Character Design & Storyboard
In Animation

Featuring the visceral pieces I've done to help develop characters in animation. For people such as Aardman, Elm Road Film Studios, and  character development work in other areas. Also some snippets of storyboarding.
This to give an overview of my skills in this "niche area..."

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HP Sauce "Hungry For Chicken"

Storyboard for HP "Crazy For Chicken" ad. Drawn for Elm Road Film Productions. See the animated advert below...

Smarties "Charlie Cockles"

Smartie Tube Crab designs for "Charlie Cockles" Smarties animated ad.( Drawn for Elm Road Film Productions.)

Storyboard for "Charlie Cockles" Smarties animated ad.( Drawn for Elm Road Film Productions.) See the animation below....

"Never In Your Wildest Dreams." Tina Turner & Barry White. (Aardman Animations.)

Storyboard done for Aardman for Tina and Barry's Video. Barry took a dislike to his portrayal in the film, allegedly, and the film was pulled from broadcast at his instruction. Though, apparently, Tina used it as a backdrop in her live shows at the time, and reportedly loved it! It went on to win a D&AD for both best direction and animation...Here's the banned piece in it's entirety...

Reverse-Engineered Storyboarding: "NumNoms" from Animation to Picture Story (Parragon Publishing.)

Stages of development from pencil, through inking to final colour art for 2 "Numnoms" picture stories: for an Annual published by Parragon. Taken from animation source of 2 films "The Birthday Party" and "Truck Trouble." (Embedded below.) In effect, a storyboard in reverse! (Selected random pages...)

Character Development Work

Character designs for sharks and fish for WWF "Swim For Sharks."

Character designs for plasticine piggies. Drawn for Aardman.

Designs for another Smarties ad for Elm Road. "Smart Alec."

Dessins pour le chien de Monsieur Bricolage. Designing Mister Bricolage's dog for a French DIY chain advert. Elm Road Film Productions .

Billboard poster variant sketches for a Cadbury's Creme Egg campaign. Gold, Greenlees, Trott.

Stoat sketches for a Cadbury's Creme Egg campaign. Gold, Greenlees, Trott.

Cowboy character for Danish National Lottery animated ad. (Elm Road Productions. Director: Michael Wright.)

Character design for "The Explorer." BNFL/National Physical Laboratory/Royal Greenwich Observatory. (Finished publication elsewhere on the site...)

Bert Bogsley development. Elm Road.

Character with moving train on knitted jumper. Settlers "Express Relief", animated ad. Elm Road Productions.

Storyboard image for Aardman Calendar photo-shoot.

Aardman Licensing work. Wallace and Rex the Runt.

Frog development for a story I wrote, for kids.

Animated potato designs. Elm Road.

Vince and Bob, from Rex The Runt. Aardman.