Sick and tired of woodchip?
We like books in our house. We probably like them too much (if you can ever do that?) We have lots of new books, and lots and lots of old books.
As you'd expect it is beautifully laid out and a pleasure to read ... even if it's not everyone's cup of tea. As someone who has quite a fondness for books, type, and such like, this tome has been a great introduction to the dark secrets of typesetting.
Here's a much bigger version of the forest. I've made a few more trees, and changed the palette quite a bit. Not so imposing now.
A very early go at a outside scene. I'm still working out how I want the ground to look, how I want the trees to look, etc, but think I've kind of got the direction I'm after.
It's time for the youngest members of the Bacon family to leave home, and make the way in the world. Wish them luck ...'cos Mr Wolf looks peckish!Super Mario Bros. from Surfap on Vimeo.
Yes, I know it's been a month. Yes, I know I'm rubbish at this blogging lark.
I found this doodle sitting on top of the scanner this evening. Hey, I thought, I know, I'll colour him in. So I did. Why not pop over to Flickr to check out his song ...
The Hoof & The Heel - "King Finds Out" from elliot glass on Vimeo.
I had to put this up. Such a great song. Their EP 'And All the Tigers' is available from iTunes, so why not have a listen?
I drew this little fellow a few days back, but couldn't think of anything for him to say. So I went begging to my Flickr friends for help. So thanks to @rewedagain and @pikaland, Mr turkey has been spared the roasting tin with his quick wits and a little misdirection. For now.
The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.
This is the most amazing film I've seen for a while. Just imagine how much work must have gone into building the entire city of New York in miniture. And then animating it all. Wow!
What do you mean it's real? You say it's all been filmed with a fancy camera? It wasn't? To find out how it was done, why not head over to Aero Film and be inspired ...
Such a long time between updates! But at last, a new illustration.
Nosy Crow is a new, independent publisher of Children's books, and in a exciting move they are also going to be developing apps too.
Slowly, but surely my story takes shape and I'm quite excited. I think I might have most of the right words in almost the right order. And to mark this occassion I have been over to Wordle and made some text-art!
This is the result of the free time I had over Christmas (not as much as I'd hoped) to make some progress with my childrens story (not as much as I'd liked). Anyway, because the story has a lot of birds, I thought I'd get some practice in. I also wanted to have more of a go at making something that kept a sketchy look to it, and had plenty of colour. I'm pleased with the result. Next job, finish the words and try and draw something that could actually go in the book...
Oh dear. Over a week since I last posted. Not a good start.
Here's something from a little while ago. Ten years ago, to be precise. After completing the game Banjo-Tooie,myself and Steve Mayles assembled all the characters we had created for the game and made a picture for the development team. We all signed the print and had them framed. Looking back now at those characters - pretty much all of which were designed, built and animated by the two of us in 2 years. Blimey.
