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I did this little piece for the E4 E-sting competition.

Sharpie

Crikey it's been a while apologies!! We'll skip over that and my lack of blogging and get straight on with the juicy bits...

http://vimeo.com/25811815

The above is an image from the recent film I've completed with Kilogramme. It was made for a project called Sharp Futures. The aim of Sharp Futures is to encourage schoolchildren from underprivileged areas of Manchester to consider a career in the creative sector. Three schools were shortlisted to have their storyboard for a film about the environment animated. It was a close competition with all three schools producing some excellent ideas, but the winning pitch was decided as MCMA Boys school. I've been working with the students since the end of last year and did the majority of the work on the film's direction, animation and design. David Ridges animated Sharpie's pipe travelling scene with Jon Turner lending his 3D max skills to the project as a whole.


The majority of the content of the film were decided on by the students and they got a brilliant reception at it's premiere on Wednesday night! Plus it involved me animating a lot of penguins, which is surely a bonus in anyone's opinion?! Particularly when one wears a tie.


Hope you like it!

A buzzy bee...

Here are a few business cards I've been making. Ribbons and buttons (I love buttons!) make up these little flowers, which turn into brooches you can pin on to jazz up your outfit.

Hopefully they'll bring a little smile to whoever gets one, and give the wearer a little buzz...sorry!

Socks away

These are 2 designs I entered into the "Design a sock" competition via the Print and Pattern blog. They are not exactly patterns, but I think a bit of scribbled colouring-in gracing a leg would look delightful!

38 days to go....

So it was pancake day Tuesday, followed by the beginning of lent. Other years I've given up the usuals of chocolate, cakes (was going ok, until I remembered my birthday falls during lent!) and ice cream. This year I've turned my attention to biscuits.

Now I didn't use to be that much of a fanatic on the old biscuit crunching, unlike an old housemate, who we would often find curled up in his bedroom with the freshly topped up house biscuit barrel emptied, smothered in crumbs and a dazed, bewildered look as to his last half an hours crazed actions. Yet since leaving Uni and working in a studio, I have literally become the cookie monster! Endless cups of tea have always kept me going, but if there's a packet of biscuits somewhere nearby then I can't seem to resist a dunk as well (chocolate hob nobs being my preferred favourite...the king of all biscuits where a spot of dunking is required, as Peter Kay will back me up on).

So on Wednesday, with a lonely cup of tea on the desk, I drew a few of it's forbidden companions for old times sake. I feel its going to be a long 40 days...

Walk like a Robot

Hmmm so it's been a long looooong looooooooooooong time since the last post, but I think we should skip over that!

I've been pretty busy, with quite a few projects on the go. Here's a couple of images from the first for a pitch, with a robot theme (if you hadn't guessed...)

Christmas cheer

Just 2 weeks to go....to get you in the festive mood here's an image from an animated card that I've been working on at the moment.