H.M.Punton Illustration & Animation

I have finished setting up my final piece from the unity project for Riso print. This is just as a small project for the final show at my college. I broke the image up into 3 colours which can be printed as any colour available. So I have the green layer, the grey layer and the purple layer which can be printed in various colours from bright pinks to dark blues. I look forward to seeing how well this turns out since I really liked how my last Riso work went.

For my work based learning project I had to create a finished piece as part of the Cheltenham Illustration Awards as part of their Unity theme. I started off by coming up with different concepts to base my illustration around. I ended up deciding to create a piece with a historical theme, I wanted to depict a scene with multiple historical figure remembered from history for uniting their people. I chose individuals from different countries and era's since I wanted the piece to fit into the theme of unity and everyone coming together. I wanted the piece to have an ethereal feeling so I decided to depict each of the individuals as undead  going together to create the them of being united in death. I started off concepting out rough sketches of how I wanted to lay out my piece. I then decided to ask for help from people on my course with posing reference. Once I had a with poses I liked nailed down I decided to refine the sketch into some line art which I would use as a guide f...

As part of my work based learning project I was advised to look into companies that work in the illustration or animation industry to get an idea of the sort of place I could end up working once i'm finished college. I have mainly stuck to looking at illustration agencies and studios since that is where my main focus is with my own work. I looked a a lot of companies ranging from studios that do a lot of 3D work and others that focus more on graphics & design. I ended up the most interested in two particular companies: AtomHawk Atomhawk is a illustration studio which does freelance work for various companies, usually helping out on larger projects like big budget video games like Mortal Kombat and massive blockbuster movies like the Avengers. Their list of services includes: concept art, production design, motion graphics, UI/UX design and Marketing art. I am more interested in the rough concept art they show in their portfolio than the more finished marketing art. I like ...

The World Illustration Awards is a competition held each year and calls for entries from both well known artists and new artists alike. The competition is a good way for illustrators to showcase their work and allows the us to see some of the newer trends in the industry. I was looking at an article covering the 2018 awards on We Are Bulletproof's website  [link]  and they showcased some of the key themes that stood out to them. Fantasy Cityscapes This trend is one of the more fun ones to have been highlighted from the awards. It mostly consists of these large fantastical city environments with a lot of detail and different things going on so that each time you look at the piece you see something new. I like the use of colour that these pieces have, a lot of bright inviting colours help give the pieces a very broad appeal. I personally would like to work on environments more in the future and think the more isometric layout can create a very compelling design. Cutout ...

I decided to look into past entries from the tangled theme of cheltenham Illustration awards since with my work based learning project I am working with this years word prompt of unity. By looking at past entries I hope to get an idea of the sort of work the awards are looking for and then I can compare that to my own work. It's quite difficult to find images from the prior years awards and even harder to find images that show the full pieces and not just a corner of them. I don't know why the awards photography is like this but here is some images I was able to find. Last years entries Things that stand out to me about last years entries are the prevalence of traditional work compared to digital. it's kind of hard to tell either way with some pieces but I imagine most of those are done traditionally as well. I tend to stick to more digital work with my pieces and I don't know if thats a good idea with the lack of digital work you see in the past entries. Though...

For one of my projects at college I was tasked with creating short experimental animations using footage I took myself and then using Cinema 4D to track the footage and finally composite objects into the scenes. I went up the the castle near my home and took some footage of different areas as well as taking some footage of the surrounding streams which lead into the castles moat. some of the experiments I played around with were things like mapping the footage onto objects and then using those objects as masks, that way I could have other objects looking like they were going behind things in the scenery. I used this technique to make it look like the red tubing was wrapping around the castles tower. I also used this to make a short animation with golden rings coming out of different slots on the castle. I then tried messing around with more effects on the object I was using as a mask and ended up adding some glass reflection and transparency and this made it so I could have objec...