What I have been up to?

During the last few weeks, as well as working on a new reel and applying for jobs, I have also been doing specific tests for internships. I didn't want to put anything up here until after the due date in case someone stole my idea, but now I can.

My entry into a Disney Interatcive studios internship. We had to come up with a game concept for an Alice in Wonderland game, based on the new Time Burton movie. We could present our concept in any way we wanted, so I chose to do an animatic. I decided that a Alice in Wonderland game should be an sandbox stealth action puzzle game. Like a cross between Sly Cooper and Escape from Monkey Island.



I also working on a story internship for Blue Sky Studios where we have to draw a storyboard in less than 60 panels about a cat stuck in a tree. I post about that after the due date in April.

New Doodles and Requests

Just some new doodles and requests.

This weeks DAC challenge is to design a character in the style of Chris Sanders. It was a challenge that I hoped I pulled off.
Just a picture of the three most famous cartoon characters in the world.

My versions of some of my favourite DC and Marvel superheroes. Some of these I like more than others.

My final two Totla Drama Island Requests.

Requests and Thanks

More Total Drama Island Requests.

My entry to the Design-A-Character Goku Test. I personally found this tricky to draw Fanart, mainly because I cna't help but try and draw the character as accurately as possible and I feel like it's not as good as the original. So I decided to attempt another artists style onto Goku, Chris Sander's actually.
Oh and I received some of the nicest comments on my drawings on deviantart. I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has taken time to comment on my showreel or my artwork. Special thanks goes to Dave Pruiksma, Carl Gover, Linda Jones, J.P. Fosgitt, Dave Alvarez, Bobby Rubio and Chris Sanders. Thanks everyone.

Sketch Dump

Another TDI Request and my submission for this weeks Design-A-Character contest. In the meantime, I'm working on a story internship application for Blue Sky studios.

Backed Up doodles

Here is a massive doodle dump on the blog. These are all drawings I did just before and after Christmas, whilst I was (and still am) looking for jobs. I've decided I wanted to start off fresh so I decided to just put some I like all up here in one go. So here they are and I hope you like them.

Here is a drawing of the Toon fighting an escape platypus man that escaped from a cancelled 80's action cartoon.

I thought my bunny character should have a girlfriend and I just thought it was funny to channel an Olive Oyl vibe with this design.
Just a drawing of Grim Campbell my scarecrow reaper.

An early design for a wild exotic primate.
A collage of some of my favourite cartoon characters. There is Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom and Jerry, Snoopy, Bloo, Powerpuff Girls, Earthworm Jim, Asterix, Bone, Mario, Batman, Spider-man, Kim Possible, Stitch, Scooby Doo, Roger Rabbit, Ariel, Fred Flintstone, Kermit, Sooty, Kirby and Spongebob Squarepants.
Drawings for bad-guys. I was going for a Jafar/ Sher Kahn vibe.
I like the sense of scale and the hand in this picture.
Girl Faces
Doodleboy unleashes his heat vision.
The essence of all animation. He can exist in all times, in all dimensions and all realities all at once.
December Doodles.
Bad Girl Faces.
Group Shot for the Animation Station.

New Showreel + DAC

My latest show reel. I put two extra pieces of animation done in Flash in, and a lot more life drawing, storyboards, concept art and pre-production work. Thank you Carl Gover and Linda Jones for all the suggestions. I also had to change the music too.



Here below is my submission to the Design_a_Character Group on Deviant ART.

Life Drawing and Doodles

Here is some Life Drawing practice I did of Top Gear yesterday. Guess which one is Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.

I recently joined a great group called DAC on deviantart. They submit character design challenges. It's really good. Here is my entry for this weeks challenge.

As an aspiring animator I thought it would be good to practice drawing other peoples characters on model and on style. So I took some characters I liked from comics and such, drew them in different poses and tried to get them on model as best as I can. I hope I did well.

Yenny by Dave Alvarez

Wander over Yonder by Craig McCracken and Galaxy Girls by Lauren Faust

Kiskaloo by Chris Sanders

Dumm Comics, Big Pants Mouse by Gabe Swarr, Skadi by Katie Rice and Luke Cormican, Forg Racoon Strawberry by Kyle A. Carooza and John Berry

Dead Duck by J. P. Fosgitt

Alcatraz High by Bobby Rubio

Bastion 7 by Sean Galloway

Apart from that I'm just working on some more animations for my reel, doing some promotional artwork for it, some life drawing and trying to find a job. Sam old, Same old.