recent commissions

Recent Let's Play commission for KalonZombie:

Some new Real Soviet Bear stuff:

Subscriber medals, awarded to viewers who've been subscribed for 1, 3, 6 and 12 months, based on a variety of Soviet military medals. Blogger doesn't seem to want to display them in the correct order. Fine, I guess.

 New Bearsona outfits and accessories. Lots of new animations.

 New promo material for a cross-channel stream.

A few illustrations for a choose your own adventure story by Bec McKenzie:

And lastly, I am still very slowly working on my next book in the most complicated way I could fathom.

RSB sprites

This is but a fraction of what I've made for RealSovietBear's new avatar system. Viewers can now pick a bear, dress it up and have it run around on stream while the game's playing. Clothes and accessories will be updated regularly. A small selection of which can be seen below:

RealSovietBear notifications

Some notification animations for RealSovietBear on Twitch (they don't loop. Click on them to replay them)

 New donation

 New follower

 New host (inspired by Metal Gear series)

New subscriber (inspired by Altered Beast)

RealSovietBear update

More stuff for RealSovietBear's Twitch channel, keeping with the old soviet propaganda / children's book joint aesthetic I've established.

A VERY slight departure from that is this item for a new, more fantasy-oriented feature:

masters

Hello friends!
So I recently started a on a part-time MA course in Illustration and Sequential Design. As well as the one main project that spans the course's entire two year timetable, there are also a number of considerably shorter units that run alongside it. Here are a couple of things I have produced so far for one of the considerably shorter units, the Visual Narratives unit.
The first was to produce a sequence of images that conveys a surprise. This is my weird response to that:And then there's this short animation, produced in five hours as an introductory piece to a group presentation of a modern cautionary tale. Voice acting is not one of the facets of my professional repertoire, as you will surely discover.
Anyway I'll post more uni stuff once I've actually done more uni stuff. Still early days yet. It's mostly presentations and seminars, written work and mindmaps so far.

So here's a totally unrelated thing I made for a sort of secret santa thing with some people on Twitter: MadamLuna is an artist as well. You can check out her blog here: http://electricopolis.blogspot.com/

Connections, connections gift packs, new paintings

My animation is finished. It is called 'Connections' and you can watch it by clicking on these words here. It is, at its base level, a story of a phone call between two young lovers, but it also is about much more than that. I intended to downplay the signifance or individual identity of the characters so as to show the diversity and complexities of the connections and communications between humankind, nature and the universe on a much wider level.
It is what I've been building up to since September, and the final animation is the product of about two months of work. I am immensely proud of it.

At the degree show in June I will be selling these super-extra-limited-edition gift packs to compliment the animation:
Each one contains two unique hand-painted 1-inch pin badges, a flipbook depicting the first and last scenes of the animation (the phonecall bits; the scene just after the intro and the scene just before the end credits) a business card with a frame from the animation printed on it, and twelve small stickers each depicting a tiny snippet of a frame from the animation or from some other miscellaneous piece of unrelated work.
They will probably go for about £6.

I've also been working on a few new paintings, now that work on the animation has ceased and I can finally find the time to do so. A couple of finished ones are here but I have a few more in the pipeline as well.
I'm currently looking into a means to sell paintings online, so watch this space.

another animation test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LakcRXl2yJE < click that.

This is a fairly rough test for the intro of my first foray into the world of animation. If I have time at the end I'll go back and fix some of the issues it has, but otherwise this will probably end up in the final thing.

I'll try to post some stuff that's not on Youtube soon, I promise. Right now though this animation is taking up all of my time and I've not really got much else to show.

Stay frosty, dudes.

animation test

Tried my hand at animation for my Connectivity project. I haven't really got any experience in animation but I think it turned out okay! I may end up doing some more because it was pretty fun.

Okay, embedding the video didn't work so here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4uxV9kIYIo