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Sunday, 16 September 2012

Only fools and Horses Mike talks about Walt Disney Comics & Stories

Some of the best comics ever. If you think you know Donald Duck, you really don't.

The funniest thing ever put to television. I would urge every resident of the United States of America to find and watch Only Fools and Horses.

For Deviantart

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Work for Oxford Media Solutions

They wanted her to look slightly older

Some early concept design work for Oxford Media Solutions

My new character finally has a name ACE SPARROW.

A black and white line art promo for my new idea, now called “Ace Sparrow and the Isle of Quakamakapooa”

For the DAC Spongebob Redesign challenge

For Pokemon Gen 2 and 3 Collaborations on Deviantart

Saturday, 4 February 2012

Macmillan Children's Books

Last Day. Thank you everyone at Macmillan Children's Books. I have had a great time this week.

DAC Challenge for Deviant Art

Brush pen practices

Commission for Acors

Monday, 4 April 2011

Some of the redone work for my portfolio

Here is a selection of the work I have in my portfolio.

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Waxing Philosophical

I would like to just wax philosophical for a moment about why I don't colour my drawings and why I put so many up on deviantart.

Firstly I do a lot of requests for people on deviantart and this is the only way to give them to the people. Am I proud of a lot of these request drawings? No, not really. Am I proud of any of my drawings? No, not really.

Every time I do a drawing I know that I can do better, so what is the point of colouring in and finishing this picture when I know the next one will be better. There is no such thing as a finished picture. I would rather have a drawing where I like some aspects of it and not others, rather than a drawing I thought was all just a bit meh.

Practice makes perfect, and you can't be expected to get better if you spend time finishing art.

Besides I don't know what you guys and gals out in Internet land are going to like or dislike, so if I get harsh criticism on a sketch that took me 5 to 10 minutes, no big deal. If I get criticism on a drawing I spent a few days finishing, that hurts.

And that's why I don't colour and I post up a lot of drawings.

New Design-A-Character challenges.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

New Life Drawing, Tom Bancroft and other doodles

New Waiting Room Life Drawing

My Entry to Tom Bancroft's 2nd Tommy Challenge

My version of the classic characters.

Peanuts Tribute

Faeries

Math-man

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Another new showreel plus Life Drawing

Due to comments received from Ellen from Rare at the Eurogamer convention, my friends and people on the 11 second club, I decided to strip my showreel done to possibly the only two things I am proud off.

1. My entry into the May competition of the 11 second club

2. My animatic for the Blue Sky Studios Story Internship

Life Drawing done in Waiting Room

DAC Challenge

Request

C.V/ Resume

Daryl-Rhys Taylor
Personal Statement/ Career Objective

At a very young age I fell in love with animation and knew that I wanted to be an animator when I grew up. I knew I wanted to achieve a future in crafting well-designed characters brought to life with entertaining animation.

Education

Year 2009: Ba (Animation) with 1st Honours at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication

Year 2006: Bs (Mathematics) with 2nd (Higher) Honours from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Y Year 2003: A-level Mathematics A, Chemistry A and Art A from City of London School

Year 2002: AS-level Biology C from City of London School

Year 2001: GCSE Art A, Mathematics A, Chemistry A *, Biology A, Physics A, Geography A, Spanish B, English Literature B, English Language B, Deisgn and Technology B from City of London School

Other Qualifications

Comic Strip published on www.dummcomics.com

Finalist in the Walt Disney Company Consumer Product Graduate Scheme 2008

Hand-drawn animation, Maya, Stop-Motion and Life Drawing short courses at Central Saint Martins.

Work Experience

CGCG

Freelance Character Designer for Oxford Media Solutions Date 11th July 2012 to 14th August 2012 Designed characters for Oxford Brookes University and Ceri project
CG Animator for Spider-Eye Animation Date: 5th March 2012 to 9th March 2012
Used Softimage XSI to animate on pilot "Bouncy Castle".
Interior Illustrations and Cover for The Koncept Factory Date: October 2011 till February 2012
Provided interior illustrations and cover for the children's book "The Booger Monster"
Marketing and Publishing Intern for Macmillan Children's Books Date: 30th January 2012 to 3rd February 2012
Designing newsletters, researching marketing opportunities, mailing out proof copies and filing.
Wallace and Gromit test strip for the Sun Newspaper Date: December 2011
Did a test strip for the Wallace and Gromit comic in the Sun Newspaper.

Internship at App Play Ltd Date: 4th July 2011 to 8th July 2011
Provided photoshop and aftereffects work form CashPlay TV
Character Concepts for The Koncept Factory Date: June to July 2011
Provided character concepts.
Illustrations for Corporate House Date: June 2011
Provided illustrations for book about renting out your property.
Work Experience at Brown Bag Films Date: 2nd May to 6th May 2011

Conformed Storyboards and typed scripts for overseas production and helped in editing sessions for show "Doc Mc Stuffins" for Disney Junior, provided character designs for programme in development for Spike TV and generally helped around the studio

Work Experience at Espresso Animation date: Odd days in March and April 2011

General helping around the Espresso Office

Character Designer for Crump Animation Date: February 2011 to March 2011

Unpaid. Provided character designs for one pilot and finalished model sheets for another.

Animator at King Bee Studios Date: February 2011 to March 2011

Unpaid Flash Animator for pilot.

Animator for Reverge Labs Date: January 2011 to February 2011

Worked on animation test for the 2D fighting game Skull Girls.

Animator for Droomwevers Euro ABCD Date: September 2010 to now.

Un-paid work where I had to write, design, storyboard, animate, produce and direct a minute and a half animation to an existing song.

Runner at ‘Passion Pictures’ Date: 23rd June 2010

Cleaning dishes, prepared food, check sanitary essentials and went out on errands.

Freelance character designer for ‘Softmart’ Dates: October 2009

I was asked to provide character designs of a Sony Mascot called Sony-Boy for a promtional Softmart calendar.

Head of Ebay Sales, Researcher and Archivist at ‘Art You Grew Up With’. Dates: August 2005 and August 2006

Photograph items, research items, price items, composed invoices, dealt with customers and packaged items. Also researched and archived the gallery’s stock, sorted out newsletters and provided general shop maintanence.

Software Programs

AutoDesk Maya, AutoDesk Sketchbook Express, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After-effects

Additional Skills and Experience

At Ravensbourne, as the director of a group of nine people on a student film I gained the ability to adhere to a production schedules, manage a group of creative people, calculate invoices and costs of projects and learnt to deal with outside voice actors and other clients. I also gained a good understanding of animation principles and learnt to draw to consistently well at a quick pace. Finally I gained a good understanding of the creative side of the industry.

Interests

Drawing, Animation from Hollywood’s Golden Age, Silent Comedy, Sitcoms, Superhero Comics, Science Programmes, Platform and Fighting Games, Puppetry and Palaeontology.

References

References are available on request.