Miss Van
Spotted this sexy gem somewhere around Ladbroke Grove, West London. Created by one of my favourite female artists Miss Van.
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Golden Opportunities
A friend of mine gave me the opportunities to create my second music video. My friend’s band, The Cutaway are an up and coming alternative pop band. Oli Court approached me to create a music video for the title track of their new EP ‘Golden Opportunities’. Following my method of working, I prefer to create a video with a story that viewers can follow, thus keeping their attention for the duration of the song. I listened to the track, and a envisaged a coherent story. The track gave me visions of pursuit, or two lovers on the run, and so, the scenario was set. The various characters within the video seemed to fall out of this process, then again, as mentioned before, I seem to have a knack of creating characters for certain scenarios.
I had a lot of passion for the song and wanted this to come through in the video, so spent a lot of time perfecting each scene, I was also teaching myself Cinema 4D at the time and wanted to use the video to take advantage of this. A few scenes, (such as the one in the bar where you first see the band) took two weeks to create and animate…for only a few seconds of screen time! – it was long (10 months to complete, working in my spare time) but it was worth it. I had to cut a lot of scenes even, the female character was intended to use a horse and a boat, unfortunately, this would have been to much pack in. Below the video, I’ve placed a few production shots of the video, as well as a few of my initial ideas I jotted down when the video was in its planning stage. ~Enjoy!
Indie film trailer and site
I was luckily enough to get the opportunity to create this web trailer for an independent film. At the time the film was selected to be screened at the Portobello Film Festival 2010, which restricted any footage of the film being shown anywhere else. Therefore, no footage could be shown in the actual trailer. This resulted in the clip below, consisting of assets from the film and no film footage at all (the hands present belong to a friend of mine). I was also required to build a site for the film. The Director (Ed Edwards) and writer producer (Sam Edwards) preferred I keep the name of the film off my sites, enabling all the top Google searches to pick up the the films actual site, you can view the site here.
Print Bits n bobs
below are a number of works that have been left half complete/unsuccessful. The first, which I call funky feather, was intended for a T-shirt screen print. Somehow it fell to the way side and never ended up being printed. The second (in the gallery below) was created for a competition themed ‘power in numbers’. It didn’t win, probably because it was a little hard to see what the numbers were actually spelling out. Thirdly I created another image called ‘switch blade’ which I also intended to screen print…until my friend told me it looked more like logo art…it probably wouldn’t make a good screen print anyway *Sigh* Oh well!
The Frenchy Cook
below is are images from a Flyer and web site I designed and built for my French teacher who is combined her love for cooking with teaching French. If you’re interested in learning French while cooking truly exquisite food, wander over to The Frenchy Cook and book a lesson.
Popstar!
The first collaboration of me with my younger brother AKA – Akay and my first music video. Here we took one of his best tracks from his mixtape and I wrote, shot, directed and edited this video. A mammoth task, believe me- it took ages. But the result was great, a coherent story and enough to keep you hooked to the end – and of course – a banging tune! Take a look and enjoy!
More T-Shirts
Below are a couple of designs I created with the intention of getting them printed onto T-shirts…but the damn printers told me the designs were ‘too complicated’ and so I had to go back to the drawing board. I still like these designs though, I may try and use them for something else.
Animation for Hotel Ibis
Wanting to create another motion Graphics piece, I entered into a competition run by Hotel Ibis. The (loose) theme was ‘what would you do for a good nights sleep’. With the top prize being £5000. Quite worth ones time don’t you think? Unfortunately I didn’t win but I did win a weekend in one of the Ibis hotels, after becoming a runner up. Created in After Effects, I recycled the character I created for a nokia project a few years ago, substituting their legs and arms for paths in After Effects, enabling them to be animated easily.
You can view more of my Motion Graphics works here.
Keroaz
Summer 2010, and a French rapping friend of mine needed some shots taken for his upcoming album. So we donned our hard hats, trespassed onto a half built building in Old Street (East Central London), and climbed way up high! The setting was amazing, and we managed to get some pretty good shots. See below for the main album cover,below this is selection of shots for your visual pleasure. Check out Keroaz’s site here.
~enjoy!
e4 Competition
Below is my entry into the e4 e-sting competition 2009, I based the style on the German animator Lotte Reiniger.
T-Mobile.
below is a video I created for a HD screen within the T-mobile stores, created entirely in After Effects and modelled in 3DS Max. For this video, I literally took a mediocre brief and made something more of it. click on the image below the video to view the original brief and see how it differs.
Tescos
I present below a Motion graphics piece, created for the in-store HD screens for Tescos Supermarket, Every little helps!
Tales End
Eventually I reached a point where I wanted my motion graphics works to reach a wider audience. So I entered a competition put on by MTV Asia called MTV&Me. The aim was to create your own MTV ident, which (if short-listed) would be played live TV in Asia.
So, I came up with a scenario and a few character. I based the story off the classic fairy tale of the Princess and the Frog, except there’s no Princess, just a girl named K (short for Kate). The magic is the change from the rural to the urban setting. The characters in this piece are not based on anyone in particular, I guess my imagination is wild enough for me to create various characters easily (as can also be seen in the Uckers project).
Within this project I expressed another trademark style of mine which is to basically animated everything to the music. That is to let the music dictate the flow of the story. I was told once that most people do things the other way round, but that didn’t make much sense to me. I sourced the music from a compositor named Dave Gross. I heard a few samples from his site and asked him to create a 30 sec edit of one of his pieces.
The ident was received well by MTV Asia and was aired early in 2009, I even received a certificate from MTV for my efforts. Enjoy the video below, beneath of which are various a few production stills of the characters.
Tescos Video
Below is a short but sweet piece created for a Tescos Mobile in-store offer.
Big Buoy
Below are a few design mock ups created during the design of a website for the production agency, Big Buoy.
The three images below the gallery were created for the header backgrounds once the final concept was chosen.
Info: Eagled eyed viewers may have noticed that the Big Buoy logo was created by acclaimed designer and Illustrator Si Scott.
Ariel Excel Gel
After a 2 and a half year Hiatus from freelancing and all creative work (particularly motion), I return with the creation of this promotional/informative piece for Ariel Excel Gel. Created so the execs could inform supermarket and potential bulk buyers of the beneficial properties of this product.
Created partly in 3DS Max and After Effects, I was a little out of my depth, especially with the wealth of information that was necessary to be included. Bringing my signature style across (engaging and keeping the viewers attention) was almost impossible with this piece. Looking back, I would have probably gone along a different creative route if I had to do this again.
Catapult Digital
Below are designs for the website of a start up agency I once worked for. I created the site in what must be my signature style, vector style imagery. The site was comprised of both Flash and HTML, All designed and animated by myself. You can view the flash intro here.
Within the gallery I included one of the HTML emails I designed with the same theme, which was way too cute to leave out!
Uckers
For this project, I created a set of character designs and a scenery render for a colleague of mine, who wanted to create an XBOX game to enter into the Dream Build Play 2008 Competition. The process was slightly ‘off the cuff’ and a lot of redundant work was done, but I enjoyed it.
The game, called Uckers, was meant to have a navel, seafaring theme, therefore I created and designed 3 seafaring characters, Lillian the mermaid, Pierre the drunken sailor, and Balthazar, A Pirate captain.
Unfortunately, the mermaid (my favourite) was rejected and so another character was created. I was asked to create the characters expressing different emotions to reflect how they were doing in the game. I came up with a navel captain Claude, as the replacement character.
Eventually, it turned out that including of these characters into the game, would have created more work than was absolutely necessary. Perhaps creating the basic game mechanics was a huge task in itself. And so, three characters become one, Pierre.
And then 3 characters became none. In the end I provided my colleague with the Uckers logo, and a scene render which was used a backdrop of the game, below is a version of this render.
You can view my colleagues progress with the Uckers game here. A Youtube video of the completed Uckers game can be found here.
QAS Sales Presentation
Below is a motion graphics piece created for QAS, a software development company. I had a lot of fun making this. As the piece was for presentation purposes only and not for profit, I was able to use the music you’ll hear on the soundtrack. I did my best to make this piece engaging and enjoyable to watch. Enjoy 
Are you blind?
I created this image with the Fluid-Lab logo after a being inspired by some work I saw at a graffiti exhibition sometime. I did intend to get this printed onto a T-shirt but that hasn’t quite happened (yet!)
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QAS Tech Presentation
Here’s a motion graphic piece created for the annual technical presentation of a software development company. The brief and content came from the PA of the director, visualisation, composition and editing was done by myself. I even included my favourite track from one my favourite games, Jet Set Radio.
British Gas Microsite
British Gas had been nominated for the Best Companies Award 2010 and wanted a microsite created to commiserate this achievement.
I set about this task with the use of Actionscript 3 and Tween Max in Flash. All designs followed the British Gas guidelines. Click the following link to see the result.