On occasion I still do the odd freelance job, like this one for the South Coast Gymnastic association. They wanted some characters to promote their program for younger children in a sort of Dora the explorer style.

My second job was to create additional images that were to be used in a give away coloring book,

Another job I did at Sixty40 many months ago was the titles for a music program called Music Jungle. The program airs on Saturday mornings on a free to air channel in Australia.

The title is broken up into four different styles as the monkey character makes his way through them. First is a cut out puppet style, (done completely in comp), second is live action with a puppet (some additional animated birds by me), third is 3D, and finally 2D animation (by me).

Playing now on Channel V, (Australian cable television) and on the Channel V web site (www.channelv.com.au) is a promotional add I worked on, (at Sixty40), for a show called Presenter Playlist. The show is airing on Saturdays at 11am.

The story of the promo is that the five presenters are in suspended animation (live action) at the Channel V music vault, when some bad guys break in. We zoom into each of the presenter’s dream world (animation), where they are called into action via a ‘V’ signal in the sky. As the presenter’s head back to the real world their super powers kick in. Back in reality, (live action), the bad guys are dealt with the music is safe and the V team are victorious.

Although I didn’t animate a lot of this promo, I was given the role of designing the characters, drawing all the key poses, roughing out the animation and supervising the animated sequence.

Here is a final design for the animated presenters and a few pose sketches which are all copyright to Sixty40 and Channel V;