A personal key-frame completed in a day as a ‘photobashing’ exercise and completed for the fun of it That moment when a lonely road becomes less lonely. Detail.
‘Suzuki Ignis’ TVC proposal – Advertising
The following storyboard and key-art are part of a proposal that I personally created and developed for a TV commercial for the Suzuki Ignis. The Ignis is a quirky Japanese…
Plateaus
A simple piece that I completed recently during some down-time. It began with a number of thumbnails and within a few hours it have developed into the image below. And…
Remnant
A personal piece between jobs, and an idea that I’ve had floating around in my head for years since pouring over a book of classic 1970’s era science fiction art…
The 4:08
An idea that I’ve had on the back-burner for some time, and a quick exploration between jobs. Taking inspiration from Streamliner Moderne, Art Deco, and Retro Future aesthetics. Fritz Lang’s…
Night Watch
An evening’s photobash, colour grade, and lighting study. Playing here with cinematic lighting and colour grading with backlighting to create clean, contrasted silhouettes. Detail. Alternate grades.
Yum Yum Peanut Factory – Advertising
Storyboards, and environment and prop designs were supplied to my client The Mesh Studios in the UK for an 3D animated TV Commercial for Yum Yum Chocolate Dreams Peanut Spread.…
‘Orange Wave’ Juice – Advertising
The aim here was to create an engaging, fun, approachable, and stylistically coherent visual design for an animation for an orange juice. Simple and highly stylised forms, and a clean,…
‘Performing Seal’ Colour Key
A quick little Colour Key completed for fun and practice.
RMIT ‘Art after Videogames’ Party Pug
A quick character design that I created for a flyer to promote a party for the class that I teach at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University as a…
‘The Legend of King Arthur’ Artstation Challenge
MERLIN’S CAVE Recently I participated in Artstation’s Art Challenge – ‘The Legend of King Arthur’ under the Environment Design Category. Two submissions were made and I elected to depict the…
Keyframe visual ‘inside pass’
A self-initiated keyframe If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t hesitate to drop me a line!
Keyframe visual ‘daydream’
See the video below for process from rough sketch to shaded visual. If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t…
Key-frame visual ‘morning run’
If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t hesitate to drop me a line!
Themed Entertainment – Featured Work
Much of the work that I’ve undertaken in the field of Themed Entertainment for clients is covered by Non-Disclosure Agreements and therefore not available for public viewing. Here is just…
Riverbed
Just a keyframe completed for enjoyment in my spare time. If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t hesitate to…
The Visitor
A moody little keyframe. Just when you think you’ve gotten away from it all an unwelcome guest drops by.
The Great Race
INITIAL ROUGH If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t hesitate to drop me a line!
Nanopixel / Storyboard and Animatic – VR
This task for Nanopixel in Belgium on behalf of their client called for the creation of a storyboard and accompanying animatic, as well as a key-frame for a VR experience…
Fantasy-themed elevations
ROUGHS If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t hesitate to drop me a line!
Homeward Bound
A personal speed-paint undertaken to a strict time limit of 4 hours. If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to life, don’t…
Perimeter
COMPLETED WORK. A personal piece undertaken between jobs. DETAIL INITIAL ROUGH & DONE MODEL PROCESS BEGINNING WITH AN INITIAL 3D BLOCKING OUT If you’re looking for a freelancer with the…
Citroen Promotion
Taking the Citroen Numero 9 Hybrid concept car as the basis for some promo practice between jobs. Created using Photoshop and Affinity Photo. In both images, the car has been…
The Spire
Here be Dragons! A fairly speedy personal piece completed between jobs for my enjoyment. If you’re looking for a freelancer with the ability and experience to bring your ideas to…
Personal Storyboards
From time-to-time and between jobs, it pays to practice. Below are a selection of personal storyboards. Boy meets Dragon. Boy conjures Dragon first. Two quick 6 panel storyboards. Next is…
StartVR / ‘Awake’ episodic content – VR
This is a piece undertaken a year ago for the client StartVR of Sydney (startvr.co) as a visual pitch for a VR series tantalisingly billed as ‘Close Encounters meets Inception’.…
Preflight Check
A personal piece undertaken between jobs for the pure enjoyment of it. Depicting a space-craft undergoing the final checks before launch from a station orbiting the Earth. I’ve including the…
London 2046
A personal piece of a future London that involves some serious photo-bashing. London has become a city of rooftop solar arrays and slums. A close-up crop…
The Gift
The Gift – A Personal Piece A personal illustration that begun as a fantastical and surreal exploration of the mind.
Vehicle Concept
In my profession as a concept artist it’s been quite a while since I’ve been called upon to do pure vehicle design and so I decided during some down-time to…
Outpost
Outpost Illustration – a personal piece A personal illustration depicting a remote frontier fortress in a harsh and dramatic environment. This illustration integrates a number of photo elements and hand-drawn…
Canyons
Canyons Speed paint. A personal piece. Below is a close-up and process images. Canyons Process.
Paradox Film / Kongens Nei (The Kings Choice) Feature Film DMP – Film
Kongens Nei (The Kings Choice) Feature Film matte paints Directed by Erik Poppe, Kongens Nei (The Kings Choice) is a Norwegian historical drama feature released on the 23. September 2016.…
Speedpaints using selections
Speedpaints in a clean, simple style employing a number of selections.
Phenom Games / Transcendent – VR
A recently completed promotional poster for a forthcoming VR game using the HTC Vive system, by Phenom Games and announced at ChinaJoy 2016. A very enjoyable project and quite challenging…
Escape Velocity
A personal piece. Soviet aircraft of the 1950’s and 1960’s have long interested me and I’ve long enjoyed the art of John Berkey and Chris Foss with their depictions of…
Ambush
A fairly quick personal piece completed in a little under 8 hours.
The Nautilus
A personal piece depicting Captain Nemo’s Nautilus under attack from a giant squid from Jules Verne’s classic ‘20000 Leagues Under The Sea’. The Nautilus was designed, modelled, let and rendered…
The Fall of London
A personal piece depicting the the last train with refugees fleeing the capital before the fall of the city to the Martians. From H.G Well’s Science Fiction classic ‘The War…
Qvisten Animation / Volairesedan Design for Herfra til Flåklypa film – Film
Below is a deisgn from the Norwegian stop-frame animated feature film, Solan og Ludvig – Herfra til Flåklypa in keeping with the work of the original creator, Kjell Aukrust. A…
Qvisten Animation / Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den fæle Rasputin feature film vis dev – Film
A sample selection of concept art that I completed in 2014 for the Norwegian animated feature, Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den fæle Rasputin. Knutsen & Ludvigsen can best be described…
Solan og Ludwig – Herfra til Flåklypa feature film concepts – Film
A sample of the concepts and turnarounds created for the stop-frame animated feature “Solan or Ludwig – Herfra til Flåklypa”, the sequel to the award-winning and Norwegian box-office hit, “Solan…
‘The Rookeries’ Vis Dev – Games
A sample of environment work undertaken for a project that sadly didn’t get off the ground.
Copper City matte & Nuke composite
With this personal project I have endeavoured to create a short animated sequence simulating live-action using a number of Photoshop-created layers projected on to 2D and 3D cards (modelled in…
Miscellaneous Character Designs
Here you’ll find a miscellaneous and assorted collection of random personal character design, illustrations, turnarounds and sketches and doodles. Some of these works can be purchased over at Redbubble as…
Gimpville / Freia Kvikk Lunsj Commercial DMP – Advertising
A commercial released for television and cinema circulation for Freia Chocolate’s ‘Kvikk Lunsj’, which for the uninitiated, is somewhat akin to Nestle’s ‘KitKat’ (only better). In Norway, a Kvikk Lunsj…
Gimpville / Kon-Tiki Feature Film DMP – Film
Above: A screen-grab showing a portion of the matte-painting that I completed for the film Kon-Tiki in 2012 with a CGI DC3 aircraft. The original matte was over 16000px in…
Qvisten Animation / ‘Solan og Ludvig – Jul i Flåklypa’ Feature film DMP – Film
A sample of the over 120 mattes that I completed for the Norwegian stop-frame animation, ‘Solan og Ludwig – Jul i Flåklypa’ (Christmas in Flaaklypa) of 2013 and based on…
Gimpville / ‘Reisen til Julestjernen’ Feature Film DMP – Film
Mattes completed for the Norwegian Christmas film ‘Reisen til Julestjernen’ (Journey to the Christmas Star), released in 2012. These are full-screen Mattes created from integrating photo and hand-painted elements. With…