Brick Bowl - Superbowl Ads in Lego

During the Superbowl this year, stop-motion animation studio A+C got to work re-creating some of the hugely anticipated ads, in LEGO, in 36 Hours. I was lucky enough to be on the team.

Find out more here : http://www.brick-bowl.com

Check out the making of HERE 

The Story of Swing Low and England Rugby - Animation

I recently had the pleasure of being part of the animation team for this film.

It's also being played in Twickenham Stadium.

Animations / Live-Action Collection

Mother's Days
CG & Stop-motion Animation (2014)

☛ WINNER - New Designers Screening Prize People's Vote, London, UK
☛ Official Selection - New Designers Screening Prize Industry Vote, London, UK


 How Winnie got her False Teeth 
2D & 3D CG Animation (2013)

Due to Festival Regulations this animation is

Private Screener Only - Password Protected
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☛ Official Selection -  Downtown Tyler Film Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - Crystal Palace Int. Film Festival, UK
☛ Official Selection - SoDak Animation Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - Cornwall Film Festival, UK
☛ Official Selection - AniMazing Spotlight Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - Rumspringe Int. Film Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - Tallgrass Int. Film Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - Golden Orchid Int. Animation Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - University of Advancing Technology Digital Video Festival, USA
☛ Official Selection - London Lift-Off Film Festival, UK
☛ Official Selection - Festival Mundial de Cine Extremo, Mexico
☛ Official Selection - St Albans Film Festival, UK
☛ Official Selection - Anima-Sao Int. Animation Festival, Brazil
☛ Official Selection - Flagship City Int. Film Festival, USA

The Ebullient Toadstool

Traditional hand-drawn animation (2012)

The Cell Cycle

CG interactive educational tool - demo animation (2012)

Blind. 
Live Action Short Film (2012)

☛ WINNER - Flipside Youth Film Festival, London, UK
☛ Best Short Film - BFI Future Film Hitchcock Special (Judged by Joe Cornish, Writer of TinTin (2012), Writer & Director of Attack The Block (2011)


NHS - Meet Joe Campaign 
Courage Media London - Animator (I did not create the characters / sets / story) (2013)

Mother's Days - Winner of the New Designers Screening Prize People's Vote

Mother's Days : Post-production : Christmas Lights Test 01

Image 01.

Clip 01. Green screen

Clip 02. Composite

I had originally planned to use my skills from school to wire up a small set of LED christmas lights to my puppet powered by batteries, but I thought there could be a simple way of using the combination of stop-motion with CG for this. I had a feeling that if I were to cover a piece of wire with black shrink wrap, paint white dots on it in intervals to represent bulb placement then wrap it around her head, this would be enough of a base to add lights in post-production. Once I had some footage to test out my theory, I opened up Photoshop, painted one single dot with the airbrush in a medium vibrant blue then saved it out and imported the png into After effects. 

Image 02.

I placed a duplicate of the blue dot onto each white dot that was on Doris's head wire then alternated the lights to flash on and off for each 4 frames in three sets. When all of the key frames had been quadruple checked to make sure the rhythm was in time, I changed the layer types to colour dodge and this gave the perfect glow I had thought it would on her christmas hat (see image 01).

Mother's Days : Composite Demonstration

The submission deadline for my degree has now passed so I submitted my work.

There is however, much more to post up and do so I will be continuing my posts for 'Mother's Days' as a continuing personal project.

The clip below is a demonstration of the layers that have been composited using After Effects to make just one segment of Mother's Days.

Mother's Days : Major Project Submission : Animation

1) Animation

2) 'Art & Making Of' document

3) Demo Reel

4) Technical Document

Mother's Days : Art & Making Of

Mother's Days : Animation Demo Reel

As part of the project submission it is necessary to make a short demo reel to suit the area of my chosen career path from current and previous work.

Mother's Days : CG House Composite : Test 01

Image 01. Composite Render of the CG Buildings & Stop-motion foreground

(Bump Maps still to be applied)

Image 02. Concept art for comparison

Image 03. House render with dirt now included

Image 04. House render with dirt now included

Image 05. House render with dirt now included

Image 06. House texture map with dirt now included

Image 07. A screen-shot of the maya view - lining the houses up behind the characters with the amusements building and wall temporarily turned off.