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.

The Art of Brittney Lee

Amazing artist Brittney Lee has caught my eye lately. Her style is simply captivating, the colours and curves she uses are so vivid and sharp that I vow anyone to dislike her work.

As Sandro Cleuzo says on his blog 'I got so inspired too draw' after seeing these beautiful pieces. I'm aiming to email her and hopefully secure a print for myself. I can imagine that looking at any of her pieces every day will certainly put a spring in my step.

If you haven't checked her out already then do so now. Her blog is as at http://britsketch.blogspot.co.uk. You'll not be disappointed!