Make a 1 minute trailer for a 52 episode animated series that are each 3 minutes long.
*** Not sure what Im going to do for this yet but I have to come up with characters and a story to do it. Maybe something like Joe Cartoons stuff or Happy Tree Friends or even the short cartoons you see on Cartoon Network. Another idea is to gather as many funny stories from students and people funny memories from St Davids and make them part of it... Like 'The Student Life' or something ***

2. My next bit of work is a very encouraging one as its The E STINGS competition. Its run by E4 and you basically make one of the Idents (Before a programme starts the little animations of the logo doing something). It has to be 6 to 10 seconds long and I must use either the E4 logo or the E4 Music logo. My teacher added that it has to be a 3D animation too. (Just to make it harder).
The winner recieves a commission from E4 to make a series of idents with a £15,000 budget and Two runner-ups will each receive £1500 worth of kit of their choice.
That's definitly encouraged me to come up with something good!!!
*** I've got a few ideas... silly things at the moment. When I have my notebook with me I'll add them as a new note. ***
Heres the website - www.channel4.com/estings

3. This is to choose an artist and create a font to do with his work. I need to come up with 4 design proposals, then a finished alphabet and an online advert.
*** At the moment I have 3 artists in mind. Alexander Calder, HR Giger and Keith Haring. I have a few ideas in mind but I cant really explain them so again I will put any sketchs up later.

Bronchitis!!!

I've not been at all well :( I caught Bronchitis so did my mum. Its where the lungs get inflamed and lots of symptoms like
* An expectorating and painful cough
* Dyspnea (Shortness of breath)
* Fatigue and Malaise (Basically exhaustion and tiredness)
* Weakness all over
* Mild fever
* Chest Pains
* Vibration in chest when breathing

So basically not very nice and the fact I have a cold too now isnt helping as it's making breathing even harder!!! I have got antibiotics, they do help but only for a short time and i can only have it 4 times a day. Sleeping is very hard as my throat is soar from coughing and everytime i lie down i cant breath properly so cough again!!! I'm so sick of it now :(
Matt has been brilliant though as he's stayed with me since Thursday looking after me :) Hes been so sweet, asking if theirs anything he can do, getting me drinks, making me food, if I've woken up coughing he's tried to help, hes been keeping me smiling and happy. Basically really helping me get through the pain.
I've not done much work because of it and I dont know if I will be up for more lectures today as im so wiped out and feeling a lot worse but we will see.