In a nutshell this summer I spent 8 weeks travelling and working in Europe with my friend Carl. Our trip took us through France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic and Germany..
This included staying 2 weeks on a pretty new agey eco farm in Croatia where amongst other things, I helped construct a drain pipe to carry rainwater into a container. This resulted in quite a dr seuss style creation. I was quite inspired by the guy who owned and ran the place he was an eccentric cheerful motivated guy to say the least. It was all about living in harmony with nature and being thankful for the planet. This led to me coming up with ideas for an Animation series based on the guy who
ran this place and led to the creation of leaf dude. There will be more of my sketches and ideas on this at a later date..
When I returned to the UK I had a week back in my home town - Brighton and Hove and managed to create a music video with my mate Nathan (he also created the sound track as music is his passion). Low quality as I used my digital camera but nevertheless very fun! We did it all in one evening/night. After Brighton I went to Bestival which was awesome - Jonsi of Sigur Ros had some great animation that really helped build a mind blowing atmosphere. The Flaming Lips also had really good visuals and animation accompanying their music.
Anyways without further ado here is the music vid:
This included staying 2 weeks on a pretty new agey eco farm in Croatia where amongst other things, I helped construct a drain pipe to carry rainwater into a container. This resulted in quite a dr seuss style creation. I was quite inspired by the guy who owned and ran the place he was an eccentric cheerful motivated guy to say the least. It was all about living in harmony with nature and being thankful for the planet. This led to me coming up with ideas for an Animation series based on the guy who
ran this place and led to the creation of leaf dude. There will be more of my sketches and ideas on this at a later date..
When I returned to the UK I had a week back in my home town - Brighton and Hove and managed to create a music video with my mate Nathan (he also created the sound track as music is his passion). Low quality as I used my digital camera but nevertheless very fun! We did it all in one evening/night. After Brighton I went to Bestival which was awesome - Jonsi of Sigur Ros had some great animation that really helped build a mind blowing atmosphere. The Flaming Lips also had really good visuals and animation accompanying their music.
Anyways without further ado here is the music vid:
