LITTLE WHITE LIES FEATURE

Little White Lies have featured me as part of their Grass Roots platform, an initiative that allows up-and-coming filmmakers the chance to showcase their work.

This is very exciting since Little White Lies is a fantastic independent film magazine, published bi-monthly since 2005 it has become the home of inspirational film journalism and a wonderful example of creativity. The design for each issue is based around the theme of a single film, most recently Attack The Block and before that Black Swan which was my personal favourite and can be seen below.

















You can read the full interview with me where I discuss my career thus far and my plans for the future here.

Massive thanks to LWL for the feature and you never know, one day it just might be one of my films on the front cover!

2011 SHOWREEL

Another year brings another Showreel. I'm very pleased with the work done over the last year and I'm proud to be adding it into edit, if this year goes half as well as the last then I will surely have a 2012 showreel suitable for the end of the world!

IDEAL ANIMATION

Below are some screenshots from the animated sequences I did for BBC Three sitcom IDEAL with BabyCow Productions and Director Ben Wheatley.












'Moz' the character played by Johnny Vegas takes a drug made from powdered Amazonian cockroach abdomen and starts to hallucinate. The world around him starts to appear as swirling lines and organic shapes that shift and pulsate.























The animation was done painstakingly frame by frame and was a lot of hard work. It was also a pleasure to work on and I had a great time doing it. I had some help from two other animators by the names of Melissa Bramley and Rosie Miles.

The animation has had a great response so says writer Graham Duff which is great to know.

If you want to see the episode you can do so by clicking here. It's split into two parts and all of the animation takes place in part two so if you can't wait then click here for part two and skip to around 3:00 and then 11:20 for the second sequence.

'LOSING IT' ON SET PHOTOS

Above is a couple of shots taken during the production of my promotional trailer for 'Losing It' published by Andersen Press. The trailer involved live action combined with animation, which of course was yet to be added at this stage. Below is how the same scenes looked after some digital trickery.























Watch the trailer here to see how it turned out once all the animation was finished. Photos supplied courtesy of Melissa Bramley.

ROBOT AT THE LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

As part of the London Short Film Festival Straight 8 are holding another Retrospective screening featuring some of the best films entered over the last decade. This time it's being held at the famous Roxy Bar and Screen on the 10th of January at 8pm.















My 2008 entry 'Robot' once again has the honour of making the selection and will be screened alongside another Straight 8 film with the audio on switchable headsets. Sound crazy?

It does indeed, but I have it on good authority that it will be a lot of fun too!

Tickets are £5 on the door which is pretty good when you consider you are getting a decades worth of Super 8 goodness.

For more information click on the event and the Roxy Bar and Screen click here.

SAMSUNG MEMORY CARD VIRAL

Back in September I was asked by The Viral Factory to meet a team at a studio in West London where I would be called upon to do some drawing... Nothing could have prepared me for the day ahead!

I worked on this ad with The Viral Facotry as production designer, creating concept artwork to help visualize the way the video would look and feel. I produced a drawing for each stage of the memory card 'test' and I can vouch for the fact that they did in fact build it all, everything you see in the video is real, including the flame throwers.

It was a great experience watching the set come together and when necessary ducking my head to avoid projectiles as various bits of kit were being tested around me. Hats off to the whole team at The Viral Facotry for another great piece of work and especially Will Tribble for the directing duties.

'LOSING IT' BOOK TRAILER

'Losing It' is a new teen read published by Andersen Press featuring eight short stories focused around the issue of losing your virginity by eight of the best authors in teen literature today. Authors include Keith Gray, Melvin Burgess, Anne Fine, Mary Hooper, Sophie McKenzie, Patrick Ness, Jenny Valentine and Bali Rai.

The trailer that I directed and animated was shown at the book launch at Foyles in London and has also done a tour of various literature festivals around the country. The book itself has been getting great reviews from blogging sites all the way to national newspapers such as the Independent.

An alternative version of the trailer can also be seen along side the book on Amazon here.