Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a safe holiday and a Happy New Year.

It’s been a busy year illustrating and designing characters. I’ve been very lucky to work with a great bunch of people and clients. Some of my highlights have been illustrating two children’s books and working on a number packaging projects.

Plans for next year would include creating more personal work and projects. I also plan on creating more animated minishows and also resurrecting my plush toy line.

Last month I work with Richard from Fusion Communications to design some new characters for the revamp of the Kidsline website. So we went along with 5 New Zealand native bird characters, which was well received by the kids. The website is now live and it was a big change on the older version.

Kidsline is New Zealand’s original telephone counselling service for all kids up to 14, so it was opportunity to help this worth while organisation: www.kidsline.co.nz

Just a quick illustration of a giant sea monster about to sink a ship. Illustrated for a publishing client that produces a boating magazine.

Just a couple of planets created for  the Illuniverse project. From top left: Earth & Moon, Moon & Owl, Farting Planet, and Eating Planet.

Completed this illustration for That’s Life magazine’s Fast Fiction section. Deadlines are always tight for these types of jobs but it always helps when the client provides a clear and concise brief. End result; the illustration complete ahead of schedule and the client happy. Now looking forward to seeing it in print.

Project: Characters for website
Agency: FUSION Communications
Client: Kidsline (NZ)

Character designs of New Zealand birds to be used in an interactive sequence for the redesign of the Kidsline website. Kidsline is New Zealand’s original telephone counselling service for all kids up to 14, so it was opportunity to help this worth while organisation.

Project: Characters for product packaging
Agency: Mount Deluxe
Client: MMC Tradelink

Three cow designs were required for baby milk formula packaging showing the 3 different stages: baby, infant and toddler. The cient is a New Zealand diary company that distributes its products through China and India

A very short film for TAIS (Toronto Animated Image Society) Bunny Jam submission. It’s the story of a bunny and some cookies.

Here are some more minishows:

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These three characters I created are called Chicken, Pig and Dave, they are in a short film called “I Think I Have The Flu”. This very short film (approx 10 seconds) was originally part of the TAIS Chicken Jam screening at the NFB Cinema in Toronto.

Screenings:

The TAIS (Toronto Animated Image Society) Showcase 2009 at the NFB Cinema in Toronto

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009

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Project: Illustrated Children’s Book
Title: Robot Race
Client: Clean Slate Press
Publisher: Learning Media LTD

The story follows the adventure two robots who work in the widget factory.

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