Crocodiles with Crossbows

First Animals Packing Heat of 2011, and it's number 11! Had fun drawing this one, in particular because I've been in the mood to draw something scaly after going to see Rango, and I had been sitting on this idea for a few months now but was busy with the film festival animation.

Just one more and I could make a calender out of all of them. Would anybody still be interested in that if I could get some printed for the Expo? Either that or I could make one of those one-and-a-half year calenders with even more designs if I could get them done in time..

Me and Stacey @ MCM London Expo Comic Village this May!

We have been up on the comic village page for a while now but now it's 100% confirmed and paid for: me and Stacey will have a table at the Comic Village at this May's London MCM Expo, selling bits and bobs of our art! Not much else to say right now but hope to see you there anytime from Friday 27th may to Sunday 29th may! :)

Lego Land

The first new Bloggomic since er...November? Ouch. Still, doing this got my drawing mood setting in again.

Anyway this is what happened while i was snapping photos of that student accommodation for the Film festival animation. Not seen in this comic (as I didn't have room and am lazy) is the other two skinny old blokes that were walking along with this guy, praising him up with giggles and 'yeeeah's. It was equally frightening and amusing at the same time, and they didn't even hang around to see how i would react, off they went as soon as they appeared.

The majority of people in Southend despise this building.I mean really hate it with a passion. Hopefully they'll find the animation of it funny, and I hope the hand full that do like it will too.

Southend Film Festival 2011 ident

This is what I was teasing about earlier! Been working on this the past month, though blink and you might miss it! It's an opening ident for this years Southend Film Festival which takes place from April 28th to 2nd May.

The White Bus were so pleased with the Ident I put together for them last year that they asked me to produce one for this year too, and this time I gave them a far more ambitious piece featuring well known locations in Southend such as the Kursaal, the Park Inn Palace Hotel (one of the locales used for screening the festival), and the recently built controversial Student accommodation block, which was the main inspiration for this animation!

This will also be screening over in Sopot in poland for their film festival, as Southend is twinned with there. They're both sea side resorts you see, and they both have crooked houses though their one looks far cooler than ours, though ours is much much older, haha!

Cool 2 Chil art in print!

Well this was a nice surprise. Walked into my local library the other day and in the youth section there were these pamphlets all over the place of Cool 2 Chil, with screenshots from the animation I did for them all over it along with a link to their youtube account where it can be viewed.

Not sure how long these has been about as I don't really visit the library often enough but cool none the less. tempted to put out the pencil tests on my youtube account although you can see some of them in the credits of the film.

What do these places have in common?

..other than the fact they all reside in Southend on Sea?

Answer coming soon!