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New animation training
A little update from the world of animation training. As you may know, I’ve been running the side project turned mega beast Toon Boom Trainer. I say mega beast as at times it takes over my life! But it IS fun and I get a huge kick from running the courses and seeing people come on with their learning.
What’s this new name about?
Toon Boom Trainer has been going for 3 years now (time flies!) and…
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Distant sketching
Whilst I’m here on lock down under the government restrictions, I thought I’d try a sketching game. I take a series of pictures from a friends story on Instagram and turn them into ‘location sketches’ as though I was there. This just means I sketch them quick and loose, then throw a bit of colour on (digitally this time but normally it’d be with watercolours). These photos spoke to me because…
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Happy Easter!
Chris Voss Masterclass
So far I’m loving the Masterclass series. It’s so well produced and edited, along with really interesting speakers and subjects. You can see a commonality amongst the best of any field. Recently I’ve been listening to the fascinating stories from ex-FBI negotiator, Chris Voss. The way he talks to the camera is very interesting and I feel myself getting sucked into his conversations when I know…
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MAF update
So far so good at #MAF2019 (or Manchester Animation Festival 2019…to the non initiated!) Great making of talk with Aardman (@aardmananimations) and brilliant to finally see Swallows of Kabul in the evening. As a quick reminder, I’m talking from 10.30am tomorrow (Thursday 14th November 2019) in the event space about animation work and the greatness of Toon Boom. If you have a festival pass, come…
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Manchester animation festival talk
Manchester animation festival talk
I’ll be talking about all things animation and Toon Boom next week at Manchester’s very own animation festival. It’s pretty impressive these days with loads of great events and screenings, so I’d encourage you to go. You can read the whats on guide here.
Here’s the info for my talk. If you’re around, please do come say hello!
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Summer life drawing I've been heading to a few life classes recently, warming up that sketching muscle! Here's a selection from a duo workshop in Manchester, U.K.
Annecy Animation Festival 2019
Annecy Animation Festival 2019
It’s been a few weeks now but I’ve finally got a bit of time to sort my post-Annecy notes and sketches. I haven’t been for a while, this being my fourth trip. It never fails to inspire you and re-ignite your love for animation! You come away wanting to DRAW haha!
The ticketing system is a bit more high tech than when I last went…all QR code scanning and app booking. It took me a few days to get…
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Trips in America
We arrived back from a 16 day U.S.A experience yesterday, going from Chicago, into Wisconsin, marriage things and then to New York for a final bit of fun. It was a GREAT holiday and we crammed in so much. The weather was everything from warm, sweaty and sunny to windy, stormy and tornado inducing (no really, we had an alert whilst in Chicago..!) I played golf at some amazing courses, met a lot of…
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Sketching flowers
I’ve been doing a bit of The Artist’s Way as part of some creative discovery. Admittedly there have been some breaks in completing the 12 week course, but when I do get around to it, I love the little tasks!
It makes you look at the world with fresh eyes and be a bit more playful with your art. It’s easy to end up just doing ‘work’ when creativity becomes your job.
Some watercolour sketches of…
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Nexus film fest and Nottingham's scene
Nexus film fest and Nottingham’s scene
I’ve been entering the (free) festivals with my little film ‘Who Moved My Penguin?’ since it was finished in February this year. I’ve been lucky enough to get in a few too, which is very nice! I love watching things on the big screen, and one of those was in my hometown of Nottingham. The festival was called Nexus and took place at the swanky new arts venue, Metronome (new to me anyway…think it’s…
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Penguin film alliance!
I have some exciting news: as of last week, my recent short animated film, Who moved my Penguin? is screening exclusively through Adastra’s channel, BoggleSox. The channel also screens such properties (fancy word for stuff, tangible or not) as Grandpa in my Pocket, Bounty Hamster and Spider! Funnily enough, you can see my fiancee, Josie (as of Feb 14th!) in the show Ha Ha Hairies on there, too!
I…
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Spring sunset
Today apparently marks the start of Spring here in the U.K plus there’s something called a super worm moon whatever that is! The days are getting warmer and the rain has lifted, at least in Manchester, for the time being.
I was wandering around town today, looking at all the incredible development that is going on in this city. It’s like something out of a sci fi novel, except when I read about…
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Athletic lizards
Okay maybe not lizards that run track or anything, but bear with me…
When I was working away last year I used to see these funky lizards on the wall below the studio window. They’d be sitting out in the scorching midday sun practically frying to the concrete. There were two distinct types, green lizards and the grey/black ones with orange heads. Some of them were a foot long and could move very…
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Time for another life drawing post! This outing onto the paper was great as I actually felt I captured more of what I was going for in each image. The model had brilliant figure and structure for drawing, with the outside orange street lighting casting an unusual fringe glow. I was using a slightly sepia paper already, so started sketching in a burnt umber/dark sepia charcoal stick pastel thing…I’m not exactly sure what it was! It definitely helped me loosen up though and focus on what I was drawing a bit better. I try out different styles when I’m doing it, mainly to have fun and experiment, but also sometimes it gives me these happy accidents 🙂
Colour accents
Constant movement sketches
Long pencil study
One angle of two
Second angle of two
Silhouette focus
Hard lighting
Sepia life drawings Time for another life drawing post! This outing onto the paper was great as I actually felt I captured more of what I was going for in each image.
Who moved my Penguin?
Who moved my Penguin?
Here it is! The short film I made about basically being kind to one another, no matter where in the world you come from. It’s around 2 minutes long.
Where does the story come from?
The story came about from watching all this news on refugees trying desperately to get away from their homeland, and the very mixed reception that people gave them. I didn’t want to make a film that was preachy or…
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Beach life
I’ve been working on this short film on and off for AGES now and finally took the time to focus and get it finished. I realised that I was procrastinating, swerving off to follow other shiny ideas and generally doing the artist thing of being afraid to put myself out there, creatively. The fact is, I really enjoy telling stories and animating, it’s just I’ve kind of censored myself over the past…
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