Digby Christmas Special

So I've finally started feeling a bit Christmas-y. Thought I'd post some panels from the Digby Christmas 2-part special that I boarded a year ago, but will finally be on TV Next month. Below is an extract from part one. A bit of a snowball fight.

A bit of Bertie

DIGBY DRAGON TRAILER!

Its almost time!!! Digby will premiere on Nick Jr on the 4th of July...
Just finishing off boarding the last episode at the moment. 

You can watch more clips (and have a go at colouring the character in) here: 

Nickjr.co.uk/DigbyDragon

Coming Soon!

So, This is the reason I have been quite quiet this last year. I have bee working as a full time, in house Storyboard artist on Digby Dragon! (And... I've also written one of the episodes) Its been very hush hush, This is probably the first image of the final Digby and friends available on the internet, before there was just the original pilot and old designs when it was aimed at a much younger audience (I've also included below- its very interesting how far it's come) MORE SOON!!!

Original designs (back in 2013) -

For more information, here is an article: 

www.skwigly.co.uk/make-digby-fly

Rock 'N' Rolling Snowman!

YAY! Its Finally here! Rock 'N' Rolling Snowman!
Made using Photoshop and After Effects, it took about 4 Months to make.

After a Snowman is given an old guitar as part of his decoration- he comes to life! and proceeds to Rock out! He is soon joined by Santa (Vocals), Rudolph (Drums) Jack Frost (Bass) and some Robins (who sing La La La)

MUSIC:
Written by James Michalos
Performed by Plastic Snow
Vocals - Sean Kingsley
Guitars - Ben Wheeler
Filipe Monteiro
Tim Bonser
Bass - Ben Hillyard
Drums - Alex Waldmann
Keyboards - James Michalos
Backing Vocals - Gemma Baird
Rebecca Bowden
Siubhan Harrison

VIDEO:
Animated and Directed by Francesca Adams
Additional Animation by: Claire Winters, Min Young Oh, Lilian Fu, Kristina Yee

COMING SOON!

So this is what I've been underground working on recently: Rock 'N' Rolling Snowman!

Shortvisions International Short Film Festival

Can't believe that Bertie is STILL doing festivals in 2014... I'm pretty sure this has to be our last one. It's our Chinese premiere! 

For more information, please visit: 

www.shortvisionsfestival.com

EMPTY POOLS - Slack Tide

Its finally available! Premiered on the Guardian Website!

"For the deliciously crumpled sweetness of their new single Slack Tide, the band decided to create possibly one of the most charmingly depressing animated videos of all time. Directed by Francesca Adams (and premiered here), the video shows a sad cartoon man going through the daily monotonies of life as he struggles to cope with living on a series of circular planets. In the end, well, he just jumps off the metaphorical treadmill." (-Extract from the Guardian) 

Read in full here:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/nov/28/empty-pools-slack-tide

Alan is fed up of his day to day routine and decides to take the saying 'Stop the world, I want to get off' quite literally.

Credits:

Music by Empty Pools, from debut album 'Saturn Reruns'
http://www.emptypools.co.uk
http://battle.greedbag.com/empty-pools (UK, AUS, NZ)
http://enclaves.greedbag.com/empty-pools (rest of world)

Directed and animated by Francesca Adams
http://chessca-oddcat.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChesscaAdams

Additional animation by Kristina Yee and Rebecca Barbusica
Additional sound by Axle Kith Ee Cheeng
http://axlesound.blogspot.co.uk/

Slack Tide... Coming... Er... Eventually.... (O_O)

I've been working on a music video for the single Slack Tide by a band called Empty Pools for the past few months, and its almost finished! :D

Hit some render issues and general... 'This file is far too big to handle without splitting it into 12+ files'. And the fact that I have just one computer have made what should have been a weeks work into almost an extra month (@_@) BUT the end (the real end this time!) is in sight.

The Official release of Slack Tide by Empty Pools will be in a week or so. But until then, I thought I'd post some stills and a link to the song :D

The track 'Slack Tide' by 'Empty Pools' is now available :D 

You can listen to it here: 

soundcloud.com/emptypools/slack-tide

Ciné-court animé

Bertie is screening in Ciné-court animé in France this month. 

(Pretty sure we're coming to the end of Bertie's festival life soon!) 

For more information, please go to: 

www.animationfestival.roanne.fr

Lets Get Squiggling! Storyboards

So last year I got the chance to be Storyboard Artist for Ceebeebies 'Lets Get Squiggling- Letters!' at Blue-Zoo. It was pretty awesome, Each episode was based around a letter of the alphabet, so they had whole new characters and settings for each.

Here are some from one of my favorite episodes- D (Dinosaur, Dentist and Donut)

you can find out more about the series here: 

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/get-squiggling

and watch the latist episode on BBC i player (which is Ep D) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbeebies/episode/b01qsl16/Get_Squiggling!_Letters_Letter_D

Y was another one of my Fave episodes. It involved an over sensitive Yeti.

BAA Sting

This is my 'BAA Sting' made to promote the British Animation Awards. 

(For their 'Sting' Competition) 

For more information, Please visit: 

http://www.britishanimationawards.com/

Face Britain!

Recently, myself and Dani Negrin (A fellow NFTS Animator) have been working on the animations for a website called 'Face Britain' which Launched today (It was quite a mental deadline!).
Its a massive art project for children- a huge collection of their self portraits.

You can find out more, and watch all the animations we made on their website:
http://www.facebritain.org.uk/

Here is one of the sequences I boarded and animated: