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All In Gesture – Hula
I drew these back in May? June? I can't remember now. Anyway, here they finally are! Anna Rose modelled these fantastic Hula poses for Todd Bright's All In Gesture class.
‘Klaus’ Clean Up, Part II
Part I A brief note about some of the terms I use: keys, breakdowns, and inbetweens are names for different drawings in animation. Keys are 'extreme' poses that tell the story. Breakdowns show how (slowly, angrily, passionately) the character moves from one key to the...
‘Klaus’ Clean Up, Part I
Last year I worked as a clean up artist on the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Klaus. SellOut Animation, based in Edinburgh, worked on scenes outsourced from the main studio, SPA, in Madrid. From May until August I joined the team, cleaning up a variety of shots and...
Animated Logo for Cornhill
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...
Animation Workshops, Summer 2019
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...
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
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...
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...