I’ve decided to beat the rush this year and post some seasonal work before they even get the selection boxes into Sainsburys, which is due to happen in about two weeks. Here’s some cards I designed a couple of years ago.
As a freelance animator,most of the TV work I do is designed by other hands, so I thouht it was worthwhile putting a showreel together that consists only of work I’ve done myself – both design and animation. The work here is a combination of work from student films, personal projects and commissions. The only parts of it I can’t take credit for are the painting by Monet (animated in After Effects), and the original designs on which a couple of the characters were modelled (the dogs on the obstacle course, and the alien on the DNA strand).
This challengingly-titled pre-school show was made by Collingwood O’Hare in 2002-2003 and is currently showing in the UK on C-Beebies. The fact that the characters communicate with a very limited vocabulary, consisting mainy of each others’ names and some expressive noises, meant that most of the communication had to be physical – which made the animation all the more fun and interesting to do.
This is montage of some of my scenes.
Going back a bit here… this is one of my student films, which did the rounds of the mountain film festivals in 1997. This taught me that if there’s a special interest group that has its own film festivals, then it’s a good idea to make films on that subject.