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Mario Moreno Cantinflas

2012-02-01T09:23:00.000-08:00

Mexican film actor, Cantinflas

Andy Serkis

2011-12-06T04:34:00.001-08:00

Ricky Gervais

2011-11-25T04:06:00.001-08:00

Oil Pastels on paper.

Vincent Price

2011-11-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

Lust for Life

2011-10-06T14:25:00.000-07:00

Van Gogh as Kirk Douglas or Douglas as Van Gogh

Tom Waits

2011-10-06T14:22:00.000-07:00

Novak Djokovic&Kim Sears

2011-10-06T14:18:00.000-07:00

Sting

2011-10-06T14:12:00.000-07:00

Patricia Arquette

2011-09-02T07:04:00.000-07:00

Pencil, scanned and painted in Coral Photo Paint 8.

Christopher Walken

2011-08-28T04:35:00.000-07:00

Pencil and pen, Macromedia Fireworks for final.

Stephen King

2011-08-28T04:30:00.000-07:00

Ballpoint pen drawing, colored and tweaked in Macromedia Fireworks. I made the face wider and the forehead bigger.

Michael Moore

2011-08-22T08:16:00.001-07:00

Different lighting versions of the plasticine Moore; plus two different cap sizes.

Jody Foster

2011-08-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

Two versions of Jody Foster, pencil stage and final color.

Whoopi Goldberg

2011-08-12T09:37:00.000-07:00

Plasticine, with tweaks in Macromedia Fireworks.

Russell Crowe

2011-08-12T09:34:00.000-07:00

Pencil Sketch and color.

Sam Neill

2011-08-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

A Bill Plympton-esque sketch, scanned pencil and colored in Corel Photo-Paint 8.

Gary Sinise

2011-07-28T11:34:00.000-07:00

Hand drawn, painted in Macromedia Fireworks.

Bill Cosby

2011-07-11T08:12:00.000-07:00

Two versions of Bill Cosby, done in Plastilina and one touched-up in Macromedia Fireworks.

Tina Turna

2011-06-06T09:12:00.001-07:00

Another plasticine caricature, Tina Turna.

Alan Rickman

2011-05-25T11:00:00.000-07:00

Plasticine sketch of Alan Rickman from, Harry Potter.

Aesop's classic fable

2010-11-05T04:23:00.000-07:00

Sorcerer's Apprentice

2010-11-05T04:22:00.000-07:00

Red Ed Miliband

2010-10-05T06:44:00.000-07:00

A caricaturists dream!

Boxers

2010-04-14T06:45:00.000-07:00

Boxer drawings for a poster.

Final line up of Boxers poster.

Jose

2009-05-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

A Spanish animator Jose from the Warner Bros days.

Eric Goldberg

2009-05-04T09:49:00.000-07:00

Tailspin

2009-05-04T09:38:00.000-07:00

An old doodle from 1990; when I was working at Disney UK and we were gearing up for Tailspin. A series that used characters from Jungle Book, this is a page of doodles to get the feel of the new characters.

Ophelia

2009-04-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I get ask to do copies of classic paintings. This ones of Ophelia by the Pre-Raphaelite artist; Waterhouse. Here in it's various stages of completion....

Matte painting (wedge tests)

2009-01-27T14:21:00.001-08:00

A series of movie film wedge tests, to determine the right exposer when combining the live action with the matte painting from the two interpositive negs

2009-01-27T14:21:00.000-08:00

Matte painting

2009-01-25T08:22:00.000-08:00

Before I got into animation I did a matte painting for Paul McCartney's feature, Give my regards to Broadstreet. Unfortunately the shot ended up on the cutting room floor and didn't make it into the final film. The camera is a beautifull Bell & Howell registration pin from the early days of cinema. Even though it ran from a motor it still had it's hand cranking handle; I wonder where it is now....

How?

2009-01-25T08:13:00.000-08:00

I couldn't resist this. A picture I took while working in Vancouver some years ago.

Nude oil sketch.

2009-01-11T09:09:00.000-08:00

Oil on prepared paper. The finished painting reminded me of a pulp fiction paperback, so I thought I'd try it and put together a mock up version in Adobe Fireworks.

Bootz.

2008-12-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

A picture I took on the roof at Richard Purdum Productions. Way back in the mid 80's of a girl whose nickname was Bootz.... I should have had the camera lower so her leg stood out from the white sky. Rather than the buildings behind the boot. Taken on a Yashica-mat twin lens camera, on 120 roll film.

Frankie & Johnny

2008-11-20T08:39:00.000-08:00

Smoking Frankenstein...

Very old stuff

2008-10-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

This dates back to 1975 I was into Jack Davis and Mort Drucker two Mad magazine artist. Mort Drucker did caricatures of the latest films or big TV shows, he was I think one of the greatest. He didn't just draw an actor from one angle in the comic story he had to cover all the angles and still make it look like the people in the films. I loved Jack Davis's dry brush technique too so I tried to combine these in the one drawing; at art school.... Really it was a graphics/advertising coarse that covered so many subjects; like photography, art history, sign writing, graphics and advertising, window display and something called social aspects of distribution! I had to scan this drawing in two sections and combined them in Fireworks. I gave very little thought to perspective back then and just drew it straight on the page and inked it in. Hence the reason McCartney's left foot is squeezed in at the bottom, I would have started on the left and worked across the page. It's taken from a period when the beatles were into themselves and not interested; that's the reason why they're not looking at each other. A happy accident; something else I wouldn't have given much thought about. The idea behind the drawing...

Russian Bear

2008-08-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

Testing out a newly rigged character.

Aesop's Fable.

2007-08-22T06:22:00.000-07:00

The finished look.

Aesop handrawn BG's.

2007-07-19T13:55:00.000-07:00

Some of the handrawn BG's before coloring in Fireworks. The original idea for the bg's was a cityscape that would have had a repeat cycle as in the Top Cat cartoons....

Opening title.

2007-07-19T13:20:00.000-07:00

This is the opening title card for Aesop's fable done in the style of the Hanna Barbera Yogi bear, Huckleberry Hound episodes....

Aesop storyboards.

2007-07-19T13:10:00.000-07:00

Some storyboards from my Aesop short. A variation of the Tortoise and the Hare fable....

Stop the train we want to get off!

2007-06-14T13:11:00.000-07:00

Let us off at the next stop!

Ye Olden days!

2007-06-12T12:42:00.000-07:00

Oh for some WD40!

Rabbi Burns.

2007-06-12T12:40:00.000-07:00

A play on words!

Drawing from life.

2007-06-12T12:32:00.000-07:00

Auntie Rotter

2007-06-12T03:52:00.000-07:00

Character pose ideas for a Peter Sellers audio sketch called Auntie Rotter about a children's radio programme with a sinister undertone....

2007-06-12T03:50:00.000-07:00

Auntie Rotter in the style of Ronald Searle.

2007-06-12T03:46:00.000-07:00

A sculpture of Auntie Rotter!

Blair

2007-06-12T03:40:00.000-07:00

A sculpture of Tony Blair for a claymation idea!

MTV

2007-06-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

An image from a short done at St martins 3D post grad course.

Marx Bros

2007-06-11T15:46:00.000-07:00

Caricatures of the Marx Bos

Blair

2007-06-11T15:37:00.001-07:00

Two drawings of Tony Blair. One as the Cheshire-cat....

The March Hare

2007-06-11T15:32:00.000-07:00

A caricature of John Major as the March Hare chess piece.

Bush

2007-06-11T15:27:00.000-07:00

Bush trying to see the final election result through the glare of the voters. Ball point pen with highlights in white and magic marker for the shadows on a grey paper...

The last supper

2007-06-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

Done in the style of Ralph Steadman. Dip pen and ink with an ink wash of color..

Aesop's Fable

2007-06-08T08:28:00.000-07:00

Your going the wrong way!

This is the finished look from the one minute short I made of Aesop's Fable about slow and sure wins the race. The characters were animated in 3D in MAYA and then exported as PNG seq's. Which were then imported into Flash for the addition of the frame by frame hand drawn smoke and backgrounds colored in Fireworks.