As part of a pitch for an online animation series called “Taggers”, a tale of young graffiti artists, and their trials and tribulations. Those fantastic Shoreditch creatives,”Preloaded”, were leading the job. I produced these character, background and concept designs, starting as always on paper and finishing all artwork in Flash.
Some roughs…
Background inks and finishes…
Characters…
These characters were done for a magazine article comparing pay between those in the catering industry & those in other sectors such as finance, services & law. The publication was “Food Service Director” magazine, probably the Vogue of the catering industry, but obscure to the rest of us.
Illustrations for & from a variety of commissions, projects & so on. Some lovely ladies, comic covers, posters etc… there are one or two repeats in here, just with different tones or filters & some close-ups.
Characters used for stills & animations for Motorola, made in Flash, for an event to launch a new phone from the Motorola range. Fairly novel concept at the time, much better developed these days.
I just did the artwork and elements for this, passing them over to a Flash animator.
Genesys Animated Short Films
Stills & designs from a series of corporate animations made in Flash for Genesys, a video conferencing company. These promotional videos aimed to reflect the company’s sense of humour about itself, while promoting their product & showing potential clients what Genesys could do that it’s competitors could not. The main character is a cheesy superhero called “G-Man”, who helps out his so-called “friends”, each representing a competitor company. Some of the images here were eventually rejected by the client. Director Alec East.
BBC Jam: French Learning.
Characters & designs for the ill-fated BBC Jam. This was just a small part of the BBC’s efforts to provide online learning covering almost every subject in the British school curriculum. The brief here was to turn “live-action” (actors) characters from a short series of French learning films into cartoon characters we could use for online games & tasks such as putting together comic strips. Jam ended in tatters leaving a lot of contributors who had put their heart & soul into this fantastic project, utterly deflated. We believed in the project & speaking for myself, believed it would help children with their studies. It’s downfall was a great shame.
BBC Jam “Les Choix” Comic Strips
Some of the comic strips for BBC Jam “Les Choix” (see above), & how they looked as rough drafts.
BBC Jam
Character designs for BBC Jam online learning games & animations, made in Flash. This was also for Jam’s French learning section. The brief was to create a series of characters from a fictional TV studio that students could use to make & edit their own short films in French.
Designs & mock-ups for Sony Playstation 3 “Singstar” box cover. I don’t think this was ever used, but I loved the job anyway.
