Doodle and Draw

Oddsockshire - After Annecy

2011-06-17T20:18:00.006+01:00

The feature pitch went very well, and I am extremely pleased! Getting a feature film off the ground is a long arduous journey but we can now say we have the ball rolling! The Portuguese press even made an article about it. Just before the actual presentation we had mentoring from the wonderful Gaetano Stucchi. His advice was worth gold and the presentation ran all the more smoothly because of it. Now I am developing the project further still with the help of Henrik Sønniksen and Dave Price, and am continuing to write the script. Wish us luck!

Oodsockshire - Feature Project Pitch

2011-05-30T12:00:00.005+01:00

I am very pleased to say that my feature film project - Oddsockshire - was one of the six projects selected to be pitched in Annecy this year. If you are going to the festival do come down to the Creative Focus on the 7th of June at 5:30pm and come and hear the story! See the amazing designs by the extremely talented Henrik Sønniksen, the background studies by Dave Price and Louise Bergholt Sørensen and the maquettes sculpted by Morten Lassen. I am the writer-director and will be doing the pitch. À biêntot!

Final Call - Short Film

2011-05-21T09:44:00.005+01:00

I do apologise for my absence. It has all been very hectic - good hectic. Many projects on the go including a short film project I have been developing at the artistic residencies in The Animation Workshop in Denmark. What a wonderful place! I have put up a production blog so you can follow the development process for now and part of the pre-production too. And hopefully later on production and post ;-) Do take a peek. Followers and comments are very welcome.

Life Drawing

2011-01-21T18:41:00.004Z

One of my new year resolutions was to re-enroll in life-drawing (and to draw more in general). Here are a couple of the very rusty sketches I did on the first evening. Hoping to post on blog more often too. Happy New Year! :-)

The Lisbon Studio MAG#2

2010-12-30T15:13:00.002Z

The second Art Book edited by The Lisbon Studio is coming out very soon. I couldn't resist but to post some of my contributions to this edition. Hope you like them! I had fun making them!

BabelGum Animatron

2010-10-19T07:50:00.004+01:00

My MA Graduation Film - "Wherever You Go There you are" has been awarded the audience prize in BabelGum's Animatron Fantasy category. I am so pleased! Thank you to all that voted. And for those of you who haven't seen the film here it is in my youtube channel:

Animation Sans Frontières

2010-10-10T18:03:00.007+01:00

A week from today I will be flying to Stuttgart for the first module of Animation Sans Frontières,the European Animation Production Workshop. Animation Sans Frontières is supported by the MEDIA Programme, and consists of an 8-week programme run by and at, four of the most prestigious Animation Film schools in Europe (that I so admire):

The Filmakademie of Baden-Wurtemberg, Ludwigsburg, Germany

The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design - MOME, Budapest, Hungary

The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark

and Gobelins, L´école de l’image, Paris, France

I feel very privileged to have been one of the sixteen European Animators and recent-graduates to be selected, and was very humbled when I saw the blogs and websites of my very talented fellow-participants.

The workshops and lectures will address the international markets and production tools from pitching to line production. We will be shown different case studies as well as visiting different studios. Alongside the finance and production thread, we will also have the chance to develop our own creative projects, have brainstorms, create a project bible and pitch our own ideas. They also put a lot of emphasis in new platforms, formats and technologies.

I am very excited, very flattered and cannot wait to start this new adventure. I will make sure I'll write at least one post for each module/school. So watch this space!

Flick Flip Flick

2010-10-04T12:35:00.008+01:00

Flick-Flip-Flick is an innovative project, developed by the Department of Art and Design and the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE, in partnership with local schools and colleges and Aardman.

To launch the project professional animators from Aardman have worked with the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE to produce new flick books. These flick books demonstrate a range of innovative techniques including: hand drawn, painted, 3D modelling, stop motion, photography and CGI, the animators have worked with researchers from the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE to explore new technologies such as laser cutting and UV digital presses. Each new work will be printed as both an A3 print and made into a book and will be exhibited at the Bower Ashton Campus 4 - 15 October 2010.

I am very flattered to have been one of the Aardman animators to contribute to this project. If you'd like to see the flip books have a look at their website and if you happen to be in Bristol why not come to the exhibition opening too? On October the 5th at 17:00 at the Bower Ashton Campus.

Wallace and Gromit's Christmas Stamps

2010-09-22T18:23:00.011+01:00

This time last year we were finishing our sculpts and pictures of Wallace and Gromit for what was a very secret Christmas project. Well now the secret is out! This year's Royal Mail's Christmas Stamp Limited Edition includes our beloved Wallace and Gromit, and Andy, Elodie and I had the pleasure of sculpting them and posing them to camera. The Christmas Pudding one was my special one. It was very odd being surrounded by Christmas decorations in September but it will be a great pleasure sending out Christmas cards this year!

My Short Film in the Babel Gum Animatron

2010-09-16T09:07:00.004+01:00

My animated short that I did for the MA in Animation is now up for competition at the Babelgum Animatron. Please cast your vote! No need to sign in! Thanks in advance :-)

Where's my sharpener?

2010-09-12T15:22:00.001+01:00

Running Rabbit - Pencil Test

2010-08-25T20:14:00.002+01:00

Malbec

2010-08-21T22:01:00.001+01:00

Hhmmm...

2010-08-18T12:15:00.000+01:00

The Barmaid

2010-08-13T13:16:00.001+01:00

... .--. .- -.-. . / -... . .- .-. / -... .-.. .. .--.

2010-08-01T13:13:00.003+01:00

Flight Delayed.

2010-07-31T11:13:00.001+01:00

Life Drawing for Animators

2010-07-15T22:56:00.003+01:00

Random doodle

2010-07-13T20:12:00.002+01:00

wink!

You Tube Channel

2010-07-12T12:07:00.006+01:00

I've set up my own You Tube Channel where I can upload my short films, showreels and other moving image experiments. Do have a look! Hoping to fill it with more films frequently. :-)

More OOglies

2010-07-10T00:21:00.004+01:00

My scanner is playing up at the moment and I cannot scan any of my doodles. So, in order to keep the flow, here goes another "Strictly come Grating" sketch.

©BBC

Chris

2010-07-08T03:54:00.005+01:00

Hadn't drawn a portrait in years. Here is my friend Chris watching the Spain-Germany match.

(stubble is always hard to draw...!)

OOglies 2009

2010-07-06T14:00:00.008+01:00

This was what I was up to in Glasgow at the BBC last year. I want to put an OOglies reel together, but in the meantime here is my favourite sketch. (Don't mind the rigging!)

©BBC

Red Squirrel

2010-07-01T00:07:00.004+01:00

Queen Square, Bristol

2010-06-30T00:11:00.000+01:00