Line drawing

Another photo of my sketchbook - playing with my pens :)

Skinny Snake

'Scuse the shoddy iPhone photo. Just playing with some new pens I treated myself too. I hate his face. Must get good at faces!!

More chick scribbles...

I like chicks.

I hate...

..looking through older posts and realising just how little work I've actually ever finished. Feeling a lot meh about all of it aswell!
And considering how much I've taken on lately this only hinders my motivation!
I need the excitement back...

Also... when did this turn into 'dani posts sporadic sketches' blog? I'm an animator damnit! It was supposed to be encouraging me to do more personal work in the field that a love most of all!

*moans* I think I've got grass is greener syndrome.

Skull thing

Just a favour I did for a friend that ended up not getting used! I like the pen work on the skull.. not so mad keen on the dudes face. I might redo this but ALL skull. Since when is a face important? :D

WIP

A WIP:



It's a painting of my friends! Still very much work in progress. Just been taking the ol'Intuos out for a test drive!

Initial Sketch:

Finished Image:


I just like looking at the before and afters :D

Proof that I show up for work!

This is a photo taken by Jane at the A Productions studio - the original post can be found on her blog here:

A Productions Studio

There I am! There I am! That's me in the middle! Working harder than Will Miller :D

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.