STEF ROBERTS: 3rd YEAR ANIMATION: Archive

My Site!

Check out my new site! owning a phone that hates flash spurred me on to learn html and css and all of that. I spent a few days just studying, getting my head around the basics and then it was all joy! I actually really enjoyed making it and I really like the site :)

Dec 14th

Nov 24th

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IF IN MY MEMORY SOUND: This is a short collection of clips showing some of the process I went through to create the music and sound and other stuff for ‘If in My Memory’

Sep 20th

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FILMING IF IN MY MEMORY A short documentary about how I shot ‘If in My Memory’.

Jun 3rd

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Apr 16th

BYE BYE TOM

Due to a lack of mostly time but also a clear direction at this stage, Tom and me have had to postpone our collaboration for now. It’s frustrating but it wasn’t at all a waste; we came up with a manifesto and inspired each other to think about our priorities and what is important to us. Hopefully next year as we work together, Tom, Matt and me will have the opportunity to revisit this...

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Mar 9th

DONE IT!!! This is it… the...

Mar 7th

TEST TRACK FOR CAT I think this is my 7th attempt...

Mar 4th

TRACK FOR MATT: This is a test recording I did...

Mar 3rd

Writing a dissertation is robbing me of all my time and energy.

Feb 26th

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Test Piece #1 - cat A quick animated visual test for the animation I’m doing with cat.

Feb 19th

Feb 18th

VISUAL TEST #1

_______________________________________________________________________________________ After making things with Cat on Monday, I’ve started to make some visual tests to find the right feel/style for our piece. The next thing to try is some animation tests.

Feb 18th

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Feb 15th

Bye Bye...

It’s pretty much mid-february and I’ve realised that unless I cut down, I’m going to be way behind my schedule… I have four films to finish planning and to make as well as a dissertation to write (that I wanted to have finished two weeks ago!). So I’ve decided to dump my mum…. sorry mum :( - I figured that I’d rather make three great pieces than...

Feb 13th

A PROCESS FOR CREATIVE WRITING

_______________________________________________________________________________________ SATURDAY NIGHT WITH MATT WAY: The idea was to do make a piece of wiriting from a recorded conversation, inspired by an actual event. Matt and I have often gone out late at night to the city, not to cause trouble or harm anyone or anything, but instead to appreciate it, and to notice the beauty that we so...

Feb 9th

Feb 7th

SIDE PROJECT, BUT PART OF IT REALLY

My brother Danny and me have started a side project that is to write a song/make a piece of music once a week. Together we’re planning to write all of the soundtracks for this album of collaborations. Here is a link to our BLOG: http://stefanddanny.tumblr.com/ I think a lot of people forget how important sound and music is in motion pieces both animated and live action. Music is pretty...

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Jan 15th

THE ARTISTS: TOM MORRIS

_____________________________________________________________________________________ TOM MORRIS: Tom Morris made this magazine where he had to collaborate with 10 artists. He inspired me to work with others and now thats all I ever want to do. In the words of Kyle Cooper, “When you play with other people, it’s always more fun.” Tom is studying Graphic Design…...

Jan 13th

THE ARTISTS: MATT WAY

_______________________________________________________________________________________ MATT WAY: Matt is a photo artist, a graffiti artist, a graphic designer, a poet and a musician. I chose to work with Matt because I know him well and I love his work. His ideas are always well thought out and his concepts are strong, he also has the ability to realise those ideas well. Which is great. Matt...

Jan 13th

THE ARTISTS: CAT DAVIS

_______________________________________________________________________________________ CAT DAVIS: Cat Graduated with a Degree in Animation last year. She’s a talented illustrator, animator, photographer and is good with most forms of craft and modeling. I chose to work with Cat because her work is so different to mine and yet I think we will be able to combine our ideas and styles...

Jan 13th

THE ARTISTS: ISABELLE ROBERTS

_______________________________________________________________________________________ ISABELLE ROBERTS: Isabelle is a Bristol based artist who paints, sculpts, draws, prints and takes photos. She also happens to be my Mum. I chose to work with my mum because her work is genuinely amazing and because the thought of making a motion piece with her seems like an exciting challenge; to...

Jan 13th

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‘SING UP’ BY STUDIO AKA. On the theme of referencing things that inspire me, here’s a spot by Studio AKA. This is a 40 second piece that is fun, playful, tells a simple and cool story and looks good. I’d like the animations I produce to feel like this one.

Jan 11th

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A COOL FILM BY JACK CAULFIELD AND RICH EASTICK ABOUT STEVE DUNNE. This film shows a few examples of the songs from Steve’s album ‘Photographs’, one of the first things that inspired me to do this project in the first place. Very cool.

Jan 11th

Click Here To See Tom Morris's Cool Blog: →

This is a link to Tom’s Blog. He’s collaborating with 10 artists. Nice one Tom :) _________________________________________________________________________________

Jan 11th

RECAP

IN THIS BLOG I’D LIKE TO DO A QUICK RECAP OF EVERYTHING FROM LAST TERM AND THEN EXPLAIN A BIT ABOUT MY PLANS FOR THIS TERM SO THAT HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING WILL MAKE SENSE AND I’LL BE ABLE TO MOVE ON. I STARTED LAST TERM WITH THE INTENTION OF MAKING A SERIES OF FUN AND PLAYFUL ANIMATIONS THAT I COULD COMPILE INTO AN ALBUM. I WAS INSPIRED BUY A GUY I KNOW CALLED STEVE DUNNE WHO MADE A...

Jan 11th

HOLIDAYS!!

Everyone needs Holidays. Merry Christmas :) __________________________________________________________________________

Dec 22nd

THE NEXT STEP

I have felt a bit frustrated at times during this project. And I think I’ve worked out why; I live in a house and have close friends and family all around me, a lot of whom are extremely creative and incredibly talented and yet I’m working alone. WHATS THAT ABOUT!!!?? So I was having a conversation with my brother danny last week and I got so inspired and got this idea: To do a...

Dec 2nd

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This week has felt great, it feels like I’m making the most of things… things like my 3rd year in animation and things like my life. It’s been productive and very fun. Another great thing that happened this week (which I will expand upon during next weeks blog) was that I had an idea that I’m pretty much way excited about… I’ll save all the explaining for later...

Nov 27th

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I went to london to visit some design/animation studios and to ask for some work experience and ended up making this animation to document my trip. It was lots of fun. The soundtrack is taken from one of my own songs that I recorded last week. I like it… though I can’t actually quite believe I made another animation featuring the (in)famous ‘walking man’ … I think I...

Nov 27th