I've been meaning to give this one a propper mention. The idea is that Robert Llewellyn drives a famous person around and talks to them. You can see them all here. very interesting stuff, from the viewpoint of me being a artist who doesn;t often meet other artists. Llewellyn is extreamly good at adapting to all the various different people.

This is also wonderfully important from a documenting history point of view...think about, when these people die, this will be a slice of them talking.

NOTE: Beware there's often quite a lot of swearing and somtimes some very open crude talk...so i would say if easyly upset by that, then maybe its not for you...but I feel it is incredible to see people talk about sex.

Also, I love the music.

TWITTER = ?
TWEET = a message of 140 characters and no more
TWIBE = a group of people

So what is Twitter?...It's almost like a big massive social experiment in peoples behaviour, but then, isn’t everything?

Some people tweet what their eating or what they are about to do, some people keep it very much to just plugging their work...a sort of a constant advertising. I myself entered into it by ways of internet friends and liked to see / get news on when the radio people at simply syndicated were going to go live for a show.

Twitter is very dual purpose. It can be used to instant message each other (which some people do a lot of, and some people don’t do much of at all)

I have been so surprised about three or four times now by how it can be used to direct people to something, it can get very interesting very fast. Here’s a list, they are listed below with numbers next to them.

1) I happened to see a three hour live (very low budget) chat show that was absolutely great...just by seeing a tweet and clicking on a link. It was a Levar Burton tweet. He was a guest on the show and was tweeting about it at the time.

2) It led me to Robert Llewellyn’s Carpool show, now this thing really does have no budget and I have to add is extremely good.

3) I joined a Twibe for Cinema 4D (a Twibe is a group) (also while we’re at it, a Tweet, is a message) and then I was presumably kicked out / thrown out of the Twibe...now I don’t know why this happened, but I think it was something to do with my silly tweets on my own personal main page...nothing really to do with the group...I suspect, I was checked out by the admin and he thought I was a fool. So all of this was very self reflecting...I felt very stupid...but the thing is why shouldn't I talk freely and honestly on my personal twitter page...it's just who I am.

4) It’s led to communication with some interesting people / continues to surprise me with the people who use it.

5) If your very isolated like I am, Twitter has kind of helped to deal with the isolation. Well that’s not strictly true, I'm not what I would call truly isolated...I have interaction with my mother and father every day, I live with those two people and so that’s not true isolation. I also go to a physiotherapist / spine expert once a week for a hour, and so that again is interaction (that’s a recent thing mind you)

APOLOGIES HERE FROM ME ON WHAT IS A COMPLETE FAILING TO GET ANYTHING DONE RECENTLY

I don’t know but I think I’ve hit burn out again. And just cant seem to get into anything...the thing is I don’t ever really have holidays and so maybe I need to do that?...I know there was quite a few people annoyed that I stopped working on While They Slept to go off and start a children's picture book, but really I get so fatigued and just simply non functional (eventually) when I’m working on a animation. I did do the making of thingy though (and there is another version of that coming too).

So recently I’ve just been trying hard to do nothing, watch some films in the evening (which ridiculously I hardly ever seem to do...its ridiculous cause I really love seeing films, I love the medium to pieces)...so I’ve been enjoying that...but been getting a lot of headaches recently.

As for the future?...well who knows?...its all so stop and starty...it was looking like I might go back onto While They Slept, cause maybe that should be completed, but if I’m feeling ill maybe I shouldn’t do anything for a bit. I get really restless not doing anything though.

DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT LOOK TO THE DRAWING – THE CONFLICTED MIND CONTINUES

Have done a bit more to this drawing now. also photographed this one at night time with the angle poise lamp shining on it...which brings out the lead.

3D VS DRAWING

The craziness continues...as I explained last night to somebody, I have this terrible habit of doing multiple versions of things and then agonising over it all.

The thing is that I’m fighting a war with myself these days...the war is about me doing 3D and if I should be doing 3d or not...i have major issues with it, for reasons stated before that I feel there needs to be somthing less perfect about things.

In this case here, I actually created the 3D version first, because setting up the scene and looking through the camera is now something that’s such a big part of my entire creative process. I seem now depend on using the 3d cameras to get the compositions I want. This was drawn as I looked at the 3D one...giving me something to look at as I draw…was done pretty fast, because I seem to draw fast, and I couldn’t see the monitor very well because it was daylight...its come out very different as you can see.

I don’t think people are going to believe this, but there we go!

MOON DIRECTED BY DUNCAN JONES

The trailer can be found here. And I have to say, it's a corker!

You have to get excited when you see something that’s so well made, using miniatures, a thing that I keep going on about...but I think with good cause, because if they are well done miniatures then you will have the best special effects that will last forever (look at something like 2001...mind you, thats 70mm)

But not only this...it has one of my favourite actors too!...Mr Sam Rockwell. It's a Sci-Fi persons time to get officially excited.

I don’t know but it’s a odd thing really, I cant think of any other film that has been set on the moon...which is totally ludicrous when you think about it...oh wait no, there was Moon 44 made in 1990 by Roland Emmerich (I don’t think I’ve seen that one actually, wonder what that’s like). But yes, I find it odd that it's not something that’s been done until now.

MULITPLE VERSIONS OF THE FOREST APPROACHING THE CRASH SITE PICTURE

That whole multiple versions thing has happened again here with this!...man i get frustrated when that happens. Some mistakes here with these, but thought I'd show. I reckon the top one is the best one. That's all for today.

SAUCER CRASH SITE

Gonna have to go to bed now...I dont think this ones quite as good, i think i might have to rework the lighting. Thats all for today though.

FOREST AT NIGHT

being very much inspired by Oliver Jeffers and Marc Craste here.

MY WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE STORY

This was a odd one.

I being me...ever since the year 2000, when I discovered the apple trailers page at college (bit of a nostalgic thought there) I was instantly hooked at viewing movie trailers (it’s a wonderful place)...and so anything that looks like animation or science fiction live action...or fantasy live action...or documentary, and I'll be wanting to see the trailer straight away...anyway...I sit there watching the Where The Wild Things Are trailer...and the final thought with me is this.

“Ok, that was odd”

So a couple of weeks go past (or days) and discover through a friend of mine that it was a short story (or a kids picture book, or maybe not?) and he sends me the link to somebody reading the story with illustrations on youtube. I then bookmark it (but don’t watch it until today)

here it is...



I then, also discover that the big film discovered at apple...is, directed by Spike Jonze (bizarrely here) who directed one of my all time top two favourite films (and I’m completely serious here about that, I freaking love Adaptation)

So I’m sitting there watching this thing (the narrated illustration thing above) thinking this...

“hehe, this is pretty funny stuff...the illustrations are pretty amusing...hey, this thing is great, isn't it!”

THEN - I go back to see the trailer...because I now know what the thing is about (which makes the trailer for the feature film (if it’s a feature film?)far more interesting because I know what’s going on!...And I’m then left thinking this...

“If this is a feature film, how on earth are they going to pan this all out?...and surely this could flip either way...it could be a disaster...what amused me so much in the illustrations I think was the boys expression as he’s grinning his entire way through the story...and that’s not really here in this trailer”

Now for obvious reasons here we have to wait and see...and the movie does look nice. I hope it’s great, I really do.

THE MORE DETAILED CAR IN THE SCENE

There's still nobody in the car yet, but I couldn't resist a render anyway.

UPDATE ON THE CAR

Here we go...but is it just me or does it start to lose somthing when you start to add more detail to it?...iether that or I've just looked at it for too long.

MY PORTFOLIO SITE BEING RE DONE

Starting to re-do my portfolio web site with much emphasis on a more basic subtle and straight to the point layout.

So you can pop over and have a look there at that by clicking your mouse here.

I'm findind it very interesting placing my drawings next to my 3d work...well, interesting nad very frustrating.

BATTLE OF THE MIND

It seems that there’s three things that torture a artist (or at least a artist like me)

1) What to do with your damned web site.
2) Not being happy with any of the work you’ve done because you know its not good enough.
3) Not where you want to be

1) The web site one seems to be this reoccurring thing that surfaces from time to time...you think to yourself “yep...my web site is dull, and it has about a thousand html pages on it...surely that’s not good???”

2) The work never seems to go how you think or want it to go...sometimes your happy for a little while...but it always resurfaces in your mind that you strayed from the path...you strayed and have gone off in a different direction from what you were initially trying to do.

3) You look around at what’s going on elsewhere and it hits you.

So where do you go with all of this? You come up with a new list to combat the old list.

1) the web site really isn’t all that important, it’s the WORK BEING DISPLAYED on the web site, that’s the most important thing!...However, I do think its best to keep things simple, and I feel I’ve got too many Html pages...it may be the answer to reduce it down to THREE html pages, or even one.

2) Shut up…you gonna whinge all you life?...nobody likes a whinger Dowswell!...what you gonna do about that?...you either accept what’s been done and try and put some sort of positive-ness on it...or go crazy. Find a way to do what your after via new techniques and experimentation. And [erhaps you are simply somebody who just wont be happy with anything...perhaps its just not possible...perhaps you have to come to terms with that...and accept it.

3) Cant help you on that one...but try to understand that your making life tough on yourself...you;ve always like it tough though, haven't you?

KIDS PICTURE BOOK - SOME IDEAS

I starting thinking, that I really wanted to do a children's picture book...and so (with ideas in my head that have span ten years now) I started to move into a second stage of thinking about it. I did some drawings first, and then got frustrated and moved into 3d...I think (well I’m not sure at the moment if the final thing will be 3D or drawings...but I quite fancy maybe drawing the 3d compositions) its quite a interesting way to go about it...this being said I really quite like how the 3d stuff has turned out. I’m deliberately going for a very basic stylised look.