The Mystery Of Pig City! On Federator!

+ Suspicious Sausages


Fantastically 'The Mystery Of Pig City!' is featured in this weeks Channel Federator no.183 ! Thanks alot to everyone at Federator for enjoying the film enough to feature it on their excellent show.


Concept Art for the Boy

It's great to think of people discovering 'Pig City!' all these years later. I'll un-archive some of the sketches and post them over the next few days.

Plunger

+ Pitch



Halftone Plumber| More concept artwork for Pitches.

'Little Things'

+Jeffrey Brown


Over the last few months we’ve been working for seminal Chicago cartoonist Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy, unlikely. We've been animating Jeff’s drawings for a short promo to promote his new book ‘Little Things’. The promo was animated in flash for Jeff's website and was great fun. Ginny met Jeff in comic book store Gosh in London last year and got talking about animation.



The music was created by Bristol band Mewgatz. Jeff also created the artwork for their debut album, including a 16 page album comic book.

Channel4 + UK Film Council: Perhaps?

+Perhaps God is Angry
Early in the year we were lucky enough to be short listed by both Channel4 and the UK Film Council for short film funding for our film ‘Perhaps God is Angry’. Perhaps he was on those days, as sadly we didn’t win either of our pitches, but throughly enjoyed the odd experience!

Thanks to Sam Bourner for shaping our scribbles into a script.


Here's a glimpse of our 'storyboard' doodles. The film is based on an 30second ident that i started which quickly grew wildly out of control into a 3 min film, this seems to happen quite alot.

The Mystery Of Pig City!

+NYICFF 08

Ginny and I have been off to New York for a few days as my graduation film; The Mystery Of Pig City’ was selected to be apart of the International Children’s Film Festival.



The film played to an excited (perhaps too excited) young audience and was followed by an embarrassing Q&A featuring questions about ‘colours, what sausages are really made off and suggestions for ideas that were better’. An amazing festival, and New York was an amazing city.

Congratulations to Sarah Cox who's film Don’t let it all Unravel won the Environmental Award and to Felix Massie who's great film 'Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight' also won the 12-18 award.

Thanks to Paul Brewster and the ICFF volunteers for making the trip so memorable.

Pitchy doodle

+CBeebies Pitch
For| Persistent Peril



Here's a quick piece of concept Art for a new Cbeebies show that 'Persistent Peril' were lucky enough to pitch on. Originally the doodles were spilling out of a Pie!

Pictoplasma Pixels!

+NYC 08



We are really happy that Pixel film: {?) was selected as part of the Pictoplasma: NYC Festival. It will also be apart of the touring program, which will next be visiting Argenina! It's screening in the Characters in Motion category. Sadly Ginny and I are unable to go this year, but its amazing to be apart of such an eclectic and outstanding group of films.

Thanks to Anna, Peter and Lars once again for all their support.

E4 Finale!

+E4 esting

Last night was the finale for the E4 estings competition! E4 through a trendy party at the Design Museum on the South Bank, complete with purple lighting and free drinks. They screened the top 25 stings and announced the winner as voted for my the public through their web site. Sadly we didn’t win but the overall winner was great!



E4 had made postcards to promote the event! It was great to meet the other finalists, it was an eclectic bunch! Thanks to Jamie and his team for a great night.

Design Week !

+The Mystery Of Pig City!

Design Week
FEB 28 2008
Volume 23 | Number 9

I was recently interviewed for Design week for their article: Shouting for shorts: spotting the animation talent. You can read my bizzare answers on page 16 of the weekly magazine, fantastically they featured two images, one a rough colour board for Pig City and the other a piece of concept art.



The article featuring Aardman’s Luis Cook, Peter Baynton and Dimitar Mitovski interviews artists and discusses the rise of AV-Festivals and the popularity of short films on the internet.

You can also read the article online here.

Creative Review doodle

+E4 esting

Or e4 ident was selected by the judges to be a finalist in the e-stings competition! You can see the ident on E4 airing as part of the E4 MUSIC section. We are also lucky enough to be printed in Creative Review’s article on the competition. The article is in this February's issue, page 14 to be precise!



E4 and creative review are putting on an exhibition featuring the finalists in the Design Museum in London this month. The exhibition runs from the 25th of February to the 2nd of March.

PICTOPLASMA: Characters in Motion

+e4 esting



Our E4 esting was apart of this years Characters in Motion: Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin! Ginny and I traveled to Berlin to watch it on the Big screen and were throughly embarrassed/delighted to be asked up with the other entrees to talk about the short.

Pimp my Pumps!

+PIMP MY PUMP Exhibition

I was lucky enough to take part in Lazy Oaf’s ‘Pimp my Pumps’ exhibition. You can see my Pumps along with some amazing pairs by the likes of Peskimo and adrian johnson at Lazy Oafs london kingly court store before it heads off to Thunder egg in Manchester, T-shu in Holland and then to the Royal Cheese in Paris, My Yard in Bristol and finally to Brighton.





+Update
Creative Review's CR Blog has a write up on the event.

PIXEL FILM

+ (?}



We’ve just completed our first Super Short Film entitled: PIXEL FILM: {?). The film was drawn in a 50x50 Pixel square frame by frame and the 8-Bit sound track was created using ‘Magical 8Bit’ a plug in for Garage Band.



The title’s (?} is our version of an ascii art speech bubble with a question mark, which kind of sums the film up! Were hoping to make more of these in the future as it was great fun designing and animating to such an odd limitation.

Monster Burp!

Lazy Oaf’s: Monster Burp exhibition

Lazy Oaf’s: Monster Burp exhibition features the likes of talented artist including peskimo, Jon burgerman and ourselves! Ginny and I created original ‘paintings’ for the Exhibition which is in Kingly Court in London. Garth attempted to doodle and whitewash onto un-dyed canvas and Ginny created a day-glow dinosaur who perfectly filled his boxy canvas.



Thank you to Jemma for letting us join in the fun and be in the presence of such good company.

CN drawings!

+ Robot Boy

Here are a few drawings from my interview ‘storyboard’ that I completed for Cartoon Network London way back in December 2006. The show is Robot Boy developed by Alphanim in Paris for Cartoon Network. The character designs were great fun to draw and it was a real challenge to board part of an episode in an existing style.



All characters Copyright CN.

Oodles of doodles!

+Aardman Talent Showcase

I was lucky enough to have some of my illustrations feature in the 'new talent' exhibition at Aardman's studio in Bristol. Sadly I couldn’t make it down on the night but posted down a selection of postcards and printouts.