Posts by Reece Morgado
An Analysis of Machiavellian Tyranny and Dictatorships in Children's Animation

Since at least as far back as Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937 we’ve seen depictions of evil rulers in animation. In fact, the idea of an cartoon villain who doubles as the evil king or queen is pretty cliché at this point. So that got me thinking… how realistic are these evil rulers?

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Animation Futures: "Someday-Maybe", Making Basic Goals pt. 2

Ever since first reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” I've been writing down my all my goals. And these goals are been something I’ve put a lot of time and consideration into. Being tasked to write down a list of them was thus an interesting chance for me to also reflect on the fourth, and in my experience one of the most important types of goal to write down.

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Animation Futures: Iterating and Iterating and Iterating- The Sketchbook Project Returns

When I first began doing graphic design my designs looked nothing like they do today. In 2014 I had a task to create a layout for a (fake) multimedia magazine. I had to produce everything from scratch, including coming up with a name. I first came up with something basic, I was going to call it “Everything Media Magazine.” Then I thought that perhaps I might try something a little more playful.

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Animation Futures: Making Basic Goals.

Back in September I started my third and final year at University (technically my fourth, but let’s not get into that right now). One of the more peculiar modules I had was one called “Animation & Stop Motion Futures and Destinations”, a module about introspection and planning for my future career, with an early task really jumped out at me: a blog-post about our goals.

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A behind-the-scenes look at: “La Niña de los Fósforos (The Little Match Girl)”

During the development of this I was putting together a lovely behind-the-scenes video that was intended to release alongside it.

Unfortunately, much like the film itself, this video was subject to massive project bloat and I kept adding newer and newer things to it. On top of this while editing for La Niña de los Fósforos I realised that I didn't have nearly enough practice using After Effects and well, this seemed like the perfect project to try and learn some new tricks.

Whch why I am now finally proud to present: "THE MAKING OF: La Niña de los Fósforos (The Little Match Girl)"

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