Graduation

After 3 years of studying at the University for the Creative Arts, the big day has finally come and gone.

Here are some photos to document the occasion:

This is me in my rather fetching cape accepting my certificate.

UCA 2011. I'm at the top in the middle...

Some family photos outside the church.

In order of appearance: my parents Corinne and Dave, my girlfriend Holly, and my Grandma Joyce.

At the ceremony Matthew Osborne (above) and I found out that we were among a select few who achieved a First Class award for our subjects, so celebrated accordingly by throwing our hats at the sun.

After the ceremony there was a barbeque and mass gathering, but by this point I had removed the hat and cape, so there are no pictures of this...

All in all it was actually a very fun day.

Welcome

D&AD is over, and normal day to day life resumes.

If D&AD brought you here, welcome, feel free to browse and I hope you like what you see.

If you are here by any other means, well... the same applies!

Enjoy.

D&AD

This is the University for the Creative Arts' stand at D&AD.

If you look closely, you'll see a brown envelope just above the blue cards, that's Donald!

And just to the left, or below depending on how you look at it... are some other smaller brown things, these are some upside-down Stephen the Bear business cards

A shot from the front of the stand with my portfolio at the bottom of the image.

The stand in it's entirity.

D&AD

D&AD is now officially open to the general public!

If you're planning to go, have a great visit!

If it was the show that brought you here, welcome to my Blog, I hope you like what you see!

The road to D&AD.

So, it's almost here!

As most of you already know, D&AD starts tomorow, so today is the day that everyone will be setting up!

'Tis all very exciting and if you are planning to take the voyage, I hope you enjoy what you see there!

For anyone who missed my previous posts, these are the people I will be displaying with:

And here's a link to go check out our page and their work too:

http://ucaillustration2011.wordpress.com/

Stephen the Bear.

For those of you planning on going to London for D&AD you can pick up a Stephen the Bear business card... but before you do, here's a little history.

Stephen started out as a concept I did for a Goldilocks animation that my group and I made in the second year for electives. Electives is basically to study and complete a project out of your area of study, and I chose animation two years running as it has always intrigued me.

After a bit of rummaging I have found that animation for your viewing enjoyment!

So, without hesitation, I give you:

Well Beloved Tales: Goldilocks, The Three Little Pigs and The Three Bears and the Wolf.

This was a collaboration between myself, Megan Bentley, Oli Osborne and Sean McCarthy.

Megan is an Illustrator like myself, and Oli and Sean are Graphic Designers.

The whole thing was painted by various members of the team (my pieces were the bears and the wolf) and is animated under a camera using cut-outs and stop frame animation.

Since then Stephen was woven into a small series I was playing around with called Scruffs, I developed his character and created a few story concepts, but then I started creating Gevaudan for University and Scruffs was left in the dark for a while.

So, as a homage to Stephen the Bear; he and his many happy clones will be greeting you at D&AD!

From the flood tunnels of Vegas to a cubicle in London...

My class at University is putting together a stand for the D&AD New Blood show in London tomorow and my final major piece of work will be on the table there.

For those of you unfamiliar with this Blog, that piece is "Donald", the story of a man who lives in the flood tunnels of Las Vegas, and it looks a bit like this...

For anyone interested in seeing this work first hand you can see the show at:

The Old Truman Brewery

91 Brick Lane
Shoreditch

London

This will be on show from Friday the 1st to Monday the 4th of July from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

Alternatively click this rather nifty link to see our pre-D&AD website where you can check out who else will be there and what might be on show!

http://ucaillustration2011.wordpress.com/

As well as Donald which will be on a table, I will also have my portfolio available, so you can see all those pictures I posted the other day printed nice and big behind a moderately shiny piece of plastic!

Plus, my entire class will have their portfolios on show too, as well as some work on the walls and the table, so there will be plenty to see!

As an added bonus, there will also be a box full of glossy Stephen the Bear business cards for you to plunder!

Enjoy!