Clifford Phillips MA
New
(2015-)
Profile:
Overview
Collaborative
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Earlier
Career
Research: I am currently in the process of creating, along with a group of talented colleagues and a placement student from CESI [Arnaud Mathieu-Bruno], a tool for the PONToon project. This tools aim is to raise aspirations, in jobs/careers and encourage novice users to perhaps stumble upon roles they would not have known existed, while helping less skilled users to start to use technology. Read more about the overall aims of the project. http://pontoonproject.eu/
To see the prototype of this 'app', visit pontoonapps.eu
Research: An initiative within the Faculty of Creative and Cultural industries (2016), where I work, has encouraged me to start researching again. As such I am in the process of investigating Self Image/Identity- specifically within the context of selfie culture. I am also involved in another research project (info to follow).
Preface:
The advent of technology to allow people to take pictures of themselves without ‘censorship’ such as using mobile devices to take Selfies raises the question: Has this altered the attitudes people have towards certain aspects of self image representation, has it allowed a freedom that traditionally wasn’t there?
To find out more about this project, please click here to read more
I am working in the School of Creative Technologies, which is part of the the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth. I am senior technician, but also continue to work as a Part Time Lecturer, and also act as the Schools Health and Safety coordinator.
In my technician role, I have been able to broaden my knowledge and activities, now helping to support the staff and students across the BA/BSc and Master level students, within pre-production, production and post-production.
My teaching role has also continued, enabling me to develop the Employment Preparation unit on the BA (Hons) Animation degree.
In addition to these roles, I also do design work for both the school and the faculty. This website, and the buttons above displays some of this work, as well as few pieces of creative work that have been done to either test software or technology, or myself.
This design work also extends to include website creation and maintenance. Currently this is for BA (Hons) Animation course site, A site for our Motion Capture Studio, and one for our Gamejam event, which I also help organise and run.
I am also a keen digital photographer enjoying nature, both near and far, and with this interest, travel around the globe on or in as many forms of transport as I can. Recently this has spilled over into my professional life, taking photos for the faculty to record key events and visiting dignitaries.
During my time I have been involved in many collaborative design projects, working with a range of people such as sculptors and jewellery designers.
More recently, I have worked with staff and students on two large projects. 'Stina and the Wolf' is an attempt to create a full length movie within an educational setting.
Most recently this has seen me sculpting and texturing the main story mountain in preparation for the film trailer.
As part of the Stina film work I have had to learn Vue, relearn Zbrush and furthered my skills in Mudbox. However Vue has been abandoned in the film pipeline as it proved too hard to integrate and control. To read more about my work on this project click here.
In 2008/2009 I worked across the faculty to create animation assets for a new theatre musical called Sweet FA. To read more about this work click button 8.
I was a student on the Illustration course, where I branched out into animation, creating work in 2d, 3d and claymation. I had a series of work placements during this time, mostly in visualizing and presentation companies, where I was directly involved in the Beta testing of Autodesk 3d studio and then demonstrating it at the European launch in 1990.
I worked for a subsidiary of Philips (Telecity CD-i) during 1991, as an interactive media designer in Belgium and since have continued my interest in this field working in both internet design and DVD.
I worked for the School of Art, Design and Media for 16 years, and supported the staff and students within the school, though primarily on the animation course/s, throughout this time. I was a part time tutor on many courses throughout this period. I also developed several websites during this time, that are no longer available to vue.
For the first 5 years at the school I also ran and developed an F.E. DTP course initially teaching Pagemaker and then moving onto Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop.
