Ilustration Machine

I've been on a Florence + Machine trip lately, just a few specific songs. What really gets me are her haunting lyrics and fearless delivery. and she's so shy and soft spoken in all her interviews. So here's a song called Blinding that I particularly couldn't get out of my head. I wanted to just upload an mp3 file, but it seems easier to upload videos so threw in some pictures with a little sample of a cover thing.
I dont own the music or pictures.







And another ode to Florence with a quick illustration of No Light No Light, just the first four five lines

As part of the second year animation module at university we're assigned to working on a film with the third year students. I can't put up actual animation shots that I've worked on but along with the animation I design and model tourists, so here are some designs of an experienced explorer, an angsty teenager and a young business woman

    and some personality expressions for each of them

our curious adventurer finding his place on model (with cane)

 your regular teenager hates the world using music to shut out the world. I should include headphones so complete the happy image.



And the latest model I've worked on, our young entrepreneur: 

These initial designs are a bit different from her final versions, I've made here a little more serious in the later model, but a higher up nose like in the initial picture with all three tourists together.











Since she's the latest one I'm still working on her but I had some fun with creating her hair, i love what you can do with curls in Maya. some legs would be nice though. 




...and more on the way


I thought I'd play with some face designs, so here's a bit from that

and none of them look particularly enthusiastic

So here's an enthusiastic baby elephant playing in muddy water and a crow telling him off. Figures of authority can be found in odd places.

















and that moment when a relatively famous person offers you a high five, but you feel like you don't know them well enough and settle it with a handshake..sorry Charlie


...its not because im too short or anything













Let me finish with a commission for my friend, portraying her complicated relationships with swans. i guess the only appropriate title is "I'll never let go Jack" because she knows why.

what is it with man and beasts and our need to associate with them? i probably wont go into that any further because it sums up a 3000ish word essay i compiled for university already, and i need a break but its that sort of question without an accurate answer, like what is our obsession with the number 3.
what is my obsession about human behaviour anyway.

 ...one for the road 






human beans on the edge of a cliff, flung into absolution








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