Lip Sync animation showreel!

zombie paint

Quickie post. I like to save multiple stages of a painting! Here is the first... about an hour of scribbling.

MORE zombies

I think these are zombies anyway.

New sketchbook!

Virgin page = virgin zombie. Am I right or am I right!? Scan from sketchbook not too hot.. I'm gunna paint this one though!

more doodles

must update as and when. avoid doodle dump.


pencilly anime lady.


crayony moody kid.


crayony moody gurl.

latest doodles

Lately, when I have been sitting down to watch Alias (6 million years after everyone else) I have been absent mindedly drawing environments - specifically buildings and streets. Odd that. My sketchbook is full of them! Here is one... probably the best one... you can clicky for a biggy.

latest doodles

The top one is a bad quality photo of my sketchbook as it's on A3. M'apologies! I have kick ass ladies on the brain... as usual.

Medusa

Because I think she's cooool!



I am deciding whether to go acrylic on her ass or paint her in photoshop... Both? These are just scans from my sketchbook laid side by side so I can figure out how she looks from various angles... brainstorming if you will.
She is covered in scars from snakebites and her skin will be dead from venom. I like that the snakes are in a sort of 'mohican' that trail down her spine...

Animation Showreel

*Contains adult and offensive language* :p

Finished! (?)

How do you know when you're finished!?

A bit of modelling... progression II

Her hair, which is fimo not plasticine, was fun!



Nearly there...

A bit of modelling... progression

I forgot to take earlier photos of the frog - this was the earliest photo I had. I like to take a million photos of projects I do (like saving layers almost?) I like looking back for some reason :p



Her raincoat was hard work! I had decided to make the insides out of fimo air light and then roll out her coat like pastry to fold around her. I'm not sure if that's the done thing...
I also had to revise her 'innards' a few times in order to get her standing on her own. Much wire/plasticine intestines can be found if you look up her skirt!

A bit of modelling...

Gone plasticine crazy in the office it seems! My friend chose stop motion animation for his 11 second club entry last month and I've only gone and caught the plasticine bug :D Decided to model the little girl from previous posts.. here are some earlies...

A fimo air light skull...



some skin...



some boots!...

Recent artistic endeavours....Part II

I bought a drawing table at long last and have been attempting to paint ever since! Here is an example (including one based off've the sketch in the previous post)





These are photos not scans, so the colours are a tad washed :/ I used acrylic paints and I'm still learning!

Recent artistic endeavours....

Here is a page from my sketchbook. I liked this li'l character and so I decided to keep playing with it...

Some old bits of art...

These were some ideas for a commission for a deejaay friend of mine. The project then went in a different direction so these paintings are unused! I used Photoshop and Flash, Flash to create the outlines over an original pencil sketch in my sketchbook.
Clearly a bit influenced by Cheo... a reet good Bristol street artist. Also a bit Ghost in the Shelly :)





Some concepts I did for an independent games company I met through gamedev.net. They were 'hand painted' in Photoshop :) I like the femme fatale the mostest! She was great fun to paint! Each took roughly a day to complete, possibly working late into the night - with cups of tea (the best time to work :P)















Some quick flash/photoshop doodles:





I will try and dig some more out! Got a few sketchykins floating about somewhere I should imagine :D

Good news!

A BBC lady came in yesterday and said that Driver Dan's Story Train was doing very well and people had been stopping her and saying how gorgeous and awesome it was!
Yay BBC lady! Hope those who've seen it like it!


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iPhoney Test

Just testing a new app which let's me blog from my iPhone :D you'd think I'd be more technically minded!


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Driver Dans Story Train

The new CG Pre-school series that I have animated on is starting tomorrow at 12:30 on BBCs cbeebies channel! Some work I did personally has also made it onto the tinterwebs!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/driverdansstorytrain/stories/thecongoconga/

Yay!

Last update of 2009? Haven't I done well!

What a shame I didn't stick to my resolution of keeping on top of my blog this year! I've been busy working and gaming and moaning and cooking I'm afraid!
More has happened this year than any other year I've spent on earth! My job in the childrens tv industry is fun, cute and challenging! I have just today got the date that the new CG preschool series that everyone is talking about will be aired on cBeebies! January 9th 2010! I'll be badgering all my friends to tune in to witness my first tv credit! (although this does depend on which episode is shown!)
I've taken a Japanese language course at Bristol University, and intend to take a creative writing course aswell!
And it's nearly Christmas an time for my first proper office Christmas parteee!! Yay!
Anyway... Here's hoping next year I actually use my blog?? I'm blogging from my new iPhone so no excuses! :P
Happy New Year!

This week...

....I are mostly be getting reacquainted with Autodesk 3DS Max.
Today I'm getting on with the modelling toolset, the hardest thing is navigating around the viewport haha. I don't know why I don't use Max more often for fun personal projects, I always use Maya simply for speed...but if it's for fun, speed isn't really an issue!
So today I'm attempting to model a character from Dragonball Z - Vegeta(I luuuuuuurve him!!) Being a bit naughty not using any reference so it's going to take a lot longer. I might post some images if it looks anywhere near half decent by this evening. So far I've got all the elements roughed in, and I mean extremely rough! I'm box modelling.
Anywho...I've assigned today and tomorrow to modelling, friday to UV unwrapping, texturing and skinning and depending on if I have time this weekend I might rig and start to animate him.



<-- Vegeta... chillaxing.

11th May...

...Is the day I start my new job :D
I'll be working for these chaps : http://www.aproductions.co.uk/
on these things: http://www.3linemedia.com/
I'm a junior animator on a pre-school series for childrens TV. Not much more can be said unsurprisingly due to NDAs but it all looks super happy kawaii! Yay!

Also I'm now on twitter too...there's a million and one ways to keep up to date with your favourite binty! http://twitter.com/bintykins

So, other than scoring a sweet-ass contract and leaving my bum job with speed, I have also been exploring Barcelona as a much needed mini-break with the fella. All has been good :D
Just have to cram like hell now as this new job requires me to get back into 3DS Max and learn mental ray.
I have a nice week of study to look forward too.

New Showreel

Including some of my commercial and personal works. The 2D stuff was for a music video for a band called The Locarnos single 'Unlucky Strike.' Right good song!
I was working on a short involving the guy in the office - he's basically just procrastinating and indicating how much he hates his bum office job. Incidentally I have a job interview this coming Thursday! Whoohoo! I'm well looking forward to it!
Anyway, spoke to my collaborator on the live action horror short project - got some homework to do for next Friday! We are looking for the best actor in the world....who is willing to do a piece for next to nothing. It's gunna be a real test seen as how the audience never sees what ghastly deeds are taking place - just the actors reactions to it. If we can pull it off it'll be really intense. But if the acting is lousy - it could cheapen the whole thing.
Also, Bronson tonight! Looking forward to that! I've watched Watchmen twice now. Been a good run of films on at the cinema recently. I also neeeed to find a Swedish horror film called Let The Right One In. I've been reading about it. I have a long list of films I need to find actually! Not enough hours in the week...

A brief update

It's been a whole year since I set this up! 1 post a year...that's not too bad!
I've had a few projects on the go since then, some fun, some on-going! And lots of things have been going on in my personal life. It's been crazy moving to Bristol and adjusting. I miss the north a lot! But I have started this year with a very strong resolve to make 2009 the one that counts.
I've got so many things to actually finish that it's quite daunting! So why am I taking on new projects as well! I must be mad.
I have a friend who I've been meaning to work with for a while. We always talk of making a film together and this time we mean it!! So one of the projects I am starting is a short live action film intended to be submitted for a short film competition that my friend has his eye on every year! I'll post my/our progress as time goes on but for now we have a script and I'm currently storyboarding.
One thing I really want to do this year as well is go over my short animated film Bernie's Backpack. This'll be the third time! But the final time. I have already planned the next one I want to do but ...this one really needs cleaning! A lot of it I am happy with (the environment, rendering and the Bernie model itself for example) but theres also a lot that still makes me cringe! Bernie desperately needs re-rigging. A mammoth task that will require a massive amount of the animation to be redone.
I am also going to apply to go back to school! I miss it greatly and I think in today's current industry climate I think investing time now in training will give me the edge when the industry finally stabilises.
Plus some fancy letters after my name will look cool.
So that's it for now! Hopefully expect some rolling updates on 'as yet untitled live action project' and lots of rigging and animation headaches on Bernie part trois and many ramblings on how I hate my bum job.

Hello Blog World

Erm, have I dont this right? It's not exactly rocket science...

This is to let you know I have arrived! That's right!
In Bristol, that is.
Oooooh and I'm now a struggling artist - I've always wanted to be one of those. The proverbial angry northern poet. Or the proverbial angry northern 3D artist/illustrator/animator hybrid.
Yes I'll do just about anything. These are desperate times!
So I'm gunna add all my artwork to this thing, and start networking, and beg for jobs. From what I've gathered so far, there are an awful lot of creativey types already in Bristol... So looks like I've got some graft ahead!

peace out!