Hi all, I haven’t had much any time to post anything recently, the new MA is life consuming. On the plus I got the OK yesterday to post this development work I did for sherbet a few months ago.

More doodles I did whils waiting for renders/flipbooks/playblasts/exports e.t.c.

jon

The image above is a still that wont be in the film because the angle wouldn’t work in the edit/story but I still like it and it would be a shame to bin it, so I though it could live on the blog.

jon

Here’s a few doodles I drew whilst waiting for renders on my latest job; I’m trying to do as much work as I can at the moment before I start my MA in January.

From left to right:

I. Me on monday night ‘finishing’ the never ending job at 3:31 am.

II. Not much going on with the drawing here but I thought it was interesting colouring only using a single hue and just varying saturation and luminosity…

III. my interpretation of the Gruffalo (after seeing a still from the new animated version coming out this Christmas, fingers crossed)

Anyway, just a brief update, I’m thinking of doing a short animatic to upload just for practice, perhaps that will materialize soon.

jon

Freeman Dyson in “To mars on an A bomb” bbc4.

Hi all, here’s a quick hand study I made yesterday, I was modelling a hand in maya and was having trouble with the topology so I got out the plasticine to figure out some proportions. On another note progress on the short has slowed down, I have some work on at the moment and I must make hay when the sun shines.

jon

More shots as they get spat out, I’m probably going to re-grade them all just to geth the colours correct/consistant but I’m happy with where its going.

Have fun all,  jon

Hi there, just a short anouncement, my internet is now working again after 2 months without it!!! So I should be able to post more often, and to kick off heres a real, finished comlete hi def inage from my new short (50 seconds), enjoy

jon

My graduation film wooden stars is online, head over to the films page or my vimeo page to take a look.

These are a few designs for the new short I’m working on, I wanted to make something that was fun and something that had relatively few elements so I could spend enough time on each part to make it look good. Anyway, Its not high concept, if anything its a ‘dance’ piece, dance feels like its the wrong word though, I’m thinking far more about figurative sculpture, its all very closely related I guess. In short its a body moving through space with music, here’s hoping it goes well. (Also the 3d still is just a screengrab, its missing cloth simulation and displacement/textures so it will look more finished)

jon