National Health

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:40:33 +0000

This was a commission direct from the NHS to celebrate their 60th birthday.

This was the first time I’ve directed a big crew of animators- painting the painted bits frame by frame, doing the composite bits, working with Chris on the Stop-Motion stuff.

It was brilliant.

I Don’t Want to fall in Love with YOu

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:32:35 +0000

A second pop video for Kid Carpet,
this time for ‘I Don’t Want to fall in Love with YOu’ on the label Sunday Best Records.

It had a very tight deadline and no budget.

This has been screened on MTV and is my entry into Showbusiness.

Kid Carpet is a very nice man and I’d like to do another.

also see:

So Much Fun

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:16:53 +0000

A pop video I made for Kid Carpet, a very short song he did called ‘So Much Fun’

I made it while I was trying to make a model animation for ‘Cowboy’, which I still would like to do one day.

I did another thing with Ed with Sunday Best Records. This one was much more fun to make because I just made it without thinking.

animocity.co.ukalso see:

The Adventures of John & John

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:10:54 +0100

RCA, Dur. 00:07:10
This is my graduation film from the Royal College of Art, London, where I did a postgraduate Masters in Animation. The whole process took 8 months, with 5 months of that being model making, script writing, recording at John Hegley’s house and general shilly shallying about, and 3 months of actual shooting and editing.
‘The Adventures of John and John’ is the story of two down at heel friends, killing time, bickering, playing games and hoping to become rich and famous using a brain reading machine.
The characters are both about three inches high, have wire armatures and have a limited range of expressions. The flaws in their construction reflect and amplify the flaws in their characters and the comic hopelessness of their situation.
I reckon.
AWARDS & PRIZES -
Audience Vote, International Screening 3, London International Animation Festival
E-Magicians, Jury Prize and Film Grant from the Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère.
Animé Caribe, Best Student Film Trinidad and Tobago, 2006
McLaren Prize 3rd Prize for British Animation, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006
Thames and Hudson Book Prize, 2006,
Passion Pictures Prize. 2005 
please visit my blog for exhaustive information about ‘The Adventures of John & John’
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Bee Control in City Parks

Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:25:06 +0000

A fictional municipal information film.
A big file so it will take a while to download.

a Drawing of a Person

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:56:56 +0000

from a long time ago, here is
a Drawing of a Person

Pooky the Giant Shrew

Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:05:12 +0000

This was the first animation I ever made.
It was produced by Picture This Moving Image before I understood what producing meant.

I should have put myself as Director, but I didn’t know any better.

I was helped by Picture This Moving Image and a training grant from South West Arts, which has since been largely amalgamated into the Arts Council.
Picture This are based in Spike Island, a studio complex/arts centre, and their director Jo Lanyon had seen the sculpture, prints and the fan zine style books I had been making there. She helped me, filling in forms and such like.
We got the grant, despite me telling a lie- I said a shop, which I had once visited in London and liked very much, called ‘Work for the Eye to Do’, was stocking my books. I didn’t realise that Work for the Eye to Do had gone famously bust a couple of years before. It was being sold in Dillons Bookshop on Longacre, that was true- shop staff had some control over stock and I knew someone who worked there. I was then taught Macromedia Flash 5, which didn’t immediately take in my mind, but I kept fiddling with it at home and a year later I went back to them with ‘Pooky the Giant Shrew’. They entered me into Brief Encounters festival in Bristol and it was featured in the South West section and it made the DepicT! prize shortlist.
I liked the way Animation was easy to get around, compared to Sculpture, and everyone owned it, compared to prints which are quite a commodity , though I do love the visual richness of print making. My Sculptures tend to be massive and fragile, and I used to spend a year refining each one, putting in layers of detail that no-one would see, so animation was a good discipline for me and the obsessive and laborious nature didn’t put me off, since I was already working that way.