DIY Screen Printing

Reblogged from Louise Lawlor's blog:

This is mine and Amy's first attempt at screen printing. We made the screen using a cheap photo frame and a mesh fabric stapled over it and then covered each side with the emulsion and exposed the image onto it using the sun (which took several attempts to get the timing right)
For a first attempt I think it was a great success, needs more work to get the timing just right, also the material we used was a little too thin so it let ink through even with the emulsion on it.

Stay tuned for the 2nd attempt!

Repeat-x, Repeat-y backgrounds

Submitted a few backgrounds for repeat-x, repeat-y


See more here:
http://www.repeatxrepeaty.com/

Processing website

http://www.amythornley.co.uk/ps/index.html
Here is a website with all of the stuff on from my processing project. Enjoi!

Type and Code

Today I've been experimenting in processing with text, simple stuff but with some nice results even just as eye candy. I was inspired by this workshop called 'Type and Code' (http://www.yeoahn.com/typecode/index.html) and decided to play around with some of the techniques it covered on the website.

Video of some of the animations can be viewed below, the quality has suffered a bit but for the record the white dots are @'s and probably my favourite. Now if only I could remember how I did it:


Hope to experiment more soonly!

Title Sequence

Title sequence for the 80's film 'War Games'. I recreated a computer's DOS effect along with similar computer graphics for the radar system used in the film to create the titles. They were then re-filmed to make them look more authentic.

I then used lots of footage from in and around the cold war as the film was made around the end of the cold war and about missile's being launched between Russia and the US.

Finally added the sound of 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood which is again about war.

Showreel 2010

Showreel of my work from years 1 and 2:

GIFFF!

my gif is finally on I AM NOT AN ARTIST. yayy. Also check out the rest, mah00siive update. lots of cool ones.

http://iamnotanartist.org/gif.php?id=243

Poster

So I got bored and made this poster for war games, using the same aesthetic as my title sequence.

Title Sequence Progress

Trying to plough ahead with my title sequence but I've hit a bit of a wall trying to get the text as I want it. I've been trying to film it from an old crt tele, managed to stop it flickering and get the lighting right but for some reason the camera is adding a jitter almost as if I was hand holding it but it's on a tripod. Here's a screenshot. Visually gorgeous, but not working as an animation. Hoping I can fix it as the digital vector just does not have the same effect.

My Virtual Space

Final(ish) piece for 3 cubed project. Few bits I'd like to work on but pretty pleased for now:


My Virtual Space from Amy Thornley on Vimeo.

Storyboard sneakpeak

Here's an example of a few storyboards/concept art for my title sequence. More to come soon!

P.s. Working on 3cubed in after effects has driven me insane

3 Cubed Progress

Spent all day Wednesday in the studio taking some photo's for my 3cubed project. Still only about halfway through even the photographing progress but it's going okay. Managed to get the toolbox animated and photographed the objects to represent music, documents and video files on my computer. Unfortunately the documents arnt going to work as I'd wanted so I've got to redo those as something else not week a long with image files and my macbook.

Here's a photo from the studio

And one with the background removed ready for animation:

There's a few light changes throughout but it was really inevitable using stop-motion for this part. Overall looking pretty good though. (:

War Games

Our latest project for our digital practice class is a title sequence. I've chosen to do War Games. Won't release any snippets of my idea yet, but here's a trailer for those of you who havn't seen this classic:

3cubed animation test

Quick test I've done for my 3cubed project of showing how the vinyls etc. would build and animate. Think I'm going to also do them from slight angles to add a bit more interest. Also going to try and work on giving the background a bit more depth.

Go here to see: http://www.amythornley.co.uk/stuff/records.html

If everything on your computer were real...

It may look like this:

Click for detail. Also ignore the squares on such things like after effects, couldn't work out for the life of me how to draw a projector, typewriter or overhead projector from above.

Animated Alphabet

Alphabet.. done!

www.amythornley.co.uk

My website is now online at www.amythornley.co.uk

Has a selection of my work on from the last two years.

Let me know what you think.

Website

I recently bought www.amythornley.co.uk and am working on the design, should hopefully be online fully within the next couple of days, here's a sneak peak:

 

Alphabet development

More development of my alphabet today. Managed to get the video camera recording after a bit of pestering the technicians at uni. I fed the picture of the letter into the TV via my mac, and then recorded it with the old camera, I played around with the focus and shutter a bit which gave me some cool glowy effects.

Looks quite nice when like above, but sometimes it was a bit too overpowering so I may just use it a little, if at all.

After filming the letter with the old VHS camera, I then set up a DV camera (too many cameras!) and fed the VHS camera into the TV via scart.

As I fimed it with the DV camera I used the tracking, pause, skip frame, rewind and forwarding to try and create some cool effects. It involved a lot of mashing of various buttons to work out what worked best. Skipping between pausing, rewinding and forwarding is particularly effective.

Here is a little bit of a film to show what kind of stuff I got, this is my favourite bit I captured.



Hopefully do some more letters tomorrow.

VHS Fun

We have been set a project for our Digital Practice/Media Through Time lesson to create an animated alphabet. Something along the lines of this:

This is an amazing piece of work created by dropping the letters into a tub of cornflour and water.

I'm interested in the idea of playing with VHS tapes and seeing what type of effects I can get by altering the tracking, fast forwarding etc. Managed to find this old VHS camera in the studio that tapes normal size tapes.

 

 Bought it home and it still works, just need to keep it plugged in! I wanted to use it to feed into the TV though so bought a normal red, white and yellow to scart cable and then an old VHS from a charity shop (teenage mutant ninja turtles yeah!)

And it works! Later today I'm gonna try the old selotape over the edge trick and try to record over the tape with a sample letter. First of all I need to get a DVD or something to get the alphabet onto the TV... or to be even more geeky, I could try and feed my mac into the tv, then feed the tv feed into the camera... confusing? Very!