Animated Heads: Droomweavers

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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Bit of surprise news

A bit of surprise news happened to me recently. About 4 years ago I made a animated music video (unpaid of course) for Droomweavers Euro ABCD project about scotsmen on stilts. Well the whole project is finally finished apparently. I won't be receiving a copy though (budget issues).

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

It's finished

I finally finished the music video for Droomwevers. Please visit www.droomwevers.nl/.

Also I have finished my work experience for King Bee Studios.

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Hiya

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would check in.

Right now I'm still looking for work, finishing the unpaid Droomwevers project, doing some unpaid work experience from King Bee Studios and doing some unpaid character designs which I can't show you yet for copyright reasons.

But I can show you these other doodles.

Some of my friends at Ravensbourne

DAC Challenges

Fan Doodles

Girl Doodles

Sunday, 27 February 2011

New Work

I actually have an interview for a flash/ 3d animator/ web game 3 month internship on Thursday.

I wanted to create a professional looking pitch bible for my portfolio to show that I could, so I took my Animation Station idea, and using the very good book "Creating Animated Cartoons with Character" by Joe Murray, drew these few pages up.

Drew these after seeing Tangled. Great film.

Wandering Cow

Here is a little test scene from the Droomwevers project I'm doing.

Thursday, 3 February 2011

Droomwevers Update

Just an update on the Droomwevers project.

I have caught up on all I lost in the great usb disaster of 2010. I have drawn and coloured all the different flash elements, and set up each piece of animations flash file.

I have now started animating again.

I have got an example here but it isn't finished, I have got to add some secondary animation with a wacom tablet.

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Work Delay and illness

My usb fell out of my laptop, corrupted all my work and I lot all the work I have doen for the droomwevers project. Now I am sick. Terrific.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Droomwevers Flash Walk Cycles

New walk cycles I animated in flash for the Droomwevers project.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Work for Droomwevers

Artwork and Animation Frames I have created so far for the Droomwevers project.

Practice flash animation walkcycle

Friday, 29 October 2010

Pre-Visualisation Shots from the Droomweavers Euro ABCD Project

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Droomweaver Euro ABCD Project

My animatic for the DroomWeavers Euro ABCD Project. I didn't write the song. With the character designs I was going for a Ed Bennedict channeling through Craig Kellman feel. In other words, a Hanna-Barbera look.

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.