Next week I'm running a Traditional Animation Workshop in Hawick, so I thought I'd share a little preview from the class. I've always found creating characters to be challenging. Where do I start? And I often find they all end up looking the same. Why is that? This...
The Traditional Animation Workshop will now be running on Saturday 11th November! Find out more and book your tickets here.
My current contract is coming to an end, so I'm on the lookout for another storyboarding or clean up job! View my portfolio here or please get in touch if you'd like to view my protected portfolio. Thank you!
Make your own short animation using traditional pencil and paper, just like Walt Disney!I'm running a traditional animation workshop in Hawick on the 3rd of October. It runs from 1 to 4pm and costs £25. To find out more, and to book, click here. The first half of the...
I've been drawing, but not posting - here are some recent sketches from Todd Bright's All In Gesture workshop! The theme was John Smith from Pocahontas. My sketches veer between attempting the character and following the model, and have ended up not much like either ...
Over the last year I've been storyboarding on Toad & Friends, a new CG children's series based on Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows. It's just been announced (you can find out more about it here) so it's very exciting to finally be able to...
Sadly the project I'm a Storyboard Artist on at Wild Child is coming to an end in September, so I'm looking for work from mid-October! If you'd like to work with me, or know of a project coming up, please email me at ajaiken90@gmail.com Also, take a look at my updated...
For the last six months I've been a storyboard artist on The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, working for Wild Child as part of an amazing team. The series is based on Liz Pichon's bestselling Tom Gates books. The first episodes are now on Sky Kids in the UK, either as...
Over the last few months I've been working on something really special - something a bit different from anything I've made before. Rachel Zylstra, a singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh, asked me to create a music video for one of the tracks on her new album On...