My brother, animation wizard.

Recently, I've been helping my brother out with a project he's taken on. As is true of all of the Moulder clan (I'm sure you've noticed it of me too...) he has a tendency to set himself an incredible amount of work and want to complete it with a perfectionist's eye.
He was asked to do some murals for a new shop. Of course Ed covered every inch of wall with illustrations so I was roped in to help fill in the colour.
Here are some of the amazing result...

(He really needs more pictures of the finished product. Some of these are of work in progress...)

As you can see his style is very different from mine! Ed is really an animator and a brilliant one at that.

 

(If you like what you see I'd recommend watching this vid on his website as you can't see it very well or in very good quality in the window blogger gives you here!)

So all you out there in internet land if you need some animation done, Edward Moulder is your man!

Check out his website: http://cargocollective.com/edwardmoulder
Or his blog: http://eggwoodspace.tumblr.com/ 

This is the News!

For this project we had to take a news story and illustrate it using somekind of storytelling technique.
My news story was this:

"Harry Potter blamed for fuelling India owls' demise.

Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blamed fans
of boy wizard Harry Potter for their role in the dwindling number of wild owls.
He said that Harry Potter books and films featuring his feathered friend Hedwig are popular in India and had contributed towards the demise of owls. Mr Ramesh said there had been an increase in people wanting to buy them from illegal bird traders. He was speaking to mark the launch of a report on India's owl population.
Written by the leading conservation group, Traffic, the report calls for tougher measures to protect owls ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which is being celebrated on Friday."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11673226

I decided to do an animation, in full pencil and watercolour. "I've never seen that done" I thought, "How interesting, I wonder why? I'll try it, I'm sure it will give an interesting effect."
After three solid weeks of no sleep, minimal eating and a lot of going completely stir crazy I have discovered why noone does it. It's insane! It also didn't help that, due to a mix up with the term timetable, our deadline was brought forward a week!
Eventually it got done. There was lots I would have liked to refine or change but, by the hand in date I was all for getting it done and away!

You can watch the final with sound here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUVU3AHKuNA