Animation Practice with Bernard

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Freelance: Working with LAU Student Union

LAU Student Union have commissioned me after I won the logo brief, to create them a poster and banner for their website and to promote the buddy scheme.


Here are the requirements I was given to follow, which were pretty simple and free.

Below is the poster. I wanted to really keep the colour scheme of the logo, which I used the colours that Leeds Arts University seem to use for their website ect. I also tried to replicate the font that the Student Union use for a lot of their posters, which the closest font I could find was Futura.

Below is the banner.

I found this task somewhat difficult as someone who doesn't have much to any experience with graphic design, however it definitely taught me a new skill and gave me a little bit of experience in a different field. I'm really happy with the way that the poster turned out and the Union are also really happy with my final design and didn't even require me to change anything! This has given me the confidence that I'm not only an animator and that I do have the skills as a creative to pick up other little briefs such as this one.

PP3: Volunteering at Leeds Young Film Festival

Volunteering at Leeds Young Film Festival was something that was a great opportunity to me as I got to help out in building a life size stop motion set. As a group we built 4 sets in the studio in the Carriageworks and worked with the animators (David Bunting & Paul Couvela) to set up the whole thing.

We had to assemble all of the walls, which were big foam walls and then wallpaper them with this Marvel wallpaper. As none of us had really hung wallpaper before this was a new skill I didn't think I would have learnt on this day! We actually did really well and it wasn't too bad of a DIY job.
 

 

 We also had to put together the bed and move all of the furniture into the studio, to make children's bedrooms and play areas. (Here you can see our amazing wallpaper skills)

Working with David we had to figure out how to use the carpet we had so that it looked good but it was a really strange shape and we couldn't cut it. We also laid out a pin board under it so that the puppets could be pinned through their feet into the carpet/board.

 

 We also set up tables and iPads with stop-motion software on them attached to arm mounts. This was so that children could come in and shoot their own mini stop-motion animations, working alongside the animators.

Volunteering at this festival was a great way to meet people that were of like-mindedness and was a great way to come out of my comfort zone as it's not normally something I would do. I would definitely do it again as it was lots of fun and I got to meet some great people too.

Below is the time lapse of us setting up the different sets!
https://www.facebook.com/leedsyoungfilm/videos/10155981780133673/