Dambuster...

Below is some examples of some concept art I did for my animation graduation film 'Damned,' about a Beaver who has a dream to build the Hoover Dam.  It was a great project to work on, working on an animation project again!  It is currently doing the festival circuits!

Here are some final shots from the finished film.....

Keep y'r hands off me! Will yuh?

The next paper project I did at the NFTS was Film Architecture where we had to design a set if a specific period and country. For this I chose Tenessee Williams's play 'Baby Doll,' set in 1950's America's Deep South, Mississippi.  Failing, bigoted, middle-aged cotton gin-owner Archie Lee Meighan has been married to pretty 19-year old virgin Baby Doll Meighan for two years. Archie impatiently waits for Baby Doll's 20th birthday just a few days away when, by prior agreement with Baby Doll's dying father, the marriage can finally be consummated. However, Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib, wearing childish shorty-nightgowns and sucking her thumb, while Archie spies on her through a hole in a wall of their decrepit antebellum mansion.  Archie's competitor, Sicilian Silva Vacarro who owns a newer and more modern cotton gin, has taken away all of Archie's business, and Archie retaliates by burning down Vacarro's gin. Suspecting Archie as the arsonist, Vacarro plans his revenge: he will pursue and seduce Baby Doll and terrorize her into signing an affidavit admitting her husband's guilt.

This was a concept painting of the Meighan's Plantation House 'Tiger Tail' I created in photoshop.

This is a concept painting of the interior of Baby Doll's nursery created in photoshop.

This is one of the first concept paintings I did for this project as an exercise for creating an atmospheric piece of artwork.  This was produced in watercolour.

This is an early concept sketch in charcoal of the exterior of the Meighan's house 'Tiger Tail.'

Above is the ground floor plan of the Meighan's house which I designed, I researched a number of plantation houses in the Deep South dated around the 1860s and incorporated elements I liked into the design.

This is the first floor plan of the Meighan's house where a lot of the action takes place in the beginning of the script.

These drawings above and below are the sections and elevations of the plantation house.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

The first short film I was Production Designer on was Freedom Day, a story about Vince a convict who escapes from prison to find his lost love, only to discover that circumstances have changed while he has been inside.  I really enjoyed working on this-it was great to be on location in Folkestone and the locals were so helpful! Here are some stills from the film:



This film was nominated for best short film at the Fujifilm Short Film Competition 2010.



Logan's Run: Get ready to run...

The second image below is an early concept painting I did of the interior of the Great Hall from 'Logan's Run,' which I decided to design along with the Carousel set from the script.

This project was my first technical drawing assignment which enabled me to develop my hand drafting skills, which are demonstrated in my plan and elevation drawings below.

It also enabled me to learn the CAD program Google's Sketch Up software which I found great to use.

Logan's Run: Concept Art

One of my first design projects while at NFTS was the design of the cult Sci-Fi classic 'Logan's Run,' I began this project by creating some concept art of where the story takes place.  Below is an image I created of Washington D.C in the year 3000 where the earth has been unihabitable and a network of domed cities have been built to house the human population.