Brand New Showreel!

I'm very proud to present my brand new 2D animation showreel!

Music: Some Kinda Shuffle by Don Nelson

 Shot Breakdown

Flight of the Conchords

Here are a few little drawings I did of the FOTC guys the other night while watching a couple of episodes, turns out I'd not seen them all (or my memory had dropped a few to make room for other things) but I couldn't forget their fantastic Daft Punk homage robot costumes!

The humans are dead.

Let Go - Japanese Popstars

This is the latest music video for Japanese Popstars, directed by David Wilson, featuring some mind-boggling animation which I was lucky enough to help colour in parts of last week for David and the rest of the team working on it at Colonel Blimp, thanks to Toby Jackman (who did some of the animation along with several others, including Elena Pomares) for putting my name forward to the producer, always nice to be involved in something different.

The Benefits

...of being an out-of-work animator I can borrow CDs from the local library for 50p each, and so recently I got David Bowie/Changesbowie, The White Stripes/Elephant and Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut album, which led to me trying to do something but quite frankly I don't know what I was going for really.

Thanks to reelroulette.net my showreel has now been viewed nearly 300 times in just two months, this is possibly slightly skewed data though as each time someone visits my reelroulette page it autoplays the reel and counts as a view, nonetheless, I'm sure many more people have seen it than would have without such a site.

Last week I helped Jane out with a site for the tile shop she works for in High Wycombe, putting it together in Dreamweaver using the pieces that she'd designed prior to me getting involved, you can see it HERE.

I finally got round to reading both volumes of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (having noticed the library only stocked the second, who wants to start half way through a story!!?).
I also had the library buy in the first of the Scott Pilgrim books which was a very amusing read and now I want to get the rest of them - if you've not heard of it it's about a boy who has to defeat his new girlfriend's 7 evil exes in order to date her.

Edgar "Shaun of the Dead" Wright is directing a film adaptation of it with Michael "Juno" Cera playing Pilgrim, click here for epic epicness.

Unusually Long Gestating.

Here's a short piece that came from something I originally drew in my sketchbook in 2008, animated some time in 2009 using Flash and created the soundtrack with Logic in 2010.
Normally it doesn't take me this long to create such a short animation, I'm quite pleased I managed to remember enough of Logic too to make the soundtrack!

I've been working hard on my redesigned (easy to update!) website, and hope to get it online in the next week to replace my old Flash one from 2008, I also recently have found several more animation and design studios in London that I can apply to soon.

Creatures.

I've kinda ran out of sketchbooks at the moment, but in moving my desk around I discovered a couple of narrow rolls of thick paper which are great for laying across my desk and drawing on with my pen. After a couple of false starts I went back to an idea I'd tried out in my moleskine, these jagged-edged creatures were what resulted, with little symbols/badges for their possible habitats. Having scanned the lot in (and stitched them back together, below) I thought that with the new year I should learn some new skills and so the two images above show my initial attempts at digital colouring using a pen tablet, some paper textures and Photoshop.

In unrelated links: Mumford and Sons are my current band stuck on repeat.