family guy

family guy is an american cel shaded tv program that was created by seth MacFarlane for the fox television network. the show revolves around a dysfunctional family the griffins consistiong of parents peter and lois with the kids chris, meg and stewie and their dog brian, the show also plays host to other characters outside of the family including quagmire, cleveland and joe. in this particular episode that i am looking at road to the multiverse both stewie and brian go between the different planes of existance that shock them they come across different universes such as the disney universe, and robot chicken. family guy was produced using cel animation which is a non-photorealistic rendering created with computer graphics to make it look like it has been hand drawn. family guy has been on the air now for 10 years and is still going strong with a large fan base around the world.

i got some of this information from wikipedia but most of it was information that i knew about the show.

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit is about an inventor wallace and his trusty dog gromit, in this film they are called out to a small village to help them with a mutant rabbit that is eating all the towns vegetables and they must stop it before the annual vegetable competition. this film was directed by nick park and steve box and was produced by dreamworks animation and aardman animation. this film was created by using clay models and using stop motion to create the illusion that the figures are moving.

charlie and unicorn production

charlie and the unicorn is an internet animation that is created by jason steele and executive producer stephanie steele. i could not find the production company that made this video but it is made for filmcow.com. this video is made from cardboard cutouts it will have had a long story board to it as there are alot of things happening in it. the producer will have then made sure that the shots that they take are in sync with each other and that it goes with the storyboard. the story follows 3 unicorns as they are hunting down the banana king to return the amulet to him, on the way they encounter different task that they must complete to go onwards. when they find the temple of the banana king they find out that charlie the unicorn is the banana king. i got this information from mainly watching the video several times and reading the credits.

photoshop pattern stamp

this is a picture that i created in photoshop using different pattern tools, i got pictures from the internet of different meats and created a pettern type with them i then used the different patterns on the picture to create a sort of zombie effect.

animation assignment

today i have started my first assignemt looking at 3 different types of animation. the three animations that i will be looking at is, cardboard cut-out, time lapse animation, and model based animation.

here i made a pattern out of an image that i found on the internet and used it to pattern the lettering on photoshop.

here i have added effects to the different letters to make it stand out from the page on the S i used drop shadow, T i used satin, E i used bevel and emboss, P i also used bevel and emboss, H i used inner shadow, E i used drop shadow and N i used both satin and stroke.