IF - "Lost"

My submission for this week's Illustration Friday. The theme is "Lost"

Hope you like it!

Tom

Lunch dood-le - Space Guy

Been revisiting an old film idea recently, so this lunch doodle is of the main character from that film. Trying to take the style in a different direction and stick to around two or three colours and shades.

Hope you like it and please let me know what you think.

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

I've just found out that I have officially won the "Cartoons for Teens" category at the Stuttgart International Film Festival! Words cannot describe my happiness right now!

http://www.itfs.de/en/home/news/news-archive/news-details/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=129&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1673&cHash=4c13f7354792536b1222691f2768c77e

Short film idea

Very much a work in progress. Trying to work things out in my head for the moment. I wanted to come up with an idea where I can really convey the moods and emotions of the characters through the animation without the characters physically being too complicated.

I've also been working on a background style for the short. Here is one of the experiments I'm almost happy with. It still needs a bit of work.

Showreel 2012

Here is my updated showreel for 2012, including some of the work I did on "The Lingo Show"

Hope you enjoy!

t.lucas

Festival Shortlisting

Just found out that my film, "Botanical Nightmare" has been shortlisted for the "Madimation" Animation festival in Madrid alongside fellow Glamorgan animator, Jason Petherick and his film, "Don't" (http://vimeo.com/24274167)

I also found out recently that my film has been shortlisted for the "Internationl Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart". It's really exciting to have my film shown abroad. I'm definitely going to try and go to one, or both of them.

t.lucas

http://www.madimation.es/en/sobre-el-festival/

http://www.itfs.de/

Just a small update.

I've been trying to draw a lot more in my spare time. I've also been trying to spend a bit more time away from the computer.

Here's something I painted the other day.

Christmas Stuffing

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

I hope you enjoy.

t.lucas