color comp

WIP Color Comp Cut-Out Character

WIP Color Comp Cut-Out Character, Giles Timms 2012

WIP color comp cut-out character for a freelance animation project. Hand-drawn and edited, textured and colored in Photoshop. The character will be assembled and rigged in After Effects for cut-out style animation.

Shinedown Music Video Treatment

Emilia Character Title Design, Giles Timms 2010

More artwork from a music video treatment I pitched for the band Shinedown from last year. I use these color comps and cut-out character designs in the treatments so that the client can get an idea of the overall look and feel for the finished piece. Again, this was through my agency, RW Media.

Emilia Character Design, Giles Timms 2010

King and Crony Character Design, Giles Timms 2010

Neil Diamond Treatment

Neil Diamond Cut-Out Design, Giles Timms 2010

Barnaby Character Design, Giles Timms 2010

I’ve been busy with freelance commercial work and have neglected my blog. Plus I had to upgrade WordPress and migrate to a new host, which I just completed this week. With the migration and upgrade complete I’ll be back to posting regularly. Anyway, above is a color comp, cut-out design and character design I put together for a music video treatment I submitted last year for Neil Diamond through RW Media. I didn’t get the gig :(

Faerie and Baby Color Comp Illustration

Faerie and Baby Color Comp Illustration, Giles Timms 2009

Faerie and baby color comp illustration for a freelance animation project. Hand drawn on paper and colored in Photoshop.

Freelance Character Design

Freelance Character Design, Giles Timms 2009

Some character designs and color comps for a freelance gig I did for the client Walter Robot Studios. Hand drawn in pencil and pen and ink, colored in Photoshop.

Dead All Along – Color Comps

Dead All Along, Giles Timms 2009

Work in progress for my next project at UCLA. These are color comps and character designs for an animated music video for “Dead All Along” performed by the amazingly talented, Ceri Frost. This is a terrific song by Ceri.

Logline: Peekle the faun, a mystical animal link to nature, realizes that he and nature are dead to mankind.

The death spoken of in the song is the death of manâ€™s reverence for nature. At one time, man recognized that animals represented a mystical link to nature and the divine. Peekle is a spirit animal or totem animal who linked man with nature and the divine, and facilitated manâ€™s communion with nature and the divine. Now, man no longer sees the spirit animals and has forgotten how to commune with them. Peekle is therefore dead to men, and nature and the divine are lost to us. The words and music of nature no longer inspire men.

Work in progress, hand drawn and Photoshop.