Show Reel of Work

I have put together a small show reel of my work which I feel is quite an eclectic mix of media, I have not added sound as I wanted to take time to look at this constructively and did not have sufficient time prior to assessment.

I still wanted to show my development since last year, mixing and cutting animation, using transitions and movement, making choices about what to include or not.  At this stage it only going to be used as a development tool and not self promotion.

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UPDATED ANIMATIONS


As I feel I have developed my editing skills substantially during the last year, I took time to review and update the animations I had produced for earlier projects including '10 x 10' Project and 'World in a room'.  I added music to those without, shortened some and changed some formats.  I have place the updated and final versions of these animations on my own vimeo account see link below.  (If the music has been added from a particular musician then they have been named in the titles)

James McLeod on Vimeo

2 character development

During the process of developing the short film for 2 characters, I have been testing the types of media I like to work with and have found some easier than others, I am testing these to identify the type of media which works well for me.  I have been identifying more artists that I found interesting during this process and may develop further. (see below)

(Chalk Animation) "Paper Satellites" - Sunsoma


"The pursuit of a dream" oil painting and animation painting

Oil Paint on Glass

The little red plane

Insperational Painting

Jewelry Team Blog

During the collaboration we used the team blog collectively for research and development. the link for this is below.


Jewelry Team BLog

2 character Development

I had some difficulty with transitions between scenes and should have thought about this more during the development stages, the difficulty was that because I was using lots of different styles of media they would not blend coherently from one to the next, for example using the above stop motion armature shot, I wanted to move to either a real hand or a sketch and found that during the test shots it was looking a bit out of place, I resolved this by mixing the two shots with 'After effects', 

Inspiration for collage pieces of animation

Monty Pythons flying circus titles

Images from storyboard for Animated reality

2 character mix

Character sketch for 10 x 10 animations

Character sketch for 10 x10 animations

Looking at images of grand canyon for development of 2 characters 1 place.