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!
As mentioned previously, I've had a few projects completed for a while but due to the wishes of the client, I've kept them under wraps. I've had confirmation recently that these are now ok to share, and so I've uploaded them now as part of the update.
This work is in-keeping with previous pieces for this client, which makes use of elephants as the main subject within the design. The client knew that he wanted a front facing elephant and that he wanted it to have a cute appearance as it would represent a beauty brand.
As the design developed, the client chose to incorporate flowers. I also designed the "MOORLIFE BEAUTY" logo and the client asked for the addition of vines and roses. The second design was inspired by another design that the client had seen and will be used as part of promotional material.
I still have some other completed projects that I haven't been given permission to share so they will most likely form part of my next update, which will hopefully be soon.
My intention after these projects was to return to the balloon animation from previous updates. However, another animation option came along so I'm going to be pushing that project back until I've developed the new idea further.
I will update again soon with my most recently completed projects.
This post won't be as detailed as I would usually like, the reason being that I already typed the post up and there was an issue with cut and paste which resulted in me losing everything. Lesson learnt, always copy on iphone, never cut. So as promised I have returned to update on what I've been up to in the last few months since September 2019.
One of the digital pieces I worked on was a drawing of Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. These characters were a huge influence on me as a child and were a big factor in my wanting to be an animator/illustrator. I initially drew out these characters in 2016 and only recently got around to bringing them to life in a digital form.
As mentioned previously, I worked on a logo for Elroy of Cut Different clothing, based in the USA. Elroy had a very specific idea of what he wanted the design to look like. I enjoyed working on this design as it does incorporate a character of sorts - character design being one of my passions. Elroy was very happy with this design and recently gave permission to share this design on my site and blog.
Next, I did some work for Kenny, one of Elroy's contacts. Kenny reached out to me to give his current logo new life. As you can see from the images, I upped the detail on the logo, but kept the core principle the same. Kenny was very happy with this updated look.
I helped Kenny again soon afterwards when he contacted me to create a logo for his brand "Moor Life." Kenny wasn't sure exactly what he wanted but was hopeful that we could include an elephant in the design. I created a design as below and Kenny was thrilled with the final delivery.
There was another Hashtag Live held in Classic Grand in December 2019. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, the boys were unable to record audio for another introductory animation so I instead I did various pieces of artwork for the show.
In mid November, I decided it was time to return to creating animation, as it had been 6 months since I had actually done anything in that medium. At first I planned to create an animation that I'd planned out earlier in the year. However, it occured to me that we were approaching the Christmas period, and so I felt this was a good opportunity to create an animation based around that. The result was "To Elf and Happiness" the story of Twinkie, a workshop elf and his secret love for Elsie, an Office Elf. Overall I was very happy with how this project turned out and feel that I am back to my animating best.
Going forward, I have a few ideas for what I would like to do next, including the aforementioned idea, which centres around a balloon character and perhaps another comic. I will also be doing my best to raise the status of Campbell Animation in 2020. I will update the blog as soon as I have further developments.
