The first of many?

I write this piece in the hallway of my house safe in the knowledge that I've finally completed my first illustration job.
I've been working for a website called Mumette, which aims to provide a forum for young mothers. I met the founder, by chance at a friends birthday party and now so not underestimate the power of business cards (or saving your blog on someone else's internet favourites).
The end result should be two characters used for the site.
Good times for the ol' CV, and here's hoping the site takes off as from what I've heard it's found a real gap in the market.

Everyday I'm Shufflin'

Just from a layout point of view, some of you may have noticed that I've cleaned up the blog a little bit. Hopefully the layout is less cluttered, my reel ought to be viewable in the side bar on the right along with a direct permalink to the Sundae Afternoon journal.

Should be quite a bit to post soon, but I don't want to release anything without the client's blessing so it's all under wraps for now.

Stay classy San Diego.

Be Ye Fantastical?

Hello, just a brief post to mention a project I'm looking to start working on in the near future. I've been asked to work on a short film, by created an animated introduction. It's a modern adaptation of King Lear, with a view to interactive learning. Not sure how much more I ought to say before getting started, but I had a meeting with the director, on Monday, and it all seemed positive.
I'll post more about this in due course.
Bye.

Render Bender

Just a quick one to say that the edit of Sundae Afternoon is rendering as we speak. I'm considering making it a publicly viewed video too, so keep an eye out or give me so feedback on the pros and cons of allowing any Tom, Dick, and Harry to see your work.

Later

Technical difficulties

It's been some time since I last posted, but even longer since finishing Sundae Afternoon however, there's something I meant to get stuck in to which has been bugging me. I'm sure any animators can appreciate the madness of an After Effects or Premiere edit near a deadline. The necessity to finish a brief might take your eagle eye off a small technical hitch that will come back later and bite you on your arse.

Eagle-Eyed Viewer

Well, I found mine. Not to bore you all, but I exported my footage in separate layers, with an Alpha Channel as a PNG sequence. The point of this spiel is that one of my layers (the boy) was one frame out of sync, so he overlaps on every cut. Very noticeable on a projector, which is rather concerning so I've managed to source the rogue file and make a new edit which I should be able to export over the next few days. Hopefully the gaffe is only noticeable to me because I've seen the film so often, but who knows.