Vote for me…..

Its all been go here at JLtv HQ the last few months. I have been busy working over at Momoco working on films and title sequences which I will give you all a update about in a few weeks time. But in the mean time head over to not one but TWO of my designs I recently created for some competitions.

The first one is a design for a T-shirt that will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band Queen. I had to enter this competition as Queen are one of the biggest band ever to be conceived and I spent much of my childhood listening and watching there music videos. My idea for the t-shirt was to try and include as many iconic imagery from Queen’s single and album covers as they have some very striking covers over the years with my favourite being Fat Bottomed Girls.

Head here to vote for it

The second competition is for Dont Panic and the Lovebox Festival to remix this years poster which would then be circulated for promotion and included in upcoming issues of Dont Panic magazine. My idea for this was to rift on the already existing logo for the Friday show which is called ‘Bang the Box’, and from that I created a Q*bert inspired pattern which everything in the poster revolves around.

Head here to vote for it (though you may need to sign up to do so…..)

So there you go, until next time keep it easy….

Megacities on the Move

These are four short films I recently produce at Grain Media for the charity Forum for the Future. Each film focuses on a different future where certain economic and environmental have changed the way we travel. I was brought in as lead Animator and Illustrator and had three weeks to complete the four films.

To find out more about the charity and the films head to
forumforthefuture.org/​projects/​megacities-on-the-move

Illustrations by Joe Lea & Windy Van Druten
Animation by Joe Lea
Voice by Claire Wyatt
Music and Sound Design by Patrick Jonsson
Produced by Grain Media

Barradoro

A little project I did alongside Rebecca van Ommen over at Paperboat Creative for Barradoro to promote there VIP parties.

Editing and Animation by yours truly

New business cards

Recently I have ordered some new business cards and stickers to try and promote myself a bit more around London. Today I actually got around to taking some pics of my new cards. I ordered them from Moo.com which is a awesome site for getting cards from as you can upload a load of images (up to 50) to have on your business card so that nearly every single one you give out is unique. Check out the images below and look out for some badges soon……

Andrew Maxwell DVD Style Boards

Here are some style boards I created recently for a pitch to create the opening sequence/title for Andrew Maxwells new DVD coming out for the christmas rush. This was done for BananaSplit Productions and unfortunately they have decided to go in another direction which is a shame because if I do say so myself I think these look pretty awesome……..

Black Swan by Guy Harlap

Interesting abstract video from Guy Harlap for Thom Yorke’s Black Swan

All animated in flash using the straight ahead animation technique where you don’t key frame you just keep animating every frame as it comes along. Very nicely executed, makes me want to go back to the drawing board and grab a random tune to animate to……

Skype

I have just recently uploaded some work from last year that I did with the good folks over at Atticus Finch for Skype. This project was completed in July and the project was for a new micro site that Skype were launching in which you would choose a avatar that reflected your mood and then place that avatar on a world map showing your location and allow to see what other Skype users were up to.

I was brought in to animate all the expressions of these avatars from happy to silly and from angry to sneaky. I was also designed and animated a number of creatures and events that were dotted around the Skype world map. This was the trickier part of the job as everything I designed had to stay within Skype’s company brand guides but apart from that I was given free range of what I could create.

Chapel Club – Five Trees by Lamo Wizard

The last few some you of you may of known I was working on a music video

well here is the finished result

I was working with the awesome Marek Stevens and Amy Leverton AKA Lamo Wizard over at Davey Inc for the music video, and I was drafted in to help out with their green screen shots and compositing. I am particularly happy with the ending where the lead singer melts/dissolves away as that was one of the ideas I pitch to them that they felt where impossible.

Enjoy!

Computer Arts Magazine June 2010

This month’s Computer Arts Magazine is real treat

as well as all the interesting news about Adobe Creative Suite 5 it also feature yours truly new showreel on the disc!

June's Computer Arts magazine

June's Computer Arts magazine

find out more about the mag here: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/about_us/latest_issue/computer_arts_issue_175

hmmmmm…….

here are some music videos that have taken my fancy in the last few days

first off Ocelot’s ‘Beating Heart’ directed by Aaron Bevan-Bailey

the second is NightBus ‘I Wanna Be You’ directed by Dave & Nicole

http://www.stampfilms.com/music/dave-and-nicole

and lastly Wax Tailor’s ‘I Own You’ by SoLab