Cloud Atlas

For my first 3rd Year project I decided to tackle an insert illustration for David Mitchell's book Cloud Atlas. I focused on bringing out some of the links between the six sections of story in the book, without being to prescriptive as its an adult fiction book. Its my favourite book, so inspiring and funny.

Trees

Heres my second charcoal tree! Its a lot smaller and slightly bolder that my first tree. 

Animation for Pleasance: Edinburgh Fringe

I worked with animator, Tim Wheatley, on a project for Pleasance at the Fringe Festival; it was a film to be projected in the Pleasance Courtyard as part of the visual effects. We came up with the idea of following a group of high-five-ing, intrepid mice on their epic road-trip from Cornwall to Edinburgh, picking up all their hitch-hiking rodents as they go. Theres nothing like a road trip... The Mice Are Out!

I loved making the film, shot with a mixture of stop-motion, (often taking a mouse each) and film footage using a Go-pro camera, which adds to what we came to think of as the 'quality-cheese effect' which I guess is the knowingly home-made, sort of natural feel of the film. We edited using After Effects.

To find out more about our mice go to:
facebook.com/pages/The-Mice-are-Out/108829615885661?sk=wall&filter=3



The Mice are Out! from Poppy Rand on Vimeo.

Another direction for the summer

Looking back at old A-level work I thought that it would be very interesting to try out more charcoal drawing, going back to the beginning of my work and Fine Art. I have started taking photos of my favourite trees and I plan to make a collection of their drawings. I love working with charcoal, crushing it up in fabric to use like a powder and then building up layers of depth. Here is how I've started...

Final Set :)

Final Characters!

This was finished by the end of term!... here is a catch-up...I'm glad I did this project as it means I would't think twice before making smaller sets to photograph for illustration, as it feels like I could build on what i've learnt. I think i've set myself up with some good prop-making skills and next, some adult illustration might help me broaden how I think in 3D.

Here are some photos!

Rough Plasticine Character Design for ebook!

I spent this afternoon playing with plasticine! It was very satisfying, I've never used it for faces before, I always used Daz an air dry clay, so it was brilliant as you don't have to be so careful with it as there is no water involved. I like to be able to paint faces, thats why I've always used clay, but I was surprised how easily plasticine blends. I could experiment with that as I need her face to be malleable for stop motion. 

Softer hair is appealing, I might opt for that.