We worked on this absolutely amazing little Christmas short in Blue-Zoo. It’s a music video for Scouting For Girls Christmas song “Let’s Not Go Away”. It was directed by Blue-Zoo’s People and Talent co-ordinator, Katie Gascoyne, who won a blind pitch for it. It was a really quick turn-around (just 6 weeks) but the 2D team got a chance to jump in and create and it was incredibly good fun!
I rigged Mandy, the main female character. And some background characters too.
Nickelodeon has released the first episode of “It’s Pony”, the show I’ve been working on, as a Christmas Day special. I have been loving working on this show. It’s so cute, funny and charming. Be sure and keep an eye out for it on Nickelodeon in 2020!
So excited that Rescue Bots Academy is finally on Netflix over here! (not a Netflix link, I know!) This was one of my favourite episodes – I loved rigging the T-Rex!
In August, I had the privilege of training some of the next generation of animators in Toon Boom Harmony at the Access:VFX Summer School. The kids that came along blew me away with their talent and energy to learn. I was so impressed!
For the class, I made a very simple little rabbit rig in Toon Boom Harmony and had my students make him jump. I did a little demo animation as well!
> Watch Fighting Words – Ghost Quest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBjcCVQXzE
> Read a really nice introduction to the project here: https://tinyurl.com/y36b83ec
Fighting Words is an amazing organisation that teaches kids and adults how to write creative stories. We had the privilege of turning one of these stories, Ghost Quest, into an animated short. It was such a rewarding project to help out on, despite the very tight deadlines and the crazy textures!!! We tried very hard to match the drawings given to us by the 15 kids who worked on this project, aged 11-13. They wrote a crazy story and drew some crazy characters, but it’s amazing! I just love it!
Made a new little business card since I haven’t made one in forever!
So excited to have joined Blue-Zoo Animation in London as a rigger on their first 2D show, Pony. It is directed by Ant Blades and will be created in Toon Boom Harmony.
The main characters I rigged on the show are Medix, Blades and Bumblebee (not yet aired).
Here is a slightly closer look at the rig.
All copyright Hasbro and Boulder Media Ltd
I worked as a rigger on Resuce Bots Academy with Boulder Media Ltd for 18 months . It airs on Discovery Family in the USA, but is not available in Europe at the moment. The trailer is here.
It was a mixture of full envelope deformation rigging and drawing substations.
Here is a small selection of the characters I rigged.
All copyright Hasbro and Boulder Media Ltd
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