biennialFreerunner: Concept skies

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Concept skies

Yo,

I thought I'd show some basic sky concepts. I'm engaging Jose Flores to work on the sky animations. A very talented student, currently he is working in the Brighton Sony Computer Entertainment office so he will be working remotely. I've just put these together to help him visualise what the skies will be like. They are based upon the concept paintings that Dave Ball sourced. The redness is not right yet but it is enough for him to work on. I am emailing him a revised storyboard where I have added the skies to the sketches.

3 comments:

YizeSteelhazard24 June 2008 at 19:31
All i can say is at the end of the day we just need to make sure that it is clear that we are using this artsit as referance and doesn't look in the slightist that we have ripped/modifided it.

The reason I say this is that I watch this artsit on gallery site and his art work is repeatability stolen, he has got it copyrighted and go after everyone he and his watcher find.

I know that we're not going to steal his work its just that hes rather 'sue happy' most times to say the least ^^;
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Matt Frodsham24 June 2008 at 19:41
Don't forget the blog is private so only we will see this development, you can't copyright the sky in general lol.
I think Dave B referenced the original artist a while back, and those comps Dave W (So many daves) has posted look like recoloured versions of Jose's AE skies not the digital illustrations anyway.
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot24 June 2008 at 23:48
Its good that you are being aware of Copyright and IPR. The artist is reference. The skies in the roughs are Jose's own skies just manipulated in PhotoShop. So no worries there as it will be Jose who will be using his own work.

Don't worry I will double check everything is clean before it goes live.
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De La Salle School in collaboration with St Helens College

The theme for the schools project, Future, Fiction and Fantasy, seemed to instantly form a connection with our idea to produce a piece of work using Parkour and the virtual world as the concept. This film was a collaborative effort between De La Salle School and St Helens College and it was only through this collaboration that the desire to create a film based on the computer game genre was realised.

It was at the initial stages of the collaboration that contemporary artworks such as Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle proved influential along with the film Jump Britain and a variety of computer games such as Halo and Unreal, which helped us to establish the kinds of environment that could form the basis for the film.

Without a doubt the vehicle which supported this project’s creative growth and encouraged clear communication throughout was this blog, instigated by Dave Wood. This blog became a hub of activity which maintained consistency in content during the six month period. Ideas, thoughts, concerns, artistic references and discussions were posted daily, hourly and often by the minute in pursuit of our collective goal.

The most interesting element of the blog, from an educational perspective, was the innovative approach to formative assessment, providing rapid responses to creative problems in a contemporary manner aiding motivation and communication. Both De La Salle School and St Helens College are now exploring ways in which blogs can impact upon student’s development and bring assessment methods into the 21st Century.

This film explores a passion for an activity that in society can be considered as subversive or anti social and channels that enthusiasm into a creative medium. From a school’s point of view the boys were given an opportunity to express themselves in a language that is comfortable to them but in a safe environment, they worked with students witnessing the creative process in action but also what vocational links art can provide.

Finally, working on the School’s Project with the Biennial team has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to investigate contemporary approaches to schemes of work, work collaboratively between different institutions and the community and develop effective forms of communication, all of which have supported our personal development for the delivery of new initiatives such as the re-launch of the Secondary Curriculum and the introduction of the Creative and Media Diploma.

Joanne Millea

Whois biennialFreerunner?

biennialFreerunner Productions is the creative collective formed out of this Biennial project. It soon became apparent to Dave and Jo that the pooled talent, the excitement and the dedication of the students and graduates had naturally formed into a "Hot Group" of multi-disciplinary creatives. As such, the project Jo had brought to Dave had evolved beyond its original scope and remit. It was therefore only natural to give this multi-disciplinary team a collective identity. The biennialFreerunner blog had actually become biennialFreerunner Productions.

There are 6 core collective members and 1 associate member of this collective: co-founders Dave Wood and Jo Millea, Adam Hamilton, Matt Frodsham, Dave Bentick and Stas Krakiewicz. Jose Flores is based in Brighton and his opening scenes were produced remotely.

Already one member of this collective has gone onto make a music video for a band as a result of his experiences as part of this collective.

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