I've got a cool job

For a potential Cricket Bowling game.

Kelly Brook Trampoline Game

You got to pop her ballons without, ahem, popping her balloons.

Iceman

Character design for an American sports betting website.

Reject Cowgirl

Looks like they're not going to use it so I can post it here.

Meet Rick

Meet Rick

Rick was part of one of my very first forays into both freelancing and dealing with the client directly

Cath and Cliff

I don't normally do a lot of caricature, try to guess who these two are supposed to be. Answers on a postcard...

More girlies

More girlies dancing from the same project:

and stills from the Flash anim:

Nice beer last night with the old LAS crew. A little depressing about the state of the industry here, and animators can and do moan to Olympic standard but still had fun.

Mark, where were you?

Invite Drawing

Me and Louise are getting married in April. As a 'creative' I wanted to do something for the invite rather than just buying something. I did this drawing from a photograph with the intention of having it on the front.

I got lots of help from my friend Carrie with the design and tried a load of different things, but it just wasn't working. Eventually Louise found a make-your-own kit in Confetti and the drawing found a home inside, opposite the details.

This was a difficult drawing to do because I hadn't tried to draw a 'realistic' likeness of anyone for years, and I'm used to drawing rough sketchy scribbles that noone apart from myself needs to get.

It's difficult to be objective but I like it. Carrie said it looks kind of like the Posy Simmonds strip in the Guardian which is is fine by me.

Listening to the cricket

Done for the Skwigly Animation Sketch competition: Theme: "I should really get some sleep”

http://www.biganimation.com/forum/tm.asp?m=5814

just before Strauss needlessly gave his wicket away.

Arse

New Job

So I've got a pretty cool job doing illustration/animation for an internet gaming company. I wasn't really sure what it was going to be like but it's actually quite fun.

This is the kind of thing I'm doing.




As per usual, pretty rough sketches.

So, in the petty, childish words of the Cranberries; Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We.

I've been meaning to do this for ages, but when it comes to actually doing it it's difficult to come up with drawings that I think are going to impress people. I've become quite a lazy drawer because I know I can clean things up and change proportions etc when I come to draw it up in Flash.

Bad habit to get into.

Anyway, these are the two drawings that turned into the Spider-Man at the start of my showreel: http://www.bentosanimation.co.uk

Later I shall write extensively on the deficiencies of the English football, rugby and cricket teams.