Long Beard Industries

This is the first of a few animations that I am working on. This one has been re-shot however, after some thinking and speaking to some friends (and a tutor). The new one looks allot better I must say. It helps to re work these little pieces to get the best out of them.

That's a shadow of my hair in the shot there towards the end....whoops.

Have a look and let me know what you think!

Long Beard Industries from Tony Moore on Vimeo.

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 1, 2

Im currently in the middle of producing some stop motion animations for the latest University brief. When I say "in the middle," I mean DEEP in the middle. There is a hell of allot of work to be put into these.

Below is a quick test I did to check my angles and other stuff. It's very rough and not much is going on, but, it's a start, right? For the final animations, there is allot more going on in the backround, colours and objects galore! I'm really finding the lighting element the hardest part, but I've plenty of time.

I shall post more of these up as I do them. Really enjoying these analogue processes. I'll not bore you with why I've chosen to use animation, I'll do that in a later post (coz I'm nice like that). Have a wee look here and give me some feedback if possible! Ta

Stop Motion Test from Tony Moore on Vimeo.

Creating the afterlife

I'm not a highly religious person but I saw this on YDN design guide and thought it was a great and a very interesting idea. Creating a battery out of yourself, after death and using the energy do undertake tasks that you wish and have declared when living. I think powering a camera to take specific images may be quite interesting. What would you use the power for?



YDN design guide is a pretty interesting podcast, its free to subscribe to. Lots of nice products and interviews feature in their videos.

Hairy Doodle

Was nice to find some time to draw. Really should have been doing other work but it was nice and relaxing to concentrate on something else. This is some type I'm messing with for a little side project, should be more to follow (pretty excited about it all)! This is just the drawing, needs tidying and re-sizing yet.

I've previously posted about Wild Beasts, a fantastic group originally from Kendal and one which I simply can't get enough of.

Billboard designs

Another recent University project, titled Rage Against the Machine (questionable), required 4 billboards that tackled the issue of energy consumption. The other stipulation was that we weren't asked to scream and shout at the audience, but try to create imagery that would strike up the debate on this problem.

I chose to keep it domestic and create some surreal imagery, with simple buzz words. Reason being, I wanted the billboards to be immediately arresting and memorable as well. I'll let you be the judge of that!

Im pretty happy with the final outcome, however, I would have benefited from a photographer to assist me, as I very much lack those skills.

From Scapa flow to Rotherhithe

British Sea Power on Jools Holland. I forgot how amazing this performance is, plus it is a different version of the song. Blows me away, every time.

My good friend Scroney gave me the audio file of this, so I can listen to it without youtube, but it's nice to watch it every once in a while.

I do love British Sea Power...even if they do owe me a prize.

New logo

This is a quick screenshot of my new logo that I plan on using for myself (on website, b/cards/portfolio etc). I completed it during summer but forgot I hadn't posted it up here to see what people think.

Its fairly simple, with emphasis purely on typography. It's quite a heavy face as I want it to work at a small size and still retain importance/strength within layouts. There is a secondary symbol too (second image), I guess it might come in handy for something?

I've only used this logo on a cover letter for a Uni project (pic below), but I am currently mocking up portfolio templates and sketching up plans for a new website, so it will be showing its face soon!

Comments on this logo are most welcome (as always!)!