Some updates

A quick update on my recent digital design work. I have a few personal projects coming up that I am really excited to get started on. 

 

Below, I have a hippo character sheet that I had initially planned a few years back but has lay dormant until now. I intend to do another sheet of his friend in the future and have a few animation ideas to go with that once I have completed upcoming projects.

 

This character was really fun to come up with - I intend for him to fill the "stupid" role in some comedy cartoons.

Here we have another design, completed quite a while ago for a builder client, that I am now able to share publically.

 

 

Coming next, I have a few different digital pieces to finish then I will start an animation project that I'm very passionate about, involving my son. Unfortunately that means the balloon animation has been pushed even further back. More updates to follow in the coming weeks!

We have our new project!!

After some hours of work on coming up with a new storyline, we have developed the basic structure for our next animated project, currently named Meatballs at this early stage. We have developed character sheets for the main character (below) and have almost completed initial storyboards. Animation will begin within the next week.

Character sheet for the main character

First Mate Arceus Firion

It has well and truly been a while since I last logged in to express my thoughts and to update the blog to reflect what I have been up to. However I'm here now, and have quite a lot of information to get through. First off, at the end of the last blog post in January, I stated that I would be going back to the new "Gump & Gil" cartoon and have it finished sometime the following week. I finished the two scenes that I had been working on and once again put the episode on hold as more important stuff came to my attention.

Since my last post, I have managed to secure some upcoming studio experience in an animation production company named "Touzie Tyke" based in Film City, Glasgow, and will soon be working on some commercial adverts for a well known power company, if things go to plan. 

I have also managed to get some animation work on an independent movie through my contacts at Smudge Digital, also located in Glasgow. I have already started some animation tests for the aforementioned movie, which I will share on the blog at a later date. 

My most recent work has been another character design, a character from the same pirate universe as the last one.

 

Next on the agenda for me will be to finish the animation tests for the movie that I mentioned and will also be creating some test work for the adverts for Touzie Tyke. I will also try to do another character design during this period, as it really helps me to unwind after animating.

Gary & Freddy Character Sheets.

These character sheets are for two characters created for my recent animation, entitled "Come Fly with Me." I tried to keep these characters as simple as I possibly could, in order to make the animation process easier.