Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

... Coming August 12th .....

Samurai

Whenever You Think Something Is Done

You can always push it further. I thought l'd achieved what l was after here, ...


... but taking another look ....

.... and another ....

... always helps! This is an illustration for a childrens book submission l did a while back. The image improved along the way, although l did really like how the ears turned out in the first version.

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

The trailer has been released, ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCaXfiO8hk

Outback

Well life is as busy in Sydney as it was in Melbourne. Moving around working on films seems to leave little time for painting and drawing unfortunately. Although l have finished developing HenryVille and l'm starting to submit the strip to publishers now. I'll try to update the blog with a couple examples in the near future. As for work, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is set to be unleashed on the public in January, and "Happy Feet 2" is moving along well.

I'm growing more confident that my old short film, Outback, is never going to be completed, ... and since l don't have a lot of new artwork to update the blog with, l thought l'd add a small selection of the concept art l did for the film 'years' ago when l was developing it.

JMAC Solutions

Logo Design for an old Mate, ....

Meet Snots

Playing with Inkscape. An ugly interface, but nice tool selection.

AniRamble

I've just setup a new blog with 3 fellow animators who are working on the film at the moment here at Iloura. Its basically a place where we can post anything animation related that we find either inspiring or useful to each other. So if your interested, head over and check it out here, ...

AniRamble

HenryVille

HenryVille is a comic strip l developed over 12 months ago and haven't had a chance yet to see if anyone wants to publish it. The strip follows Henry and his 'unique' friend Monkey as they go about changing the world. The strips are designed to work both as single gags on their own, but also develop together as an extended tale and entice the reader to return to the comic like a soap opera. Something l thought was missing from the current disposable wasteland of commercial cartoons being published. (Generally comics these days l find to be just throw away one-liners, which is why l think they've been de-valued and their page sizes steadily decreased over the years.)

This sample is one of the first strips l wrote while l was still developing the characters and the greater plot line.

(Click on the strip to see a larger, readable, version.)

Quack Quack

This is a section of an illustration l did a couple of months ago. It was one of three pieces l did for a submission to try to get a book illustration job. The 3 images were done pretty quickly to make the deadline and l wasn't completely happy with how they turned out in the end. I do like this Duck though, l thought the illustration style worked ok here.

Didn't get the job, so l'll be interested to see what the final illustrations look like when it comes out. I'll try to post another one or two of these soon.