I wanted to create an interpretation of the various flavors and smells that the cheese presented, by having them replicate traditional Spanish tiles and decoration.
Tiles are one of the main decorations in traditional and modern Spanish architecture, as well as being symbols.
This brief was to present a formidable cheese feast to esteemed guests, that not only spoke of your experience and journey to fame as a famous interior designer but also told of your journey through Spanish culture expressed through cheese!
As part if the brief 'you' are a child of the 90s!
This fun piece of stop-motion was playing with camera angles, timing and (slightly) storyline. We were just enjoying ourselves!
As a critique, due to the animation being in a trailer format, more editing would have created more suspense at the end and made the piece more seemless.
I have included this in the Animation category, because although the collective piece as a whole was never finished, each scene was a project in itself!
This storyboard sees the origins of now one of my favorite characters, my PIG character, who features later in my other animation. This original concept, entitled "Faith" sees the pig, scared stiff in a nightmare scenario, being hunted by a huge beastly DOG. The full story is yet to be animated, and has not yet been completed due to the evolution of my production process, which means I want to do the whole thing again from scratch!
In the later animation (see post for: ANGER ISSUES), the PIG is featured as an actor giving interviews, as well as the DOG character. I wanted to flip the perception I had created in FAITH on it's head and have the PIG, who is the victim in this piece, as a complete bully in real life. This also makes the PIG's appearance even less desirable (and funnier!)
The DOG's character in FAITH (and especially in scene 2, not yet posted) is this incredibly scary unknown, with no indicator as to how dangerous he is but very animalistic and menacing, wheras the PIG has the antropomorphic expressions that allow the audience to relate and pity him. This original perception of the DOG makes his actual character, expressed in ANGER ISSUES as a camp and completely harmless victim to the PIG's bullying even more amusing as a contrast.
The idea for ANGER ISSUES actually came from Christian Bale, who lost his temper on the set of Terminator Salvation (quite badly) at his DP, and thus the idea for ANGER ISSUES was born!
I'm a free-lance stop-motion animator and illustrator, currently based in Munich. At the moment I'm developing my puppets, creating cards and very interested in film/animation production.
ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT TO JAMES MURRAY
