The Personal Blog of Dr Banksy*.

And we're done. What a ride. From drawing to animating to filming and finally editing. Crazy times, but I'm very happy with the result. The parts of the project which I am most pleased with are the cel shading elements (the rotoscope clip at the beginning and the guitarist studies at the end). I really feel like I've learned many a new skill, and brushed up on some old ones at the same time. Laborious, but totally worth it. The vector drawings make the work look detailed and crisp, which I feel is a must for cel shading. The filmed elements of the documentary are slightly disappointing. I feel that much of the background noise should have been eliminated (by me of course, my tutor provided an excellent interview that ticked all the boxes in one take). The lighting also isn't great, but in my defence, it would have been difficult to get photography studio lamps into my snug corner of the lounge where I keep my guitar stuff. I'm also really pleased with the qualit...

As part of our current project of experimenting with photo media techniques at college, we were tasked with taking strictly twelve photos (no reshoots) using a formatted Nikon D90 (great value mid-range cameras, recommend picking one up).  Each photo had to be associated with a certain word - we just had to represent these words with images (easy, right? Right?). These were then edited in Photoshop to improve the quality of each image and make them look like polaroid pictures (kudos if you got the title). Here are my responses and some insight into each one. Good luck! Sass - In college there's a roof access warning sign and, as seen in the image, someone has stuck some eye stickers in the "oo" in "roof". This image emphasises the playful, cheeky nature of this act.  The positioning of the text and red edge in the shot lead the eye well, but since the red colour was quite pale to begin with, I increased the intensity of the red tones in the image to b...

Almost finished with my documentary project - just a little bit of editing left to do. In the meantime, I thought I'd shed some light on the process I've used to create my cel shading studies of my guitar idols with these frankly wonderful images. Layers are man's best friend when it comes to this process. I start by finding an image of the subject that I like and pasting it into a blank canvas in Illustrator. This is my "Image" layer. Now I can start tracing the main outline of the subject straight over the image. I've turned off the image layer here so you can see just what I'm producing. New layer - "Main Outline".  Then it comes to adding details. I start with clothing. New layer - "Waistcoat".  Next I've added the shirt details. New layer - "Shirt".  Then the guitar details. New layer - "Guitar" And finally the face details. New layer - "Head". This completes the black-and-white outline tracing of ...