'Dindins'

My submission for this year's Animation Art Show.

Still Wingin' It

Again, for this year's Animation Art Show. 1st, 2nd and 3rd attempts at Mr Calavera didn't go very well, he just didn't have much life to him (HA!). So I decided to go in a different direction altogether...

Time to bake... God help me.

Wingin' It

For this year's Animation Art Show. End of day 1... could go either way.

Mr. Bean End Title Process

Obviously I had nothing to do with this but I can't stop watching it, it's fantastic. And it's a good argument for using video reference in animation, especially when that video reference is the man himself!

I Am Contradiction

There's no pleasing some people.

Fun fact: there was going to be a sequel (SPOILERS for the first movie), Hollywood sometimes you just crack me up!

World War Zzzz

True story, except that I was wearing a different jumper.

Lifedrawing 23/4/14

Fun class this week, we had 3 minutes (maybe 4, I can't remember) to make a cut-out of the model using a stanley blade and coloured paper. Amazingly, nobody was hurt.

Animation Showreel 2014

Felt about time I updated my showreel so here's blood, sweat and tears condensed into a handy 1 and a half minute video! A lad I know said that whatever amount of time you think it will take to make, multiply it by 5.... he was not wrong.

11 Second Club - December '13

Happy new year folks! I recently entered the 11 second club for December... a word of advice, never do the 11 second club at Christmas time, your holliers go out the window! I'm happy to say though that I came in 5th place so it was worth it, well chuffed!

I'll go back and jazz up the lighting and render it in HD at some point but for now here it is as the competition requires it.

The Legend of Megamaritetroid!!

My submission for this year's Animation Art Auction. It was a huge success last year so hopefully we'll raise even more money next weekend.

It was a lot of work but fun to do, I think it took around 25 hours to complete... my shoulders were sore afterwards, I just want to point that out.

Acryllic paint on A4 watercolour paper.

Untitled WIP

For this year's Animation Art Show, I'm still deciding how I'm going to colour it.

The Amazing World Of Gumball - 3d Animation Showreel Part 2

Part 2 of some of the work I did for season 1 of Gumball, if you've never seen it it's a fantastic show! Next up Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja.

The Amazing World Of Gumball - 3d Animation Showreel Part 1

I removed the previous Gumball post cuz it wasn't happy with it and would have taken too long to do the rest of the episodes that way. So, I've decided to condense all of season 1 into 2 handy videos.

I won't be doing part 2 for awhile as I'm getting married on Saturday and then I'm off to the States and Mexico for 2 weeks, whoop whoop!!

Lifedrawing 07/05/13

This session we were also asked to move away from drawing everything in the centre of the page and instead try to move things around using all or some of the pose and see if we could come up with something more interesting from the norm:

I tried putting the first 3 poses together in the same space.

Movie poster for a classic horror or murder mystery. 

Propaganda poster (I've been playing a lot of Bioshock Infinite).

Thinking Too Hard

For the Boulder Art Blog:

I don't like cats.... I do like dogs.

Ah no, cats are ok.

Lifedrawing 16/04/13

First class I've been at since being on crutches, it was too much trouble up until now. I even lent one of em to the model... that's how sound I am!

Some blind, contour drawings... I think you can tell which ones I was peeking at.

Finally, while I don't think these two drawings are very good, the contour line dividing the two poses seems to work for both of them. Almost like an optical illusion... a happy accident!

LucasArts

'Tis a sad day for the video game industry!

Peanuts

This is on a wall near my house, it makes me smile.

Mega Man

For the art blog in Boulder.

Besides being a fantastic game, Mega Man 2 is the first Nintendo game I ever rented which makes it one of my fondest memories of being a kid. It's soundtrack is also still one of the best. Here's Mega Man facing off against Metal Man, long live 8-bit games!

I'd also like to show how misleading the box art was to the in-game graphics:

Ridiculous... but still awesome.

Retrospective

This is for the art blog in work, this month's theme is 'Retrospective'. Original post here.

 

Lifedrawing 18/12/12

 

 

The power supply on my pc blew up just before christmas so it was out of action for a few weeks, hence I got out of the habit of posting stuff on the blog but anyway, back in action now.

I decided not to use charcoal or pencil for this class opting for watercolours instead. I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but it was a lot of fun so I'll use them again in the future. I also noticed that I seem to avoid drawing legs so I'll try remedy that next time.

Go Baltimore!

Tiny Rex

 

I should have posted this up immediately so I'm a tad late but... fair play to Bob Robinson who gave me this model he made for my birthday of a picture I painted a few months ago for a small auction... which he subsequently bought. Thanks man, it's cool and I'm chuffed with it. You can check out his website here which I highly recommend you do. I'd also like to take this moment to say the iPhone 3's camera fucking sucks...

 

Original

 

For the sake of scale

 

And his little house where he goes to sleep

Bob, please don't expect as good a pressie from me on your birthday........ hope you like boiled eggs with hilarious faces painted on them!