Laura Mallaghan Illustration

With this project, I did enjoyed doing the gifs and moving images. But it was really long hard, frustrated, stressful work to do, even with 12 weeks project that I tried to done all 4 moving images. But, still, I am really pleased with all of my 4 moving images. So, I am happy how the bird movements and flying works really well, that how I worked out in my head and worked out from the images/photos. All good!

  Birds need water to drink and bathe during winter. Setting off fireworks near to nesting and roosting birds can cause disturbance and stress. Help the injury birds from the window accident. How songbirds survives with food during winter.

This is some kind of testing or experiment thing. This was at the end of my 2nd gif, seeing the text work. I used ink and my handwriting style I wasn’t so sure to use this text in it, and also quite fast. I may not using it for final, but we’ll find out.

Well, this month had been really busy and stressful. So, these are some storyboard for moving image/animation/gif project, the brief i chose is to make a series of 3 or 4 (if i can do) gifs to raise awareness about a social, cultural, political, economic or environment issue. What i am doing is basically environment issue, for  birds . I did some research on  RSPB , they have many advice of helping birds, which are easy for me to get some ideas for gifs, like these photos of storyboards for example. After sketched out some storyboard, i find it quite difficult to choose 4 of them are more useful to raise awareness and to make gifs, but at the end i have made some choice (marked it with star). P.S. Sorry for that terrible lighting quality.

First try of GIFs animation for my uni project. This one was an experiment to see how it work.  - Crossing The Water - by Sylvia Plath - Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink here? Their shadows must cover Canada. A little light is flittering from the water flowers. Their leaves do not wish us to hurry: They are round and flat and full of dark advice. Cold worlds shake from the oar. The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes. A shay is lifting a valedictory, pale hand; Star open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. My lecturer really likes the flashing tree, as how i did the leaf fall very realistic way.

This is a week project, got to complete it quick, it was about to use the poem from words into illustration, i have to do the abstract and moving image. Once the lecturer set out the poems, us students look through and read, thinking which is reliable. My first thought of hope is nature-related poem, luckily i found one, Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath. This is the poem: Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink here? Their shadows must cover Canada. A little light is filtering from the water flowers. Their leaves do not wish us to hurry: They are round and flat and full of dark advice. Cold worlds shake from the oar. The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes. A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand; Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. So firstly, i experiment the abstract. With the black watery looks represent as black lake...