Today I watched a few videos of seagulls in flight before making a super speedy frame-by-frame animation. My working process for simple frame by frame animation has become so much more streamlined during this project, by necessity. So much work, so little time. I put the animation behind the final title and put the musicContinue reading “Paddington: Finished?!”
Category Archives: Digital Art
Making the Invisible Visible – FINAL
And who knew that I’d be making a Mau’taroth post in January 2023? Certainly not me. It looks like I’d forgotten to embed the final video here, with finished editing, for submission. Enjoy!
Paddington: Names
I did a few thumbnails in my sketchbook of fonts and line weighting, looking at what would work well with such a busy background. I think the white is good – you know where to look. Now the names are there, they sort of balance out some of the uneven compositions. It looks more finished.Continue reading “Paddington: Names”
Paddington – An End Is In Sight
I’ve been loath to make a new blog post for every little asset I complete, but do know that many hours of love and toil have gone into every second of progress I make. Today’s work was to create the “cheers!” asset, get that boiling, put some cute little fizz in their glasses, and makeContinue reading “Paddington – An End Is In Sight”
Visual Diary: Well, Well.
I keep meaning to make more sketches, but quickly colouring work to give it the sense of atmosphere I need it to have is quite good fun. I spent some time working with this one and I’m really happy with the mood it gives out in the end. The character speaking is the sword, WhackusContinue reading “Visual Diary: Well, Well.”
Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!
This is a good moment in the scene where Antonia and Mitzi try to break into the bath houses. Getting the pose right, keeping the composition interesting, and still keeping this faith to the image I have in my head is very difficult. You have to be very good at all this stuff to avoidContinue reading “Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!”
Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.
I can see my art tending towards slightly coloured monochrome recently – and this is because when I’m creating a whole scene, to fully colour it too would turn it from a practice illustration into a whole project. I’m pleased with this one! I drew it before I wrote about it, and I’ve written andContinue reading “Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.”
Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…
Brace for critique. A big success. A good angle, helped considerably by four or five messy ink thumbnails in my sketchbook. You should really see them. You’re going to have to trust me that … oh, for god’s sake, hang on. honestly, I do so much work, and then I do even more documenting it.Continue reading “Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…”
Visual Diary – Did you… find any girls?
I realise we need some context here. I was going to summarise it, but the context for this is only a couple of hundred words long, so get ready either for some scrummy world building or to scroll. Harriet, the Halfling girl who met them earlier, was still at Reception. The thick red book detailingContinue reading “Visual Diary – Did you… find any girls?”
Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured
Doing this has made me realise two things: one, that I am an illustrator, not an animator – and two, when I animate, I can make it look pretty bloody good. Other things I’ve done is import that big pavilion background into the working file (with the four crops), and put these frames (but transparent)Continue reading “Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured”
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 