Aminita Muscaria - the mushroom for discerning animators.

This i thought was compelling and interesting stuff. The Aminita Muscaria mushroom is the chosen fungus for many animators. Its true ! click on the image and read the pack shot.

England expects.

I drew this bloke after strolling past a pub during the England Vs Algeria football match last friday. to be honest this fella was a mixture of about three hundred horrified English gents watching their team bottle it for old blighty. I was smart and stopped watching after the first half.

Circuitt for Mayor

the guy on the right is my hard arsed delinquent cousin Matt who is running for mayor in The Napier City Council, New Zealand. Making the Circuitt Family proud.

projection man + T4D smoke test

This is projection man ( C4D ) test using a building modeled from photos then textured by projecting those photos onto the geometry. Turbulence 4D was used to generate the smoke and fire. This is my first test using T4D, and the plug has since been updated but I have not had another chance to look at it. The photos used for the modeling and projections are below.

grinning poolside bloke

a quick doodle to offset those sad waiting blokes that are contemplating old fashioned volcanism in the post before.

sad waiting blokes

Recently I got stuck in Canada because of the volcano, and I had to fly to NYC then Barcelona, then travel up to London via train. After waiting in endless lines for days to try and get tickets. During that time I saw a lot of pretty unhappy travelers , this is one of them. The middle one looked a bit like my friend Cocky.

short film treatment - faux stopmotion/claymation.

Here are a few basic treatment frames for a short I have been working on. The sets need some heavy customization, as many models in these treatment frames are in as placeholders till I get the time to model them specific to the style I want. 
When you are doing something by yourself sometimes its necessary to take a few of the scenes you have written down and flesh them out in a visual style to keep you going.  A visual style is more than just the character and set design, its the lighting and colours used too, which is not necessarily evident in a sketch. In this case its a painterly, practical set look I am after.