My Art History: Rodent

The other character from my doomed 1996 short.

My Art History: The Digital Age

A concept for my first Lightwave short, which made it as far as a test animation before I found full time employment. One of my early Fractal Design (now Corel) Painter paintings, 1996.

My Art History: Tea Break

My last real-life airbrush painting before it was overthrown by the arrival of The Wacom. I never even cleaned out the airbrush. Missing are fireball exlosion and debris, background Harrier and face detail amongst other things. Acrylic, 1995.

<-- Cockpit closeup.

Made In Melbourne Update

I've just been informed that the Made In Melbourne Festival at Fed Square has been moved from the outdoor stage at 8pm into BMW Edge at 9pm - apologies for any inconvenience.

My Art History: Armature

The armature for the aforementioned stop motion creature. It's about 14cm high and is made from aluminium, wire and car bog, with ball and socket joints made from pin heads, and little bolts that inconveniently needed tightening in-between shooting frames. A pain to animate, but not as bad as the wooden one I made a few years earlier.

My Art History: Stop Motion Creature

With school out of the way I could now concentrate on designing the star of my next unfinished animated film. This time I managed to make an armature and some test footage at least, before my new PC arrived on the scene, enabling me to not finish anything in a much more effective manner.

My Art History: EV

Some final final year Industrial Design designs. This time it's a single-seater electric vehicle, featuring a suspended "active ride" cockpit that leans into corners. I also made a previs of it in 3D Studio 3 (my first ever 3D computer animation project).

My Art History: Portable Computer

A tablet PC for industrial purposes, featuring a keyboard configured for single-handed use (1994). Left or right hand operation is accommodated via reconfigurable character LEDs within the keys.

My Art History: Luxury Train

Designs from another final year ID project (1994).

My Art History: Video Camera

One of my final year ID projects (1994). Note the fold-out/swivel screen concepts on the left; at the time, external LCDs were either built into the case or non-existent, and shortly after having conceived this idea a new camera came out featuring the exact same design... and it has been standard on video cameras ever since. Typical!

My Art History: Rumpelstiltskin

Cover illustration for my second MacMillan book. This one nearly cost me my design degree, since I had to miss a couple of weeks of classes in order to finish all 24 pages.  Acrylic and pencil, 1993.

Made In Melbourne

If you're wandering around in the city feeling a bit film festivally on December 1st, head over to the Federation Square main stage for the Made In Melbourne Film Festival, where The Passenger will be showing sometime after 8pm (on the big TV screen I presume). It's not-for-profit, with donations going to SecondBite.

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My Art History: 4x4 Recreational Vehicle

Automotive concepts for the distant future world of 2001 - as visualised in 1993.  Fineliner, marker, pastel, pencil and watercolour.

My Art History: And If You Should See The Giant...

A page from "How To Get To The Giant's House" by Virginia King. My first children's book commission, published by MacMillan Education. Gouache and pencil, age 20.