The Busker (Bristol UWE Animation)

On the side of the street, a one man band attempts to busk. In his struggle he discovers that the source of the music comes from contorting his body and the music begins.

We created this animation in a team of 3 for our production studies module within the 2nd year of the BA Animation course at Bristol School of Animation (UWE).
The production took about 10 weeks, allowing 2 weeks off for christmas. We gave ourselves 3 weeks for the animation and editing stage of things and spent the rest of the time developing the sroyboards, puppet design, set/prop design, foley, etc.

The Team:

MAX MARTIN

-Lead animator
-Director
-Set Design
-Puppet Maker
-Sound Design

Website: http://www.claynation.co.uk/
Contact: Thatmax@mac.com

BECKY BERRY

-Art Director
-Animator
-Set design
-Lead Costume Design

Website: http://beckyberry.weebly.com/
Contact: beckyjberry@hotmail.com

HYWEL P ROBERTS

-Producer
-Writer
-Animator
-Storyboard Artist
-Lead Puppet Maker

Website: http://hywelproberts.blogspot.com/
Contact: hywelpr@ffmail.net

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Film & Animation

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[nikIconway]

:o really? So it has no reference to shrooms? :)

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Well it's based on the stereotype of a mushroom trip. I wouldn't say no reference : )

[nikIconway]

Ohh:o with the name mushroom tea, I would assume shrooms helped you a little thinking that one up?

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Lol, believe it or not they didn't. I would never have finished it if I was on shrooms : )

[nikIconway]

I'm happy to support! Where do you come up with your ideas? I wish I was as creative as that:D

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway With this one a team of 3 of us all agreed upon a storyboard after a couple of weeks of us changing our minds about the plot. But my most recent one is much more off the top of my head, just patterns, shapes and movements that seemed like they would look cool in motion.

[sneezlehose]

I cant even start to explain how amazing that truly was

[narutofreak12312312]

Masterpiece!

[GOODBYEskateteam]

That was amazing! Really creatively done!

[nikIconway]

Ahh, so I see, so I seee^^ so, well for some of the other ones, just done by yourself, where would you be making them? Gotta office or room you do them in your place? Or is there somewhere else you go?

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Cheers, it's always nice to have friendly support =)

[nikIconway]

This is amazing, I absolutely love it! Keep it up! I'll deff support anything you guys do, I love it!!!-3

[Mackmation]

Very cool! Nice work to all 3 of you.

[claymationvids]

@TheSJproduction whoa sj! didnt expect to c u here! (dunno why)

[alphastick108]

nice, this is very impressive

[TheBabbleBeast]

Great atmosphere -- that really drew me into the story!

[TheClayLord]

@damianskye01 It was actually just a wire armature of a hand covered with masking tape and painted flesh tone. Not a common method, but it worked with the style of the film.

[damianskye01]

Did you cover the hands with paper Mache?

[TheSJproduction]

Haha! That WAS SO COOL!!!!! I love stopmotion like these, it was so smooth. The story was pretty cool too

~SJ~

[blobofblue]

wow, awesome job!

[IDontKnowCorp]

Quite Awesome, LOVED the puppet design

[Kewen]

Really great :D

[TheClayLord]

@LlamaBoyProductions I really enjoyed all of the animation stage, and didn't find it particularly taxing. The editing wasn't hard either but a very tedious process editing each sound effect. The hardest part was trying to get myself out of bed to go to the uni each morning lol.

In my other films I tend to play it by ear for the soundtrack. Sometimes I will be building the animation directly around the soundtrack, but for most of my compilation videos I just think about it while animating

[frodehegland]

Brilliant!

[LlamaBoyProductions]

@TheClayLord wow, what was the hardest part? like the editing, the animation of the character, the movements, making the sand move, just wondering, because a project like this is incredible! :) i probably won't try anything like this cause of money and the fact that i don't make "story" films, but you did amazing! again, i think i've said this before, but how do you always match the music so well? not nesesarily this one, but in your films it matches so perfectly, do you pick it out before? :)