portfolio and blog
My idle-hours webcomic, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, will be published by Pantheon as a book in 2013/14! Pantheon is the legendary publisher of Very Important Graphic Novels Maus, Persepolis, and Habibi, so, you know, NO PRESSURE. Regular updates at 2dgoggles
The pocket universe that opened up out of nowhere and swallowed my life. As featured in Wired and the BBC , THRILL to the amazing exploits of the crime-fighting duo at the dawn of the digital age, only at 2dgoggles.com
Daily Animal Warmups, Alphabetical. At A-To-Zoo. Just started these but finding them relaxing!
I had a sudden impulse today to draw a page of aardvarks: This was my best one: It was so much fun I turned it into a little character.. I could use some practice! I might keep on through the alphabet..
It’s a mighty big subject obviously but for this talk I focused on looking for squash and stretch in the skeleton. Useful for animation and also for rigging. It’s easy for humans to forget how squashy-stretchy most animal skeletons are, because we ourselves are built very upright and straight with all our bones pretty much […]
A short film I made in 2004 with the help of the Irish Film Board and Barley Films. It was meant to be a 'learn computer animation' exercise but has played at over a hundred film festivals and was nominated for an Annie Award!
I once typed out 40 years worth of the journals of the 18th century naturalist Gilbert White, for no particular reason. They are absolutely lovely and you can read them all at The Natural History of Selborne.
Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation Workshop, for those who might find it useful– as always, study as much as you can from reference and understand WHY the action is as it is.
Back in dailies.. there’s an awful lot of sitting in this business!