Ashton Lewsey Animation

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:55:33 -0500

An Exciting Time In My Life

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:36:22 -0400

Hello!

This has been an amazingly exciting month! I’ve not had a chance to stop and recognise how quickly things are happening and changing.

About a month ago, I was living on energy drinks, sleeping for anything from 0-3 hours a night, and working like a crazy person on my final major project!
…which paid off! I’ve just found out I’ve graduated with a 2:1 which I am absolutely over the moon with!

Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of helping to organise the “TA2” Trevor Beattie Visual Communication awards. This was a combination of discussing branding and logo design with the team (the final design was designed by Joseph Heeley and the whole thing revolved around cubes), ‘helping’ Callum with the on-stage motion graphics, phoning around getting quotes from T-shirt companies, cutting up tattoo transfers of the logo, and putting up framed poster prints in the venue; The Glee Club.

A handful of my friends were nominated for various awards, including the CGI award, the stop motion award, the 2D animation award, the Brian Griffin, the Library of Birmingham photographic award, The Pitch vis com award, the entrepreneurship award, moving image awards, illustration awards, and graphic design award. It was so lovely to see people winning statues, making speeches and getting recognition for some excellent design work!

I was nominated for the Trevor Beattie Student Of The Year award, which in itself was a huge honour! I was lucky enough to be chosen by Trevor as the runner up! He said some amazing things about my work and promised to keep in touch. Such a great outcome.

I’ve since been offered an interview for an internship at The Viral Ad Network in Bristol. Which has potential to be a really brilliant opportunity, even being interviewed is exciting enough in itself! Fingers crossed hey?

Thank you to everyone who has supported me for three years, when I’ve gone crazy from drawing the same thing 300 times. My parents, my classmates, my housemates and all my closest friends!

I couldn’t currently tell you where I’ll be in a years time, hopefully I’ll have the foundations for a career in the industry. I may have some freelance work under my belt, I may be working for a company and loving it. But wheels are definitely in motion, and it’s exciting! Here’s to the future!

My up to date showreel!

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:02:14 -0400

My up to date showreel!

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:09:45 -0400

So I had an idea back in the days of brain storming ideas for...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:53:17 -0400

So I had an idea back in the days of brain storming ideas for the KINO10 i-dent.
One of them was a pixelation style animation of a KINO10 cookie being baked, taken out of the oven, and eaten.
Here’s examples of test shots from what would have been the animation.
I started hunting down models using Star Now. But dropped the idea in favour of another.

www.kino10.com

Another example of viral fashion advertising, for Prada...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:31:53 -0400

Another example of viral fashion advertising, for Prada 2011.

This has SO much personality, partly because the model is doing an excellent job either at having a great time, or pretending to have a great time!
But also because the edit is so high energy and snappy and quick pased!

The ‘Prada’ logo uses really classic typography, but a simple concept like having each letter appear one at a time is really fun and up to date!

An example of viral video used to promote fashion.As I’ve...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:09:39 -0400

An example of viral video used to promote fashion.
As I’ve just created a little viral video myself for the fashion brand “Walk The Plank” which my friend Sarah Chevis is working on at present!

This is Versace for H&M 2011, it’s easy to loose focus from the clothes and pay more attention to the crazy narrative and detailed set design!

‘My Best Friend Is You’ - Kate Nash. Album Artwork...

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:44:41 -0400

‘My Best Friend Is You’ - Kate Nash.

Album Artwork by Kate Gibb.

Who has also created album artwork for Bob Marley and The Chemical Brothers!

Click the image to see Kate’s portfolio. Her work has a strong graphic design personaility, with an illustrative edge!

Brian Wildsmith illustration

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:48:02 -0400

Brian Wildsmith illustration

Children’s Book illustration by Brian Wildsmith. All of...

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:45:36 -0400

Children’s Book illustration by Brian Wildsmith. All of his work is really rich in texture & lovely thick saturated colours.

A little section from a documentary, Quentin Blake explaining...

Sun, 20 May 2012 14:19:50 -0400

A little section from a documentary, Quentin Blake explaining his methods of working. Which are rather similar to my own!

Graduate show stuff! (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:27:42 -0400

Graduate show stuff! (Taken with instagram)

Adventures in motion 2011 festival motion identity An example of...

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:12 -0400

Adventures in motion 2011 festival motion identity

An example of an i-dent used for a film festival.
Sent to me from the client when brain storming ideas for the Kino 10 ident.

urbanoutfitters: Bethany Cosentino for Urban...

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:53:16 -0400

urbanoutfitters:

Bethany Cosentino for Urban Renewal

Photo/Mixed media research

tangyauhoong: A Flight of Imagination Painted. on Flickr. Tang...

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:50:13 -0400

tangyauhoong:

A Flight of Imagination Painted. on Flickr.

Tang Yau Hoong: Website | Shop | Facebook | Tumblr | Twitter | Behance

Collage Research.

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:54:50 -0400

Collage Research.

Never ending inky textures to scan #ink #illustration #textures...

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:44:38 -0400

Never ending inky textures to scan #ink #illustration #textures #uniwork (Taken with instagram)

Another test frame.How priceless is the woman in this?!...

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:06:06 -0400

Another test frame.
How priceless is the woman in this?!
Couldn’t make this stuff up! So British.

I worked out that painting with wax from a candle (linen...

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:27:01 -0400

I worked out that painting with wax from a candle (linen flavoured - nice) works so much better than using wax crayons. Ruins my paint brushes though! #illustration #animation #wax #candle #uniwork (Taken with instagram)

Here are two test frames for a little bit I’m doing for...

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:03:53 -0400

Here are two test frames for a little bit I’m doing for Cyclomation 2. (http://www.thepublic.com/exhibitions/cyclomation-2)

I can’t decide whether the scribbleyness in the 2nd frame looks good, or crazy. Or crazy in a good way!

To get an idea of a similar sort of effect I’m going for, and where my influences lie, please watch the “anti music video” by Joseph Pierce for Enter Shikari. Here’s a link…

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAVne8dOzEA)

So in terms of a still image, the woman in this looks a bit like a crazed zombie. But once they’re all put together, I think it could potentially work really well and have a nicely abnormal aesthetic!

The 2nd image also has the exposure turned up intentionally too high, which gives the scenery that sort of “pop up” look, as thought it’s not real, it’s just a big cardboard cut out. Which I think I like!

This is also an example of me using a Wacom Tablet!
As you may or may not know, I usually work more or less 100% by hand, with as little digital input as possible. But I decided it’s time to work on my versatility and be a little more 2012!

Any comments, criticism, advice, or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Tweet me @ashtonlewsey, email contact@ashtonlewsey.co.uk, or message me on Tumblr if you want!