The first series of 'Those Scurvy Rascals' is now all animated and should be coming to a TV screen near you soon... if you live in Australia that is. It might be a little longer for the rest of the world but who knows how it will take off! The website will be lanching Oct 3rd here if you want to have a sneak peek...


Hopefully I will be able to get some of the shots I worked on into my shiny new 2006 showreel.

Right now, I am on the hunt for a new job should anyone have any suggestions...

Over four months on and we are 9 episodes down, 1 to go. Come the beginning of August, collectivly 6 animators will have finished all 20 episodes. Thats 10 minutes of animation each!

Tiring... :)

I have never had to animate as fast or as much as I have on this job!

It's been great fun and a heck of a lot of hard work and I am gutted that it's almost at an end (and I have to start job hunting again) but I also could do with a rest!

I think I am going to go home to my folks house and do nothing for a week or two ;)

I sent my MA final project to The Big Screen festival at BBC Hampshire a while ago and just happened to check their website this evening out of curiosity, only to find this:



cool eh?

So if anyone want's to vote or leave a comment please do! :D

I thought I'd put up some pics of the advert I worked on at Bird. I am assuming that I am allowed to but if they aren't here again, I obviously wasn't. Well hey, it's been on the TV (not that I have seen it much) so it should be ok. The animations might make an appearence on my next showreel - it depends how long it takes me to do one and how much better stuff I have to fill it with!

As you can see the characters were human and required natural, subtle human movement (apart from the floating in the air thing). Not something I had ever attempted before so it was a learning process. And they didnt come out too bad. ;)

So having spent the last 2 months (!) doing not much at all, I am about to start a new job at blue-zoo! I am pretty excited and pretty nervous all at the same time but I can't wait to get out of the house and do something!!! And what makes it even better is that's it's cartoon animation, all day, everyday! (well, hopefully no weekends this time.) It's going to be a good year I am sure :)

At the beginning of October I started working at Bird Studios in Blackfriars, London.

So far so good! I was thrown in at the deep end a bit, and had to re-familiarise myself with Maya at the same time but it all came flooding back to me. We are working on two adverts for a TV channel (not sure if I can say who?) and it involves me animating a human character with a range of emotions. Not like the cartoony style I am used to! But its been a great experience and I am learning fast and enjoying it.

I have finally completed the Masters! It was a fantastic year and I know my work has improved because of it, and I have made some great friends too - so all in all, well worth it!

Right now I am polishing off my final piece for the degree show on Oct 7th at the ICA. I have spent the past few days putting together my showreel which I have sent out to various companies in the hope that one of them will like my work and give me a job! Then the education really begins!