Getting Somewhere

Hi all, well the final sweep design is now going under a few last tweaks and I've been reworking the story a little through rough storyboards.  I'm currently on my lunch break at work so this is a quick catchup post really, I've attached a few sketches and a Photoshop render in progress.

Animations Sans Frontieres is just over 6 weeks away now so the project needs to be back on course really if I have any hope of a good pitch.  I anticipated a little Maya work would be done by now to post up but alas I've been preoccupied :(.  So a rough model of a character or 2 should be up on the blog soon.  

Thanks Max for following ;)

environment, sort of

With no idea which character designs to take forward I've decided to start throwing the maybes into a story based composition/environment to get an idea of their contribution to the feel of the film.  This layout features the moth having found light/ hope for the little chimney sweep, injured and trapped.  These are 2 slight variations painted in Photoshop.

Moth matics

Another moth post, had abit more of a go at the wings here.
Starting to think a stronger use of pattern in the wings might be interesting.

A William Morris influenced pattern could be great. 

I'm perhaps getting a little too cutesy with the character here

Project Moth

Here is a concept for the moth of "The Chimney Sweep"
The moth really has to be an appealing character that an audience can empathise with.
























I'm looking at it's design from a few angles, this was a rabbit/owl like moth,
Expect to see many more moth posts :S

Catchup!

Hey, well I've been busy recently and have neglected my poor blog.  Lots of sketches and new software combined with a new job have left me lacking in spare time :(. However this does mean I have a "back log" of material for the "blog" so it should be a good month.  Here's a penguin.

I have a few exciting projects on the go:

• Chimney Sweep
• Little Light
• Showreel 2010
• Monster Hunter (with Mr Andrew Leeke)
• Teaching  Animation Workshops at The Phoenix (also with Andrew Leeke)

August has arrived.

an EP cover for "Two in a Boat"

I have recently finished the EP cover for my brother's band Two in a Boat's upcoming single.  The musical duo recently won a county wide competition to play at Glastonbury Festival 2010 and asked me to produce some cover art for their promotional CD release this summer.

There are elements I feel could have been improved with a little more time such as the bracelet, the caricatures and the overall colour correction but for a first attempt at something like this I feel things went OK.

Two in a Boat's music can be found at http://www.myspace.com/twoinaboat
and anyone attending Glastonbury 2010 can find the pair playing the BBC Introducing stage on Saturday 26th of June.

Life Studies

Well after 6 months of blogging animation theory from my moleskin journals I felt it was about time my creative work had a blog of its own.  I've jumped back into life drawing to exercise the doodling skills, its incredible how alien a pencil or even graphics tablet feels after an overdose of Maya.