FREELANCER FOR HIRE

SERVICES
Direction, animation, design, 2d/Flash, 3d modelling, texturing, compositing, editing, audio synchronisation.

TOOLKIT
3ds MAX(modelling, animation, lighting), Maya (animation), photoshop, premier, AFX, Flash, Illustrator.

GENERAL
Graduated with a 1st class honours in Graphic Design in 1993. Spent 10 years in the Games industry in a variety of roles from animator, designer, general cg artist. 2004 - freelance illustrator and animator. 2005 - co founded kilogramme animation studios with Jon Turner, working mainly for broadcast, web and print. 2009- after four great years i have decided to go freelance in order to offer a more specialised and collaborative service.

BLURB
My main sphere of interest revolves around more styled or design led animation and motion graphics and i would like to concentrate more in this area as a freelancer. I am keen to work within new teams and for studios that have a similar ethos.

ABC WARRIORS

I Can finally post details of a teaser trailer i worked on for ABC WARRIORS/2000AD
Directed and designed by Steve Maher and John Doyle of Firestep. I was involved with most aspects of production, from scene building, lighting, character modelling, setup and animation, through to AFX compositing. Freelance animator/compositor John Hedley was on hand to give the trailer a final pass off effects.



From the start we wanted to give the trailer a hand illustrated look, faithful to the source material. We chose to rely on detailed, painterly surface textures rather than complex shaders and global illumination. Much of the background was created as 2d artwork simply projected onto planes in 3d space. This helped not only with production time but also to keep within the hand illustrated style.

The Toolkit consisted of 3ds max for modelling and animation, headus uv layout for UV unwrapping (very cool little app). Photoshop and bodypaint for textures. Aftereffects for the final composite. Cebas Final Toon was used to get the final render look we wanted.

This was a great project to be involved in having been a fan of 2000ad for many years.