"Come back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean", with Addiction Worldwide.

In this Viral Campaign for Remington Hair Products I worked with Creative Director Simon Amster Storyboarding at Addiction Worldwide. In the Film we explore what goes on before Boy meets Girl and the array of facial gymnastics our hero will pull to get the desired look...

"Open your eyes".....with Passion Pictures.

In this 30 second spot for Opticalm  the audience sees the world in a CGI and Live Action quadrophenia, shaped through the motif of a pupil and eye. Working with Director Adam Parry, I storyboarded the frames to show daily irritants pupils are subjected to. The sequence then reveals the hero and an eye, in a singular resonant clarity......."abre los ojos, abre los ojos".....

THEY LIVE for "Frontline" with Addiction Worldwide...

On this Campaign for Addiction Worldwide, I worked as a Concept Artist with Producer Karen Crookes visualising Frontline Pet Care Products in a number of Commercials. In this 30 Second TV Spot, the frames sought to reveal the beast that resides within a loving Child's Pet. The creature, once exposed, is dispatched from it's host, with the aid of Frontline......

'Black Holes" and Baby Universes with Big Red Button...

Professor Stephen Hawking stars in this 60 Second TV Spot for Go Compare with Moxie Pictures.
Working with Directing Duo Big Red Button, I Storyboarded this TV Commercial depicting an original opening among the Spires and Quadrangles of Cambridge University. Filming at his actual Lecture Theatre, The Professor, utilises his knowledge of a compacting mass, to deform space-time outside an Estate Agents. Creating a Black Hole with an event horizon, from which, there is no escape for Gio......

"Playing with my Friends"...for Ikea with Blink Productions.

Guess who's coming to dinner...in this One Minute Cinema and TV Commercial for Ikea, Directed by Dougal Wilson through Blink. Working with Producer Ewen Brown I created Conceptual Illustrations of who the Kids would invite for fun, a 6 Foot Teddy Bear, a dancing Orangutan, an angry Super Hero, a worried Robot with magnetic powers, a giant Doll, and a Monster from a Japanese Disaster Movie. All hiding Dancers within their frames, bringing them to life from the inside out.

Kidnapped! No Ransom...just "Christmas Lights" for Moxie Pictures.

A machiavellian Louie Spence puts in a personal appearance to switch on some high street Christmas Lights for an expectant crowd in this 60 Second Live Action TV Commercial Directed by Big Red Button through Moxie Pictures for Dare and Go Compare. Working with Johnny and Pier, I Storyboarded the Pitch and Shooting Boards, where the Frames reveal why the lights don't work, who is the Prisoner and what is the Wall of Sound, Vision and Leg Warmers which greets Gio's eyes through the darkness.....

Freeview's "Summer of Sport" for Blink Productions.

"The Moon's a Balloon"...wrote David Niven and Balloons are escaping from homes all over the U.K. in this 60 second TV Commercial Directed by Noah Harris. Working with the Art Director, Alex Marden, I created Colour Concept Art of the Sports based Foil Balloons to reflect the kaleidoscope of free-to-air sports which would grace our screens during the Summer of 2012, in this Live Action and CGI Spot...

"My Time is Now"...with Nike for Stink London.

Chance Footballers invade a France v Holland match in this 2 and half minute TV Commercial Directed by Adam Berg through Stink. Helping Producer Ben Croker I worked as a Storyboard Artist on this fantastic spot premiered in the Champions League Final along with my good friend and fellow Storyboarder Gabriel Schucan. In the sequence below we see Chance characters humbling the pros and guest stars appearing as follows, Raphael Van der Vaart, Laurent Blanc, Shakira, Raphael Nadal and Jack Wilshire.....there are no dress rehearsals, your time is now....

A Catwalk Revolution.....with Ann Summers.

"The Night Porter" meets "Desert Hearts" in this Two Minute TV Commercial for Ann Summers, where Catwalk Models are deposed by real women on the Stage.  This Spot was produced through ITN Productions.

Shopping Surprises for Malt Films....

Here are some Panels I did for Malt Films, each character receives something unexpected...

and the "Bafta Winner 2011" is...

"Sir David Attenborough's Flying Monsters 3D" won a Bafta in it's Factual Category, the first 3D Film to do so. Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Film and here are some Concept Keyframes from it.......

Sir David Attenborough's "Flying Monsters 3D"....

Last year I worked on a Sir David Attenborough Imax film for Atlantic Productions due for release this spring called "Flying Monsters 3D". Charting the evolution of flight through the family tree of Pterosaurs this Live Action/CGI Show was shot with stereoscopic Red Cameras with extensive sequences of Photo-realistic Creature Animation. Hired as a Storyboard Artist, I participated in Story Sessions with Matthew Dyas, the Director and Tim Cragg, the D.o.p. While under the auspices of James Prosser as VFX Producer, I also created some drawings and digital paintings for the team at Fido Visual FX led by Staffan Linder as Animation Supervisor in their building of these immersive environments. Here's one of them, the original Sketch and a finished Still from the Film...

A Coffee and Chat with Two "Barbarians"...

I was drawing in Flat White Coffee Shop, when the two Guys sitting next to me put in a request for a Sketch of themselves. Casually chatting, I asked if they'd watched the Autumn Rugby Internationals they said, ".........yeah mate, we played in them!" They turned out to be Andy Ellis of the New Zealand All Blacks and Will Genia of Australia, on a break before playing for the Barbarians against South Africa at Twickenham! It was a pleasure to meet them and chat about the England Team, their favourite player that inspired them and wether they would ever play in England or France. Thanks for the coffee guys, congratulations on beating South Africa and good luck in next years World Cup!

"Ch, ch, ch, ch, changes...."

Here's some sketchbook pages of London Buildings, drawn reportage style, in my moleskin...
the "Shard of Glass", Southwark, as seen from the footbridge by Guys Hospital,
the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich and the wonderful Geffrye Museum in Hackney, as seen from the Herb Garden...

Museum Sketchbook.....

Norse Gods and New Gods at the Museum of London, Old Masters of their Universe at the Natural History Museum, Clay Baked Gods at The Barbican, a Trois Foil Stone Circle in Kensington and "a field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" Chipp, "Talladega Nights" (2006) ...at the Natural History Museum....

"Wallace and Gromit".....for Aardman Animation

Wallace and Gromit are planting a tree and something has interrupted them, what is it and how is it resolved......"confused? you won't be, after this episode of, Soap".....

Guess who's coming to dinner....in "Dino Gangs" with Atlantic Productions...

T-Rexs' love to chow down on petrified hadrosaurs. Here are some Panels from "Dino Gangs" a Feature Length Documentary Directed by Tim Walker for The Discovery Channel, with CGI Animation Sequences by Zoo VFX. The Show examines the theories of Dr Phil Currie....did deadly Tyrannosaurs hunt in packs?