John Nolan Films

I was shown this on Friday night by Gerard in the 3rd year, once again thanks mate ;-) I loved the video of the mouse and how it kind of takes you by surprise. Anyway look at this website as its a great source of ideas and inspiration. The companies bread and butter is in animatronics, even if this isn't really your thing take a look as its a great example of what can be achieved. If nothing else its a very good source of inspiration just watching the animatronics show reel gave me shit loads of ideas. I just love the fact they did such a good job of keeping Bubo (clash of the titans) as close to the original as possible.

http://www.johnnolanfilms.com/films/nolans-cheddar/

 
Mr Ricketts

Some useful websites/forums

Hey guys

Thought you'd like a heads up on some interesting websites you might want to check out.

The first Modelers, Miniatures and Magic is a gallery of awesome science fiction builds from various artists, even featuring some from our very own university. Its also an excellent source for reference photographs if your looking to build any famous spacecraft. Its updated pretty regularly so theres usually something nice to see. Its run by a pretty eccentric businessmen who's addicted to sci fi and has a massive crush on X-wings... Model making students will find some really excellent stuff here.

The second is a dedicated prop forum. The Replica Prop Forum deals (rather obviously) with replica pieces from movies and is a place for you to share your builds and get advice on creation techniques from a really wide selection of artists. I frequent this board a fair bit and have learned loads of stuff from it. I really urge you to check it out especially if prop making is your thing. Character creation students will also find a lot of useful stuff on here too.

Love

Chewie

PS.
Oooooh also, as Rich said in the comment (which I only just read sorry man!) check out www.theeffectslab.com for some really pro work - mostly character creation relevant stuff but still its really col to check out! Thanks Rich

Auction Catalogue

Hey guys. Just got a heads up on an awesome source for movie props and costumes. Its an auction catalogue for loads of old hollywood memorabelia and is an excellent source of cool stuff and inspiration. Best of all its free to download and there are literally thousands of different items which im sure you'll find something of interest in. Small samplings include:







If you want to check all this out, and I really urge you to do so as you might just find some inspiration for a future porject or the current one! Either way its handy to have in your documents. Download it from here:

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/hol...uction-43.html

and click on the link 'auction catalogues' and sit back and trawl at your leisure.

Love

Chewie

Architectural Project

Hey guys, so the architectural project ended a week or so ago with some really awesome results. Check out the slideshow at the end of this post to see the results of everyone’s creativity. Heres a small example of a couple of projects that really caught our eye!

The first is the awesome skeletal structure built by Shaun. Made almost entirely from hand cut pieces it’s a great example of how repeated patterns put together can make a striking final piece.

The second is Josh’s brass and copper creation. It really gives us the impression of some form of steampunk device as well as being really well made it’s a nice example of the different finishes you can get with metals.

Next is Andy’s amazing house based on the one from the movie ‘Up’ A really really intricately detailed piece its made using many different materials and really has a lot of charm and personality.

Finally is the the expertly made gallery space from Triss (Hope I spelt that right) This really looks like a professional architectural model and its obvious a lot of effort went into making this model.

We’d love to talk about so many of them but simply don’t have enough space! Anyway, we’d absolutely love to hear all your opinions about the project, what parts worked well, what parts didn’t, where you all went to for materials and just general stuff like did you enjoy it? Please leave a comment on this post with your opinions, don’t worry, this is totally informal and will not come back to you and if you’re that paranoid you can leave a comment anonymously!

Finally here’s the slideshow of all the model projects made.

Love

Your Blogging Team.

Hey from your blogging team

Hey there guys and welcome to the official UHSFX frershers blog! This is your number one source for all the informal info on projects, socials and just general interesting stuff. Penned by our very own Mr Ricketts, Chewie and The Techno Viking, we hope to keep you up on all the extra stuff happening around the course as well as highlight the things that might help you with projects. We’ll also provide photos of your projects and personal pieces (given your permission of course!) as well as research picked up from exhibitions and museums people visit and vitally a sample of some of the projects and people of note in the second and third years.

Of course this goes two ways, the more cool information you give to us the more cool stuff we can post here so please please please get in touch with any of us if you want something posted on the blog. It can be anything you want, need a question answered - we’ll post it here, want some making advice – we’ll post it here, wanna just show off something cool your making – again we’ll post it all up here! So please don’t be shy, get in touch with us at our emails or just come speak to us in person and we’ll be happy to help.

Our email addresses are as follows:

Chewie: mattmac1@btinternet.com
Mr Ricketts: d_ricketts@hotmail.co.uk

Dale 'The Techno Viking' - piixal@gmail.com

And failing that come speak to us – if you don’t know our ugly mugs here they are:



Love

Your Blogging Team.