The Waiting Room

Over the last month I have been making a series of animated backdrop projections for a theatre adaption of The Magus by John Fowles called The Waiting Room. On a Greek island, Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, finds himself pulled into a complicated game of trickery and deception where reality and fantasy become indistinguishable. Here are a few of my animated drawings which will be projected throughout the show. The production will be at the Otherplace at the Basement, in Brighton, in the Autumn.

The Inner Life of Objects

Just found these photos, which are from an exhibition in October/November at Brighton University Gallery about Jan Svankmajer, the surrealist film maker. The exhibition titled The Inner Life of Objects, showed some of his films accompanied by sets, posters and puppets.

I hadn't seen much of his work before but absolutely loved the exhibition especially Historia Naturae, Punch & Judy and the clips from Alice.  I have added the film Alice to my Christmas wishlist!

Scissors Doodles

Lots and lots

5 things I like and 5 things I don't

Animation made for university. The brief was to make a 50 second film, in 5 second sections showing 5 things I like and 5 things I don't using a range of techniques.

Molecules and Follicles

Finally finished my soundbite animation for Digital Practices and Theory.  I decided to make a title sequence for a fictional television show about the fascinating world that is just below the surface of our skin.

Envelopes

I have been drawing lots of envelopes for an animation brief.  The objective is to complete ten 5 seconds animations, 5 clips about things I like and 5 things I dislike.  The envelopes represent my like of opening post or receiving a parcel I have ordered from the internet. 

Flash Lipsync

Pobble Lipsync from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.

1 Minute

Finally finished my 1 minute film for uni. Its a stopframe animation using my illustrations from my character design project. Have a look see!

Cutouts from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.

Kinetic Type

Screenshots from my kinetic type animation. It was my first venture into After Effects.

Snakes

At the start of the year we were given a brief to create a stop-frame animation around the theme of cause and effect. Naturally I decided to do an animation about a needle chasing a snake. It seemed the most logical thing to do, of course.

Snake from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.