Coming soon to BBC Online, Chaos Laboratory a brand new series from Modern Toss starring Paul Kaye and Simon Day. I worked as Supervising animator on the project along side creators Modern Toss and director Ben Wheatley, who along with editor Rob Hill recently acheived great success with their feature film Down Terrace.
Video footage of these red creatures has been spreading over the internet for the last week or so now but it won't be long before you can watch the full thing.
Here's a trailer for it with music by DJ Dave Spoon:
As well as working as an animator on the series with the guys at LSM I was also let loose with a video camera and did some of the filming for the second unit.
I'll post more about my work on the project once it goes live, I wouldn't want to spoil it!
Modern Toss have released a brand new book featuring all the best Home-Clubbers including this one here:
The book is out now and available for you to buy here.
Home-Clubber appears every week in the Guardian Guide and has done since 2004, so that's well over 200 cartoon strips to chose from when putting the book together so they quality will be high, I'm sure!
One of my first jobs was to animate the Home-Clubbers for use as mobile downloads, I did over 60 of them. It was great fun trying to squeeze as much animation as I could from a single drawing, I really learned my craft doing so many of these, the trick was to communicate the original joke but to also add something to make it worth while paying for.
To celebrate the release of the book I have posted one of the episodes onto YouTube, you can view it below.
Keep a look out for it in all good book shops. Not the bad ones, they won't have it.
Take a look at this video posted on YouTube the other day, what do you think it could be?
The creature definitely has a beak of some sort and a large round body/head. I commuted from Redhill to Brighton for two years and I've never seen anything like it. I have a feeling there's more where that one came from...
My entry to the MOFILM User Generated Content competition is now online!
The competition was run in conjunction with 12 brands including Visa, HP and Vodafone amongst others. Each brand set a brief based on their core values and hundreds of people from all over the world entered, all hoping to bag the top prize... a day on set with director Spike Lee.
I chose to create a piece for the brand Philips, mostly because I liked the brief which was to 'get people to think about light in a new way and to create emotion through light.' I tricky one, but I thought there was a lot of potential to work with light in some interesting ways.
I came up with the idea of two characters made out of light interacting with each other in different ways trying to express themselves. The light that formed the characters was to be refracted from two prisms set up in some sort of magical light experiment taking place at night.
Interesting facts:
Filming the video part of the piece actually took place during the daytime and was converted to night using computer trickery. Also , the two prisms I baught failed to refract any rainbow coloured light what-so-ever so all the rainbows were animated along with the two characters.
Unfortunatley the entry did not win. Not to worry though, I'm really happy with the finished piece and you can check it out below:
A few days later I get an email from the folks at MOFILM telling me that because I was one of the first 30 people to enter in the Philips category I am entitled to a prize and that they would be sending it to me in the post in the next few days...
So here it is!
MOFILM Prize winner after all! Some lovely Philips white candle lights. Only problem is they've got a european mains plug and I live slap bang in the UK. Oh well.
Here's some video footage taken on the night. Take a look if you managed to come along, you might see yourself on there. If you couldn't make it (like me) then take a look to see what went on.
It looks like it was a great night, well done to Kanoti for organising it all. Hopefully more of the same soon!
Another animation event in Brighton! This time its "classic Modern Toss sketches projected onto a big screen and re-interpreted with a LIVE string quartet and piano." Sound good? I reckon so!
I hear they've got the voice of Drive-by Abuser doing a bit of live shouting as well, which should be brilliant. I'm not going to stand near the front though incase he directs some of it at me.
Ignore the dates on the flyer, its been moved to the 29th and 31st of May so there's still time to get yourself a ticket to this unique show. Click here to book now.
I think, although this is not confirmed that one of the sketches getting the live treatment will be the Sneezeman animation I did for Modern Toss series 2. I certainly hope so, it would be great to see it up on the big screen!
If you're out and about in Brighton on the 9th of May 2009 between the hours of 9 and 10 pm then why not check out a night of animated shorts including work from Local Talent including Kanoti, Modern Toss / LSM, Tokyo Plastic, Crush and Cyriak.
It is part of the Brighton Fringe Festival and is all in aid of promoting alcohol awareness plus it's FREE!!!
I was involved with two of the pieces being shown, the first is the DIMA Award winning "Work Experience" by Modern Toss and LSM, I was the Supervising Animator and second is "Winter Song" the music video for Grammy nominated singer Sara Bareilles for which I was again the supervising animator, this time working with Crush Design and LSM.
Hello and welcome to my blog!
Here you will find a collection of my own work nestled amongst a whole load of other stuff that I have found and would like to share with anyone who cares to take a look.
I'm a director of video and animation, creating stuff for all sorts of media... TV programs, Live events, TV adverts, music videos, web stuff and even mobile stuff.
I am also really into making film. On this site you'll find some of the videos I have directed.
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