My latest foray into the enthralling realm of hand-drawn, 2D animation.

A 15min informational film, inspiring people to integrate sustainable energy approaches into urban development. Developed for leading NGO Sustainable Energy Africa and designed for use with city officials in South African.

I worked on this project with Luke Younge of Lucid Pictures in Cape Town, South Africa. I basically did all the illustration and animation for the chalkboard in the background.

Credits:
Directed and Produced by Luke Younge
Featuring Unathi Fani as Bonnie
Executive Producer Cliff Bestall
Script Sean O’Connor
Animator Michael Clark
Sound and scoring Daniel Eppel
Acting Coach Lara Bye

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My reel for 2009.

This reel has work from the last couple years, spanning my time as a broadcast designer in Johannesburg, a digital designer in London and several freelance/personal projects.

Many thanks to Jeff Metal for the music.

Enjoy!

The Think Again Fund (read more here & here) offered some good material to work with. Beginning with the idea of dreams, I came up with these illustrations that are quite friendly and cheerful and support the spirit of the campaign well.

These illustrations were used for the Think Again banner campaign in early 2009. Below is artwork from the development of these banners.

And this is the final banner (Note: I did not do the final production):

These boards were developed as an alternative creative route for the final YouTube video but, like many good things in life, they ultimately never saw the light of day. The final video, which I also worked on, did turn out very well indeed though!

The challenge in coming up with a concept for this project was that all we had to work with was green screen footage of Timberland employees rambling on about Timberland’s ‘Earthkeeping’ creds. Somehow we had to create a compelling and coherent 2 minute clip out of it, and providing an interesting visual context was very important.

I went for a very graphical approach (partly because of budget restrictions) where I used various abstract and figurative vector graphics to help illustrate the themes and textures to create that gritty feel.

I think the boards turned out visually appealing without becoming cliched ‘earthy’…

It was fun!

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Yes, this site did indeed get me a design job in London! It is no longer live but you can see it here …

This site was born out of desperation! I was stuck in London with no job and an empty inbox no matter how hard I tried. So I made this site…

The inspiration for the site came from noticing how generic most design is, especially online. So I did a little research and compiled a list of ‘design cliches’ – then copied them!

I then sent out very simple mailers (a business card with the cryptic URL)…and…voilà! I got a job!!

The animation was done in After Effects with hand drawn artwork scanned into and coloured in Photoshop. I quite like the simple quirky nature of the final product which was very well complemented by the cartoony soundtrack.

Everything was completed after hours over the course of 4 weeks on a very tight schedule – that included characterisation, story boarding and final animation.

The starting point was illustrations of elements around the studio – such as USB symbols, cogs from Beta tapes, power buttons etc.

These elements were then used to build creatures and, in turn, their environment.

The result is quite unique and charming I reckon!

I also had loads of fun creating a “CREATURE WORKSHOP “…a simple little app that lets you create your own StudioZoo creature!!!

The concept was to show the differences & similarities between French & South African industries.

The final piece is very incomplete, most of the animation was done in 5 days! I was however very pleased with the style and some of the movement, it has a certain energy about it.

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