Toad & Friends is now out on Boomerang in the UK! I storyboarded on this show at Wild Child Animation back in 2021-2022 as part of a great team of artists.I drew the panels above for the first episode I worked on, where Toad has a grand plan to make his very own...
The Fae Elders are desperate to restore the magic of the Sidhe. They think Owain and Eilidh can help … whether they want to or not. Click through the panels below, or scroll down to view the animatic (no sound). I've been working on Sidhe (Shee) as a portfolio piece....
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on a short storyboard sequence for my portfolio. It's still a work in progress, but I'd thought I'd share some of the early planning from it.I don't often share thumbnail storyboards because they're usually pretty...
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...
A few years ago I posted some images from a short story I'd written and illustrated. You can view them here if you didn't see them the first time around! The story follows Kinsey, a young Queen who battles her fears in order to reclaim her sword, her family, and her...
I recently watched Orson Welles' 1946 film 'The Stranger', about an investigator from the War Crimes Commission trying to track down a Nazi in Harper, Connecticut. Early on there is a scene where a character is being followed. When watching it I immediately wanted to...
This was a really fun little project I worked on this autumn. I was asked by Trinity Digital to create an animated logo intro for Cornhill Scotland. The logo is a dandelion head with seeds blowing away, so they wanted a figure blowing on the dandelion to lead into the...
A couple of weeks ago I watched Jaws for the first time. I'm not a fan of horror, which is one of the reasons I avoided the film for so long, but I found it to be much more of a thriller (with a couple of bloodthirsty scenes). One of the things I really liked was the...
While boarding the Pigeon Crumbs animatic I posted a few weeks ago I drew these reference sketches and character models to help me figure out how the character would look, feel and act.