Animation, Illustration & VFX
Birds
Greetings Card Illustrations
These small squaroid critters have been hopping round in my brain and finding their way into my sketchbook for weeks. It was certainly the right time to be creating images for the next Christmas; the slow, yet inexorable process of the greetings card industry, takes a while to filter through.
For the shapes I forced myself to work as simply as possible, but attempting to retain that sketchbook freshness that suggests a personality for each individual. Like much of my illustration work, I’m attempting to suggest a sense of depth that also works on the flat printed surface.
Agression
I’ve become rather fond of the passive aggression that some of them have started to display, not dissimilar to the way real birds compete for crumbs out in the garden.
For the process I used Lightwave and added the final detailing in Adobe Photoshop.
