Graduate Showcase 2005.

To complement this year's graduate showcase we are hosting all the animations from the 3D, animation and moving image categories. We've done our best to keep the file sizes small whilst retaining quality, but be prepared for a bit of wait to download some of the entiries. Trust us, it's worth it. All the animations are in Quicktime format. So if you don't have Quicktime installed, go and get it from www.apple.com/quicktime/download

Three Dimensional

Iain Banks -  Last Train to Happiness

“This 3D animation, named Last Train to Happiness, was designed to be quite dark and was inspired by fi lms such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Joe Versus the Volcano. I used 3ds max to create the models, which were then animated in Softimage XSI.”

Click here to view Last train to happiness


Animation

Caileigh Bickley - Demons

 “Created in Photoshop, Animo and Premiere, this fi lm explores a poem about the inner demons we all carry and hide from others – following a young woman’s mind through a surreal and vastly colourful world.”

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Chris Pallaris – A dream of long ago

“Created mainly in 3ds max,  this 3D animation formed  part of my exploration of  Japanese culture and was  inspired by history, tradition,  nature, art and design.  Photoshop was used for  texturing and the “superflat”  character outlines.”

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Chris Cooper/Neil Gittings -  Greenpeace

“This TV/cinema advert for the Greenpeace category of  the D&AD awards was  created from huge cut-out  files that were scanned-in  and then layered in After  Effects. Rendering the  sequence took forever, but  it was worth the wait.”

Click here to view Chris Cooper's Greenpeace advert
Click here to view Neil Gittings' Greenpeace advert

Tom Evans ‘Milk’ and 'Margarine'

“Created in Illustrator,  Photoshop, After Effects and Maya, these animated  TV stings are a combination  of 2D and 3D animation.  The animation styles  contrast with the dark,  paranoid theme of the  programme they advertise.”

Click here to view Milk
Click here to view Margarine

Ewen Stenhouse - Birdie
“I’d describe my style as urban, with rural roots. Most recently I have been inspired by the work produced by Studio AKA, contemporary illustrators
and graffiti artists.”

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Ross Smith - Greenpeace
“This cinema advert for Greenpeace was created using Photoshop and After Effects in response to a D&AD brief. The animation focuses on the issue of
pollution through cars.”

Click here to view the Ross Smith 's Greenpeace advertt


Trevor White - Red leader
“I had the idea of using silhouettes to give my 3D models a 2D look and used a limited range of colours to make the finished piece more visually striking.”

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Joëlle Brindley - Picnic
“Inspired by the inky splatty illustrations of artists such as Ralf Steadman, I used Animo to animate the colours and splats to create energy and movement.”

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Steve Crook - The dangers of falling sealife
“The main inspiration for this project was the anarchic Warner Bros style of animation – bringing the spirit of Loony Tunes into a 3D CG environment.”

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Ross McDowell - 9 to 5
“The first of these animations is a modernised adaptation of Homer’s epic The Iliad. The style is a mixture of pixel art, info graphics and rotoscoped animation. The second is a social satire focusing on elements of the media, loosely inspired by George Orwell’s 1984.”

Click here to view 9 to 5