The Clown's Pocket

Absence and Presence...What makes the birds fall from the sky?

2012-01-06T08:10:00.000-08:00

Video Still of an 'autopsy' I performed in my kitchen sink - at the time of writing I am editing the video.

Still from Bird Test 1, which is a 13 second test and can be seen via the youtube link to the right.

Don't Play Cards With Satan

2011-02-23T10:23:00.000-08:00

First lip-sync (to Daniel Johnston's Don't Play Cards With Satan), using false teeth I've been collecting. Made this in 2 days. Still a work in progress!

The Tale of the Seven Ravens (Brothers Grimm) Part 2

2010-11-02T12:51:00.000-07:00

Little Sister rescues her Raven Lord Brothers from the glass mountain - read the
story here: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sixswans/stories/sevenravens.html

The Tale of the Seven Ravens (Brothers Grimm)

2010-11-01T17:57:00.001-07:00

Raven Lord Characters from The Seven Ravens - read the
story here: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sixswans/stories/sevenravens.html

Man in the Woods Test

2010-11-01T05:27:00.001-07:00

It's pretty short, but I blame that on the stupid cat that jumped on set. I'm pretty happy with the model and how the animation was going. Ah well...!

2010-08-09T02:20:00.000-07:00

2010-07-30T11:39:00.000-07:00

Finally got the curves of flesh on his left shoulder sorted, hopefully the rest of his body won't cause me so many problems as this bit!

His head will be filled with dead flies, I have started a collection and any contributions are more than welcome...

Arm/shoulder joint fixed, it is looking much better now, elbow seems a little wide, but I'll sort that out later.

Man with flies in his head...

2010-07-30T11:19:00.000-07:00

This is the man who will have flies in his head. Doesn't look like much in this picture but it gets better.

Recent animation

2010-07-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

Did this last month. Was a bit rushed, don't know how I feel about it. The words are from a poem written for me by a friend. All the text is hand sewn, green screened fabric rollings, with cut out text and bits of space debris animated over a lightbox. It was all put together on Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker.

This was the introduction to my showreel for the Royal College - it's a shame these videos are all a bit pixelly as it makes it impossible to read the text (it says "hello and welcome...to my show-reel"). Anyway...apologies for the camera shake!

Insect Legs, hand drawn on tracing paper, scanned in, and edited on Photoshop. Animated with Windows Movie Maker. Pain! Not finished yet.

A challenge to myself to create something in 2 hours using found objects. I was quite happy with it!

More old stuff...

2010-07-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

Incident at the Window Models, to accompany the animation below (unfortunately I ran out of time and never had the chance to film these guys. What a shame...)

Incident at the Window, 3rd Year Film (2008)

Two Ton Woman Character Design

Random Character Design

Some stuff to get me started...

2010-07-25T05:52:00.000-07:00

Did this a while ago, just a doodle with a biro. I like it. Might get round to sculpting it someday...