Time for a Halloween Animation

It's that time of year again when everything gets a bit spooky and we await the arrival of the dreaded trick or treaters. Obviously it wouldn't be right not to share a Halloween animation with you all.

A year or so ago now I had the pleasure of coming up with a promo for River Film's excellent competition Four4. Make a film on a given subject that has four shots at equally four seconds. Thats only 16 seconds in total, a very very short film competition. That years theme was horror so I was briefed to create a horror themed animation, or for the sake of this post a Halloween animation, to promote the competition. We tried to come up with a scenario that included some of the best known horror characters and we fit quite a few in. See if you can spot Frankenstein, Freddie Krueger, Chucky, the girl from the Exorcist and many more. Check it out below for a chilling surprise.

If you've got a Halloween animation then let me know in the comments below. Would be great to see them.

The Robin Trailer

Hi everybody, its been a really long time since I last posted which is partly because I've been working on my new short film co-directed and written with William Long. It's about a tiny English Robin who wants nothing more than to devour a scrumptious seed ball for breakfast but two stubborn pigeons find it first. There's nothing the Robin won't do to reclaim that seed ball...nothing at all.

The trailer is now complete and available for your your viewing pleasure. Check it out above. Like it, share it, then head over to our twitter page @therobinfilm and follow us for news and the release date!

Enjoy

IHUK advert

Been busy lately creating a great new online advert for the guys at Independent Hostels UK. It has been a really interesting project and has allowed me to put over a style that I have been wanting to use for some time. The characters are loosely based around the style of Hanna-Barbara, of which I have been a big fan of for a number of years. The right project has never come along but at long last this seemed to be 'the one'.

The project is yet to be completed but should only be a week or so away, so watch this space for hopefully a finished IHUK advert.

Here are the characters in the mean time.

Secret Garden Party Animation

Over the last month I've been working with Atomic Arts to produce this years Secret Garden Party website, and I say produce the website I mean doing the animation. Secret Garden Party celebrates its 10th year anniversary this year so it was great to be apart of it all.

IMAGES  ARE PROPERTY OF PETE LOVEDAY

I animated some great illustrations by the talented cartoonist Pete Loveday. They are all over the website and more are to be added in the coming weeks which I will make sure to post up.

Meanwhile click on the picture above to head straight over to the website and check it out, or alternatively click on this link  http://www.secretgardenparty.com/2012/#!/home/

Did some great work for Alice Dupre again last month and it seems like another brilliant outcome. The project was for Charlie Simpson (formerly of Busted fame) on his new music video for 'Farmer and His Gun'.

The premise was a story similar to the great classic Watership Down, with the video following a lonely rabbit who finds love and all done in the style of a children's book. Washed over the top was a great watercolour effect that proved very effective and stopped it becoming a boring old Flash animation. Alice's style is one that I really like and had a great time on her Ikea internet commercials she did last year (of which you can see here on a previous post http://tcs16.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/happy-to-bed-animation.html)

Lets hope that this video pushes her into the animation elite and then hopefully they'll be a lot more of where this came from. Check out her website at www.aloveday.co.uk

As for I animated and cleaned up the dog in the middle of the piece and cleaned up the female rabbit and all the small little blighters at the end of the video.

I hope you enjoyed it!

New Showreel

Thought I would post up my new showreel. It has all the work that I've been doing over the last year and a few more of my favourites. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed making them.

New Website

I have a new website. Check it out now at www.tomsandersanimation.com

Hope you like it!

Showreel 2011

Here is my new Showreel for 2011. I hope you like it. I have really enjoyed animating everything this year even if some of the projects were just a bit stressful. I just hope all the blood sweat and tears comes out in my work. Just click on my business card to access. Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/32007252