A Beginner's Guide to Photography

Today we have moving pictures!
My MA project was to produce a set of animated shorts that explained some of the basics of photography (in this case, aperture, shutterspeed, ISO and exposure) to first year BA Photography students at my university. So after a year of being an ex-student, I'm finally posting the videos for aperture, shutterspeed and ISO here. :D







Enjoy!
There is also a video for exposure (linking the three aspects together) and a short introduction in the works, so hopefully I can finish them and put them up soon.
The model for the main character is photographer Shaun Joyce and the voice talent is freelance journalist Matt Kamen.


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These videos were developed for Birmingham City University and are for educational/ non-profit use only. Feel free to share the link to this blog post, but please ask permission if you wish to show them elsewhere.

Weeks 33 and 34 - Soulsnatchers pages for BICS

Continuing with comic work for the MC² BICS banner, I redid the first two pages from a Soulsnatchers oneshot that I'd entered for Tokyopop's RSOM contest a few years back (never bothered with the contest after that either!).

My drawing ability and technique have come a long way since then (I'm a lot better with anatomy and perspective for a start). I also ditched the greyscale shading it originally had because I think black and white suits it much better.
I'd be very grateful to receive input from others so I can improve it further when I eventually start the story properly.

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If you're really curious, here are the original pages for comparison. :B
Page 1
Page 2
I changed the scenery on the first page because I wanted it to look more like a rundown part of town than a city scape.

Weeks 31 and 32 - Preparing for BICS

Been a couple of weeks at least since I last uploaded anything. I've been preparing stuff for the British Internation Comic Show next month, including artwork for the Midlands Comics Collective exhibition banner and free sampler comic that we'll be handing out at our table.

First up is the brief bio and cartoon portrait for the sampler:
(I'm not that bad with cats, but they are distracting bundles of cute (mostly!) : P )
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And second is a new drawing of Alusius to go on the MC2 banner:

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There's more BICS/ comic related artwork to come in the run up to the show, but I should be back to regularly scheduled uploading within a week or so. : )

Project 52 - Weeks 29 and 30: Requests and daft things

Another two-fer this week!
First up is character request my friend made while at Amecon (drawing his character in my style). I've been trying out some more dynamic poses recently and I think I'm getting better at them. : )DeviantArt link


Second is some Professor Layton/ Futurama inspired silliness:

For some odd reason, whenever Don Paolo escapes I always imagine him running away like Dr Zoidberg. : P

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Project 52: Weeks 26, 27, 28 - More Amecon arts

Been a while! I had intended to upload these before leaving for Amecon but didn't have enough time to. So here are the rest of the characters for the poster I took with me:


No it's not "the" Box Gundam guy, but it felt appropriate all the same. I've not seen much of Gundam outside Wing yet, so please bear in mind that a lot of fandom comments will probably go over my head!

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Pretty self-explanatory really. Rabid fangirls, they do exist outside the internet!
Just in case it's not known to some of you, a glomp is basically an incredibly enthusiatic, flying hug that can result in injuring the glompee. Yaoi... I'll leave you to find that one out.

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Last one from the Amecon series and the most terrifying con-goer of all, the non-showering, smelly guy. And yes, there were a few at Ame. : P

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During the next week or so, I'll be putting up the final poster and the full versions of the "Conwatch" comics. I'll also be carrying on with the weekly drawings as usual, as well as planning for my entry to next years Ayacon conbook. Until then!

Project 52: Week 25 - Japanophiles

Moar Amecon artz.

I'll add the accompanying text when it goes on the poster. Been rather busy lately (and will be for the next two weeks), so thought I'd at least put up the drawing so as to not miss another week.

Not sure if I like this one as much as the others, perhaps it's a bit too busy and obvious for now. Any input would be welcome. : )

(Also, I'm getting worried that doing these is making me a bit too unkind!)

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Project 52: Week 24 - "The Cosplay Pernicket"

Too mean? : p
Thankfully I've not come across any in person, but I definitely know they exist (and have witnessed them on certain forums).

Part 4 of the Amecon poster.
Sorry, I've been a bit behind lately through preparing for the convention but I'll have plenty of time to catch up when that's
over. : )

Also, "Excuuuse me Princess" proved far too tempting.

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