Official Lyric Video - Nightcrawlers, John Reid - Push The Feeling, ft. Big Narstie

A recent lyric video I've created for Sony Music.

Newton Paisley - Animated Ident

Animated Ident for textile company Newton Paisley run by Dr Susy Paisley working hard to heighten  endangered species awareness.

http://newtonpaisley.com

Newton Paisley Ident - 2017 from Nat Urwin on Vimeo.

Official Lyric Video - Daniel Docherty : Imagining Love

Here's a recent artisan lyric video I've directed & animated 

MASK Prize Exhibiting at the Turner Contemporary in Margate

Mobile Art School Kenya and University for the Creative Arts - Computer Animated Arts Alumni collaborated to transform Artwork into Animations. The results of which are now being exhibited in the Prestigious World-Class Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. I have two animations in this exhibit. They can be seen HERE

The Exhibition is running from April 12th - May 22nd 2016.

Mobile Art School Kenya - Collaboration with UCA

More information available here:

http://caamask.blogspot.co.uk

For this project, a series of graduates from the BA in Computer Animation Arts (Rochester) haven been invited to respond to the winning artworks of the MASK Prize, a creative competition for schools and young people under the age of 25 in Kenya. Each animator has worked with one selected artwork and produced a short animation based on it. This initiative constitutes a unique creative exchange between young artists in Kenya and recently graduated animators in the UK. 

Here are my two exchanges:

Nat Urwin - Showreel

WSTRN - In2 : Official Music Video

I had the pleasure of working as an animator on WSTRN's Official Music Video for  their track In2, currently number 4 in the UK OFFICIAL MUSIC CHARTS.

Check out the video below

We Love Kent - Film Festival Screening List

We Love Kent, my animation for a local mobile app company, has now been officially accepted to the film & animation festival circuit. Updates will be on this page.

1) EXPOTOONS Int. Animation Festival - Official Selection (Argentina, Sept 2015)
2) Visionaria Int. Film Festival - Official Selection (Italy, October 2015)
3) Wiper Film Festival - Official Selection (New York, January 2016)
4) London Shows Int. Film Festival - Official Selection (London, January 2016)
5) Blackbird Film Festival - Official Selection (New York, April 2016)
6) Russian Int. Film Fest - Official Selection (Russian Federation, January 2016)
7) Legends of Hollywood Film Festival - Official Selection (Los Angeles, February 2016)

Mothers Days - Film Festival Screening List

I'll keep this list updated with any festivals screening 'Mothers Days'

1. New Designers - WINNER - Audience Choice Award (London, UK, July 2014)

2. New Designers - Official Selection - Industry Vote Award (London, UK, July 2014)

3. CINAGE European Cinema for Active Ageing - Official Selection (Leeds, UK, July 2015)

4. San Antonio Laughs Comedy Film Slam - Official Selection (Texas, USA, Nov 21st 2015)
5. Int. Peace & Film Festival - Official Selection (Orlando, USA, Nov 2015)
6. Västerås Film Festival - Official Selection (Sweden, Nov 2015)
7. Visionaria Int. Film Festival - Official Selection (Italy, October 2015)
8. Wiper Film Festival - Official Selection (New York, January 2016)
9. Blackbird Film Festival - Official Selection (New York, April 2016)
10. Anim!Arte Int. Student Animation Fest. of Brazil - Official Selection (Brazil, December 2015)

We Love Kent Advertisement - Animation

My latest animation is a self Directed and animated piece (visuals only) for a local company called We Love Kent who are launching a new app on July 1st for Kent tourism. The animation is playing on the Big Screen at Chatham Dockside Outlet Shopping Centre, next to Dickens World.

We Love Kent Launch Video from We Love Kent on Vimeo.

Political Cartoon - The Last Cuppa

Which character will you vote for on this "Reality-TV" show? (It's highly scripted)…

Have a cuppa while you think about it…

Political Satire Cartoons - Uni Satire Competition 3rd Prize

This year I decided to get involved with a bit of Cartooning for the Political Season.

The University for the Creative Arts held a Satire Competition, my entry won 3rd Prize

"An excellent mash-up of a real quote from the rising star of British politics, Nicola Sturgeon (not sure she’d thank me for that particular accolade), and a very well executed and clever depiction of Farage and Reckless as Simpson characters. Great idea, beautifully drawn, and a very funny end result." 

Steve Bright, The Sun


Also - UKIP Candidate for Rochester & Strood, Mark Reckless, (The Smithers character on the right) Opted to use part of my drawing as his Twitter Profile Picture throughout the 2015 Election

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
Please contact me to view
☛ 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