BACKGROUNDS, STORYBOARDS and VISUALS for ANIMATED / LIVE ACTION COMMERCIALS, IDENTS, and ANIMATED SERIES

I work mainly for London based Production Companies - in house / at home 

Originally, I worked as an Airbrush Illustrator on many Advertising campaigns - Michelin, Wella, and in publishing, with cover art for The Economist, and record covers - RSO's Peter And The Wolf, Erasure - I Say I Say I Say - album & single covers. I started in Animation on Pink Floyd's The Wall and ATV's live action/animated TV series Dan Dare as Background Artist, working with 2000AD artists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy

As Background Artist/Designer, I worked for Shootsey - Signal, Paul McCartney, Tony Cuthbert - Kellogs, Golden Wonder, Waddingtons, Uli Meyer - Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Matt Forest's Snapper - Smarties, Aero, Queen's Promo It's a Kind Of Magic - Matte painting, promos for Art of noise, Wang Chung, Grace Jones and U2 / Batman - Kiss me kill you and on over 100 projects for Passion Pictures

I worked at the Film Garage, with Pete Bishop - with whom I have had a long association - on concept, visualisation, development and storyboard, leading to series work - Spheriks - HHCL /Passion Pictures, - Pre-production Design, Art Direction, Title sequence Visualisaton, storyboarding 3 episodes and The Cramp Twins for Telemagination / Loonland / Cartoon Network - location design, storyboard revisionist. I've worked on idents, channel branding, promos and commercials for - Nickelodeon - Babybel, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel - Easter, Brushead main titles & spots, for Dandy Productions, and concept work on Monkey Fist, Channel 5 - Hollywood Babylon, Harry Nash/Battlecruiser - Silicone Soul promo, Passion Pictures - Virgin Cola, Kinder Surprise, -Tomboy Productions/Director Pete Lydon - FCUK - Boy meets girl, boarding & development for Hallmark Channel branding strand Crownie - Comedy Kickback

I worked as Key Background Designer, and on Visualisation & boarding, for Hat Trick/C4 animated series Bromwell High (British Animation Award for Comedy), on storyboards and commercial spots for Kinder, The Flintstones - Icepics, background painting for animated series Friends and Heroes series 1-BBC/Cartoon Cymru, CharacterShop - Animal Planet backgrounds, ETV - The Mint L/A gameshow set design, Hasbro Littlest Petshop, Universal's Miami Vice mobisode tie-in - Backround Design & painting

I've worked for Nexus, visualising for cinema release Taking Liberties, several projects for Blue Zoo - The David Gest Show - Promo Storyboard, Disney - Backgrounds, CBeebies - 2D character design and painting

I worked on Three Worlds interactive project for CBBC, - Background & character concept , visualising, design and painting

Storyboarded for 2 x Discovery Channel projects - 10 Ways to save the World - SPOV TV / Impossible Pictures / 10 Ways to Destroy the World - Pete Bishop/Steve Appleby/The Shop

Backgrounds for animated series Knight Rider - Charactershop

Concept, Visualisation, Art Direction, Illustration for animated cues in the Nicholas Hyntner Production England People Very Nice - National Theatre/Pete Bishop