Here's a little sneaky peek at a project I'm working on right now! I'm having fun with the simple palette and design. I'm building all the characters, props and backgrounds in Illustrator and am animating them in Flash.
Background Design
Pieces of Sky #3
It was very cloudy today, but from time to time blue sky poked through!
Pieces of Sky #2
I paid more attention to the sky today. Though most of the time it was completely cloudy, there was one moment when the cloud thinned just enough for the sun to be seen as a white disc. This one I drew on my phone, using an app called Sketch Club!
Pieces of Sky #1
I love looking at the sky and seeing how different it appears every day and night. For a while I've been wondering about doing quick little colour studies of what a piece of sky has looked like, and today I managed to sketch one! After a bright, clear day heat haze...
Bird Animation – Development
For a while I've been scribbling down ideas for this bird project. This weekend I began to do some more research into the location and character design. Here are some of my sketchbook pages! These were all sketched using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens by Kuretake. I...
New Portfolio and Showreel
I thought it was time for an update of my portfolio and showreel! Here's a peek: click on the image to view the full portfolio. [NOTE: this portfolio link no longer exists.]My latest animation showreel, featuring Maya and paper animation:Music: "Dial Up" by Kris...
Deer Background and Breakdowns
I returned to my deer animation today, changing quite a lot of the ending and adding more breakdowns and inbetweens. I'm planning to clean it up in Photoshop, something like the deer shown below: quite loose and free, hopefully keeping some of the rough nature of the...
Landscape 01
I'd like to get into the habit of drawing daily so I've come up with a list of short exercises to do, one each day. Today's was a landscape study.Mountain landscape 478216 from http://wallpaper-kid.com/mountain-landscape-backgrounds.htmI did a B&W study first to...
Dunes
I got some new paintbrushes for Christmas, so I played around with gouache this morning! Close-ups below.