National Gallery version

...And here's the latest - and possibly last ever - version...


National Gallery version of film from Kathryn Miller on Vimeo.

Untitled from Kathryn Miller on Vimeo.

Latest version...

I'm running out of filenames for this film

I've saved so many versions of this thing now I think the latest file is called leveretwithmusicfinalfinalfinal if I remember rightly. But I thought it was worth uploading this update on the previous final-for-now version because this features the excellent music done by my brother Christian whose Myspace is here.

This is no more the final version of the music than it is of the film. It was tailored to the film as it stood about a month ago.




The March Hare and The Fire Fly from Kathryn Miller on Vimeo.

Showreel

Yup, this is my showreel...

Music is 'Horse and I' by Bat For Lashes.

Final film

And this is the final film in all its glory... well, some of its glory- there's still quite a lot of work to do on it, and this is the version without the music.

I'll be posting more about the making of this (and how I continue to make it!)


The March Hare and The Fire Fly from Kathryn Miller on Vimeo.

...And furthermore...

Thought I'd also post the train that I drew in Flash to use in some scenes (though in others the train's a more of a sillhouette with a boil on it, because that seemed more dynamic).

Tis, in fact, a very faithful drawing of a Fire Fly engine and Great Western Railway carriages, which research told me would have been the train crossing that bridge. The Fire Fly had been around for about eight years by 1844 (which is the estimated date of Turner's painting). Maidenhead Bridge I took more artistic license with because the actual structure, with its two, low brick arches may be one of Brunel's early miracles of engineering, but just wasn't dramatic enough for my tastes :)

In any case the train and the bridge were both very new in the 1840s: Turner was depicting absolute modernity. It's hard to get past the image of the steam train as romantic, but that's why I used the brash, limited palette inspired by 30s railway posters (which were screenprinted, I believe). The plan is to have plenty of smoke and steam - after all, the painting is called 'Rain, Steam and Speed' - and have the engine perpetually emerging from it. Sort of demonic.

... But in the meantime

So here's some bits of preparitory work I did. Not the Turner, obviously :) That was the original inspiration for the film. The hare is actually there in the picture, but it's so tiny as to be barely visible in the actual painting, let alone this tiny reproduction.

And below are some sketches I did of hares from pictures and videos, some early mapping out of action and an excerpt from my storyboard.

Pairs project

Hm, having some trouble getting my videos to upload but here's one that's cooperating: one brief project we had was for us 2D animators to pair up with a 3D animator on the course and animate a chatup line/rebuff situation.

The 3D bit - i.e. the really good bit - is by Bill Elliot.


Animation: 'A bit of an eyesore' from Kathryn Miller on Vimeo.

As I write I'm in the very final week of my PgDip in Character Animation at Central Saint Martins. It's been a steep learning curve and I still feel like I've only just begun to understand how this animation stuff works...

I'm going to post some videos and pictures here from the past few months, mostly from the production of my final project animation.

For now here's my original animatic... well, I say animatic. I kinda got bored and animated it quite a lot...