More research & refrences

Here are some more image refrences that i have been looking at and which i have mentioned in the previous research post.

Wallace & Gromit is probably one of the more popular and iconic characters from Aardman and in general Claymation. Two of their short films "The Wrong Trousers", "A Close Shave" and its feature length "The Curse of the Were Rabbit" received academy awards.

Chicken Run is a Claymation film which was produced by Aardman Animation Studios and was released back in 2000.

Creature Comforts is also produced by Aardman Animation studios. I have watched this a couple of times on ITV and really found the facial and body animation convincingly expressed. The audio voice of these general everyday people that is lip synced with the Clay characters is impressive and funny. I think in some ways it has made me think more about facial expressions and Lip Sync, i only have to look at myself and see how my eyes, head and mouth move in flow with my voice.

Here is an image of Pocoyo which i also mentioned in my previous post. Again i have watched this many times on TV and the web and i just love the simplicity of the characters and the animation.

This is obviously CG claymation and this is the look i want for my character.

I also found out that Pocoyo is produced in Spain and the software they use to achieve their CG clay look is created using SoftImage XSI.

Noddy is also a CG claymation. What is interesting about this TV show is that Noddy was previously a pure Claymation but since then, the studio behind Noddy have decided to move into the Digital CG claymation. This is also evident for Postman Pat, another kids TV Show which was pure claymation but since then was adapted into Digital CG claymation.

Just some Refrences which i have used to sketch character poses for Willie Billiams in a character sheet. These poses displayed in the picture demonstrate that the boy is hyperactive and it is a useful refrence as hyperactive is Willie Billiams main personality aspect.

Here is a link which i have checked out for information on Claymation and the history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation

The Website below is the Aardman Animation Studio Website and i have checked out it for more information.

http://www.aardman.com/

This link below displays a concept artist who produced drawings for the Jak & Daxter Game. His name is Bob Falei and it gave me an idea of how i should go about producing the concepts for my character.

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=jak3&message.id=61054

And this link below is the studio who produce Pocoyo. A quick warning for this link, it is in spanish as the Studio is from Spain.

http://www.zinkia.com/