Day 22 – Creative Advent 14

Message in the Snow 
By Emma Chiplin in London, England
Music by Lullatone
A short animation of a crafted little snowman and his family.

See more from Emma: emmachiplin.com

See the whole advent calendar here: www.charlottevogel.com/advent2014

Day 14 – Creative Advent 14

A gif from me to you
By Stephen Ong from Norwich in England
See more from Stephen: makeitmove.co.uk

See the whole advent calendar here: www.charlottevogel.com/advent2014

V-Day 2014 from H to me

From Henning:

V-Day 2014 from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo.

Do More Of What Makes You Happy #2

Ready for the Mustard Cafe's January change over, I've prepared another 'Do More Of What Makes You Happy' paper cut. I made one this time last year and it sold on the first day of being exhibited. It was not intended to be a New Year's resolution, but it emerged to be something I kept in mind for the last year and it had positive effects. I hope this new colour way will spread the love!

Tunnelblick

I have the pleasure of sharing with you another master piece of Digital Art…

Following the incredible success of our music video MASS, animator Henning Lederer has teamed up with musician Rob Clouth for another monochromatic spectacular. This time they present you with a hypnotic, constricted, circular tunnel of vision: TUNNELBLICK: 

Tunnelblick from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo.
 

***IMPORTANT NOTE***

Enjoy fullscreen in a dark room with a decent sound system turned up loud!

Sunrise by Roy Lichtenstein

In March I visited the  Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Tate Modern. As Henning missed the exhibition I sent him a post card. A few weeks later, he had animated the scene…

Sunrise by Roy Lichtenstein from hm-lab on Vimeo.

Winning entry of the Tatty Devine Hot House Animation competition!

In June, Henning and I worked on a short animation to enter the Tatty Devine Hot House competition. 

We had the idea of working with a travelling mandala. This was a perfect theme for the piece, as the mandala is associated with the far east – hot countries – something the Spring Summer 2013 collection is taking inspiration from.

I started by drawing all the pieces of the Hot House collection in Illustrator… 

I also drew some extra patterns, taking inspiration from henna tattoos. This was a natural connection, inspired from the Tatty Devine Holi party back in March! This is my beautiful faux sister, Auria, with a fresh glitter henna tattoo at the TD Holi party in London, March 13.

I also worked on the title and credit screen, animated background sun rays and sound design.

As the Hot House collection features jungle leaves and animals, it was really important to me that the film had a warm, humid atmosphere and tropical background sound. With the mandala's connection to the far east, it seemed fitting to adorn the scene with the sound of a sitar. This instantly gives the piece a relaxed ambience, which also connects to the mandala's association with meditation. 

The overall effect is a fascinating array of curiosities circling before you…  

The Hot House Mandala from Charlotte Vogel on Vimeo.

It took the majority of the weekend to get it done, but it was well worth the effort. Firstly, we enjoy working collaboratively – sometimes things get hairy, but we always find a way to make things work. Secondly, WE WON! 

Ours was one of three animations chosen to receive a prize and be screened at the London Short Film Festival in January 2014. 

We got a really lovely comment from Harriet Vine: 

“This is one of my favourite entries! I love the soundtrack and the way Charlotte incorporated elements of the collection in the pattern.”

See the other winners here.

A very big thank you to Henning for making making it all come to life! You can see more of his amazing animations here.

Hello Rob!

Mum and I travelled to London for the day to finish our Christmas shopping, meet Rob Ryan and collect the prize for winning the Christmas Competition.



Naturally, it was incredible to see behind the scenes and meet an artist whose work I've been admiring for years. Rob Ryan, and all the people in his studio, are as lovely as you would expect them to be for being behind such beautiful work. He showed us around his pad, including his yummy studio and cute bedroom. My camera couldn't capture everything with enough quality, but I can confirm his studio looks like this:

There was an enormous, intricate paper cut work in progress…

As Rob showed us around his (occasional) living space, I got a lovely photo of his finished rest room with their (own made) periodic table tiles, which I read about on his blog post a few months ago…

On the train home, mum and I had so much fun looking through all the glorious prizes I'd been presented with! Here are a few…

Desk Calendar

Cushion Cover

Money Box

Note Book

2013 wall calendar

Limited Edition Laser Cut

Limited Edition Screen Print

Signed Book

Tea Towel

Tea Towel

Tea Towel

Book

Ceramic Tile

Ceramic Tile

Tape

Christmas Tape

And lots more!

Aside from all these beautiful items, by far the best part of winning this prize was meeting Rob and his team, seeing his studios, being invited to do work experience, and getting a massive hug accompanied by a mouthful of fluffy hair. I do hope we meet again.

Rob Ryan Christmas Competition 2012

Henning and I entered the Rob Ryan Christmas Competition – AND WE WON!
We spent a whole weekend getting this prepared. We had a few hairy moments, but what a success! 

Here is our winning entry:

…what it takes to decide from Charlotte Vogel on Vimeo.

MASS paper cuts – Gears

Finally finished the MASS Gears paper cut, the first scene in the MASS animation.
This is in heavy weight black paper. I'm not so happy, the thickness of the paper made it difficult to get the cut perfect, especially the curves. I am looking into using finer stock and upgrading my knife to a swivel blade.

MASS prints now available

You can now buy prints and greetings cards of our MASS animation! 

Seven stills from the hypnotic animation have been chosen for reproduction.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MASS PRINTS

Mass Animation – Online

Our music video is complete and online:

Mass Animation

Working on an animation for the track 'Mass' by Vaetxh alongside Henning Lederer.

I worked on creating a scene of one of my favourite topics: space.

Nyan Cat Celebration!

My tribute to the Nyan Cat craze

Click here to watch the Nyan Celebration

First frame of blink kitty

First frame of blinking kitten animation