Unfinished DC Universe Online trailer shot

I started animating this for the latest Mass Animation online animation project, but didn't have time to finish it due to Christmas, etc. I have started another shot but again am concerned about the timescale as I don't have much free time to complete it. Needless to say, the shot was not selected in this state. I think it would have had a chance if I had finished it.


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One of my goals as an animator is to animate Batman, a character I've been obsessed with from a very early age. I don't think this counts. I will do it one day :)

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Some of my animation in George Michael video

I did some freelance work before Christmas for Moving Image Exchange, which it turns out (I didn't know this) was for a George Michael Christmas video. I only did a bit on it, I did some the background character loops you can see when the boy reaches the busy factory area. It's a nice-looking, video, eh? No comment about the song...


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Robot Wrestling

Ages ago, right - AGES ago - Curtis Jobling (of Bob The Builder and Frankenstein's Cat fame) gave me a few doodles he'd er, doodled, of something called "Robot Wrestling". A couple of friends and I were going to bring it into existence as very short 3D interstitials packed full of cartoon violence. That fell by the wayside, and the project fell off my radar.

Anyway, last week I stumbled across Curtis' sketches again and knocked up this rough teaser for it.



Having watched it back now with fresh eyes, it's a bit lifeless. But I need to work on LBOM now!

2009 mini-reel, "LBOM" and "Surrogates" work

It's been a while since I posted anything but I have actually been busy!

I'm currently working (and have been doing so for two years!) on a Flash-animated music video for Danny Fontaine and the Horns Of Fury's song Little Bit of Mean (or LBOM). It's four minutes long and I've been working on it in the background, when I wasn't busy with anything else. It's nearly complete now and I'd like it done in the next few weeks, but that's dependent entirely on whether anything else crops up.

The video recreates various instances of people being MEAN from pop culture and history, and replaces frontman Danny Fontaine as the antagonist in those scenes. Some such scenes can be seen in this mini-reel I knocked up recently for an MA application, along with my Animation Mentor work.



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Over the summer I did some work with Brickyard VFX in Boston, Mass. I did some 3D modelling and texturing of some buildings in Boston for the film a Surrogates starring Bruce Willis, which is set in the city. The film is based on an awesome graphic novel of the same name, which I highly recommend, and is out worldwide in a couple of weeks.

Now that LBOM is almost done, I'll have things to post here more often, so please check back and thanks for reading!

Animation Mentor Dialogue shot

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So this is my first dialogue shot* on Animation Mentor, I finished** it a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it.


*I say "dialogue", it's a monologue really isn't it, cos there's only one character.

**I say "finished", it could do with a tad more polishing...

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Beatles run cycles

First blocking passes of cartoony runs for The Beatles in the "Meet The Beatles" shot I'm currently working on. Added a clip from the original cartoon series, which I used for reference (limited as it is).


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Belf.

The Beatles get Animation Mentored

This is the title card of a 20-second short I'm making. Just because.. y'know. :)

It should be done by the time I start Animation Mentor Class 4 in two weeks. It's mainly the autograph shot I didn't quite finish in Class 3, finished up, added to, and dressed up all pretty.

I wonder if I'm allowed to use The Beatles' music as a soundtrack, legally... anyone?