Follow Otis the dog with his drunken daily thoughts on all things including music, drugs, loneliness and drinking. The Pond Life cartoon with updates everyday. Celebrating his 50th cartoon today!
26/09/2023
05/09/2023
Amazon's Quiz of 25 Years
Recently completed an animation job for Amazon celebrating 25 years of business. Made in Illustrator and After Effects via GeeFX Studios
06/06/2023
Road to Wembley: The Video Game
Recently I was given a great opportunity to work as an animator with GeeFX Studios on Road to Wembley: A Video Game produced by BBC Sport. The fast paced, energetic mini-doc is a quick look back through various teams' highs and lows on their journey to try and win the FA Cup.
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| Donkey Kong inspired Level 01 |
RTW was divided into 6 separate levels each inspired by different video games. The levels were Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter, Outrun, Mario and FIFA Soccer. Each level would have characters designed to look like well known footballers who would then recreate scenes from various footballing events.
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| Donkey Kong Final Designs |
Starting out with simple sketches and then turning those sketches into the retro gaming style graphics using Aseprite wasn't an easy task. "Pixel art" can be extremely limiting but after some practice I started to get used to the process and really enjoyed it.
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| Sonic inspired Level 02 |
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| John Motson |
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| Ronnie Radford |
Finally it was onto the character designs for the two competing teams' managers, Pep Guardiola (Man City) and Erik ten Hag (Man Utd) which was inspired by anime. This took a while to get right but I was really happy with the way it turned out.
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| Pep Guardiola |
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Erik ten Hag   |
18/04/2023
JR Show: Hans Zimmer Music Game
Live graphics recently produced for The Jonathan Ross Show with special guest Hans Zimmer.
10/01/2023
Hippo Returns
Hippo (Book 3) in a series of books that my Dad has written is available now in paperback and digital. I've helped design the cover from a photo my Dad took in Dinard, France of the Alfred Hitchcock statue. Ray Hippolyte is for me a very interesting character, a journalist who solves crimes. A kinda geeky James Bond mixed with Columbo character who's delightfully English but loves France and all things French. My Dad never intended to write a series but I think this one gets better and better with each book.
01/01/2023
Let there be Mock-Ups!
Happy New Year!!! I don't usually put many mock-ups on this site (for the strangest ones head over to GFX Dump ) but I really enjoyed doing these for The John Bishop Show which has started a new series on ITV. The exploits of the Liz Truss Lettuce after her exposure by the Sunday Mirror, including a sex tape, falling drunk out of limos and getting into fights outside nightclubs. Classy!!!
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