forest bears

I am Planning to do a lot of bears. Found a page of bears I did in a notebook from 2006 and I remembered they are fun to draw. Here is my first bear orientated image:

I have zero money. So far been combating this by getting drunk, but that's not a very good long-term strategy for a penniless person. The bank refuses to give me any more overdraft [even though I have proof in the form of a CONTRACT that I will be getting the money in March.] They are massive unhelpful gimps.

I need to pay my council tax before the end of this month...hmmmmm.

Probably a bad plan to have booked a trip to Berlin in March. But money will find me, I'm sure. I have some coming in from that illustration job which I will use for the green ones of these:

Instead of bothering with boring things like food and bills because those things are BORING. I spent all my birthday and Christmas money this year on boring things. I hate boring things. Food is useless when you could have all green DC hi-tops.

the end :)

Happy Guts

 Hello.

here's a new thing, a happy thing. la la la, a new thing:

 I like black and white.

currently...working on a website and doing general showreel work. Have a few funny animations planned. AND a whole list of ongoing projects that may or may get done sometime somewhere in the future :) maybe.

wheeeee!

Only a little over a month till I'm back in beautiful Newcastle. Looking forward to it, but i will miss the cocoon of my little room and my lovely flat mates and the delights of Boro. haha. awwh.

I won't miss paying rent for a while though when i move home. Need to get a hardcore 9-5 job, or come up with a brilliant money making plan. SOON. Before BERLIN. ahhh!

Next time i may or may not post some pictures of a demolition site near my flat. I truly love it.

Byesies.

2010

Happy Nu YEAH!

busy busy busy, still doing Science Museum animation. Have decided I HATE animation and won't be doing it as a job any time soon haha. But this project is ok, can't wait for it to be done done done though.

Hopefully should be getting some money for teaching kids animation some time in the near future though. That part of it is fun. Other than that just design + illustration please :)

Bought my ticket for pictoplasma animation/character design festival. So I will be buggering off to Berlin on the 10th ish of April for a FULL WEEK. Soooo excited, gonna meet up with a German friend we made last time and have lots and lots and SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I have no money to do this but that is a minor technicality. As long as I make it to Berlin I'm sure everything else will sort itself out.

Got no money now either, waiting for cheques to clear and blah de blah. currently missing Newcastle. Here is fun though. SNOW SNOW SNOW everywhere!

Here's a picture I done:
And here's a lovely tune which featued heavily on my New Years:

Illustration work...

Here is an almost finished bit of illustration work i'm doing for the council. They gave me a drawing that some teenagers created and my job was basically just to redraw and colour it. Hopefully this is close to what they wanted. Had to change it and cut it a bit to fit it into the size they specified and i made my own choice when it came to colours and time of day.

Basically the picture will wrap around a cd-case-sized leaflet with the words on the front. N2L is an outreach service for people under 18 with drug and alcohol problems.

This was pretty fun to do in the end, i worked on it with my friend. But it would have been nice if we had of been able to design and draw it. Councils never put real stuff on leaflets, where are all the drugs and alcohol and scummy kids in this scene? haha. oh well, it's money. here:

Christmas Time!

I LIKE CHRISTMAS I LIKE CHRISTMAS,
i'm all excited today...I go back home on Friday for the festivities.
Currently penniless and super busy but it's good,

Here is the christmas card we did for the IDI, [Digital City] I designed + animated the santa robot,

lalala here:

Institute of Digital Innovation Xmas Card from Mark Hill on Vimeo.

That's all really, i'm now working on an ident for a science museum which will be done sometime early January.

GOODBYE. THE END.

Fish Parade

Here is a Fish Parade blog....











It was a nice parade.
I had a fun weekend. I miss home <3
boohoohoo.

RENDERTIME!

the end.

christmas card critisism

Hallo,

This evening I have spent about a million hours trying to do a suitable christmas card design. This is kind of mainly to send out as a promotional thing for our company [lolzomg company lolz] but I wanted to do one anyway, just to send to everyone...

HOWEVER, I've never been very confident with layout and composition of things. I need help. I know ONE person reads this but never mind, WHAT CAN I DO to make this better? It is meant to be a xmas office party scene. Dunno if you can tell...
Any advice? I think it's a bit cluttered but its late and my brain won't work and I am sick of doing it and I need to pack and blah blah...




ADVICE PLEASE.

iN OtHeR NeWs:
Project Robot Santa is going well....the main animation is done. Now we need to render and put stuff into maya and then make it all brilliant. Will try and get some work in progress clips up after the weekend. Actually i'll have a go at a quick render of the animation I did and try and put it on here tonight.

Going back to Newcastle a the weekend. Gonna mooch on down to electrik Sheep to see the opening of a Jon Burgerman exhibit. Should be fun...
Also get to see loads of friends I haven't seen in ages. :) Really looking forward to it. But I have to pack at 1.30am....bllahhhh...

lalala ok, Goodnight!

p.s: Have developed an obsession with Laika the first animal in space, after falling in love with this tune and video...