Monday March 23rd 2015 // Cartoon illustrator Melbourne
Today I begin a very exciting project. The purpose of our partnership is to illustrate a book of unlikely and funny stories that the company have endured over the previous 20 years. As ludicrous as some of these stories appear they are all true and make for fantastic comedy cartoons.
Most of this will be kept secret in the coming months however here is a sample of the pre planning.
Sunday March 22nd 2015 // Character design animation
Over the previous 2 weeks I have been working closely with Tara Phillips producing an Animated ident for her Youtube Channel. We went through the revision stages to come up with a sassy character she was happy with and then began animating her her intro, lip syncing the character to her opening title jingle “I’m just sayin'”. Check Tara’s intro and channel out on YouTube here.
Monday March 9th 2015 // Living in a van : Video editing
4 Months ago we returned a fully fitted home on wheels after 3 months travelling up the coast of Australia, to the Daintree rainforest and then back down to Melbourne where we know have a more static house.
This is a cut of some of the scenery we saw on the way.
Tuesday March 3rd 2015 // Flyer design
The new front and rear designs for the Sports Heroes holiday club flyer.
www.sportsheroesclub.com
Wednesday February 25th 2015 // Character design background art Melbourne
Over the last month I have been working with the lovely folk over at EPA finance, Melbourne. We have taken the seven members of staff there and turned them into rigged animated characters, in split views and customisable. The seven characters will be used by EPA to present web seminars and podcasts as well as marketing material to promote a different take on the world of accountants. Along with the seven characters I have also illustrated three background sets for the characters to be animated upon.
Monday February 9th 2015 //
A big thank you for an enjoyable couple of days working with Matthew Hoffman. Together we were able to produce a news anchor character and a set in a very quick turn around.
Matt wanted a character based on a certain Pawney resident and together, after a few reviews we came up with this guy.
Saturday February 7th 2015 // Graphic design
Promotional Facebook cover graphic design artwork for “the Challenge”. Work is trickling in at a steady pace and while I bring in new clients here in Melbourne, existing ones in the UK continue to contact me for support.
Thursday February 5th 2015 //
I’m going through some old hard drives looking for sketches and I’ve come across some cartoon illustration Melbourne has been a blast, we moved out from one house and arrived by taxi one street up. Brunswick in Christmas with new friends is making the move feel easy.
Sunday January 25th 2015 //
I’ve been working on several character designs, all of whom will be appearing in a very large illustration that I have been working on for the past 3 months.
These guys will be there, for now thou I shall place them upon this nice coastal background.
Monday January 13th 2015 // The Challenge – Melbourne Animator
We are no longer living in a van, we are living in lovely Melbourne. Trams coffee and smashed avocado. We are also living with a chocolatier, her house smells incredible, but she has a bit of a temper.. I don’t think we will stay here for too long. Christmas is coming up and my sister is coming to visit.
Well Craig and Ryan got back in touch and they wanted some more promo work doing for their start up. Here it is.
Ident for online content and marketing for “The Challenge”
Wednesday 24th December 2014 //
Final cut for “The Challenge” animated promo, ready in time for Christmas. Including supporting concept artwork for backgrounds, run cycles & character design.
The animation also contains the motion graphic Ident which was developed for all promotional video to be used online.
The Challenge from will baker on Vimeo.
Monday 8th December 2014//
Pre production for animation short “The Challenge” has begun & I am underway with character development. The short is about a average joe who wants to be more, over breakfast he see’s an opportunity to change & with a cleverly cut montage he does just that.
Expected completion – December 22nd
Wednesday 12th November 2014// Splash screen
I’ll keep this one short, but some of the difficulties of working from a van can be space, power and the humidity as you pull up in a sub tropical rainforest for the night. I was contacted by a Melbourne client and agreed to create an animated splash screen, it was a days work and in difficult circumstances. I sent them the finished file.. and the dastardly Mahoon never responded again. Cough! The said splash screen for mobile platform application “dive”
Wednesday 29th October 2014// The Challenge logo design
A pleasure working with my old colleagues back in Bristol, drawing up a new logo design for their new business venture – “The Challenge”.
Working in a makeshift studio works, an office on the road may give me power issues but its pretty neat having a different view everyday, this piece was created with salt water croc’s & german backpackers meandering outside in North Queensland.
Saturday 11th October 2014// Bunker gallery of cartoon Melbourne is 868 miles South.
A month on the road has delivered some interesting places & people. Australia’s landscape can change within a car’s drive & the further north we go the more we settle into a life less ordinary.
Passing through Coffs Harbour we made friends with the passionate people at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery & have agreed to enter some work for this years Rotary Awards. We also discussed opening the gallery up to an Animation category.
I believe we are half way up to the tip of Australia, with 2 months before we arrive back in Melbourne there’s lots more opportunities for future stories.
Monday 1st September 2014 // Cartoon animator Melbourne
Our 3 month stay with the Chambers family is almost up so as a departing gift I have illustrated one anecdote they shared with us about a disgruntled local pub after hitting the jukebox to play the “Pulp Fiction” cut of Dick Dales, Misirlou.
I also found time to render a short animation which was animated around a 45 second sound recording I took while at an AFL game last June.
Saturday 30th August 2014 // Cartoon illustration Melbourne
I’ve been working on a illustration, an idea I’ve had for a short animation but until I have time to put more into it I began drawing a scene.
What the characters are running towards will be symbolic of the short.
I can smell the Raspberry splits
Sunday 27th July 2014 // Flash Animator in Melbourne
We are still on the farm in Colac, the pigs are loud and they are always hungry. The other day I fell over in some mud while carrying a 20kg bag of feed and was mobbed by 20 – 30 pigs. That will be a highlight. I made Nick the farmer a space to fling his ‘manure’, lacking the need for anything creative I have put together a very nice rock and broken wood boarder with a symmetrical border. I also updated my Freelancer profile and received a call from Doug Bray. He is writing a short cartoon, I said I would help and here is a rendered scene from the production of “Glass Half Empty”.
Sunday 20th July 2014 //
Begin pre-production with Doug Bray for his web series “Glass Half Empty”
Character Sketches for the two featured characters, “Sicko” & Davey”
Sunday 29th June 2014 // Animation in Melbourne:
We have moved to Melbourne, while we enjoyed a cozy 2 week stay in a Brunswick Air B&B we went and check out some Aussie Footy. I thought it would be useful to record some of the stadium ambience and so.. we are now living with Nick and Fiona on their farm in Colac, I have little creative output as I feed the pigs and chase chickens so I thought I would use the collected sound effects and see what I come up with. Here are the early sketch drawings for the project, a working title short animation.
Screen shot of project workspace
Rendered Scene //