Transpennine Express - Summer Ad

I recently found a much higher quality version of the first Transpennine Express ad I worked on. Again, this was directed by Tim Ruffle and I worked on the character animation and storyboard.

TransPennine Express - 'Summer' TV Commercial from Tim Ruffle on Vimeo.

HD!

Tom

Produced at: Aardman Animations
Client: First
Agency: TWBA Manchester

© Aardman Animations Ltd 2012

Bubbles and Me

This is an episode of "Bubbles and Me" I worked on last year with "Rumpus Animation" (http://www.rumpusanimation.com/) for Mondo Media. I worked on a good chunk of the character animation.

Warning, there are many swears in this video! Probably NSFW



Tom

Transpennine Express - "Explore for Less"

This project was completed a while back but here is the second Transpennine Express advert I worked on at Aardman last year. I worked on the storyboarding and character animation. The ad was directed by Tim Ruffle (http://www.timruffle.com/)

TransPennine Express - 'Explore for Less' TV commercial from Tim Ruffle on Vimeo.

I'm particularly happy with the Chinese dragon :)

Tom

Produced at: Aardman Animations
Client: First TransPennine Express
Agency: TWBA Manchester

© Aardman Animations Ltd 2012

First TransPennine Express - Summer 2012 Ad

I recently finished a couple of months work at Aardman on a summer advert for the First TransPennine Express. Here is the finished ad.

I was the storyboard artist and character animator for the project, which was directed and designed by Tim Ruffle.

Hope you like the advert.

Tom

Check out the trailer I helped create in my spare time. The trailer is for a brilliant new illustrated children's book called The Monster Who Lost His Mean, written by Tiffany Strelitz-Haber and Illustrated by Kirstie Edmunds (http://pencilpocket.blogspot.com), published by Henry Holt and Co. I worked on the trailer with my good friend Michaela Edmunds (http://literally-is-aswel.blogspot.co.uk/) 

The animation was created using After Effects.

I hope you enjoy and please check out the book!

Tom



The Monster Who Lost His Mean to buy on Amazon!

Testing out a different method of animating I saw used recently in Jacob Streilein's, "Swelter" Here is the process video https://vimeo.com/42661259 and the final film, https://vimeo.com/40752722. I really liked working this way. Animating simple shapes made using the line tool and then breaking the shapes apart and filling them. I also tried to keep the movements snappy, more so than my usual style.

Tom

Christmas Stuffing

This is an e-card I made for friends and family this Christmas.

I hope you enjoy.

t.lucas

Now that the Glammies awards are over I am now allowed to post my final, completed film. I am pleased with the end result and feel that the work has paid off. I was very glad to see everybody's work up on the big screen and though I didn't win my category, the person that did win was more than deserving and I was happy to lose to such a great film.


Anyway, here is the final version of my film, I hope you enjoy.





Tom