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 cleaned up and inbetweened the deer over the last couple of weeks. At first the movement appeared very even, so I removed some of the inbetweens and rejigged some of the remaining drawings to get back to the feeling I wanted. Once I was happy, I coloured it, added a...
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...
This idea I've had for a while, but today I had the chance to get all the keys and some of the breakdowns drawn. Lots of issues here still, so I look forward to working on it more.
These are a few sketches from the life drawing club I went to yesterday and the fortnight before. It's nice as they have some excellent models and shorter pose times, as well as a very relaxed atmosphere. The club is called All The Young Nudes. The pencil sketches are...
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 have an idea for a short 2D animation, drawn and painted in my rough sketchy style. I drew this test one morning last week - it was great to sit down at an animation desk and draw. As I don't have an easy way to linetest traditional animation at home, I just went...
I've now had my final life drawing class at Aardman. I need to find one I can go along to regularly - it's such a great discipline.
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...