Jethrow Character Sheet and Further 2D Progress

More progress of my 2D animation, Jethrow now exiting his house and down his banana chute. The next shot will be him landing onto the sand and drawing his sword.

Jethrow Scene - Further Progress

I also created a character sheet for this character for more in depth detail about Jethrow's foundation:

I like making a character sheet as it gives the viewer a lot more information about Jethrow as a character and what makes him smile and what makes him tick.  The production of the animation will now be picked up, I hope to be onto the scenes which include Steve-Fin fairly soon.

Graduation and IMDB Credited!

It's been a while since my last post, I've mainly been working, job hunting and working on more of my 2D animation. I felt that it was time to pick up the pace with the production as I've fallen behind with it a little.

I graduated near the start of the month, after a full year of hard work, it finally paid off. It was a great day too.

I've been credited on IMDB for the character animation that I worked on! Really pleased with myself, more to add onto my CV too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2887702/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Definitely a boost to my confidence within freelancing as well as character building. Hoping to get some more contracted work in the near future with more companies.

Jethrow and Steve-Fin - Opening Shot Progress

I've animated the opening scene of Jethrow's house, a huge banana that has washed up on the shore, with the reveal shot of Jethrow appearing at his window. The windows and door are parts of the banana that have rotted which I felt looked effective.

The next part will be Jethrow smiling, squeezing through his window with a 'pop' and flipping over to slide down his banana chute with his arms flailing.

Contracted Animation Work And Other Progress

I haven't posted on here in a while so I thought I'd add an update about what I've been upto.

I completed my Masters Degree at The Glasgow School of Art, absolutely crazy year, and the ceremony for my graduation is Friday 20th June.  Quite looking forward to it.

Over the past few months I also gained some great experience in the animation industry by getting contracted work with Glasgow company 'Smudge Digital', to work on a low-budget documentary. Other animators and I were contracted to work on eight animation segments which revolved around 3 primary characters, I worked exclusively on one of them.

These shorts were placed between scenes in the documentary and basically tied the scenes altogether which worked quite effectively and also will add some humour to the audience.

The documentary is in the editing process at the moment and it will be revealed at a premiere, which I am very excited about.  From there it will be shown at several festivals before it is sold to television. Any publicity is good publicity!

I really enjoyed my time with Smudge and I hope that there will be some more work in the near future.

I also got quite far in a few interviews for animator jobs but seemed to fall at the last hurdle, a bit disheartening but back to the drawing board, I guess.

I've also wrote a script for a 2D animation that I've started working on, a silly crazy plot that involves two primary characters. I've planned the script to be roughly nine minutes long, enjoying working on it so far.

This is the title card I whipped up showing both characters, I'm hoping to also make an intro to go along with the final animation. It's strange not having strict time constraints with this but I've planned a schedule and sticking to it! I'll post animation progress as I'm working on this more.

Facial Animation Showreel 2014

Animation Showreel 2013

Gump and Gil: Episode 1

Gil is a pretty laid back young man except when he's being pestered byhis best friend, Gump. During his morning glance at the "Mebay" auction site, Gil notices an item that he would love more than anything - his idol, Chuck Marshall's, baseball cap. However, someone else appears to have also their eyes on the cap...

This animation was completed by me and another animator in our spare time, we did it in around a time of 48 hours (including sleep and some DVD breaks) 

Character and title card design

Adding more characters to the current ones I have designed: a mother, older brother and pet dog.  The older brother is aimed to be a couple of years older than the primary character and is just as naive and mischievous as he is.  The loving mother is a very clean-living woman.  Nothing in the household is seen as untidy, dirty or unorganised.  The family lives in a suburb and have a very attractive house.  Their pet dog, scruffy, is a very curious animal.  He is a fun-loving mutt who sticks his nose in everything - he also digs everything up in the back garden.

(Main title sequence card for the series)