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...
For the third year running I've taught animation workshops at a creative arts holiday (ages 12-18) over the summer. The last two years I've focused on morphing workshops, but I decided to try something a little different this time. I introduced the idea of emotions in...
I led more high school-age animation workshops this year, expanding on the morphing workshop from last year. This time everyone who took part was in complete control of their own piece of animation between their character and the next person's. Whether the character...
Recently I've been working on an storyboard about a pigeon who finds the mother of all crumbs, but discovers eating it isn't all that simple. Here's the result! Based on a true story ...Sound effects copyright BBC
Recently I animated a couple of elements for the new Skoog advert, which you can watch below.I animated the girl's moustache, plus several 'flourishes' throughout the video. I've added a couple of examples as gifs below.
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...
Scots warrior-king, Alpin, must fight to rescue his brother and regain the kingdom of Dalriata. The Gaelic King is an independent feature I was a story and concept artist on. Truffle Pictures has closed distribution deals for the film across North America, the UK,...
I designed, storyboarded and animated this video for trypraying. The trypraying booklet is a seven-day prayer guide which encourages people to try praying for a week and see what happens. Some of my concept art for the project is below.I began with some rough...
Light shining through clouds. Very cloudy, but little rain. Using my iPhone I often create slow-motion videos, but this is the first time I've tried time-lapse: you can see the result below!