'Showtime' hits the 'Show me the animation' app

I'm thrilled that 'Showtime' is included in the 'Show me the Animation' app, which is now available to download from the IOS Store. It's great to have people behind the film and hopefully this will mean others can enjoy it.

Animation is complete on 'Children of the Holocaust'...

Well, after around 10 months of hard work and good times, the animation on 'Children of the Holocaust' is complete. The time seems to have flown by and I feel lucky to have been a part of such a great team of people that make work not feel like work. Can't wait to see the series go out into the world... Well done everyone at Fettle Animation...

'Children of the Holocaust' goes online...

The series I've been an animator on at Fettle Animation, 'Children of the Holocaust' has gone live on the BBC Learning website, http://wp.me/p2hDHu-dV 
It's exciting to see all the hard work finally making its way out to viewing eyes. Now to finish the last few episodes...

'Dog' is unleashed...

Here's the fruits of our labour at Fettle over the past few weeks, a music video to accompany the beautiful song 'Dog' by Nat Johnson. It gave me and my other colleagues the chance to take the helm and see the video through from initial ideas to final polishes. It was great to try out different styles and ways of working and we are so proud of the finished outcome.

Now, 'Dog' is unleashed and set wild on the public, so treat yourself and enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWg7-AfoLAY&feature=youtu.be

'Showtime' is off to the Royal Television Society Wales Student Awards...

Tomorrow is the big day... the Royal Televison Society Wales Student awards, and 'Showtime' is nominated! Just a nomination is absolutely fantastic, and I couldn't ask for nicer people to be up against, so whatever the outcome it's going to be an amazing night and I can't wait to get on down to Cardiff and let the good times roll...

Talking with Frank Spencer...

The main aim when starting the little side project of Frank Spencer was to end up with a piece of lip sync material for my showreel. So before getting into the main animation of the character, I took a small clip of audio from an episode of 'Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em' to animate to. I feel that it went well and am happy with the end result, so hopefully when I do more I can piece lip sync to action and have a full scene going...

Betty, I've been articulated...

'No man who never did nothin, never made any mistakes' as Frank Spencer would say.  And mistakes are just a part of the learning process when creating a character that's going to work well when animated, So whilst completing Frank's character and posing him up in various ways, adjustments became clear that were needed in order to make it possible to animate him well. For example, the arms were extended, and different pieces were made to be used when the character is flipped so that the shading can be kept on the correct side throughout. At the minute, he is only able to be used from the one angle, so the next stage may be to create the character in different view points- from the direct side view, the front view, maybe even the back view, so that animation of the character could be more flexible...