Skip Marley - Slow Down (Animated Video)

Skip Marley and friends hang out all day doing nothing. That was the premise of this video, and they bought it! The song is called Slow Down, and I wanted to create a video that felt like a lazy Saturday afternoon where you and your buds just hang out. Totally blissed.

Skip rides his skateboard, they cruise in a converted jet engine car that spews out good vibes then go to a club and lose their minds.

This was a new venture into character design for me, having mostly worked with motion graphics and avoided characters at all cost. For this video I got the right team behind me to realise the cast. I still have a lot to learn in this department.

I've been watching a lot of cartoons with my two year old and secretly using our quality time together to analyze what makes the good ones so good. I've also always loved anime and grew up on 90s MTV, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network so this video is a culmination of everything I've gleamed from that.

I was able to draft in my regular collaboration buddy Dan Crossan to art direct this video. He created all the art on the walls, the words and helped with the concept and design. Having him on board added an extra dimension to the video injecting it with a unique look and personality.

Slow Down. Chill out.

Commissioned by Island Records.

Single Artwork for Semivitae

Single artwork for “cala-te" e "auto-imolação" by @semivitae

Visualiser for Killerstar

Creation of visuals to accompany the Dom Beken remix of KillerStars Go 'Hold on Tight' single. Created in Notch with some After Effects

Kid Cudi - LOD (Lyric Video)

It's a pleasure to make work for music you really love. That was the case for this lyric video for Kid Cudi. I also got to work with my friend and artist Dan Crossan who did the words and art. 
This video was made in lockdown so it was up to me and the contents of my house for interesting, abstract backgrounds. I shot with a super macro lens that you attach to the lens of your phone (in my case a Pixel 3). Some of the backgrounds include close ups of my computer screen, interesting art pieces in my house. I also shot myself doing some weird stuff in front of camera on a fisheye lens (also on my phone). So I am in this video, a lot!

Motown: Michael Jackson

Motown: Michael Jackson (Visualizer)

This is a dreamy animated loop I made for a Michael Jackson remix. I wanted to include loads of animated little things so there's lots to look at. To the right of screen there is a cat who's tail swings, which was actually one of the harder things to animate! Also look out for young Michael's legs casually swinging back and forth.

Commissioned by Motown Records.

Vice Versa

You discovered “The Prison of Unhappy Lovers” with “MA CHérie”. The story continues with VICE VERSA. I betrayed and will therefore be judged. This is my trial in the “world” that I created… It’s not over yet, I would even say that it hasn’t started yet… See you soon for the third and final episode of the Prison of Unhappy Lovers.

Commissioned by Twin Music Inc.

Sublime: Behind the Cover (Documentary)

This is a documentary I directed and animated for the band Sublime. It tells the story of how their name came about and the cover for their self-titled album.

It's full of 90s nostalgia, Long Beach, skate culture, Psychedelic art. I wanted to create this ska punk kind of black and white world that was injected with colour once the band started playing. Influence for the character design came from anime and shows like the Boondocks.

Katy Perry - Small Talk (Lyric Video)

Director: Tim Fox
Production Company: Monument London
Producers: Tom Mackay and Sam Mildner
Art Department: Katherine Burke
DOP: Josh Thompson
Cast: Victoria Malinjod and Hindolo Koroma

This one was fun!

Twiddle - The Devil

This is a music video I recently completed with animation crew Yere Studio for Vermont jam band Twiddle! Each band member is faced with some kind of inner fear, and it takes harmonica legend Jon Popper to blast away the evil and bring the good vibes.
 

Single Artwork for Mustang

Single artwork for “Black Moon Mood” by @mustangmusic_

Lil Wayne - She Will (Animated Video)

Lil Wayne made the album The Carter IV back in 2011 but strangely enough never made any music videos for any of the songs. Now 10 years on, we're celebrating by creating visuals for every track on the album.

I directed all of them, and the first one to be released is this animted video for the track She Will. It features Drake and is a banger suited for hanging out your car, crusing at 10 at night. I wanted the video to reflect the mood, slow and laid back but dark and gritty at the same time. It's a series of atmospheric shots with weird framing and vague symbolism and WTF am I looking at moments. A lot of the scenes were setup like a live action shoot with excessive use of negative space and long, drawn out shots. The beauty of animation meant we could mess with the scenery and renders and intersperse these moments of collage and rough print marks and it blended in perfectly. 

Our team went all out on the character design, creating an anime likeness of Wayne in full 3D. Like previous projects of mine, we utilized toon shaders with hand drawn overlays and print mark textures to create an aesthetic I'm becoming known for. I guess it comes from my aversion to 3D polished render porn that I see daily on my twitter feed.

Lil Wayne ft. Kendrick Lamar - Mona Lisa

This is a Heist movie with a horror twist, set in a grimy New Orleans. Lil Wayne is the Mastermind, Kendrick is the Clean up guy and the girls used as bait just happen to be vampires. 

I wanted to push the cinematography in this one, still using the same techniques as before with Toon shaders and motion capture but I'm edging towards something that feels altogether richer with cinematic lighting, depth and atmosphere. The video was put together from concept to staging as if it were live action, blocking out actions and putting scenes together the same as if we were doing it for real. The structure of it has performance shots, narrative scenes and cutaway moments going on in the same way. Of course this way we have the ability to make everything feel hyper-real, we can mess with the colours and incorporate traditional 2D animation without it feeling tacked on. There's a freedom with animation where you can make things look EXACTLY how you imagine them without compromise.

Album Artwork for Semivitae

Album artwork for “Vultos Dançantes” by @semivitae

Logo and Tshirt design for Baby Draco

Created a logo and merch design for artist Baby Draco

Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" (Official animation)

I love my job most days but sometimes I get to do things like make videos for some of my all time favourite songs, which makes it even better.

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" came out 50 years ago! It still feels relevant. I love this album so much. My favourite thing about it is hearing the transition from the guy who sang Heard it on the Grapevine" (which is also a rad song), to the socially conscious man he is on this album. And how the record label freaked out and thought it would be a disaster.

The animation see's Marvin exploring the scenes he talks about in the lyrics. Civil unrest, the Vietnam War, poverty, the environment. I imagine him actually doing this at the time in 1971, walking around the streets and literally thinking What's Going On?

Commissioned by UMC.

Shady Sallam - FAHEM AZDY?

Shady Sallam - FAHEM AZDY?

commissioned via Creative Commission

All My Dreams

Official Music Video for All My Dreams by Roisin Murphy

Artwork for SRT Kazzy

Created an album cover for artist SRT Kazzy

Nelly - Country Grammar (Documentary Animation)

I worked with Universal Records and Scheme Engine to create these animations for a mini Documentary for Nelly. The brief was to visualize some of the things he was saying, which meant creating narrative scenes based on spoken word. The great thing about animation is you can be as imaginative as you want and Director Chas Todd wanted to go full on dreamscape.

This is a further development in my technique for animating people. All the "Nelly" characters actions are actually me in a mocap suit. This data is then used on a 3D rig using custom shaders to give it an anime look.

This video shows all four of the scenes I built.

Cold - Music Video for Casablanca

Music video for Casablanca, shot in Hackney.