Blog reborn!
It’s been a long time since this blog last saw a post (over four years in fact!), but after putting off updating my website for about a billion years, I felt like it was time to get things started up...
View ArticleLow-polygon modelling
Was watching this tutorial on GSG about low-poly modelling in Cinema4D so had a little go myself making these bird images which I think are working pretty well. I really like papery/origami/slightly...
View ArticleCinema 4D and After Effects
One of the things I’m really enjoying about Cinema 4D is how well it works with After Effects. Here’s a little thing I was playing with, showing how a mock-up video app might work with other devices –...
View ArticleGreenpeace Pod campaign site
Had a Greenpeace site I’ve been doing the design work on, go live recently. The site was to to generate awareness for a new survival pod – ‘an essential piece of Greenpeace equipment used to occupy...
View ArticleYes to Homes
Animation I worked on for the National Housing Federation on ‘Yes to Homes’ – a campaign to push for more affordable housing in the UK. Work done on behalf of HandsUp
View ArticleBoom!
Pretty stoked with this little experiment – I was messing around with the idea of using music to animate objects rather than keyframes after watching this tutorial. However I think what’s really picked...
View ArticleFace painting!
Had a brilliant time over the weekend leading a great team of face painters at the Soul in the City community festival. Tigers, Spiderman’s and Hello Kitty’s seemed to be the popular choices of the day...
View ArticleAnimators Survival Kit
Am very much enjoying the new iPad version of Richard Williams book ‘The Animators Survival Kit’. At £25 it’s probably the most expensive app I’ve ever bought though it seems well worth it, an amazing...
View ArticleLife drawing at Artizan Library
Richard Williams talks a fair bit about the importance of life drawing and it seems like it’s a really good skill to practice for lots of different reasons. So I’ve been heading down to the life...
View ArticleE4 EStings Competition
A little animation I made for the E4 EStings competition – a good excuse to try lots of retro cheesy techniques! I modelled and animated it in C4D then brought into After Effects for all the glows,...
View ArticleAnimal Drummer
Playing around with the Hair Render in C4D I ended up making this short piece featuring my fav character from the Muppets! There’s a few little glitches which I couldn’t quite fix but just decided to...
View ArticleAlastair Humphreys
Today I’ve been getting very sidetracked from work, watching videos from Alastair Humphreys, an adventurer and writer. I’m particularly really loving his ‘micro adventure‘ idea of going out on small...
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