A LOOK AT HOW MY RAMA IS NOW LOOKING

A DIFFERENT LOOK

I've started to go for a different look for my animations. There were complaints of a plastic look once upon a time about my stuff...but I feel in order to improve the lighting I'm going to have to go for this plastic look....also I don't think it looks too bad.

Here is the transport from While They Slept with a bit of alteration.

BEDROOM

Something I've been working on.

FIRST ATTEMPT AT A SPACE SUIT DESIGN FOR RAMA

This is probably not final....it's early days on the space suit.

RENDEZVOUR WITH RAMA - INTERIOR DETAIL

Rendezvous with Rama interior detail.

A BLAKE'S 7 REMAKE FINALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?

This is very exciting if it actually happens. Ive been a fan for a long time and always felt that you could redo it and cut certain bits out to make it much better.

Deadline have news of the latest attempt.

INTERIOR OF RAMA

This is my go at the inside...every filmmaker / animator who takes on Rama has to face the inside sooner or later...it's a wonderful challenge...and, I love looking at all the different ones that have been made by other people so far too.

TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMjsmm-qDw&feature=plcp

Here is a new trailer.

As you can see I'm continuing on with my Rama movie...I've spent time on my fathers Korg again to try and do a better job of the soundtrack.

WITH SOME COLOUR CORRECTION

THE NEW FRONT OF ENDEAVOUR

Here it is.

MORE WORK ON ENDEAVOR

I'm having to do more design work and adding to Endeavour right now...this is usually how things go though...very slow and very plodding...you could spend one month on Endeavour alone...but I want to push forward and get to do the insides of Rama too.

I'm wanting a shot of the astronaunts leaving Endeavour out of a door.

I'll upload a image today of the new bit I've added.

Theres still the interiour of Endeavour to do too...and the space suits...

SOUND ADDED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW24PEp0z_8&feature=plcp

Here it is with some experimental sound.

Taking on Rendezvous with Rama

http://youtu.be/oiEFcJkXxV8

I'm busy at the moment doing a attempt at Rendezvous with Rama...it felt like the right thing to do and so that's where I am at the moment.

KING KONG VS GODZILLA (USA VERSION)

The thing about this one is....I thought it was great!...it's tremendously funny and fun....it moves along at a good speed...ok occasionally it has some scenes that go on way too long.....but I feel If you look past those scenes it's really well directed with it's structure and pacing. If a single word had to be used to decribe it...it would be Fun.

TEST

Difficult to get to by ~Michael-J-Dowswell on deviantART

NEW VERSIONS OF THE BORROWERS

so at christmas...during the christmas and new year season....i noticed that there was a Borrowers film being shown on BBC 1 or 2.....well actually i heard about it in a email.....and then i got really confused wondering if it was the animated one...

....but it was a British production with Christopher Eccelston as Pod (90 minutes)

I watched it and it was actually really not so bad....what was initially striking was that Pod and family in this version are not like the original at all...the style or vibe has been tinkered with so that the characters come out quite different (that's going to upset some borrowers fans and when we showed it to my mother (a big borrowers fan of the books) she was not so keen and didn;t like how different it was)...but it has a nice funess to it...and the music throughout is really nice.

There is another Borrowers been made too by the much famous (and impeccable record) Studio Ghibli called The Secret World of Arrietty.