One of our Tutors Jay showed me this website -





http://www.devicefonts.co.uk/





the guys called Rian Hughes and i've instantly fallen for his work, he's an illustrator and does some amazing looking comic related stuff! Ace.





Love this especially -

I think i need Uni to start again..

someone brief me! i need guidence.. ha...

Small process

As previously mentioned i've been trying to improve some painting in photoshop (my own stuff, that is) It isn't going terribly well as you'll see but i thought i'd post this to show how i went from paper to screen. Meet Bess*..

* My sincere apologies to Bess as I do her no justice

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Just some illustrator drawings, pretty self explanatory - just for fun.

Whats on my mind?

As an avid Marvel fan obviously the Disney buy-out. I'm intrigued to see if who owns them at the top of the chain effects just how great they are. I read die-hard fans have already made pacts to boycott there beloved Marvell, which personally, I think is ridiculous.
I'm also getting back into my games, I had a dry spell where my time was more consumed my comics and movies, but now I have that dieing urge to pick up a controller and get lost for 3 days on end without sleep in a really addictive game. I just need to find one first? (Damn lack of funds as a student result in me still not owning a PS3 or X-Box, which is where the good games are at at the moment, watch this space)
Hopefully you don't need to ask how this blog relates to my uni work. Every comic I read, image i see, movie i watch and game i play influences and inspires me in some way - even the bad ones (To urm, not make bad things?)

I need to,well, get good, at what i'm supposesd to do. I still see myself as the least animator in my class. I don't feel I'm particuly good in any one area and i certainly don't excell anywhere (Unless you can excell in time management and putting 100% in?) Though it's still getting me nowhere. Right now i'm focusing on teaching myself to paint my own stuff in Photoshop. so i stray away from Illustrator more this year, which i'm now fairly confident in.

/Pointless blog

In the summer time..

..when the weather has not been so fine, I've used some spare time to play around on the computer, drawing, etc. Here's what I've been doing. These were just me trying to get used to pen tablet at the begning of the summer, which is still quite new to me..All on photoshop cs3.

This is obvoiusly a very quick rough animation but as last year I hadn't done an animation with a moving background, i wanted to make sure the way i thought to do, would work, before i actually put it into action.. When this loops it makes me laugh as the background repeats like something out of the Flintstones..regardless, I found out my thoery did work fine.

I had a quick animation of a guy bouncing a ball, not very interesting, but it helped me play around with shadows etc, but for some reason that i don't understand blogger wont let me upload it.

This was something i started and didn't get round to fnishing, as a bit of a laugh my friend requested some strange things for me to to fill my time and to amuse her, this was "Do the little mairmaid playing a french horn" ..I never made it up to the french horn part, though what I did was fun..Not sure If i should be putting unfinished bits up here, but ohwell..

"Do a picture of Simba from the lion king having a fight with Pikachu with Billy Joe from Greenday as the ref!"

Why not!

Other bits and bobs:

I absoloutely loved Watchmen! Thought it was one of the best films I've seen in a while

Experimenting drawing in Flash!

The following photo's are actually atleast 4 years old now, but i wanted to upload them because i still love them today, especially the last 2 -

And finally this was a little something I did when brainstorming ideas of 'a little something' to maybe embed in the corner of a website, or at the end of blogs etc, a little animated trademark. The original idea of the guy was from a pixel piece I did when i was bored about 2 years ago, then last year I used the 'look' of the guy to do my lip sync animation for University. And here he is again!