Lucy Lolly DVD Boxart Design

Here is the design I've put together for the Lucy Lolly DVD I eventually plan to sell (most likely on lulu.com, presuming the site is reliable and all) which I've spent quite a few hours today tinkering with. It reveals all the planned extras so far, including the other films I plan to put on there with it. If anyone can point out anything that doesn't look quite right, that'd be great. Click it to see it nice and big(ger).

Pogman Animated! OMGOSH.

Hey look, something I somehow didn't see back as a kid. Pogman was one of my favorite characters as a kid, the mascot for the toy craze of the same name, and is best described as the bastard offspring of Stimpy and Capitan Caveman. I still have my entire pog collection in the loft somewhere, and the Pogman plush toy. They revived Pogs a short while back but it didn't take off this time like it did back in the 90s, a shame as if it did I could make a small fortune on my otherwise worthless collection of them, which I brought in complete sets from some card shop in lakeside all those years ago. I have never seen him in animated form though, so that's pretty awesome, even if it's in filmed-off-a-wonky-old-tape-o-vision. It screams 90's from the hills and back, doesn't it?



And hey look, a commercial for the Pog Milkcap maker. I went through about four of these wearing out the blade inside it that made it cut the images out. I didn't often cut out magazine images with though, as the results didn't impress me much; instead I drew small pictures that would perfectly fit on them myself. I must of drawn Pogman almost as much as I did Sonic as a kid.

It was only thanks to the internet that I finally discovered who designed Pogman; Mitch Schauer, who also created a cartoon I also remember enjoying: the Angry Beavers. Now that I think of it, Pogman and those beavers do look kind of alike..

Commission for Caleb

Did this artwork for Caleb (AKA The American Dreamcaster!) for a retro gaming event he's setting up. Pretty much a good excuse to draw the Green hill Zone, plus I'm getting a little rusty so I'm glad he asked me to do it. This is probably the first time I've tried to make a proper background in my art for a long, long time.

Graduation Rant

Wow, Graduation really seems to be nothing more than a money spinning scheme for the collage. I had a feeling you'd have to rent the gown, but close to £40 is pretty nasty, and the tickets for each person you want to bring along are £12. That price doesn't include food or drinks, and what are they getting for £12? Sitting on a chair for two hours waiting for the five seconds you walk onto the stage in that £40 gown? That's before you've had to get there over an hour early too, and most of the time is for queuing up for an expensive photo.

With all this in mind, I think I'm gonna pass. They can just send me the certificate in the post, I don't need a photo of me in a silly hat to tell me I've passed. It's hardly the celebration I presumed it'd be, it just sounds a tad stuffy to me. In fact it just reminds me of getting certificates at school, and that was always a bore no matter what you were achieving. Can't they make it fun?

Freelance Work: Ofsted celebration

First piece of paid (or to be paid) freelance work for my collage, an animated e-mail invite to some party. Animated in one day.

Oh shoot, I forgot! Tea N Crumpets is 3 Years old!

Blimey, three years? Yes, three years on the eight of this month; last Friday to be exact, but I forgot all about it. Doh!

So erm...what am I gonna do about it? I guess i could cook up a piece of artwork or something, What I can say is I have actually started a brand new version of the website recently. It's in very, very stages so far, so it's still quite a way off, but what I can tell you is it'll be the same, but different.

For example, the illusion section will look from this:

..to this:

Take not that this is still quite early in development, I've literally been working on it on and off for about two weeks. Flash has advanced quite a bit since i originally made the website and so has my skill at using it so expect version 2 to be slicker, easier to use, more fun and full of easter eggs and crazy stuff. Just about all the characters I animated before are still in but I'm just tweaking them a little, and I may be adding new ones too. This isn't gonna be done overnight though, as I'm gonna be fittin it around other things, like producing that Lucy Lolly DVD (which is over half way done now) and whatever jobs I'm gonna be doing (I have been freelancing a bit recently).

Sadly this means I probably won't update the current website until this new one is ready, bar from a new showreel I need to get clearance to upload as it features some work I did for others. The old layout was proving far too time consuming just to make a simple update to, so I'm working to make this one far easier to do so.