http://www.bronwyncoveney.com en-gb bronwyncoveney.com 2012-4-22T00:00:00Z bronwyncoveney.com http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#116922 Its the inevitable return of Panda This time hes featuring in the Bubbles of Love campaign for Kids Against Parental Alienation Awareness Organisation. I was pleased with the outcome as were the clients at KAPAAO. I made the bubbles in Illustrator then hand drew Panda and the children before popping them into Illustrator too. Click here for more information on KAPAAO and see the piece featured and credited. 2012-4-22 20:55:37 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#116430 Well now long time no see. Apologies for the long absence lets see... whats happened since October 2010... Well since then Ive moved house twice and changed day job 6 times. As an 18 month period goes its been a fairly frantic one.Business has been quiet but not silent. After the awesome time with ITV Fixers I still had work to do on Gloria with Badeyedeers. Gloria was completed and handed over in April 11 though I havent heard from Badeyedeers since then so no word on the final film.The rest of 11 was fairly quiet until PAAO and KAPAAO contacted me around Christmas for a couple of promo pieces for their website and for an upcoming event. Panda was given a new lease on life in Illustrator and now looks lovely and lush Check him out in the Scrapbook.My long time client and friend J. Bastian has been keeping in contact and has expanded the Nain Rouge into a full blown trilogy. Theres also talks of a film in the works. Keep up to date on the Nain Rouges tricks on the Rouges Faceb... 2012-4-14 10:28:37 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#77988 So Brons been a busy little lobster. While I was animating Mooch I got a message from another staff member at ITV Fixers. My Mooch client had passed on my details to their colleague who was in need of an illustrator. The project was for a healthy eating booklet with stickers featuring fruit and vegetable based characters. My client wanted the characters to be suitable for a young age group with appeal to encourage them to eat more fruit and veg.To the left are the characters I came up with. Apple is the bonny girlnextdoor fruit with understated beauty. Banana is the playful happy member of the gang always smiling and up for fun. Carrot is the laid back heart throb with easy charm and appeal. Strawberry is sassy and stylish an absolute stunner Tomato is the shy yet friendly intelligent one and finally Broccoli is the easy going cool dude.Both this project and the Mooch film have been completed now. A link to the Mooch film will no doubt appear on the Animations page and the st... 2010-10-15 15:43:23 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#70733 A while it has certainly been. Dont assume that just because I dont blog every other week that Im not busy. In fact the less I blog the busier I usually am.So what have I been busy doing Well aside from moving home in April and only just finishing to unpack now Ive been commissioned for not just one but two films as an animator.The first film is for Gwynn D. Earl of London. The project took my eye as the content is wonderfully surreal and wacky a man with a bubble on his head tries to get to the doctors on a train on the hottest day of the year while trying to avoid tickethappy bunnyrabbit conductors a pyromaniac teddy bear and the rest of humanity. Its a perfect platform for slapstick violence and Earls own brand of wacky humour. For Earls film the third episode of the Hells Host series Some Like it Really Hot I am producing storyboards and animating the aforementioned pyromaniac teddybear Gloria. I have uploaded a rough draft of a walk cycle for Gloria check it out on the An... 2010-7-19 10:36:34 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#70734 2010-7-19 10:36:34 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#61425 Way back in January I got in touch with Jason Young about a project which ironically I am no longer working. The focus instead has been on four other films Mother Seacole also The British Hotel Equiano in Africa The Novelist and The Pastorate. For all of them I have been working as a storyboard artist and for Mother Seacole I have also been working as a concept artist.After much promising I have finally put up some of the concept art from Mother Seacole plus a couple of panels from Equiano in Africa. The Mother Seacole work was all produced by hand using either pencil or watercolour effect. For Equianos storyboards I have been using my Wacom tablet. The effect Ive aimed for is a more painted style quite different to the cartoon animals I did for Hull Animal Welfare. On the subject of storyboards I have added a brand spanking new feature to the site On the Illustrations drop down menu you can now access the Storyboards and Sequentials page for actual pages of storyboards and an... 2010-3-25 20:43:31 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#60986 This might be something I pop into my 27 Facts page but for a time I volunteered in the cattery at the Hull Animal Welfare Trust. Time constraints mean that I cant go there often now in fact the only time I seem to go at the moment is after Ive been for a blood test to make myself feel better. But I can still help out it seems by offering my services.Well I say offer. The cattery manager knows Im an illustrator and has already approached me once to produce advertising for an event. She knows an opportunity when she sees it. This time she needed a poster for an advertising campaign at a garden centre for Easter Sunday.The turnaround time has been pretty quick. Literally I was told about the project on Tuesday with a draft deadline of friday and a final hand in date of Monday. I managed to complete the poster in a day. I produced it using my new toy my super shiny Wacom Tablet graphics tablet This is also the tool Im using for my current round of storyboard colouring and editing... 2010-3-20 21:42:01 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#58859 Sincerest apologies avid followers I have been a wee bit busy of late.Though I come with all kinds of exciting things to... erm... excite youFirst off the image on the left is of a tattoo I partially edited partially designed. My friend approached me and asked for help with a tattoo she wanted. She showed me the original design and explained what she wanted doing. Specifically she wanted an S in the belly of the phoenix and she wanted the tail completely re hauling. Along the way I also made subtle changes to the wing area too.She loved the final design and got it inked onto the inside of her forearm. The piece looks awesome and my friend is extremely happy with it. So that was a nice little side project tattoo designer Next update part of the reason why I have been absent is because I have been commissioned by a film maker to do concept art and storyboarding on a short film and a promo for what will be a feature. Hopefully some work in progresses will make their way on soon.An... 2010-2-21 10:01:03 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#57618 I sat and racked and racked and racked my brains over a letterhead. It needed to be something unique to my work so hand drawn was obvious. I didnt want to use any of the characters Id used previously and it had to be mine and something Id be happy with for a long time. After much drafting I went back to basics. My original business card had been a line drawing of Ryan the guinea pig which can be seen at the start of my showreel. Ryan the guinea pig is the soul of my film Pinny Gig see Animations and features in the portfolio. Im very happy with him being the face of businessSome more general updates the Scrapbook page has been changed so that most recent stuff goes first. The above header will probably replace the current header and when that happens the background will also get a make over. Offline I am currently working on a couple of short films for a producer down south as a character designerconcept artist and possibly also storyboard artist. Ill have a few snap shots... 2010-2-3 17:55:29 http://www.bronwyncoveney.com/page2.htm#57042 Previously Id been slightly opposed to putting a blog on a website. Then recently Id thought about all the current changes and up to the minute ish updates Id actually quite like to put on here. So this is why Ive started blogging on here. Less about the heartbreaks of everyday life but more about the new and interesting stuff that happens in my work. My client of three projects J. Bastian has been keeping a blog himself recently about how he came to write Nain Rouge. This week has been about how he found his perfect illustrator yo and thought it would be share the article. Heres just a wee taster It was amazing to me that she could draw with such speed and accuracy capturing even more than I thought I wanted in the story. She was able to take my ideas and blend them with her creativity to create images that took the story to another level. The whole article can be found here or by going to his website httpwww.josephandjosef.com via the Red Dwarf Proj... 2010-1-26 11:53:01