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