New Branding Preview

I admit it, I'm bad at this. Keeping up with my blogging. I've not updated my website in twelve months. It's been a busy busy year and in addition to full time employment at Art and Graft I've been doing bits and bobs behind the scenes. This is no lie! I've got animations, graphic novels and illustrations on the go, with a hope to relaunch my site and portfolio in the summer. For now, here is my reworked logo which will be heading up my new branding, and some of the critters that will accompany it on it's journey out into the world. Yeah you guess it, the theme is: wiggles!

Background Concept Art

Another backdrop, part of a long vertical camera move. I think I've been subconciously channeling Escher here, but I think it works well for the innards of a London underground station.

Commuter #8

Just people I see on a day to day basis.

Travel by Pigeon

Latest designs and drawings from my next animation currently titled "Crush Hour". Probably will change that though. Anyway I've got a lot of art for this coming through so I'll keep posting.

Not sure about the pigeon guy. He's asking for a redesign.



During my lazy summer I forgot to post updates about the Penguin Design Award ceremony. Well I went along, didn't win, mingled, enjoyed the beautiful Thames view, watched my girlfriend give all my teachers hugs, found that salad now comes free at Pizza Hut and went crazy on it. The competition was fierce, it was good to be stood amongst talent like that. Here's my shortlisted design anyway.




Here's the explaination I wrote, as shown on the Penguin Design Award website:
I depicted the town of Macondo as it is described at both the beginning and end of the novel; at its birth and death. The town is small, isolated and insignificant at both these times. This is the largest of many cycles within the narrative, communicating an inability to escape the future. At the end, Macondo's lost history mirrors the early Macondo with no history. The gypsies routinely visit Macondo from its beginning to its end, and serve as a constant to contrast with the ever-changing arc of the town.

Bonus: the text boxes are family trees!

Commuters

A few commuter designs in an animation I've started working on. The animation will depict scenes of London during the morning rush hour, with added zaniness. This will be an experiement in patterned animation and full musical integration, and I'll try and post more stuff soon. This is my last small(ish) project before starting production on an 8 minute animated short, which I have spent all summer writing. I'll post more details on that soon.





Later this week I'll be making the move to London myself. I'm not sure how long I'll be without the internet but I'm sure it will be a dark and terrifying time. Like the early 90's. I'll be starting work at Art & Graft, a studio located just off Brick Lane, I'm seriously looking forward to it.

Childhood

I drew these once. I've spent most of my life trying to 'improve', and now I just want to be able to return to the amazing no-fancy-bullshit style of my toddler years.

I've had a little spare time over the summer and I've been in the stage of detailing some concepts/screenplays that I'm very excited about, which I will be producing over the next couple of years. I've been away for a while but I have a good plan. These drawing are really informing a more free style for the projects, I'll show some character designs/moving stuff as soon as its ready.








Not a flipped image: my weird little brain drew my name perfectly mirrored for an unexplained reason.




And finally a slightly twisted and nonsensical addition enough to worry any parent.



I decided to look these up after finding out about the beautiful new short film 'the Itch of the Golden Nit'. The project is entirely comprised of childrens' own drawings and story ideas and is animated by that clever bunch at Aardman. Check out more about the film HERE.

Ringmaster

This is a ringmaster from a current illustration job. He's good to post because he's not being used.

I hope everyone had a good Royal Wedding day. My own last-minute enthusiasm took me by surprise so I've been late starting project work today. I'll hopefully post some moving stuff from my latest animation soon.