New Reel

Must be finishing a job soon - i appear to have put a new reel together.....

Secret of Kells

Finally got my hands on a DVD copy of the brilliant Cartoon Saloon's 2D drawn feature The Secret of Kells. It's an excellent piece of work - with particularly outstanding art direction, design on, of course, animation. Well done to Tomm and everyone involved!

New Life Drawin

Over the summer, one of the lovely animators at ABD organised a six life drawing sessions for us off her own back (thanks Karen). They proved to be lots of fun and I even managed to get one or two decent drawings out of them! We did plenty of one and two minute poses. Here are a couple examples (most of these are short poses)

Vampire

Another topic, I've always been keen on is vampires and the Dracula story. I've had some Dracula story/film ideas knockin about my brain for a long time. They may see the light of day (or night) sometime...

Quick Cowboy

I've always liked drawing wild western nonsense - here's a quick one...

Feelin Optimistic

In a fit of optimism, I've decided to enter the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Here's my effort. IF selected, the picture will be one of the few (1000) that gets to grace the walls of the Royal Academy (in London) for the summer months.

Bad guy

Happy New Year! First (of many) post(s) of 2009! I'm working on some villain ideas for a few bits and bobs and hopefully a bit of a website overhaul at some point soon. Here's a quick early sketch.

Merry, merry Christmas, baby

Here's my slightly strange lookin Christmas card for this year. I reckon Santa is an Elvis impersonator in his spare time. I mean, aren't we all? Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!!!

Evil Samurai Old Lady ?

Another quick sketch done while waiting for a scene to render. I've been doing alot of red pencil and black pen over the top type doodles recently.

Exhibitionism

I just wanted to post a quick pic of my pieces from the Vaguely Christmas show. It was a huge success and once again a big thank you to Isabel, Minuca and all those involved in organising the show!

Vaguely Christmas

Hello there. Here's a quick preparation drawing that I did for one of my pieces that will be exhibited at the Vaguely Christmas show that I'm taking part in, in November.

The show consists of 26 animationy artists and takes place in the Waterloo Gallery from Mon 17th November to Sat 22nd November - if you're around London town at this time, please pop in.

Bigs thanks to Isabel and Minuca (links to their fantastic work can be found on the side bar) for organising the exhibition. More info is available at http://www.waterloogallery.co.uk/

Mocked up film still

A quick mocked up still using an old character pose (before I'd properly defined the proportions etc), drawn directly into Flash and a 50s stlye BG created using Photoshop. I reckon if I want to keep the character in black and white, I need more contrast in the background...

Train man

Quick memory sketch from the 8.45 to Paddington

Even more short film nonsense

More hids and expressions for the main character, Gene (named after Gene Hazelton - great comic/layout artist who worked on Flintstones and many commercials in the 50s ).

More short film character

Here's a few more sketches and designs for my 50s styled animation.
I'm currently trying to get some boards done and hope to start animating in August.
Stay tuned...

Short film character

As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on a lil project of my own in my (not excessive) spare time.

I've been doing a lot of sketches to get something a bit 1950s while remaining slightly in my own style.

You're fired...

Here's a quickie of Alan Sugar's Apprentice sidekick - Maragret Manford

Commuting

At the moment I don't have the longest commute in the world - which is good - but being stuck on public transport for any length of time is not really a pleasurable experience. Without the space to draw, I've taken to doing "memory sketchs". This guy was on my train this morning...

Character Design

As I mentioned I've just finished an online character design course with Steven Silver. It was a great course. Below is a lowly thumbnail which we developed into a (much stronger) cleaned up character design.

Old babies?

More doodles. I'm in the process or (amoungst a million other things) clenaing these drawings up and redrawing them a bit prettier - so watch out. But for now here are two old men, who are babies - a bit weird, but hey. There just geometric shapes, with heads and limbs, which was kinda fun to do...