NEW Animation Mentor Blog

Wahooo I finally got around to setting up a new Blog just for animation mentor!!! you can check it out here.

Long time no type

Its been some time as I have loads going on, but while I have five minutes I’ll update it :)

To date I was working at the start of the year for a company called Blue Zoo in London. I was freelancing as an animator, for a Shell petrol video. This was a video which will be shown to internal staff about the change of the fuel card system. They are basically brought in a new system but its far more to it than that... I was animating a character called gobby, which I believed was designed at the company along with the storyboards and approach to the film.

Bo in the USA -Stings

"Bo in the USA" - Starts tonight on channel 4 below are samples of mine and Andrew Daffy's work for the new show.

Also for the show i did the word captions for all the characters, and these have been used for the DVD as well :)

More Doodles

Its been a while but i felt the need to upload some of my random doodles which are drawn in a matter of seconds aka "quick sketches"

The House Of Curves

Well it’s been a while but I felt I should up date it a bit. Over July and August I was working for "The House of Curves" and working on "BO in the USA" which is Bo selecta but based in the USA.

I was taken on as a” Sting Operator" and was rotoing live action footage and compositing these into a clip (sting) from here I was animating the rooted footage coming in and going off screen plus adding extra elements into the composite. These stings where about 6 seconds long and had to keep 2D feel to as if it was animated under a rostrum camera.

I was also was making up loads of captions for all the characters (think cut and paste style of a mad man or just think Avid Merrion) . =O)

New Showreel Online

New showreel online....

Well after many months of spliting my time between working on a short group film and making a showreel, i have finally put together my reel and can be found at the link below

Showreel 2006 Quicktime

Showreel 2006 Mpeg

New Profile Icon

Profile icon :)

This little feller was a quick doodle i did last month which was drawn in corel painter.

Web links updated

Updated my weblinks, i have so many to choose from but for the mean time these will be ok.
Im currently in the process getting some work together to upload to this site, also looking into perhaps hosting my blog on my site.

-Chris

Welcome

Hi welcome to my blog,

This site will be dedicated to my personal 2D drawings and 3D animations - so any feedback or comments will be welcome.

Animation and film are something I’m very passionate about. I’m constantly thinking up new ideas and analysing things around me for inspiration or to find out how things move or why they do what they do and hopefully this will show in the work post here.

I’m huge fan of the classic style of animation particularly Tex Avery and Chuck Jones the humour and timing is spot on, and this is something I hope to grasp and portray in my animation and drawings.

http://www.3dsketchbook.com

-Chris