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...
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...
The freelance project I'm working on is very serious, with no colour ... so I wanted to draw something completely different today! I've had an idea for a short, or perhaps a series of shorts, in Flash. I'd like to keep the characters really simple, like the birds in...
I decided I needed a new profile picture and thought I'd draw one! This is referenced from a photograph my sister took.
Yesterday I found a link to the site artists.pixelovely.com which has photographs of people, animals, expressions, etc. that can be viewed as "classes". This morning I tried out a 30-minute figure drawing class, followed by a 30-minute animal class. There are...
I visited Bristol Museum today and sketched some of the creatures there. This tiger was shot by George V in 1911, which is some sort of distinction I suppose. It was in an amazing crouched position and at first glance appeared to be ferocious. The longer I looked at...
This little guy appeared while I played with Kyle T. Webster's great gouache photoshop brushes today.
This is one of the first sketches I did for the fire in "Dreid", my VFS classical animation. I took a picture of the sketch when I had to throw the sketchbook it was in away, and I only found the picture this weekend.This little bird was in the same sketchbook, but...
Today's quick doodle. I want to try and get away from relying on my sketch lines. I'm finding it difficult to translate them into finished, clean lines!