iain's big cosmic adventure

2010-11-23T07:45:00.000-08:00

More life drawing from the past few weeks. The line drawings are quicker poses than we have been doing, about ten minutes. I would like to do quicker but alot of the other people on the course are beginners or there to learn more traditional skills, so i'll take the ten minute poses. And besides its been good to be taught some different techniques. The watercolour is a work in progress and proves that i have alot to learn about painting!! i think i would be better suited to oil paints as my painting style appears to be a bit to rough for the delicate nature of watercolour.

2010-11-02T03:32:00.000-07:00

More life drawing, a slighlty ropey line drawing and a couple of portraits/heads. Normally i duck out of drawing the heads in any detail in life drawing as i find it a bit tricky, so it has been good to concentrate on just the heads. One of them is slightly more successfull than the other and as ever always seem to run out of time!!

Life drawing

2010-10-05T02:52:00.000-07:00

Doing a life drawing course again as its always good to practise, the course is taught by a very talented russian lady who has loads of great stories. Last week i even dabbled with a bit of watercolour for the first time in years (well for a figure drawing slash painting) its a work in progress but maybe i'll have a go at oils next time!!

Some more french sketches

2010-08-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

Long time no post!!

2010-08-24T13:02:00.001-07:00

Well its been a busy year, loads of work and changing jobs which means not many posts, but just got back from holiday in france and made some time for sketching. I took my water colours and after a very rusty start i enjoyed the painting. Some more successfull than others but i'll post them all up anyways.

Doodle

2009-05-29T04:43:00.001-07:00

A meeting doodle, it was a good meeting so not a bored doodle just a doodle...

Work day out

2009-05-08T05:41:00.000-07:00

Last week i had my first day out with my new job. We made the trip up from Brighton to London to have a mooch around some museums and art galleries which was great! I didn't get much sketching done but i did do some....

Doodle pads

2009-04-07T01:04:00.001-07:00

I have just started a new job as a pre vis animator at Black rock studio and have resurected my doodle pad which sits between me and the keyboard. I use this to doodle rubbish and draw things that i have seen (hence the little boy from the "UP" trailer i watched, and if i am being good, to rough out scenes or ideas that i am going to animate. Here are a couple of pages from the new job. They are generally collections of ref that form the starting point to an anim.

Anyway back to work for me :o)

Nice day for a bit of a sketch.

2009-02-26T07:44:00.000-08:00

Another wednesday another day sketching in the smoke with Annes and Tim with a guest appearance from Ross Seen as it was a cold day we thought the southbank would be a good spot! after a couple of hours the cold got to much so we headed into the tate modern where conviently there is a cafe at the top with a great big window looking out across london, perfect! Had a play with some water colours blocking in the shapes then drawing over the top with ink. Didn't fit on the page hence the odd composition :o) thanks to annes for the loan of the paints.

2009-02-19T03:47:00.000-08:00

Here are the other sketches from yesterdays sketchathon, i really must sort out a scanner!

Sketching in London

2009-02-18T15:02:00.000-08:00

So today Annes, Tim and me went into town to do a bit of sketching we started in the british museum but it was rammed so after a sandwich we moved onto the streets of soho to get a bit of peace :o) the sketch below isn't soho, i will post them soon, but i quite like it as the final sketch of the day heading back to waterloo. A good day!

Some wrapping paper for a VW nut

2009-02-13T04:58:00.001-08:00

Day trip to Bath

2009-02-10T04:49:00.001-08:00

Snow!!!!

2009-02-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

learning to draw on a wacom!

2009-01-19T09:08:00.000-08:00

I was given a wacom tablet to learn how draw on my computer and use photoshop and this is my first effort. I think it will take a long time to find all the cool brushes and get used to working in layers, but here we go, to the future!!

My first sketchcrawl

2009-01-12T14:07:00.001-08:00

must get a scanner!!

Some sketches from Oz

2009-01-08T06:48:00.000-08:00

Sketching in pen to try and train myself to think more before putting the mark down.

some pics from a land down under

2008-12-13T10:14:00.000-08:00

Just back from a land down under

2008-12-13T10:06:00.000-08:00

A bit of work history, a CV i suppose.

2008-11-10T06:14:00.000-08:00

ELECTRONIC ARTS > FEB 05 – DEC 08
Harry Potter and the half blood prince> Responsibilities & Achievements:
Senior Cutscene animator, responsible for in game cutscenes.
· Preparation and directing of motion capture shoot for cutscenes.
· Character animation and direction of cut scenes.
· Scheduling of animation team tasks.
· Quality and consistency control.
· Liaising between management and other disciplines
· Clean up of mocap data for the cutscenes
· Character animation for in game.
· Development of in game facial system.

Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix > Responsibilities & Achievements:
Lead Cutscene animator
· Character animation and direction of cut scenes.
· Scheduling and management of animation team tasks.
· Quality and consistency control.
· Liaising between management and other disciplines
· Liaising with the outsource team.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire > Responsibilities & Achievements:
Senior Animator
· Creation of ingame animations
· Cutscene animator

CLIMAX DEVELOPMENTS > JAN 01 TO PRESENT DAY
Sudeki, Xbox: Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Lead Animator, of a team of six animators
· Character animation for in game.
· Character animation and direction of cut scenes.
· Scheduling of animation team tasks.
· Quality and consistency control.
· Liaising between management and other disciplines
· Implementation of animation into the game engine.
· Keeping team morale high even in crunch periods.

Power Rangers time force THQ, playstation: Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Character Animator
· Responsible for all game animation.

Spongebob Square pants, THQ, playstation: Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Character Animator

NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL >JULY 99 TO JULY 00 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Animator

HONEYCOMB ANIMATION >JAN ’99 TO JUNE ’99 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Animator

THE ANIMATED PICTURE COMPANY >APRIL ’98 TO SEPT ‘98 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Storyboard artist
· Art worker

NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL >NOV ’97 TO MARCH ’98 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Assistant Animator

SUSAN YOUNG LTD >SEPTEMBER ’97 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Assistant Animator
· Rendering Artist

LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION >JULY ’97 TO AUG ’97 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Commissioned to complete, eight, twenty second
Stings for the ‘Holy Smoke’ programme
· Design, storyboards, animation, rendering and
Final filming

WARNER BROS, FEATURE ANIMATION LONDON >MAY ’97 TO JUNE ’97 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Pegging and animation checking
· Animation tests for portfolio

KING ROLLO FILMS LTD >JUNE ’96 TO SEPT ’96 - Responsibilities & Achievements:
· Assistant animator

more life drawings, 2 hour poses.

2008-11-07T03:32:00.000-08:00

showreel 08 version 01

2008-11-05T01:28:00.000-08:00

life drawing

2008-11-03T15:29:00.000-08:00

how does this work then?

2008-11-03T10:28:00.000-08:00