Here’s a spot I worked on that may have caught your eye on tele over the summer: a trailer for series 9 of The Dragons’ Den, introducing new dragon Hilary Devey. Check out the shoulder pads. Wowzers. I provided character animation (of the dragons, not Hilary - she’s real apparently). It was directed by the talented Simon Crabtree and produced by Red Bee Media for the BBC. A tough job because of the tight turn-around required, but great fun.
3 Olives Vodka
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of animating a couple of commercials under the brilliantly talented direction of Ant Blades, master of sketchy design and comedy timing. Here they are…
VW Caddy Idents
Back in November I directed four idents for the new Volkswagen Caddy. They’ve just been launched on the Discovery Channel, and you’ll soon be able to see them on my website, but in the meantime I thought I’d post some early design work. The inspiration was broadly speaking New Yorker style cartoons, crossed with Tandem’s very own Simon’s Cat, to which the agency creatives at Iris had taken a shine. Originally I designed the characters you see below, but after some creative discussion with the agency, I changed them to make them more cartoony, something you’ll be able to see in the finished product. The canoeist and the chap preparing to swing across the ravine didn’t make it into the final selection.
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