Rhydian T2000

Here is a Video I made for a Friends facebook group "Rhydian is from the Future".
Rhydian is a contestant on a certain minor primetime ITV talent show, and my friends Michael and Matthew contend that he is in fact some kind of entertainment cyborg sent from the future - due in part to his emotionless face and square head.
Putting all my After effects training to good use I produced this video - i made it in my lunch break but I think the roughness add to its charm.
Sadly perhaps this video has gotten more plays than all my other videos put together, even the one of Dan & Jen singing drunken 'Im a believer' Karaokee in the Bute Dock Hotel of an afternoon.

Showreel - December 2007

Here is an updated showreel for 2007, including much of the work I have produced at CYFLE over the past few months.

The music track on this in the excellent "You! Me! Dancing!" by Los Campesinos.

Robot Chase

Heres the finished version of the chase sequence featured in the animatic posted below. Im not entirely sure how happy I am with it. The process of making it was quite labored as we were using ToonBoom for this project and it essentially made the process quite drawn out. ToonBoom does some things that After effects does and some things that flash does. But does non of those things as well as those packages. I had to comp the whole thing in aftereffects after animating in toon boo as for some reason the render in TB kept skipping frames when there was a lot happening on screen.
For the look of the piece I was trying to get away from the immediate cartoony feel of the supplied character - so opted to give the backgrounds a German expressionist feel. All pointy with exaggerated shadows - Like the film Dr Cilgari (nice) But i think somewhere I got a little lost in that. Also the finish I applied to the character is a bit forced. However I'm pretty happy in the Direction of the piece, and I managed to get a few chase scene staples in there. There are a couple of rough edges - and I havent yet been able to complete the introduction which has the main character feeding nuts and bolts to small robotic birds - just to frame the sequence in some semblance of understandable narrative.