Author Archives: quirkyjoe

I thought I should include some links to work I was doing before I started this blog. At the end of last year I was involved in two animation projects. One was a graduate film for NFTS animation director Daniela … Continue reading →

I’ve been creating some title sequences for my 2011 animation showreel and uploading them to vimeo. I wanted to see if I could combine my hand-drawn animation style with some digital post in After Effects. These sequences are just the … Continue reading →

Yesterday the tide went right out, exposing more sand than I ever expected to see on Brighton’s stony beaches. It left lots of the shoreline open to investigation, by people and by the seagulls who found the stranded starfish an … Continue reading →

The composer for my animated film The Winter Tree, Ross Hillard, is currently building his website. He asked me to prepare some screen shots from the film so I’ve put them up here too. I’m also working on a fantasy … Continue reading →

I thought I’d put up some concept images from a while back up here on the blog. These are images I did for Split-Second Films and their feature film ‘Welcome To The Bluebird Experience’. A film about two old men … Continue reading →

Since I completed my After Effects training course I’ve been playing around with some of the tools and effects I haven’t used very much before. One area I’ve been experimenting with is the text animations. I have created some of … Continue reading →

Here are some more concept images for the music video for The Orchard. The sequence consists of two characters who can only see each other via TV screens and a battle-scarred cityscape that is eventually overcome by rats. I’ve also … Continue reading →

I attended a writers group last Wednesday. It was the first time I’d been to one of those. I took ‘The House On Mt Olympus Road’ as an ice-breaking story. It went down quite well. Next week will be more … Continue reading →

I’ve recently moved to Brighton, a town with two piers jutting out from its seafront. One is thriving and tourist-ridden at the weekends and the other is broken and skeletal; a ruin. I find them both fascinating in different ways. … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on some images for Ross Hillard’s band The Orchard. He wants to make a photo booklet to match the anxiety and angst present in his music. We looked at all the Radiohead artwork and how we could … Continue reading →