Daniel Cooper

Sorry for the lack of updates but been mega busy with trying to find employment (no luck yet) and practicing my drawing.On the plus side,I have loads of artwork to post on here.I’ll get them up here as quickly as possible but the scanning takes time and then I have to edit them all together so it will all find it’s way on here gradually.

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The university where I used to go until not so long has been asking us to come up with designs for a new logo for the student union.The chosen design will go on all their stationary and clothes.Here’s my design for the logo:

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They start picking the winner on the 8th July.

Also I have been budgeting and working out a production schedule for my pitch which I will be sending to AnimateTV at the end of the month.I have been working on some concept art as well and I will hopefully get some of it up on this site very soon.

Here is the artwork for my pitch to 4mations on wednesday.They wanted people to come up with a mini series, one-off viral or a game.I decided to pitch for a viral commission from Channel 4 which they will fund £500-£1,000 pounds to make it.It had to be between 15-90 seconds and be funny.My viral concept shows all the animals in the woods turning up to see a football match between the rabbits and foxes.The whole joke to it was to have these animals reflecting real life situations in football.This would be highlighted at the end when the message “Release your inner animal…..play the game!”.They also wanted at least one piece of artwork to be emailed with the script for the pitch so here are the pieces of artwork I’m sending with the script:

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Here are the pages from the booklet I made for the degree show that we had in Soho not so long ago.It was a good night.I made loads of contacts and as well as the Disney scheme I am also pitching an idea to 4mations (which the artwork will be up for soon),another film pitch for channel 4 and animateTV on the 30th July and pitching an idea with my friend Ryan for a children’s show to HIT Entertainment when we have developed it a bit more.They even gave us business cards to get in contact with them so I am pretty excited with what is happening at the moment.Anyways here is the booklet pages:

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Below are some screenshots from Mark and mine’s final year film.It is now completed and can be found in my section on here.It’s taken a year but I am very pleased with the final film and think that Mark’s animation and my computer skills have really worked well together.The film can be seen by those involved with the animation industry in Soho,London on Thursday 19th June 2008 at 5pm onwards.For more details about the show,go to http://www.farnhamanimation.co.uk/

Also I will be posting up the poster for the film which I am currently making for the show on Thursday as well as the pages from a special booklet for the film I am making as well.My portfolio pages will be uploaded soon as well as the artwork and sketches I am producing for a competition in Disney’s consumer products graduate artist’s scheme in which I could be employed at the Disney’s offices up in London for a year if I win.

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Just needs the night time effect added and then it will done.It’s taking a lot of time to do but it looks good.I have about 10 seconds completely coloured and being green screened and edited to the background in aftereffects.I’ll put some more screenshots up once I have some more done from other scenes…..should be in about a week’s time!

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Remember the film Mark and I are working…well he gave me some animation that he did to start colouring as well as backgrounds.Now the animation is gonna take some time to colour in but I’ve coloured in the backgrounds that Mark drew so here is a sneaky preview of the film look:

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I like to do sketches and doodles in any free time I get so that I keep on developing my drawing style and so that I don’t get rusty.Here are a few of them coloured in photoshop.

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The first version of ‘Moomin’ was a lot more colourful and combined shapes within the painted layers.This was inspired by a lot of the early experimental and abstract films which we were watching in our lectures.In fact it was those films that made my mind up to experiment in it and to leave out the straight forward storytelling I orginally had planned for ‘Moomin’.The bottom layer was to be the computer layer which you can see below while the next layer was the hand painted frames.The top layer was to be footage that I had filmed of my dog which was then edited and altered in Aftereffects.I really prefer version 1 to version 2 of ‘Moomin’ as I feel I was being creative and experimental in what I could do by combining film,paint and computer generated images from Photoshop.However my teacher didn’t like the lack of plot or the style of the film and I had to redo the whole film.This meant losing the complete abstract/experimental with no story type of film I was aiming to have.That’s not to mean that version 2 doesn’t contain elements of version 1 because it does e.g.the combining of the paint layers with the film of my dog but I didn’t enjoy it as much because it seemed rather flat when compared with what I originally had planned for the film.Anyways here are some of the computer layers used in version 1 which tried to stay close to the paint effect as possible:

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