Tony character design.

Started a new project at NFTS. Going to be a two character one minute film with dialogue. Here is a design sheet I have done for one of the characters, Tony.

Also updated showreel with some stuff I have been doing in the last year. 

You can watch that at this link:
https://vimeo.com/166417988

Eskimo Poster

Here's a Poster I designed as a gift for my girlfriends birthday present.

Ganesh

Getting back to blogging on the reg now I'm at NFTS. Posting up some artwork I did back in Decemeber as a christmas present for my Dad. Made him a massive poster out of this. 

I am in the process of setting up a profile on society 6 where you'll be able to buy prints, t shirts, pillows, mugs etc with my artwork on it.

Also Heres a Track from the new album,

If you haven't alreayd check otu full album for stream and download here:
https://boxbeatrobot.bandcamp.com/album/jurassic-coast-deep-dream

Brand New Album

Been a while since last post. Was busy working for a bit, now I have started a masters in directing animation at National Film and Televisions School. More from that soon

Meanwhile I have been working on my fourth album to date.
It's another experimental ambient piece, themed around the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, south England.

You can stream it and download it for free at this link:

https://boxbeatrobot.bandcamp.com/album/jurassic-coast-deep-dream

If you are feeling generous you can even pay a little for it,

                                       

Enjoy and share around.

Peace and love.

Space Story and NFTS

So recently I applied for the Directing Animation Masters at the National Film and Television School. Following in the footsteps of people like Nick Park who was an allumni. Had to partake in a week long workshop, with various exercises. One involved bringing along a storyboard and developing over the course of the week with help from tutors and fellow applicants. Was an awesome week, made some great friends.

Good news is a got in! WOO!

Anyway, here is the animatic I showed at the end of the week, along with some art development I did this week inspired by it.

Stella

Steve

Animatic

Death Mountain

Been doodling Gorons lately. They were my favourite tribe in the Zelda games.

Painted some of the sketches up and put them in their natural habitat.

The Death Mountain Crew.

Batman vs Superman

For some reason started drawing Batman the other day. Had fun doing some sketches and felt like designing a version of superman in the same style. Not particularly excited for Batman vs Superman, but it did reignite my love for Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. Love how much of a cringey douche superman is in that book.

Knocked these up as a gift for my brothers birthday. Hope you enjyo them.

Peace.

Vikings

Been a long while since I posted on the blog. Gonna get back on it. For now here are some vikings i designed in Annecy.

...and if you wanna see more work here is a link to my website: 

http://boxbeatrobot.wix.com/edsmith

Making a Movie

So i pitched my film to the course on Thursday and on Friday found out people liked it enough to want it made. Gonna be a long year, but gonna be sick at the end of it. Anyways here is some artwork i have yet to share. Music is in the works too and is sounding sick.

Ripping off Frank Miller

Just got the book "Ronin" by Frank Miller. Loved the ink work by Miller as per usual. However, just like when I read 300 the thing that struck me the most was Lynn Varley's colouring and in Ronin there's a particularly striking colour palette. Anyway thought I'd try explore this with my own film pitche chracter.

technodelic

Things are getting far out...

octagonal screens

Record label and more concept work

Some new artwork for my film. practicing this digital painting and colours and shit.

Also started a record label today with my mate. It's called X-O-Dos.

Heres our facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/xodoslabel

Heres the a release on our label by Nor Love. Some dark noisey post rocktronic tunes.

Baby from the water

More concept work for my film idea.

Deep meditation

Further development of my film pitch

Worker Ant

Was look through my stuff and found a comic i was making a few years back and never finished. Think i may redo it in the future, but for now I've used the main character as the subject of some digi paint practice.

primordial life

Today has been about drawing primordial life, further development of my film pitch. Weird little critters made of translucent shapes floating in a void. 

The creation

Working on my film pitch some artwork for my film pitch.

M1-K3

Going back to my roots my mum asked me to do a robot portrait of my uncle to put on a t-shirt for his 60th birthday.

Film pitch stuff

Some further character development.