Meet Your Brain

Here's the Royal institution's christmas lectures 2011 intro. It was directed by the very talented Jon Topf,  I did the boards and animation.

Mr FX Dummy

At the moment I'm trying out lots of things I've never done before. One of which is FX animation.

There's a very good blog called Flash FX, and they've recently posted some tutorial videos. I thought I'd try a couple out, they were very helpful and I wanted a way of showcasing what I learnt.

So Mr FX Dummy was born. He's a Character I will be using to test out different types of FX on.
This Episode is covers an Explosion and dust scattering.

No!

This is a Concept piece or look frame for a really, really small piece of animation i'm gonna do.
I was mucking around in flash, and I ended up with some animation I liked so I've decided to colour it up and stick a background on it. The boy isn't a final design, I just wanted to see what colours to make him against the Background.

I'm trying to build upon this new direction of work and skills I'm learning. hopefully this will be the first of many little tests and experiments.

Work doodle

Photoshop Doodle

Strip2

Here's another one. These are fun to do. but I'm writing the text after the images. and I'm drawing them with no story in mind. Just using the text to glue the panels together. which is interesting, makes the whole process spontaneous which is enjoyable. The next one I do might be a gmail chat one (like I mentioned in the last post). I might have to get the ok with the people I've been chatting to online before I do it though hahaha.

Strip 1

I Really, really wanna do a comic. But I keep putting it off because I've not done any sequential work. Even when I think of a little idea for some small sequential pieces as practise for something bigger, I become put off because I feel like I'm gonna mess that idea up because i've not done sentential work before. And there I stay in that ridiculous paradox.

So now I'm just gonna start drawing and write as I go along.
I also though I might use some of my Gmail chats as a kind dialogue for small comic pieces. That way I can't get bogged down in the idea, or the writing and just concentrate on the panels.

I'm gonna try and do more of these.

More Colour Scripts