Making an illustrative design into a flash rig

This little oriental girl project is a collaboration between myself and Illustrator; Gemma Crombleholme.  Gemma designed this cute little girl and we decided it would be fun and inspiring for us both, if i took her design and made it an Animate-able Flash Rig.  Soon I will be creating a sweet and simple animation with the character to really get to know her, before I take it to the next level and design a 3d version using Maya.
You can view more of Gemma's Illustration work at http://whiterabbitillustration.blogspot.com

Short Film Design - First version :)

This is mine and Tim Martin's first design of Charlie, based on my nephew, for our upcoming short film.  We are working together on this project and hope to have it completed before Christmas 2011 :).  More updates to come!

Finished Easter Book :).

I finished my Easter Story just in time! :). This was a little side project I wanted to do as a gift to my niece and nephews.  Nothing more inspiring than the love for you family I find.  The illustrations were sketched and then inked and coloured in flash.  The whole story was an original idea of my own and written and illustrated by myself.  Thanks to Tim Martin for helping me with the printing and binding of the book! - You're ace. :).
Now to send it across the ocean!

Life Drawing

Animal Sketch

Incredibly inspired whilst watching Big Cat Diary, and also observing my own cat LG wandering around the apartment, I pulled out the sketchbook and had a classic draw!

Merlin and Camelot. Inspired by the BBC show

I sketched it roughly on paper, scanned it in, and played around with some rough's in flash.  After deciding on a design style, I completed all the line work in flash and brought it into Photoshop where I painted the image in its entirety.  A lot of fun! :D

In honour of Heroes

Me and Tim finished watching Heroes today in it's entirety.  This left me feeling empty! I started sketching and it began to resemble Claire so I rolled with it!  I scanned it in and painted it from scratch in Photoshop to break my bad habit of cleaning all line art in flash (I find it much smoother and quicker that way).  So here we are.  Claire Bennett from Heroes!

"The Snowman" and me - Thanks for the memories Raymond Briggs

Every year I watch Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman".  Its the beautiful tale of a boy who builds a snowman, it comes to life and they have a magical adventure together.  I was staring at the dvd case wondering what to sketch, before I knew it I had a doodle of myself with him. I scanned it and went nuts colouring. I tried to capture the feel of the picture but give it a Nic twist with more sharp/bold edges.

An "Ugly" Self Portrait.

After working on the FANTASTIC Comedy Central show 'Ugly Americans; for all of season one, we drew ourselves in the style of the show - It was such a blast!  Here is Victorian Blonde Nic and Crazy Demon Nic. Enjoy :)

Old Goofy Sketch Sesh's

Thanks to Timothy Martin, Family Guy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Lion King and The Aristocats for all giving me the creative spark. Cheers :)

A few Graphic Ones - 2010

Inspired by the band Porcupine Tree, the Tv Series LOST, the popular (rightly so) cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender and my awesome friend Phill from England - Thanks to all for being so inspiring 

Commissioned Artwork 2009

Artwork commissioned by Kye Jones and Rob Adams for a DJ promotion project.  Sketched, scanned and then painted in Flash/Photoshop.