Kimunkey 2D Animator

The Pendle Witch Child

2011-08-17T02:17:00.000-07:00

I spent a good chunk of time last month pencil-on-paper happily scratching away at my light box animating transforming witches and naughty boys as an assistant animator to the lovely Phoebe Boswell, for a Wingspan Productions documentary entitled 'The Pendle Witch Child', directed by Ros Ereira, commissioned by BBC4. It's a really interesting piece that looks at the British witch trials of the 1600's, focusing in a particularly shocking case of a 9 year old girl denouncing her own mother as a witch.

Apparently it's been getting some good reviews and I've been told it's Pick of the Week in the Radio Times and the BBC History Magazine, and has a half page spread in Time Out as Pick of the Day, really exciting! The little section I did, along with Hannah Lao, can be seen here.

The whole documentary is airing tonight for the first time at 9pm on BBC4.
:)

showreel

2011-03-24T05:37:00.000-07:00

Ford online help video

2011-03-11T04:15:00.000-08:00

I shot the stop motion scenes in this with a helping hand from Anna Fyda and guidance by Julia Bartl. Design by Matt Oxborough, flash animation Richie Lee, Simon Testro & Kajil.

Get Well Soon

2011-01-07T08:48:00.000-08:00

Sorry To Hear You Cracked Open Your Chicken Head

One of 8 films in an ongoing project produced by 12foot6, led by David Anderson and Lucy Izzard. I directed this short film and animated with the help of the lovely Olga Makarchuk, Barry Evans, Anna Fyda and Tamara Lesniewska. Voices by Zoe Waskett and Lucy Izzard. Sound design by Chris Southwell at Marmalade.

First screened at OXYO in London's Old Street Novemeber 2010, where Addictive TV mixed the 8 films into one piece, see a preview here:
http://12foot6.com/getwellsoon/
And Creative Review's listing:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/november/get-well-soon

Also screened at Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, 2010.

R&D furniture spots

2011-01-04T12:40:00.000-08:00

Flash animation for New York based furniture company. Illustration Asa Lucander.
Directed by 12foot6.

Bed scene: Dog animated by Ania Fyda, couple and bed my animation.

Turkey Dinner: Man animated by Asa Lucander, dog by Ania Fyda and Woman and table my animation.

Get Well Soon

2010-11-05T05:05:00.001-07:00

Coming soon.... see details in Creative Review:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/november/get-well-soon

DAVE GOES TO SKÅNE. EPISODE 3: ART & DESIGN

2009-08-19T07:15:00.000-07:00

One of four adverts for the Swedish tourist board, with the aim of encouraging Brits to visit Skone in Sweden. Illustration by Julia Bartl. Title sequence animated by Barry Evans. Scene animated by me. Composited by Julia Bartl.
The other 3 adverts can be seen on the 12foot6 website, www.12foot6.com.

w w w d

2009-08-19T05:43:00.000-07:00

Borders Sky Arts Idents

2009-06-29T06:24:00.000-07:00

I worked on three stop motion origami idents for Borders with Julia Bartl at 12foot6. This is the ident that I animated the paper folding on. Composited the three in After Effects. The other 2 can be seen at www.12foot6.com

Virgin Media Christmas Card

2009-06-29T06:00:00.000-07:00

The after effects animated pop-up Christmas e-card for Virgin Media December 2008. Designed and illustrated by Karen Cheung.

You can see the full interactive website version here, with additional flash animated elements:
http://www.virginmobilepeople.com/xmas/

12foot6 Christmas Film 2008

2009-06-29T03:28:00.000-07:00

Origami Christmas Nativity shot stop motion for 12foot6 Christmas e-card dec 2008. I story-boarded the film and had help making the figures and shooting the film from Karen Cheung, Barry Evans, Mia Nilsson, Asa Lucander and Julia Bartl.

Slow Train

2008-08-13T07:51:00.000-07:00

Hand drawn music video created for Australian Musician Alex Lloyd of Running Man Management, website http://www.alexlloyd.com.

I designed, directed and animated this between May and July 2008, with the invaluable help of the lovely animators Tamara Lesniewska, Tim McCourt, Maja Hill, Daniel M.C. Alvite, Michal Konstantynowicz and Simon Testro.

Made in the immediate months after my fathers death from a brain tumor I think looking back that a lot of my sense of loss and feeling of lost-ness went into this film.

Featured as film of the week on http://www.hdfest.com/animation/slow-train-high-definition.html 16th Nov 2009.
Also shown at Candid Projections.

Ain't Got Nobody

2008-08-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

A 12foot6 film in association with Hamish Stewart.
Produced by Tom and Dave at 12foot6, www.12foot6.com.

Directed by Asa Lucander. Illustration and design by Asa Lucander.

Vocals supplied by Hamish Stewart.

Stage set built by a lovely man in hat.

Animated by Asa Lucander and me (Asa - rabbit, drummer, monkey, bassist / Kim - man, noteghosts, audience, drummer, monkey, bassist!) I worked on my part of the animation in this between September 2007 and June 2008, alongside other smaller projects.

Available to buy on DVD from Magma bookshops for only £4.99!

Screening at the London Animation Festival 2009, Rushes Shorts 2009,
Melbourne Film Festival 2009.

Listen to a comment by Festivus's Jeremy: http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwObiEpCW4&feature=related

Bookstart ad

2008-03-09T17:24:00.001-07:00

I animated the background animations on this advert. Asa Lucander designed the ad and animated the bed with mum and kid.

Cobra Ads and IDents

2008-03-09T17:23:00.000-07:00

Paramount Comedy ident Oct'07 - Mardi Gras

2008-03-09T17:13:00.000-07:00

Paramout Comedy ident Oct '07 - thief deckchair

2008-03-09T17:11:00.001-07:00

Paramout Comedy ident Oct '07 - thief seagull

2008-03-09T17:10:00.000-07:00

Paramount Comedy ident October 07 - gangster

2008-03-09T17:08:00.000-07:00

Hungry for Love

2007-06-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

Final film 2.58mins.

Untitled from kimunkey on Vimeo

Link to relevant National Gallery podcast
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1947339
Link to National Gallery hosting of animation
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/transcriptions/animation/hungryforlove/default.htm

Screened at:

Muuvi Film Festival, Romania 2007
Box [ur] shorts online film festival, 2007
Slamdance Anarchy, November 2007
The Bigger Picture, Manchester, 2007
Propellor TV, 2007
Undergrouond Shorts DVD, 2007
Rotoreliefs, London, 2007

Compilation of years animation

2007-06-24T11:03:00.003-07:00

compilation of years work from kimunkey on Vimeo

Lifedrawing

2007-06-24T11:01:00.001-07:00

Upcoming - slideshow of lifedrawing. For now you can see the stills further back in my blog

Testing composited advert scene

2007-06-08T11:27:00.000-07:00

In the the one thing that is not clear is the writing in the advert, and the whole animation would make no sense without being able to read "Pancake bride" on the ad. In the linetests this is ok because it is a focusing problem of the camera, but to check if it will work have coloured and composited this scene animo.

ad test scene from kimunkey on Vimeo

Min Sun suggested that I still need longer after the zoom for the audience to absorb whats on the screen, so I may have to repeat parts of the advert loop.

Testing backgrounds fading through time

2007-06-08T11:23:00.001-07:00

At the beginning of my animation I need to give the idea that the man and dog are being shown at different times and this relies a lot on my backgrounds - the clock hands change, the rubbish accumulates and the shadows from the window change as the sky darkens and lightens. To test if this works I've made a short movie clip of the backgrounds cross-dissolving into each other using Premier Pro. I was pretty satisfied with result.

Testing backgrounds fading through time from kimunkey on Vimeo

Processing - animo and photoshop

2007-06-08T11:06:00.000-07:00

After completeing the linetests reached the stage of colouring in. Have scanned all the drawings into animo and now need to colour the levels. Have scanned the backgrounds and foregrounds into photoshop and am colouring these using the techniques and texture Pete Hillier showed me. The aim is to have the end film looking roughly like the promotional stills below.

Below the greyer image is after colouring and shadowing in Photoshop. The top image is after applying a grain texture adjusting the colour levels to more red and yellow. Hopefully I can acheive a similar thing through animo director when the levels are coloured in.

After the line tests had to consider how to process the images. At the beginning of the project I had the idea to trace each still onto tracing paper and photograph these ontop of a background built from parchment paper. By trying it realised that this would probably take years as it took a few hours for just this one still, and it didn't look as good as I had hoped.

Processing - line tests

2007-06-08T10:57:00.000-07:00

I decided early on in the project that for it to have the style that I want I would need to handdraw the animation. So after making the animatic, and the acting and research I keyed out the whole project in as much detail as possible. I tried to include overshoot ands anticipation as well as all the main poses.

The overall length of the film grew from roughly 1 minute two just over two at this stage.

See the final linetest sequence below.

Final linetests from kimunkey on Vimeo

There were sections of this that proved difficult, such as conveying the idea that the man wants to cut the dogs heart out to give to the pancake woman to bring her to life. The man dancing with the pancake bride, and the dog jumping off the bed and walking backwards then turning and jumping back on were all technically challenging.

Atmosphere and style research

2007-06-08T10:42:00.000-07:00

My story is quite surreal and a bit twisted, I hope!, and I want this to be reflected in the look of the piece.

I got in touch with a sound engineer called Anthony Leung to help me from the audio side, and he showed me a clip from the Simpsons (Season 18, episode 14) to lister to the music, apparently similar to Astor Piazollas' music. Visually it was a really interesting piece of animation because it was all cross hatched and very dark and sinister. It was apparently a reference to artist Edward Gorey, so found an image (see below).

Like the textures in this image - it was on a card but I can't remember the artist's name. Background artist Pete Hillier at CSM gave a few of us a Photoshop tutorial and after that I experimented with some textures in my backgrounds.

Old Lady and the Pigeojns, directed by Sylvain Chomet is dark and twisted in the way that I want my film to be and I really liked the French style and colour schemes. See http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1997/oldlady.jpg&imgrefurl=http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1997/oldlady.htm&h=104&w=132&sz=6&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=BF8KGOfmdOmeSM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=92&prev=/images?q=old+lady+and+the+pigeons&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&sa=N

Did an image search on Google of messy room pics to help with designing the backgrounds and this was one of the best I found!

Giving Jerome a character history

2007-06-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

We've been taught this year that when you create a character, in film or animation or writing ,that there are seven key questions that you need to be able to answer to contrsct and idea of who they are, because this will influence their actions, behaviour, posture and movement.

In the dvd extras to Belleview Rendevous director Sylvain Chomet also talks about the importance of his characters having a history. One of the first verisions of my animatic had an ex girlfriend tear up a photo and throw i ton Jerome, who then opens a drawer in his chair and drops it in. The camera follows the scraps drift onto a pile of photos and documents that refered to Jerome's history - see animatic still below.

1) WHO AM I? Mr Jerome Saint, 26 years old. Used to be a postie, popular with the locals, would take his dog Leo with him on his rounds. Spent most nights down the pub and always had a girlfriend, although most were short term because he was to carefree to commit and there was always another round the corner. When his mother passed away when he was 22 he began drinking more and more, turning up late for work and becoming moody. Eventually fired, couldn't afford the pub anymore, started drinking at home. Both Jerome and Leo started putting on weight because of not walking the postie round anymore. All he'd do is watch tv so his final girlfriend leaves him.

2) WHERE AM I? A local burrough in a big annonymous, grimy city. See sketck below. In a two room rented council flat - kitchen, with bathroom attached (never see this in animation), and living room / bedroom.

3) WHEN AM I? 21st century ie present day. When people believe anything can be bought.

4) WHAT DO I WANT? Jerome: Companionship and love without any effort. Beer, food,
pancake bride!
Leo: Simple life with master and no outside interference / competition. Food and love.

5) WHY DO I WANT IT? Jerome: Because he is lonely without a girlfriend, but doesn' t realise
that he has the kind of efforless companionship he wants with his dog.
Leo: Because he is a loyal dog whose instinct is to live in peace with his master.

6) HOW AM I GOING TO GET WHAT I WANT? Jerome: 1st by buying a mail order pancake
bride, then by realising that he had his dog all along.
Leo: By destroying the obstruction to the relationship - eating the pancake bride.

7) WHAT GETS IN THE WAY OF WHAT I WANT? Jerome: Leo eating the pancake bride.
(although this is really a blessing in disguise otherwise he would have killed his dog - the only
creature who still really loves him).
Leo: The pancake bride and Jerome wanting to kill him for his heart.

Jerome's cahacter design

2007-06-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

In my sketchbook I took photos of the plasticine models of my Jerome and sketched from these to get a stronger hold on the character and to get consistency in his design from different angles.

To help me to design the character and so that I have something in perspective to work from I made these two plasticine models of Jerome.

Wanted a guy who was more slobbish, with a beer belly an TV eyes.

Back in December this was a rough idea of my character.

TV Presenter

2007-06-08T09:51:00.000-07:00

When the man sees the advert for the pancake bride wanted it to feel like one of these really long American stlye adverts on the shopping channel for something that will unbelievably change your life. They are usualluy presented by a cheesily happy character, so I wanted the presenter to be slimy and untrustworthy ,which is why he's got wonky eyes.
Also wanted him to seem a bit like a puppet so he's got pegs at all his joints, to make him seem more false.

Pancake bride

2007-06-08T09:37:00.000-07:00

Why pancakes? When I was thinking of the original idea I had to think of something inanimate that the man could make a girlfriend from.
Pancakes are sweet and easy to make and I originally thought that it would need to be something someone skint could make at home. As the idea for the story developed it became more logical to have a mail order pancake bride, like people buy mail order wives over the internet, as this cut out a lot of animation.

She also had to be made out of something edible so that the dog can eat her at the end and re-establish the balance in his relationship with Jerome, because really the story is about the relationship between man and dog.

Dog Character Sketches

2007-06-08T09:02:00.000-07:00

Some sketches of dog getting fatter - from 4 legged run excercise, but very helpful for Leo the dog.

One of the first drawings of Jerome and Leo the dog together. Dog has to be aclled Leo because in the painting Saint Jerome has a lion in the corner! Tried to design the man and dog so that they look similar as people always say pets look like their owners.

Some sketches of dogs to work out the different body shapes.

Dog research

2007-06-08T08:47:00.000-07:00

Some sketches done while researching the 4 legged animal walk and run cycles in term 2. Were helpful for researching Leo's movement.

One of my biggest inspirations in animation in general is the work of Sylvain Chomet, and his dog in Belleview Rendez-vous is really fantastic - hugely fat with wee skinny legs that tremble under his weight!

For the scene with the man imagining cutting out the dog's heart I had a love heart pumping in the animatic. This confused a lot of people into thinking the dog was in love with the pancake woman. When I did the animation I found this diagram of a dog's heart and used this instead, which people seemed to find a lot clearer.

Muybridge's image sequences were really useful for scenes where the dog walks to and back from the kitchen, and the jumps off of and onto the bed.

The following is Plate 121 from Animals in Motion.

Researched dogs through videos on you tube ,but actually found photos more useful - the following were the most helpful that I found through a Google search.

Original sketches back in December.

Acting out the animatic

2007-06-08T08:42:00.000-07:00

After acting this out in the privacy of my room it seems a bit odd to be putting it on the web, but there you go...! Most helpful bits of this acting were the double takes, the curves in the body as you turn and stand up and the (very bad!) attempt at dancing with an invisible pancake person!!

Acting out the animatic from kimunkey on Vimeo

Another tangent...

2007-06-08T08:38:00.000-07:00

A Satyr Mourning over the loss of a Nymph, Piero de Cassino.

After making the animatic I was looking through the National Gallery website again and saw this image, which I remember looking at in the gallery- it struck me as being quite relevant for the end of my animatic: man mourns over loss of female while dog looks on!

ANIMATIC

2007-06-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

Animatic from kimunkey on Vimeo

Editing down initial story

2007-06-08T08:29:00.000-07:00

In the first animatic I did for the jerome story i kept the argument with the girlfriend at the beginning, seen through net curtains as you zoom into a building, before cutting to the a shot of jerome in front of the tv. Due to time restrictions had to edit this out. (See clip below)

Intro edited out from kimunkey on Vimeo
Below is the character design for the girlfriend done in Flash, from when I began thinking of this story in Dec.

Thinking of a setting and a story

2007-06-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

This sketch was done whilst I was thinking of Jerome the sad lonely saint in a modern day setting, as a lonely ,outcast, a bit of a slob ,with just his friend for company, relying on the TV for inspiration.

Back in December

2007-06-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

Thinking along the lines of a lonely character who has a vision I thought back to an idea I had come up with in December. A guy has an argument with his girlfriend, who breaks up with him and storms out. Days later he is feeling lonely and thinks of buying a sex doll but realises he has no money. Later he is eating gingerbread people and is inspired to bake himself a pancake girlfriend.

He bakes a huge pancake, cuts her out, then goes through what is missing and improvises with objects in his kitchen to make her more girl-like.

original idea in dec post it note animatic from kimunkey on Vimeo
With this original idea I got as far as character designs and a very rough storyboard and animatic part done on post-its. See the video clip below.

Was partly inspired by a story by Will Self that I can remember really clearly but can't remember the title of or where i read it - a guy in a coastal town makes himself a girlfriend out of foam but ends up dropping a cigarette on her and burning his flat and himself down.

On a tangent - thinking of a love story

2007-06-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

Combing the Hair, Edgar Degas. Another painting in the National Gallery that I thought was beautiful and showed a really interesting relationship between two characters which had a lot of potential for development.

Did some rough thumbnails for a story about a barber and his customer. The customer is a shy, generally antisocial character who falls in love with his barber because he is the only person he sees on a regular basis and therefore has some kind of relationship with. He starts bringing the barber gifts like chocolates, flowers, theatre tickets. The barber, who is an arrogant and vain person refuses and makes the man feel stupid, until one day the customer brings him a gilt mirror. He loves the mirror and starts admiring himself in it, but forgets to say thank you. The disillusioned customer walks out of the salon, never to return. Eventually the barber realises he has gone, and waits for him, gradually getting more and more deflated and depressed as he realises he misses the customer.

The following are a few examples of sketches done whilst thinking of this idea - processed hand drawings in flash.

Abandonned this idea when I realised that the setting and storyline meant there would be a lot of repetitive animation, of the smae scene with small variations.

First ideas

2007-06-08T06:45:00.000-07:00

In the painting (see below) there is a cross that looks like it might be floating so could be interpreted as Jerome's vision. Thinking along these lines briefly considered having a saint-like Buddah character at a table in front of a bible, who experiences a vision. In the sketch below he sneezes out an object that grows into a creature. That was as far as this idea got.

St Jerome in his Study National Gallery brief

2007-06-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

St Jerome in his Study, by Vincenzo Catena, from the National Gallery permanent collection.

The brief for this project was set by the National Gallery - to take inspiration from one of the paintings in their permanent collection and produce a 1 minute animation related to it.

This painting was the one I chose - the thing that struck me about it was Jerome's pose. Saint Jerome was a scholar and patron saint of librarians, encyclopaedists and translators so this pose is probably supposed to make him appear hard at work reading, but to me I thought he looked lonely and a little sad. And although Saints are icons and admired and worshipped in the Catholic church, which I was brought up in, I have always felt a bit sorry for them. Often they were outcasts from society and suffered a lot of hardship.

TASK PROJECT: POOL BET

2007-06-08T06:33:00.000-07:00

In our second term we were set a task project where a character aims to acheive something, thinks they have succeeded and then realises they have failed. I decided to animate a guy playing pool, potting the black and celebrating, then the white pots and he is nangry then upset. Created this animation by drawing the keys by hand and scanning them into Adobe Flash to inbetween.

Pool Bet from kimunkey on Vimeo

2007-06-08T06:24:00.000-07:00

Hand drawn images I then scanned into Flash and traced with a wacom.

Below are a couple of colour images created in Flash at the stage of planning the anmimation.

2007-06-08T06:14:00.000-07:00

My friend Gaz helped me out by letting me film him at the pool tables in the pub I was working in and living above at the tmie. I would set up the balls as I wanted them in the animation and we took endless takes, but he couldn't get the white to go in as well as the black - against instict I suppose!!

reference for pool bet from kimunkey on Vimeo

2007-06-08T06:02:00.000-07:00

INITIAL CHARACTER SKETCHES

I wanted the guy to be a cheeky and rough local guy, perhgaps with Greek or Turkish blood. A wiry, tough guy whose image and reputation is important. A lot of energy, so in the animation have him whizzing between poses.

At the end when the white pots wanted the guy to collapse in despair onto the pool table - some sketches for how he would collapse.

Original sketches thinking about the project. It was around this time I wathed Belleview Rendevous for the first time and was inspired by the strong character designs.

FACIAL ACTING

2007-06-08T05:51:00.000-07:00

For my facial acting project my character was based on a raver on his way home from a long festival weekend whose waiting in a train station and hears that his train is delayed. The following are some sketches from the planning of this project.

LIP SYNCH PROJECTS

2007-06-08T05:40:00.000-07:00

Animation created for the set lip synch project.

Bunny girl lip synch from kimunkey on Vimeo

2007-06-08T05:34:00.000-07:00

Final character design. Thought it would be more entertaining if the woman speaking was a chubby bunny girl, married whose job is just a job and who believes totally in faithfulness to one person. Initial character design - thought of a prim and proper church warden type lady. Notes for working out mouth shapes.

Other lip synch Projects

2007-06-08T05:24:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of the last term we did lip synch projects in pairs - I did the 2D dad character in the clip below, Vicky animated the child in Maya.

pairs lip synch project from kimunkey on Vimeo
Final character design for personal lip synch project.
Initial character sketches for the personal lip synch project. Chose Gary Oldman's line in Leon "I take no pleasure in taking life if its from a person who doesn't care about it." Sounds really evil and seething. Took inspiration from drawings in Shapiro's Book of Sick (see website http://www.bookofsick.com/home.htm)

Studies of the dominant mouth shapes for lip synch from our life drawing classes.

MOOD CHANGE WALK

2007-06-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

Studying different walks. This character is suopposed to be bored and moody, then he reads a sign saying he's got a gig at 8pm and walks off screen jauntily! Linetest.

Mood change walk from kimunkey on Vimeo

2007-06-08T05:21:00.000-07:00

Character design for the mood change walk.

FOUR LEGGED WALK CYCLE

2007-06-08T05:08:00.000-07:00

We went to London zoo to study four-legged animals walking and I thought the reindeer were really beautiful, so I did some sketches and took some footage of the reindeer and eventually created this animation using animo to colour it in.

reindeer walk from kimunkey on Vimeo

2007-06-08T04:53:00.001-07:00

Sketches planning out the walk cycle.

reindeer in zoo from kimunkey on Vimeo

Sketches of reindeer and the anatomy of its legs.

FISH

2007-06-08T04:51:00.000-07:00

Composited my fish swimming animation with one of pushing a heavy object.

Untitled from kimunkey on Vimeo

SNAKE

2007-06-08T04:48:00.000-07:00

Clip coloured in Animo.

snake from kimunkey on Vimeo

BOUNCING BALLS

2007-06-08T04:37:00.000-07:00

One of the first things you learn on any animating course is how to animate bouncing balls, so here are some of my most successful.

Football with ribbon attached - studying the follow through in the ribbon as well as the bounce in the ball! My first Adobe Flash animation.

Ball with ribbon from kimunkey on Vimeo

Water-filled balloon, line test.

Waterfilled balloon from

LIFE DRAWING

2007-06-08T03:59:00.000-07:00

From the life drawing classes at CSM. Looking particularly at the human form in relation to movement, so studied the human skeleton alongside a model. Looked at perspective and drawing someone whilst moving.

Some life drawing done before this year at CSM.

PREVIOUS WORK

2007-06-08T03:57:00.000-07:00

Before coming to CSM to study character animation I did a BA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw in Archway in London, graduaed summer 2006. Below are some images of the work I was doing there.

Studies for movement

2007-06-08T03:51:00.000-07:00

These two studies were drawn after looking at images in a book Dynamic Anatomy for the artist (I think that was title!) Ink, tipex, biro, acylic on corrugated card.

The pencil drawings below are studies of my friend Fish plaiting woolly dreads into her hair, with the help of Steve in the first one!

Faeries character design

2007-06-08T03:48:00.001-07:00

Portraits

2007-06-08T03:37:00.000-07:00

Old lady, charcoal on cartridge paper.

Drawn at a life drawing class.

Thom, acrylic on canvas.

Scream, oil bar on wood

Aurelia, coloured pencil on card

Jenny, coloured pencil on card.

3D set building

2007-06-08T03:32:00.001-07:00

After getting interested in stop motion built some 3D doll-sized sets. Below are the two most successful - a corridor built in perspective and a living room set.

Drawings adapted to image sequences

2007-06-08T03:15:00.001-07:00

I have always done a lot of drawing and on my BA spent a lot of time making intricate images of hybrid forms. After becoming interested in the idea of sequencing and moving imagery I adapted a few of these drawings into flickbooks and then filkmstrips using Adobe Premier.

I adapted this skeledog drawing into a moving image sequence for my 3rd year final show.

This image inspired a flickbook and filmstrip I called Flytree.

This dodo was one of the first drawings I made into a flickbook.

Seahorses

2007-06-08T03:07:00.000-07:00

Human form in free drawings

2007-06-08T03:03:00.000-07:00

Organic mechanical drawings

2007-06-08T02:59:00.000-07:00

Free drawings where there is no plan to the image being created.

Insect Work

2007-06-08T02:53:00.001-07:00

I used to make a small 3D sculptures of insects like the one below - made with parchment paper and silicone glue, roughly 5 x 7 x 2 cm. It was these that started my interest in animation because in an effort to bring them to life I did some basic stop motion clips, moving them around my studio.