7x7 | William Morris

One of the illustrators main influences on his illustrations was william morris, heres some of his work.......william morris that is...

were hoping to put these sorts of pattens in the animation....we haven't got much detail in the animation, for instance, in one shot which pans up a staircase we will have the illustration of the staircase then the background will be the william morris like pattern.


Maybe something like this....we'll see what the illustrators give us....if they ever do

7x7 | Layers/ '2 and a half D'

Suppose this is 2 and a half D, but I thought that the layer element is necessary for what we plan to do.

watch from 4.45, that's what i'm talking about....

You will not believe your eyes

There's an offer on at tescos right, £5 off when you spend more than £25 on clothing. These leaflets were everywhere, all over the tills and stuff...

so when looking at one (whilst doing no work) i made a discovery..........the pound sign has a cat in it.

Now look at it from a side and you'll see it...i think

YOU CANT SAY THATS NOT A CAT.....here's proof, on some till roll.

You'll never see the pound symbol in the same way ever again.

7x7 | Before we knew anything...well we knew a few things

So we know what the brief is, don't know what much else yet....waiting patiently for tuesday.

 errrrr i was browsing youtube today and ended up watching 13 documentaries on each beatles album (4 minuets each) they came out in 2009 with the remastered albums.

I thought when watching them that this would be kinda relevant to this 7x7 brief. For every documentary they animate the album covers which looks cheesy on sum albums (Abbey Road) but worked on others (Revolver).

But the main thing to take from this is that every album cover is unique and most of them are well remembered, from the photograph taken at EMI's Manchester building on 'Please Please Me' to the artwork by Klaus Voormann on 'Revolver'.
The stuff we will be getting from the illustration pathway (from what i saw from the '6x6' booklet) could be limes with lips (photograph....kinda....will using realistic imagery) to guys with guns (flat imagery, like cartoon...ish) and from the videos below of two of the beatles albums (revolver and Abbey road) one being a photograph and one being a collage/ drawing could be helpful when finding out what we have to work with and how to bring stuff to life for 20 seconds.

The 'Moving Image' Industry | North West | kilogramme

kilogramme have worked closely with Firestep (another company I looked at) and from looking at their website and there animations on Vimeo I'm liking there stuff!

There logo (top) dosnt do them any justice, they look real fun if you go on their website.....HERE!

Also, they worked on the doctor who animated serie. No client list is given but the BBC will be one of them also firtstep, Oxfordshire DAAT, Leadforce and French Colwell (which can be viewed below...second video)

Here's something from Vimeo...


Christmas card from Kilogramme on Vimeo.



Leadforce from Kilogramme on Vimeo.


This shows how diverse they are, style wise, which i like. And also it shows that they dont just do adverts, they also have fun which is shown in 'Christmas card' which wasn't created for anyone but themselves, and it actually got nominated for an award (big chips)