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Fig 1. Repulsion poster (1965) The 1965 film Repulsion by Roman Polanski is one of few that gives us an insight into the mind of someone who feels out of place with the stereotype of the time period. “Seemingly the last virgin in London, she (Carol) soon finds herself fighting a rear-guard action against the sexual revolution.” (Kehr, 2009) Polanski made the film at a time when women were starting to take control of their own lives. The 1960s saw the introduction of contraception meaning that they could decide the outcome of having sex with whoever they please. Beforehand sex was only seen as something for making children, and not something for pleaser, therefor consigning it only to those who were married. If a woman had a child out of marriage than she would been shunned by society but contraception started to stop this stigma. However, the main character Carol wants nothing to do with sex, men in particular. She seems to be psychology scared of them as they make their advan...

Merry Christmas! Here is a four legged walk cycle to get you in the Christmas mood, however there's a mistake with the legs as I couldn't work out how to switch them round on the horse so the same step repeats. I will try to do a walk cycle were this doesn't happen.

Fig 1. The Shining poster (1980) Just like he did with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick once again shows his talent for creating a film that leaves the viewer guessing what is going to happen next as the suspense builds (until they are jump scared by something as simple as the days of the week popping up on screen). The Shining (1980), based on the book of the same name by Stephen King, makes the audience feel trapped with no way out even though they are in a large space with several places to hide. Like Black Narcissus (1947) the film deals with isolation but this time it is the isolation of being pushed away from someone and being unable to reach the outside world. Most of the time the characters are shown to be in different parts of the hotel and it is only when they cross each other’s path does the tension start to show, especially with Jack when his wife Wendy investigates what he is doing. “The isolation and its influence begin to take a toll on Jack, who ...

I really tried to push myself with this project and improve on my mistakes and weakness from the last one such as trying out different ideas for my thumbnails, using real world references and trying to better understanding the software that we are using. However, I still feel that I am still failing with my final outcome at the end of the project and might need to change my mind set to create something that shows what I am truly able to imagine. I feel that I have improved using Photoshop but still have some way to go until my work has a professional feel to it. Maya on the other hand is still a challenge and that I held back my final building designs by making them as simple as I possible could so that I didn’t spend too long trying to work out how I needed to do something and not have anything to show on crit day. Overall, this project has made me take a step back and made me think about how I should go about designing and creating something from scratch along with seeing that t...

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