EXO

A wee gif for the EXO zine website.

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BAA sting-- staring Alan the shearer

This was submitted to the British Animation Awards sting competition. I have yet to hear whether it's been shortlisted.

BAA sting 2014 from Joe Blaxland on Vimeo.

Farmer Alan

This is the first stage of the character design for a new short animation. I am building the character up in shapes in Illustrator and will eventually take him in to ol' Flash. Before that though I will make a storyboard with the Illustrator shapes in order to see what if his bod can meet the demands of the action.

Showreel Nouveau

I think it's short but sweet; see what you think.

https://vimeo.com/76532042

Music by Steven Troughton

Technical Hitch

I am currently on pre production on my very own stop motion film and am blogging about it here. Please do take a look!

RRH DVD

This is a to be printed on to a DVD and is my first shot using Indesign.

Football camp

Here's a quickie.

Introductory instructional illustrations for Pucket

These pics are to go with instructions for people who have picked up a Pucket board for the first time and don't know their Harpist from their Garner. The drawings show the various techniques for play as well as how to use the tension peg which, if you don't know, is damned tricky.

Amelie's Raspberries (watch here at 2.27 if you're not in the know)

The Garner

The Harpist (my preferred method of play)

The Tension Peg

Red Robyn Hood

Shown here are the poster and tickets I designed for an original pantomime; all done in Illustrator.

Celluloid

Celluloid is a Film Club for which I was asked to design some fliers; here's a bunch of draft designs I put forward. I'm waiting for the go ahead to finish it off proper. Designed using Gimp.

Gonzo Animations

I directed and animated these 3 paper cut-out shorts for Gonzo, a music programme on MTV. The brief was to come up with something funny and music related; I hope you think they're both. 

Shout outs go to Rol Taylor- who voiced Purple Planet, Mike Newbon- who did most of the sound, Joe Dennis- who comped it and Leo Bridle- who got me out of an After FX conundrum.

John Lennin

Banger Tune

Elvis Parsley

Whatchoolookinat?

Here is a wee lip-sync test, but be careful- he's angry.

Pucket Sash

This illustration will be printed on a sash to be wrapped around Pucket boards for retail. This is further to the animation and illustration work done for the Pucket website.

Office for the Dissemination Of Sympathy

I recently completed a printed and animated logo for the artist Ann Rapstoff. Posted is the logo for print, a draft for the animation done in cut-out and the final animated logo.

Corky takes a jaunty walky