FILM | ANIMATION | DESIGN
intro Chloe is an animator, specialising in 2D Flash and Traditional animation, and pre production. She has a passion for visual storytelling, thinking up new stories and characters to bring to life through animation. She has worked on several of her own films in the past 3 years of her degree at UWE, including individually, in collaboration and as director of a group film. She particularly enjoys working in comedy and satire. She also is an illustrator and designer, currently working as a graphic designer for a West Country tea and coffee business. On graduating, she will be looking for work in London, ideally in pre production, or as an animator. And with a lot of faith, trust and pixie dust (let’s live up to the animator stereotype with a Disney lyric) she will one day be a director, finally being able to make feature length animations come to life. She’s crossing her fingers, though she’s not holding her breath.
‘The Couch Potatoes’ is a 2nd year group film that I wrote and directed. I worked on it in a team with Laura Tofarides, Madeleine Grossi, Nuradilah Rahman and Masduqi Mohamadin. It is a 90 second mixed media piece combining stop motion with 2D Flash Animation. The animation was entered in the Depict Competition at the Encounters Film Festival 2013. It is a comedy about Spud and Tatty, a couple of potatoes who are glued to their couch, transfixed to their TV set. That is, until a cooking programme comes on and on the menu are potatoes. As Renzo, the sadistic chef with a sexual approach to cooking, chops and boils the potatoes, can Spud and Tatty battle their laziness to turn the TV off?
the couch potatoes
‘True Colours’ is a short animation that I made during my second year. It is an illustrative piece, that uses my natural scribbly drawing style in a predominantly black and white piece, with minimal use of colour for the birds’ beaks. It is the inspiring tale of a toucan who can not accept himself for being different and instead tries to blend in with a crowd when he could stand out and shine for being himself.
true colours
A Western with a twist ‘No Body Too Little’ is a visually intriguing piece that follows the quest of a Native American on a quest for his lost feather, but on his search greater secrets are to be unveiled, for things are never quite as they seem. This was an animation I designed and made in third year. Working with Lisa Aistermann and Red Toulson-Clarke we produced a mixed media short film, that combined live action footage and backgrounds with Flash animation. We all colloborated together to form the concept of the piece and made an unusual piece mixing our different ideas together, though I developed the narrative into a cohesive plot and storyboarded the film.
no body too little
THE SOAP OPERA
‘The Soap Opera’ is my final third year film and is a quirky, satirical comedy that ridicules Bristish soap operas. It is a 4 minute 2D Flash animation, with hand painted watercolour backgrounds, stereotypical (and unusual) soap opera characters and 8 voice actors. When the soap’s Tart discovers she is pregnant, the mystery unfolds of who the father could be. And the mystery soon turns sinister as the show’s director requires increasingly scandalous plotlines to satisfy mankind’s unquenchable thirst for drama.
illustration
My illustration has a focus on painted, sketchy pieces with a strong sense of narrative. Above is a sketch from my series of a Stasi Prison in Berlin.
Digital illustrations of two songs from folk punk musician Frank Turner’s album, ‘Tape Deck Heart’. The illustrations were submitted into an online competition in which Frank Turner asked for visual responses to his songs. Both illustrations were posted by him to his facebook gallery, and ‘Polaroid Picture’ became the third most liked entry in his facebook gallery at the end of the competition. The illustration, right, depicts my response to the song ‘The Fisher King Blues’, a tale of a king who lost everything, and was left fishing in his ruined kingdom. ‘Polaroid Picture’ is about changes, and the demolition of the London music venue, the Astoria, to build a railway.
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