I only had my iphone 5s with me and decided there and then I was going to try something. Suddenly I found myself revisiting my past ideals and ambitions and one day whilst on holiday in New Zealand I was overcome by the beauty of the Whakarewarewa Forest also known as ‘the Redwoods’. I later discovered that the software that I used for storyboarding – Toon Boom Storyboard Pro could also produce full blown traditional animation with similar results to paper and pencil this excited me! Alongside my story career I kept up my love for traditional frame by frame animation by doing small tests and tutorials on YouTube.
Skip another number of years and I had changed direction and moved into the story board profession due to the industries taste for cgi over hand drawn animation.
I did a few other commercials that mimicked the illusion but somehow I never felt fully satisfied with the results. As I sat mesmerised by the marvel unfolding before me my mind occasionally wandered to my ideal and I promised myself that one day I will do something like that!įast forward and I already had my opportunity to echo the illusion as I sat in a London Animation Studio named Espresso and animated the famed Tony the Tiger playing basketball with live action counterparts. ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and in fact the first time I saw the film was my first ever visit to a cinema.
Over the years many fascinating projects came about from established studios that helped inspire me to stay on track to achieving the ideal. A bold statement, however I had formed the concept of drawing moving cartoon characters as my career definitely in my mind and was certain that is what would happen and it did. I began my animation career at the age of eight after watching Walt Disney’s the Sword in the stone.
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