Recent Drawings

Here's some of the doodles I found as I sorted through the massive pile of drawings on the side of my desk. I pretty much draw whenever I'm sitting down (watching movies, listening to music, operating heavy machinery) so my room is full of bits of paper and cardboard covered in scribbles  and I often find drawings I don't remember doing. Here's some of my findings from the floor of my bedroom and the folder entitled "stuff" on my hard drive;

Pre Project

 Here are the newest images from my pre-production project about a nail salon inside a prison (almost) in the style of Windsor Mccay.

 The story is set within a prison in the middle of the Texas desert.

 The show features the following characters;

The Warden

The Warden is an extremely right-wing, racist, disciplinarian, Texan who hates the prisoners and sees them as animals. Below is a drawing of his office;

The prison therapist

The prison therapist is the opposite of the warden, he believes that every prisoner is really a kind person underneath their tough exterior and tries to rehabilitate them. He's very naive a little bit too forgiving.

 The Warden's Wife

The Warden's wife is an ageing cougar who's constantly drunk. She's the only women for miles so she's very lonely and feels like her and the warden have grown apart, as a result she's constantly trying to have affairs with the prisoners (although they never welcome her advances).

The Prisoners

 The prisoners are essentially exaggerated caricatures of the medias portrayal of convicts, they are all violent outcasts who form gangs and have no morals.

 This is the prisoners exercise yard, when I was watching documentaries about prison life the exercise yard reminded me of the playground at school so I thought they could have swings and climbing frames to play on.

Wall Street Prisoner

This character is a Wall Street trader who's in prison for insider trading, based on Gordon Gekko he's constantly trying to escape and failing. The original idea was that he used to invest in companies which screwed the under-privileged, now he's in jail and the under-privileged are screwing him.

I had the idea for this video about 15 minutes before the presentation so I quickly threw it together in adobe premiere (hence why it's not edited very well).

Tyson Animatic

This is the animatic I made for the title sequence project, one of Stu's friends made the music for it. We're pretty much on track with the project and we'll be starting animation tests next week.

Title Sequence Project

Here's the storyboards I drew for the title sequence project;

More concept work for deep;

Exeter Ident Project

I recently did a work on Alex Watkins' entry for the Exeter Animation Festival ident competition. We were given a couple of images by an illustrator and we had to come up with an idea for a short animation involving the illustrations which could be shown before each film at the festival. I'm not entering the contest because I'm buy with other projects so I probably won't be doing anything else on this animation.
The illustrator had drawn a load of characters racing but there he had only drawn them from one angle so I drew some character turn arounds so that they could be modelled in 3D.

Alex Watkins then sent me the animation beats and some instructions for the storyboards which I drew;