Recent Work

I'm currently trying to create a style for my possible 3rd year film, which i will pitch in October, It's still very open but I'm using artists like Hans Bacher, Peter De Seve and Jon Classen to rein my ideas in!

(An abstract colour chart i put together to refer to in times of panic)

A few drawings from my sketchbook:

Stop Motion Models!

Working for graduate film 'A Life Well Seasoned' meant i got to try my hand at model and set making, I learnt so much in such a short amount of time ( like putting Fimo on top of polystyrene then baking it, results in a smoky kitchen!) And the experience has really got me thinking about going into that area of animation:

Life Drawing

A selection of drawings and paintings done in our weekly life drawing classes:

A couple of artist studies of Aya Suzuki's sketches.

These are general sketches and paintings outside of the studio:

Animations.

Here are a selection of animations ranging from my first in A-level, through my Foundation year up to the present:

I was asked to animate this bear for the Copenhagen G8 summit in 2009. A group called the 'Ice Bear Project' placed a life sized ice sculpture of a bear on Nytrov (New Square) in Copenhagen, the bear then melted over the course of a few days leaving only a metal skeleton and a powerful message. This animation was designed for their website.


This was my first attempt at animation during my A-level and it was what made me want to study Animation at university! I wanted to visualize the effect of negative media on the public, how it can make the world seem like a corrupt dark place if you don't notice the positive events occurring all around you.



This was my final major project for my Foundation year; it's a series of interviews with my friends and family discussing their nostalgic memories and opinions on when the 'best years of their life' were or will be. The original has background music but it makes the video size too big for Blogspot to upload so here is the version without music:

China Work Experience!

In Spring of 2011 I was offered the unbelievable chance of traveling to Nanjing, China and working for Glory n' Dreams Animation Studio for a month. I arrived at a point when the studio were considering turning their just finished feature film 'Back To The Sea' into a TV series, and so (lucky me) I got to spend my month coming up with a possible style for the series! Their brief was ' clear, simple and readable'. You'll have to forgive the simplicity of the Photoshop work- it was my first time using the software!