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Rubbed Out

A one minute CG animation that explores the relationship between a pencil and a light switch. I produced this short as a promotional piece for my animation blog ( animade.tv ). Being my first 3D animation I allowed my inexperience to provide limitations that would steer the final piece. The film is constructed from 2 cameras. One being a point of view shot from the rubbers pospective, while the other is a simple subjective shot exposing both characters.

Rubbed Out

I have just completed a short one minute animation for animade.tv. Have a look HERE

Go Red

This is my contribution to the Go-Red monster auction. I was given the task of producing the body and arms of a fantastical beast. This involved drawing the tree segments by hand and then scanning and compositing them along side the digitally drawn figure.

Richard House is London’s first hospice for children with life-threatening and complex healthcare conditions. We need to raise an estimated £1.8 million this year to ensure the running of the hospice; this vital work depends almost entirely upon the generous support of individuals, companies and trusts. GO RED! is one of our most important fund-raising campaigns.Find out more at: www.richardhouse.org/go-red/

animade update

My animation blog animade can now be found at animade.tv. I have subtly redesigned the layout and also added links to the facebook group and twitter. Please pop on over and have a wonder through the 146 videos.

5oup

Chambers Judd is pleased to announce that 5oup has lauched with a fresh new design. 5oup is a platform for student and emerging artists to showcase their work and a place to get feedback and advice all within a site that looks great and is simple to use. James must be given all the credit for the complete overhaul. I look forward to helping to push this project forward, creating a truly unique online space that grows in response to its users.

Be part of it by creating your 5oup profile now - click here

5oup!

James and I have just launched a new version of 5oup. Join here!

Bruce in France

Bruce will be screened at the Premiers Plans Festival on the 24th of January. More info here

Bruce Wins!

Bruce won the best student film at Bradford Animation Festival!

Me On Twitter?

Click to follow me!!! I thought it was time to embrace the world of tweet so I got all signed up and have started wasting my time trying to think up short witty commentaries that describe what I am currently up to. Follow me!

Bruce At Short and Sweet

Bruce is being screened tonight at London's only weekly short film night - "Short and Sweet". Doors open at 6:30 at Cafe 1001.

Animade

Daily Animation Stimulation! I started animade after finishing my 2 year course in animation at the RCA. The idea is to keep it simple and let the videos do the talking. I also intend on producing an ongoing series of short sub-30 second promos. Here is the first one every! Go to animade and subscribe to the RRS feed to keep up with it all.

animade.co.uk

Bruce At Interfilm Berlin

Bruce will be showing in the Eject program at Interfilm Berlin - November the 3rd to the 8th.

Bruce

Bruce is my latest animation and the outcome of 2 years studying a Masters at the Royal College of Art. If you like the look of the trailer and stills then please try and get along to the next screening (see 'more info' below).

Synopsis:
Advances in open-source genetic programming allow a young man to grow his very own action hero.

Screenings List:
River Run (2010)
Premiers Plans (2010)
ArtCourtVidéO (2009)
Short and Sweet (2009)
Interfilm Berlin (2009)
Bradford Animation Festival (2009) WINNER
Eksjö Animation Festival (2009)
London International Animation Festival (2009)
Onedotzero International Festival (2009)
Show 09 Royal College of Art (2009)

About:
runtime - 3mins 30secs
language - no dialogue
copyright - Royal College of Art 2009
technique - digitally drawn animation

Credits:
Written, directed, animated by Tom Judd
assistant animators Scott Lockhart / Dan Chester
sound design Jussi Honka

For any inquiries about the distribution or licencing of Bruce please contact jane colling

Agile Films

I am happy to announce that I have just signed as a director with Agile Films.

bruce at baf

Bradford Animation Festival (or BAF) have chosen to screen Bruce in their Student category. BAF runs from the 10th - 14th of November. More information here

bruce at liaf

Bruce will be screened at the London International Animation Festival this Saturday (5th Sept). It is being shown in the British Panorama Screening at 7pm. Click here for more info about LIAF and a full program rundown.

bruce at onedotzero

Bruce has been selected by OneDotZero! It will be screened as part of the 09 adventures in moving image. Click here to see the times. This is a great chance to see Bruce in full on the big screen. I will be going along to the Saturday 12th screening at 4:15 in nft1. Hope to see you there.

Eyebrow Hat

I produced this hat as half of my final body of work for my MA in Animation. The concept came about whilst thinking about botox users and their wonderfully emotionless faces. The eyebrow hat allows its wearer to express themselves by altering the pitch and height of each synthetic brow using the lightweight controller. The result is a dignified look that friends and family will admire.

Tech Stuff
- 1 x Arduino Board - located within the controller
- 4 x mini servos - tailored into the front of the hat
- 2 x slide potentiometers (adjust height of each brow)
- 2 x rotational potentiometers (adjust pitch of each brow)
- 1 x Bowler hat
- 2 x synthetic eyebrows
- 2 x skin coloured plasters (to disguise your original brows)
(more info and images coming soon)

Thanks to -
Luis Lopez-Smith who hand tailored a unique servo pouch for the Hat.

Grids

Grids is an animation framework that uses a grid of 12 x 12 squares rather than a linear sequence of frames. Through interaction with the controller the viewer can play through the grid in 2 directions. Along the x axis of the grid or down the y axis.

The 2 wheel controller plays back a grid of frames. One wheel plays across the grid on the x axis, whilst the other plays down the x axis. This gives the view the interactive ability to explore all 144 frames of the animation in along various paths.

Tech stuff:
The controller uses 12 magnets on each wheel to trigger a reed switch which then communicates with Flash via an arduino. Flash interprets the data and moves the grid across or down by one square for each magnet that passes. The sound is produced in MAX MSP (collaboration with Chris Chong from the royal college of music). Flash sends a piece of data for each frame change, which is interpreted according to the time passed since the last hit. This creates synced sounds which vary in pitch with the speed of the wheel(s) being spun.

ActionScript 3

I started learning Actionscript 3 in July 08. Here is an ever growing collection of tests and experiments. click the titles to launch them

• TREE - roll over the ends of branches to grow new ones. Rolling over fruit will cause them to drop. Clicking branches will cut them back.

• BLOCKS - roll over the blocks to rotate them 90 degrees. Click the dots to refresh the text.

Face Maker

Commissioned by YCN and Tinker to produce a interactive face-maker and navigation system. This project was a real mixture of character design, illustration and some full on Actionscript 3 coding.

Part 1 - The Face Maker
Each of the 110 artists involved in YCN Live created an avatar using this face maker that I designed / programmed / and illustrated. The demo above gives a basic idea of how it worked, however the actual face maker included a save function so that the artists could create and save their face. The data was collected in a xml file and then used to load the 110 avatars into part 2.

Part 2 - In Show Navigation
The faces made up the navigation that was pumped onto 2 large displays at the show. The viewer used a toggle wheel (created and designed by Tinker) to interact with the navigation which I programmed in flash and designed alongside HudsonBec.

Try it out!

Afflecks

I worked with ?Love? to produce these large scale illustrations for the relaunch of Afflecks in Manchester. They will be in place of the Mosaics until they have been cleaned and reinstated some time latter this year. I had 5 days to produce the 18 panels. Taking inspiration from the new Logo I put together the picture story of a fox who rediscovers himself.

Doritos

I produced this poster for Doritos to advertise their free play competition in universities across the UK.

Barclays

3 illustrations for Barclays to promote the opening of their new Manchester store. I worked along with Stuart Kolakovic who produced the other 3 images. The illustrations will be appearing on a huge hoarding and on publicity material.

Little John Robert

This is the result of a two week animation project. The aim was to experiment with Lip Syncing techniques over a selection of audio provided by the Imperial War Museum. I started by selecting and editing the sound track together from over 4 hours of recordings. Then I animated little John Robert using a mixture of Flash and Stop Frame animation then bundled it all together in After Effects.

Computer Arts 2

Computer Arts commissioned me to produce a half page illustration for their 143th issue. The article talks about how designers need to be brave and keep pushing the creative process to its limits. So I drew someone scanning a lion.

Zeptoon Collab

I have been working with Illustrative designer Jan Willem Wennekes (aka Zeptonn) on a black and white collaborative piece. It is going to be included in the book which is to be published later this year. You can see more of Zeptonn?s work by following the link below.

WheelTime

The world falls apart as the inhabitants drastically underestimate the significance of one man - I produced this animation using a mixture of hand drawn stop-motion and computer based manipulation. For more information about Wheel Time feel free to e-mail me.

If I Could...

This is my illustration for the first issue of If You Could - Published by Hudson Bec

Timelines

I drew loads and loads of pictures for this BBC bafta award winning history program. Here are just a few of them.

Burton GTwin

Burton asked me to draw something for their 2008 GTwin board way back in the summer of 2006. I did the work but had to hold back from showing any images due to the contract I signed. Anyhow, today I received the boards that they gave me as part-payment for the job, so I guess I am allowed to add this to my portfolio. Bit annoying really posting up work that I did 1 and a half years ago. Any way here are some images of the work I did and the board that it?s on.

Computer Arts 1

Computer Arts commissioned me to produce a half page illustration for their 126th issue. The theme was After Effect plug ins. I was keen to explore various ways of indulging my normal style with a bit of photoshop malarkey.

Sound into Image

Using stop frame techniques with TORN CARD / PAPER CUT OUTS / PAINT ON GLASS / FILM / BLUE-TAK / PEN AND INK.

Everyday

Everyday was a self-set project intended to keep me drawing on a regular basis. Each page represents a day of my life and was scanned and uploaded to my site. I completed 2 years of drawing Everyday.

VIEWER INSTRUCTIONS
Use the viewer above to navigate all 731 pages of Everyday. Click the top bar to toggle between volume 1 and 2 and use the on page navigation to view thumbs or skip back and forth between pages.

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