John Williams masterclass

This was a real privelege. I have been in awe of the Coldplay Trouble video for years. A stunning masterclass. Thankyou very much.
He is also a lovely chap, an 'Ethical animator'!
I also found out the term for what I do '3d stop motion' and I had plenty of information about compositing very worthwhile.
Key things to remember
1. Keep It Simple Stupid( KISS)
2. Try to have 4 layers your working on at one time
3. Easy to get pidgeonholed, so keep the style of work varied.
4. Decide what you want to do for a bread and butter job and make sure your showreel shows this.
Link to trouble video at the side

Fairytales

Boy are there some truely weird and wonderful stories out there I thoroughly recommend the website SurLaLune fairytales.com, Bluebeard one scene reminds me of Hellraiser is thoroughly gory, The girl without hands was suitably strange aswell. Who needs horror movies when we have wealth of flippant dismembering, no wonder I was so strange as a child, my alltime favourite was the story of 'Little-suck-a-thumb' in the book Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman which did make me think twice.
Things seemed to be getting chopped off left, right and centre.

Am I the only one that feels like this!

oh dear, oh dear,
The blues got me big time the last couple of weeks its almost as if my brain had gone on strike.
Please tell me that I am not the only one, I think it must be bio-rythyms what a lull and very badly timed. Still the worst is over and I have read about 10 thesis papers in the last two days so onwards and upwards. Am contemplating doing my paper for Caroline on something like propaganda techniques used in advertising. Think thats quite a meaty subject. Plenty of CGI stuff out there. if you go to 'google' you can do research paper search very handy, been working throught the animation reader book Caroline suggested aswell although I am a bit miffed that there is about 5 papers dedicated to Disney.
Films watched this week - Brothers Quay Gilgamesh
Peter Greenaway - The early films of Peter Greenaway Vol1
(including H is for House)

Painting with twigs

How good was that lesson, I just want to do more and more, I feel that it has freed my line up, and can't wait to give my dogs sequence a go. Those dogs are like mini "Aliens" when they get going.
On another note have been given an overhead projector so am going to try and make it in to a lightbox of some sort apparently it has a fan inside so in theory it will not overheat, will keep you posted on its success or failure.