For a pitch, on behalf of production company Bright Giant, key frames to illustrate the visual style and basic thread for an anti-drug abuse video.
Preloaded “Taggers” Pitch to BBC
As part of a pitch to the BBC for an online animation series called “Taggers”. Those fantastic Shoreditch creatives,”Preloaded”, were leading the job. I did these character, background & concept designs, starting as always on paper & finishing all artwork in Flash.
Some roughs…
Background inks & finishes…
Characters…
The first time anyone’s asked me to specifically illustrate white goods, this made me realise I could actually draw a half-decent fridge when called upon. These were for Gadgetmedia whose client, Stratagene, sell special storage kit for pharmaceutical goods, & needed a website revamp. I provided these new illos to replace some cartoon style fridges. Will upload grabs from the website when it goes live.
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.
BC Battlers!
Character designs for a toy & kids TV series called ”BC Battlers”. These are some of the baddies.
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.
Various works here
Characters for an animated rock band, under development.
Flash Miscellaneous
Various grabs & designs from Flash animation projects, or stuff that ended up on the cutting floor.
MSN Messenger Flash Game
I just did the illustration work & backgrounds etc. for this, passing them over to a Flash animator.
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.
BBC Bitesize Illustrations
BBC Bitesize is another BBC online learning site, focusing on helping students revise for their exams.
Illustrations for BBC Bitesize GCSE History revision.
Illustrations for BBC Bitesize GCSE DiDA revision. These were artworked in Flash, ending up as gifs on the website.
Poster design for BBC Blast one-off promotion. Blast is a BBC site for people to showcase their artistic talents. I never got my own print of the poster in the end :-(. The last image of the girl is a little glimpse of the work in progress. As seen here, I often artwork characters in Flash, just out of habit & preference over Illustrator (truth be told, I seldom use the latter!)
