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And here’s the 3rd & final BG I designed for the commercial. This was for a close-up section of a monster sleeping on the rock.

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This was actually the first BG I designed for the commercial. Really enjoyed coming up with this one. There’s something about rendering rocky environments/ terrains that appeals to me.

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A long “panning” background I worked up last year for the cool guys over at ILoveDust, who were producing a commercial for GE China (an energy company). There were about 3 backgrounds I created, which I’ll post up the other two in a second. Here’s the commercial itself which was directed by my pal, the talented Ewen Stenhouse. It has some lovely FX animation/ art direction in it.

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A presentation film I directed & animated for a private corporate screening… (NB: I’ve had to remove the V/O audio as well as logos & other branding info as this was purely for an internal screening)

I had in total about 5 days (inc client comments etc) to complete the film; which involved providing a visual concept, storyboards, an animatic, final animation, compositing & delivery. For the sake of convenience, I pushed for a simple graphic, screen-print look with a Saul Bass/ “Catch Me if You Can” titles feel… I also used the title sequence from “Monsters Inc” as inspiration for the general pace & comedic charm.

Produced by:
The Big RD

My interview with "Animation Insider"

Hi Everyone! Catch my lengthy interview with the awesome Animation Insider right here^

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My submission to this months Planet-Pulp “Star Trek” theme… Titled: Star “Date” (Chekov ♥ Uhura). This was actually a colour study I did a good while back for something I was working on, but I never got round to posting it online, till now.
Some great entries so far! Check it out: http://www.planet-pulp.com/

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I was recently invited by ‘Animation Insider’ to do an interview. Just wrapped it up lastnight, so should be up on the site next couple of days! Will let you all know once it is, but in the meantime, do go check out some of the other great artist interviews ;)
-M-

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Thanks everyone for the very kind response on my “Josie & The Pussycats” piece, last week!

Out of curiosity (since several have asked), would any of you be interested in owning a high-res print of this illustration? If there’s enough demand, I’ll be putting out a very *limited* print-run over the next couple weeks.

Drop a message to let me know ;)
In the meantime, here’s a cut-down speedpaint of me working on it…

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All done with these gals now. Here’s my rendition of Dan DeCarlo’s Josie and the Pussycats. This was done in association with Planet-Pulp’s February “Hanna Barbera” theme.
More of my work over on my FB Page.
-M-

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The kind of emails you want to wake up to every morning… Here are three separate messages I received from my client for the job I delivered last week…. #HappyClient #animation #clientfeedback #pleased #happycustomer #goodnews #deadlines #animation #clients #jobcomplete #jobdone #animatorslife #worklife #instagreat

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WIP of a little personal rendition of Dan DeCarlo’s “Josie and the Pussycats (comics)”

A few months ago, I was invited to become a member of the awesome “Planet-Pulp” art community; where every month we are given a fun Pulp-culture theme to produce some cool artwork to… Last month’s was “Hanna Barbera”, & with an almost endless amount of characters to choose from, I narrowed mine down to these gals.

I was a little too late in getting something finished in tim (due to commercial work), but hop over to the blog to see some of the great artworks that were submitted.

Will be painting this up this week, so I’ll be sure to post it up once finished.

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Finally got round to putting together the progress vid for my 3rd Vintage Movie-poster piece, “High Priestess of Argos”.

More info over on my blog: bit.ly/MBAfzV

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