3D Penguins

Potential commissioning parties often look at my portfolio and say, "You're definitely the best illustrator we've ever come across but do you have any other skills? Can you render anything in the third dimension - you know like the Pixar stuff?"
Then I show them my computer generated work and am politely asked to leave the premises...

Penguins 3Dish

I thought I'd continue with the triumph that is my 3D skills at recreating penguin. I don't think that there will ever be a better representation of the monochrome flightless birds created by a computer. Who needs millions of vectors? About 40 is more than enough I always say. Got to go the phone is ringing.... I think it's Pixar.

Arctic Love

Who says I can't create stunning CGI? Look at this beauty. I made it myself, although we are going back a few years here and I think my skills in the third dimension have atrophied a bit. That said I still believe it's a phase and we'll soon be back to glorious 2D. I tried to get a grant from the arts council in Birmingham to get these made as sculptures. They said no and gave the money that year to film someone kicking an empty curry tray through the streets of Sheffield. They really did.

But these pixelated penguins returned when I was working at Gameplay to become the stars of everyone's favourite penguin romance simulation game on the WAP phone: Arctic Love. I'm going to have to see if I can dig up the actual graphics for this game. 24 pixels high and just black and white. These pictures were from the interactive TV version which kept to the pixeled principles of my original vision. I remember the game to be quite fantastically whimsical.

Hip Hop Granny

I do a regular illustration in the Norwich listing magazine, Mad Dog. It's all about Hip Hop, which I know next to nothing about, but thankfully just involves drawing a granny in different situations. Here's last month's offering.