The upside down show, (starring the umbilical brothers), was interested in doing a animated sequence for an up coming special. I designed the two main characters in various styles; Nickelodeon, John K (Ren and Stimpy), Hanna Barbera, Gorillaz and Cheeks. It was fun to see the same characters in so many different styles.

Occasionally I get approached by writers and productions companies to help them design characters for their cartoon series ideas. Below are some examples of characters from an animal band based cartoon. There was an existing design for these characters, but the client was not entirely happy with them, so I came up with a couple of different design styles. You can see my final designs at the bottom.

But as with most offices with multiple designers, I was not the person who the client wanted to work on this. As a result my designs were ‘drawn’ over and changed by a senior colleague, so these designs were never used as they are here.

 A music company decided on releasing rock music aimed at babies (I don’t really get why you would buy this), but I was asked to do some designs for a logo.

 A while ago I was asked to create some avatars for a music website. The avatars would have personalized heads, but the bodies would only have a colour difference. This was because the site was going to offer different dance moves that you could get your avatar to perform and having so many variants for bodies would have created a mountain of work for which there was no budget. Here are a few variations that I came up with.