Some Cynical Animator

This is a blog documenting my journey as an animator/film maker, as well as my notes and research. I hope you like it! Linktree: https://linktr.ee/somecynicalanimator

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Yyours Behind-the-Scenes

Now that Ride is out, I felt it was worth releasing the last of the behind the scenes footage I had. Here's another little extra behind the scenes peek at yyours!

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Ride (Baby) Is Finally Out!

It's finally out! Ride has finally released! It was an absolute joy being able to work on this video, with this team, and I'm glad we finally get to show our work to the world! It has been a joy & a privilege to work with such talented people, and I hope we all get to work together again someday in the future!

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Recently I've been trying to practice using Krita for 2D animation. Plus sometimes it's good to practice the basics! Feel I'm starting to get a better idea of how to animate with Krita

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New 2-D Animation Showreel

In the past, I tended throw all my work together into just one showreel, but lately I've been working on creating separate showreels for my work, starting with my 2-D animation & motion graphics work.

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Yyours Is Out Now!

One of the two music videos we worked on last month, Yyours by Todd Modern, has finally dropped! It was an absolute joy to work on!

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/F507ZDm-kV4?si=TTRNL0fi7Z2JX2ZB.

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Ride Behind-the-Scenes

This month just past, we, in collaboration with the Institute for Creative Enterprise, have been working on 2 music videos for Issy Sutcliffe & Todd Modern. Here is a quick Behind the Scenes look!

More can be seen here: https://youtube.com/shorts/3IbUDLSndJQ?feature=share

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I finally got myself a new PC, allowing me to produce animation work from home.

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Some Light Reading

After owning this book for years, and using so much of it as a reference for so many animations, I've finally sat down to start reading it cover-to-cover.

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New Website!

I now have a personal website, that highlights some of my best work! This project was created by Liam Harris, who coded & designed this website from scratch, and I cannot thank him enough. As a web developer, he has not only been able to create this portfolio website for me, but has also created his own, which I would highly recommend checking out!

Liam H. on LinkedIn: Huge thanks to Cameron Davison for allowing me to create a simple…

Huge thanks to Cameron Davison for allowing me to create a simple portfolio webpage, from scratch, to showcase his achievements, with the me

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Video Editing Task

It's been a while since I posted any work hasn't it. I recently created a short trailer, as part of a job application. I've spent a lot of the past few months assisting a friend of mine with a film project for their uni course, so being able to put some of the video editing skills I've picked up recently into use was a fun challenge! I can't show this video publicly at the moment, beyond this picture, but I hope to have more work to post soon!

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IMDb Credits

Two of the short films we created at the Institute for Creative Enterprise finally got added to IMDb. Never thought I would see the day when I would get my first credits on IMDb!

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Graduation

On Friday I finally graduated from university, I finally got my Masters Degree! Been 5 years in the making, but I have finally finished uni! I’ve gained so much experience during this period of my life, my experiences here have helped shape the course of my life heading forward. Onwards & upwards!

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More MA Degree Show

We held a special Industry night for our MA degree show last night, great to get our work seen by professionals in the animation industry!

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Degree Show Private Viewing

The private viewing for the MA Degree Show was held last night, had a great time seeing everyone’s work! Bit nerve-wracking walking into the screening room & seeing my work on the screen tho. It’ll be open to the public on Monday 9th!

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MA Animation Degree Show 2023

After months of working on our student films, my MA class’s Degree show is almost here! Private viewing on Friday 6th October, then open to the public for two weeks on Monday 9th!

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RSA Brief 2023

I wasn't able to post about this earlier, because the competition was still ongoing at the time, but here is a playlist of work I, and my teammates, produced for the RSA brief earlier this year! I'm rather proud of the work we managed to produce!

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Showreel Updated for 2023!

Since finishing my course, I have managed to update my showreel, which I have recently finished editing! It includes new work produced since last year that helps demonstrate some of the new skills I have developed recently.