Lifting Tower: Mario

Me and Ewan worked together making the Santa/Mario crossover. I made the characters and Ewan did all the backgrounds. On top of the Tetris and Pacman clips that I made, Ewan has done a Space Invaders one too, so we now have four separate clips that can be shown in order or dispersed throughout everyone else's work.

Lifting Tower - PACMAN

The Pacman animation was equally as easy to complete as Tetris (maybe I will just make pixel art from now on (joke)), in retrospect it actually doesn't have that 8Bit look like the Tetris one and Ewan's Space Invaders have, because I used proper round corners in all the Illustrator shapes, and also I didn't animate the movement in the same jerky way, but I think it will probably look fine when it is projected.

Complaints with Vimeo

As of October 2017 Vimeo Basic accounts can no longer see the very basic statistics that were once on offer to those who didn't have a paid-for account. It is the latest in a long list of features Vimeo has been stripping away from its basic users, in order to force people to subscribe to premium accounts.

Vimeo once had a reputation as a classier cousin to Youtube or Dailymotion, a home for creatives which "puts video first" as their slogan states. By slowly stripping away functionality from non-paid for users they are showing themselves to be just another profit hungry corporation - and the atmosphere of a well curated site run specifically for creatives begins to look like hollow elitism from a site that has barely a thirtieth of the number of users as Youtube.

Lifting tower - Tetris

Today I finished the entire Tetris animation.
The individual blocks were made in Adobe Illustrator and animated in After Effects. AE keyframing is perfect for this sort of animation as it is deliberately jerky and movement is done in mathematical steps.