September’s here and so arrives this months Little Old Men calender page. Use it, share it, swap it, print it…….it’s yours now (click it to see it big):

I have been experimenting with creating some of my characters in 3D recently. Here is one of my characters the ‘Flying V’ that I commissioned the excellent model maker Eleanor Tomkins to make. It was an exciting process seeing my initial drawings form into a real object. Here is the completed model:

I designed and directed this commercial for the soft drink J20 through Strange Beast. It forms part of a ‘Pub Quiz’ campaign in the UK. Within the animation are clues to three films that forms the answer to the ‘Pub Quiz’ question. It is one of a series of four animated commercials, each one created by a different animation director.

More of campaign can be seen here.

This is a new illustration called ‘Talking to a Brick Wall’

Here is my latest Little Old Men canvas. It is the largest one I have done to date and took a lot of drawing to complete. I use red Sharpie pens and draw directly onto the canvas, starting with the bottom right hand corner and letting the city develop from there.

Here it is (Click on it to see it bigger):

Here is where I’ve put it in my studio:

And here is a time lapse film of the last part of the canvas being completed:

Oh, and the music on this film is by ‘The Little Old Men Lounge Jazz Band’ and you can here the full song as well as others on their myspace page here.

I have recently finished a commercial for J20 that I will be putting on my site soon but for now here are the characters I designed for it.

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Here is an illustration of the characters from the film Trainspotting. These were made during the development of a commercial I just completed. The characters that I used in the commercial were completely different from these and ended up not being based on the Trainspotting gang. I’ll upload those characters tomorrow and the finished animation pretty soon.

Ready or not here is the new page of the Little Old Men calender. One of the Little Old Men is afraid of a big bee but he should look up, his problem is about to get a whole lot worse.

Use it, share it and another one will be with you in a months time.

I recently animated this spot for Tic Tac with the lovely people at Kazoo Creative. It was a fun spot to work on and the illustration drawn by Rotem Nahlieli were a pleasure to animate. The spot is promoting DJ Swerve and his passion for music and Cherry Passion Tic Tacs.

It’s that time again, here is this months calender page. Carefully there Mr Strong Old Man don’t let go, this human pyramid is a delicate beast.

As always click to see it big, download it and use it where you like.