Christmas Tansha cartoon complete

Well, that's it! Another Christmas Tansha cartoon completed - created entirely in vectors this year. Was a great challenge to have a 'busy' composition and not be using pen and ink and also found how much more an illustration of this kind can benefit from being created entirely from vectors. Will add to the website in the next few weeks - watch this space!

Mummy's Alive!

I've completed my Egyptian Mummy and he's now available to view in the portfolio section of the site. Very pleased with how this piece came together and also how nicely the detailing works on the bandages. Right, now to complete the others!

Tansha time!

Yes, it's been a year already and time to go about creating another crazy scene for the Christmas edition of Tansha. I'm thinking this year, Santa & co could be delivering all of the goodies - but not without the usual mayhem!!!

Lots of crazy ideas and initial sketches in the pipe. Watch this space for more updates!

Bandages and all!

With the initial sketch completed, the vector lines are underway on our Egyptian mummy! I'm using a combination of line thicknesses for the outline on this one, as I think if I use the same throughout for the bandages, it could look a little much and be a little heavy!

Halloweenies!

With Halloween on the horizon, I thought the next batch of sketches should have a slightly creepy theme! So we got out our sketchbook and got busy!

The end results will be showing up on the site shortly and will hopefully include an Egyptian mummy, a mad scientist (with creepy assistant in tow) a witch on her broomstick, plus a couple of others ( who will remain a secret until completed!)

Hello! I'm a wide mouth frog!

Finally had a few minutes spare to get this little froggie finished! Found that to get over the issue of the 'judders', I needed to keep the body as one and all of the facial expressions as separate layers. A little more work involved I hear you say, but it did pay off, as we now have a chirpy, not to mention chatty, little chap currently on the homepage - check him out!

Twittering frogs!

Ok, so now we have a series of froggies ready to be turned into animation frames. Tha main problem I have at the moment is although they've been overlayed EXACTLY on top of each other, when converted to pixels, they are ever-so slightly different (grrr). Meaning that I get a slight 'juddering' effect when the animation is played - back to the drawing board me thinks!