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IFK designs

2011-09-13T11:30:00.001-07:00

Some new Character and Background Designs for a series 'Intergalactic Funk Knights' which in development with with Sticky Pictures Australia.

This is all still being worked on at the moment, so still probably not the final images.

Dukes Of Broxstonia - series Montage

2011-09-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Dukes Of Broxstonia,

The series, I co-created, designed and directed is showing on Australian TV (ABC3) weekdays.

I can't even watch it being in Canada. Oh well.

You can see a little montage of it here

And heres some stills... from the series. Enjoy.

Stuffton

2011-09-08T08:10:00.001-07:00

Heres a concept I'm shopping around with the nice folk at Curious Pictures NY.

Essentially the trials and tribulations of a Clive Sweety, mayor of a surreal and ridiculous city of Stuffton.

Heres A little animation test.

Below are some designs.

Some more stuff

2011-09-08T07:52:00.001-07:00

I was asked by Nickelodeon US to send up a pitch for an animation series, which was really nice, seeing that I didn't know anyone at Nick US up until that point.

I didn't get time to actually send them something till about a 7 months after they actually asked, luckily they didn't mind.

Below is a few of the character designs...

Some Character Designs for a series pitch

2011-07-15T11:09:00.000-07:00

Heres some bad guy designs for a new series I'm pitching on with Sticky Pictures (Australia)

Dukes Series 2 is DONE!!!

2011-07-04T11:03:00.001-07:00

So I've finally finished the Dukes series 2, and it's turned out great. Well, now I'm taking a little break. I'll upload a small montage of the series to my site soon.

The series will appear on ABC3 and Cartoon Network Asia.

Some storyboards and such.

2011-07-04T10:56:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd post some storyboarding I did for the Dukes series. Here you go.

Band member rocking out on guitar

2009-07-25T04:19:00.000-07:00

Heres an animation test of a band member (from earlier designs I posted).

Walk cycle of Band member

2009-07-23T00:18:00.001-07:00

Rough outline of the walk - made up just simple shapes to get basic movement

Precomposed the top half of characters body to allow for more control on how the character jolts up and down. tweeked the leg movement.
Ironing out the head, just got a point to represent the mohawk of the character...

Created the hair movement and reworking the shape of the head (which I've drawn on the right)
Put in the head design. Put in colour. The body movement is just tweened.

Used the symbol movement of the arms and legs to create the final animation. All animation is still embedded inside the symbols. The hands only have 4 drawn frames, and its just the movement of the symbols and timing of those frames that creates the illusion of movement.

This walk cycle, including design (which I was able to change throughout working on this) took less than a day of work. And thats by my slack standards.

Heres a walk cycle test of a band member (design from the previous post)

Band design

2009-07-23T00:14:00.000-07:00

A design for an animated punk band.

Scarygirl nominated for AFI

2009-07-21T23:12:00.000-07:00

Woohoo!
Scarygirl, the online game that I did the animation for, is nominated for an AFI award.

Props go out to Tarwin and Tony of TouchMyPixel who did the amazing programming and building of the game and Nathan J for the sweet art work.

Beers guys.

Punk Design...

2009-07-18T02:24:00.000-07:00

Hey just trying out some designs for a punk/metal/whatever character. Here's one that I figured probably wouldnt work for TV. (at least not for kids).
I still like it though...

Things coming out of a shoe

2009-07-16T20:27:00.003-07:00

Just some drawings...no real idea behind it. Just thought it looked cool.

The Love Stitches

2009-07-16T20:23:00.001-07:00

Some more characters...

2009-07-16T19:25:00.000-07:00

Some animation tests...
Heres a working progress of animation I did...(I designed the guy as I was animating..)
Basically the build is first done with nested symbols tweening.
Then inside the symbols I drew the frames for the animation.

Working this way has a lot of advantages - a couple being that you can tweek the motion
and design elements the as you're animating.

Allowing you to draw your elements with the motion of the character in mind.

It also means that you don't need to draw every single frame. In the back arm and in a lot of the
facial movements, I was able to get away with only redrawing a few of the frames to achieve this look.

Anyway, this way of animating isn't for everyone, but I think its really helpful and time saving
if you're familiar with how Flash works...

Click on the images to go to see the animation of each section...

My housemates

2009-07-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

I live with some pretty cool/weird/awesome/annoying/hilarious housemates.
So I decided to draw them.

Wade is Unemployed

2009-07-16T19:13:00.001-07:00

An idea I'm tinkering about with for an older audience.
Here's some designs....

Character Designs - kids

2009-07-16T18:51:00.000-07:00

Heres some more designs for a kids animation series (it didn't get picked up). Anyway would really like to use these designs in something else in the future....

Insect Drawings

2009-07-16T18:21:00.000-07:00

Heres another pitch done. It's an animated series about an insects and spiders,

Kids Illustrations

2009-07-16T18:08:00.000-07:00

Some pitched kids illustrations...These are all done in Flash, and are completely vector.