SKETCHBOOK STUFF!

My Illustration Agent recently asked me to do a post on their blog about Sketchbooks and what they mean to me. You can check out the post here. Below are some more sketchbook pages that they didn't have room to include in their post.

SOME OLD CHARACTER DESIGN STUFF!

Here's some old character design/development stuff and an illustration of our cat, Dudu. You can buy a print of him here if your heart so desires! Nowadays he's about 5000% fluffier than he appears in that picture.

ILLUSTRATION MUNDO - INTERVIEW!

Nate Williams recently asked me to do an interview for his fantastic website ILLUSTRATION MUNDO. If you want to find out more about me than you ever needed to know, then you can check out the interview here.

BILLY SWEET MONSTER!!

Earlier this year the wonderfully talented TOUGUI kindly asked me to contribute a design to his range of Billy Sweet Monster paper toys. Here's the finished result! Follow the link to download the template and build one of your very own!

HEY!

Apologies for the huge gap in posting. I've been VERY busy for the first half of this year working on a development for the Cartoon Network. It's based on a short I produced for them last year. Here are a few images from the short and a rough comic I did while developing the project. Huge thanks to Rikke Asbjorn, Stephane Coedel, Lee Gingold, Rich Wake, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Alan Kerswell, Celine Desrumaux, Dave Newby, Timothy Bjorklund, Charlie Bean and Steve Small for all their fantastic help with the short.

BUBBLE TROUBLE!

Here's a piece I did for an exhibition taking place at Leeds Metropolitan University from 12th - 31st March. It's part of their one day Survive Illustration Conference in conjunction with the AOI.

SLEEZE BURGER!

ZOR OF THE BROKEN LANDS!

8" x 10"

Crayons on Otter Pelt

EY UP!!!

Hullo!! Sorry for the huge gap in postings. I've been ridiculously busy working on two new animated shorts that, hopefully, I'll be allowed to post on here at some point not too far in the future. In the meantime though, here are a couple of new things...

Above is a self-promotion piece to be published in next years Art Book.

This furry fella is for The Ark Project. A book project commissioning over 200 designers and illustrators from around the world to produce an image of a species from their native country. I chose the Red Squirrel. There's some great illustrators who took part in the project including Jon Burgerman, Tado, Ben Newman, Friends With You, Christian Montenegro and many, many more. Check it out and buy the book as apparently the money goes to charity. I can't remember which one but I'm pretty sure it's something to do with animals...

And lastly for now, I'm happy to say my illustration agent has started selling signed prints of my work. You can buy them online through my agent here. Hope you like them!

LITTLE RIKKE

Here are the opening title sequence and end credits for a TV show pilot I co-directed with the show creator and massively talented Rikke Asbjorn (animator on the Gorillaz videos and Monkey Opera).
It's a product of my day job at the Cartoon Network Development Studio where we're currently developing shows for TV. We produce one eleven-minute super-animatic and colour bible for each show which are then pitched to our bosses at CN worldwide.

Unfortunately I'm not allowed to show the whole animatic here but I hope you like this little taster!

Created by Rikke Asbjorn

Opening Title
Co-directed by Rikke Asbjorn and Chris Garbutt
Storyboard - Chris Garbutt
Backgrounds - Sylvain Marc
Character Animation - Rikke Asbjorn, Sylvain Marc and Ben Marsaud
Compositing, Animation, Sound Supervision - Stephane Coedel

End Credits
Co-directed by Rikke Asbjorn and Chris Garbutt
Storyboard - Chris Garbutt
Character Animation - Rikke Asbjorn and Stephane Coedel
Compositing, Sound Design, Backgrounds - Stephane Coedel

Copyright2008 Turner Entertainment Networks International Limited

MONSTERS...

A COUPLE OF SILLY-STRATIONS...

HULLO AGAIN...

More dribbling bumshine...

HULLO...

Not posted in a while. It's been crazy busy at work. Here's a swift dose of scribbly poop that's been falling out of my pen recently...

CEREAL KILLERS COVER!

Doktor Viktor Von Kreep of Kreepsville Industries kindly asked me to provide a cover for his upcoming cartoon art book CEREAL KILLERS and here's what I came up with...

Also the good Doktor interviewed me for his new CARTOON FUNLAND blog. Click on the link if you want to read my retarded waffling.

MIXED BAG OF GUFF!

The first one was for a computer magazine article about multi-tasking. The second and third were both pitches, and the last bunch of monkeys were for a kids book.

ANIMATION - MORE ROBOTBOY BGS

Trawling through the gloomy recesses of my computer's futuristic mind I stumbled upon some more BGs from Robotboy season one. Again I tip my hat to the great team of artists we had working with us.

All Robotboy images are copyright either Alphanim or Cartoon Network...

CEREAL KILLERS!

A piece I did for a project called CEREAL KILLERS, a cartoon art book being put together by Viktor Von Kreep featuring many artists from the world of animation and illustration.

 

ASSORTED SILLYNESS

CHARACTER DESIGN - YET MORE BEASTIES

The bird in the first bunch is from the little bird project, a collective design project for UNICEF.