Project: STEAMWELL

More on this story later.

Background and Scenery Design

Here's some of the background and scenery designs I've been working on this year...

'20th Century Participation' - 1910


'20th Century Participation' - 1942

The Fall of the Wall - 1989
(The year I was born, actually...)

A screenshot from the first render of the 1989 Berlin Scene

Here are some of the wall sections, with graffin' painted digitally on top of an acrylic-painted texture of a concrete wall...

La-De-Da... Cos' it's a Lada? Get it? Yeah.

It's a cheesy, hippy-sort-of line, but apparently it was a popular one.

A lovely picture of some sort of peaceful bird (dove maybe?)
emerging from the barrel of a Soviet tank.
Bloody Commies.

The original textures, created in acrylic paint...

The original planned image was first produced as a sketch...

An incredible scene...

The Mongolians have swarmed the border!
(hmm, sounds a bit like a military code...)





A really, REALLY flowery and camp forest scene.
I would definately die of hayfever in there.

IN THE NEAR FUTURE...

In the near future, the escalation of transport congestion must be countered by a new traffic control system. Programmed to evolve by calculating more effective methods of control, it concludes that the extermination of mankind is the only way to resolve the problem.
With an army of 5 billion robotic cones, barriers and bollards, it coordinates a devastating blow to human civilisation which is only the start of the massacre of mankind...

Working together with my production team and a small army of extras, we created this film in just under four months.

Woodlands 50th 'Birthday'

Recently I completed a short animation that was commissioned by a school in Essex which is celebrating its 50th 'birthday.' The short animation is mixed media, using 2D traditional/digital, stop motion, pixelation and motion graphics to convey the construction of the town as well as the school itself.

The film was very successful, being used as the opening piece to 'set the mood' for a much larger show and event celebrating the birthday.

Concept art...

Here are some pieces of concept art from a production I am currently working on, entitled 'Attack of the Cones.' Note the flying cones and diving civilians.



Here's a very strange picture which served to visually explain my personality to my fellow students. I think perhaps it is still quite accurate.