Bryony James

Pony people

2012-01-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

A tribute to the super wonderful series "My Little Pony: Friendship is magic"!
Done(ages ago) in Adobe Illustrator. I keep forgetting to update my blog -_-

Giraffe

2011-12-02T14:35:00.001-08:00

Kitties!

2011-11-23T05:44:00.001-08:00

Trying to draw more animals because my portfolio is seriously lacking in that area :P

My new animation

2011-11-21T07:56:00.000-08:00

Here's my newest animation, an entry for the RedBull Canimation contest.
It took me a week to do and was all done in Flash.

Turns out that the competition is being judges on how popular you can make your video rather than how good it is, so it feels like it was a bit of a wasted effort. Its all good for my showreel I suppose :)

Naughty and Nice

2011-10-16T11:35:00.001-07:00

Uploading a sketch for once ^_^
I'm sure I'll get round to colouring this eventually...

Curly

2011-09-27T14:47:00.000-07:00

Had an urge to do some curly hair. I can never get my own hair to curl :(

2011-08-25T13:41:00.000-07:00

Teen Titans girls

2011-06-19T05:26:00.001-07:00

Fanart of a cartoon that I used to watch when I was in school. These 2 where my favorite characters :)

Shes a bit evil

2011-05-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

This was going to be more elaborate but I got a bit bored with it and decided to just leave it quite rough. She was a bit to mean looking for my elaborate idea anyway.

Lady doodle

2011-05-24T16:06:00.001-07:00

stooped bunneh

2011-01-31T05:30:00.001-08:00

Princess

2011-01-15T16:03:00.000-08:00

I've been constantly using illustrator at work for a few months so I thought it was about time I tried doing something in the program off my own back.
Here it is!

Skeeeeeeeeetch

2010-11-15T04:53:00.000-08:00

OMG a post!

2010-10-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

Sorry blog. I havn't posted here in a long time as I've been working full time at an animation company as well as working on a web comic which you can see here www.sambooka-comic.com

I have been drawing, I promis! Here's a picture as proof

Decorating the night

2010-06-14T08:19:00.000-07:00

Yay stuff! Haven't updated in a while due to working on comissions and a new comic project. Here something I did to pass the time whilst rendring things in Premiere. Stupid, stupid Premiere...

Messy elf

2010-05-08T10:11:00.000-07:00

This is a very unfinished pic for me! For once I manged to stop before working into it too much :D I quite like its messyness anyway. I did this after seeing a tutorial by Loish where she adds a texture layer very early on in the drawing. Its a fun way to work.

Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn

2010-05-04T05:31:00.000-07:00

Batman fanart! Kind of redesignd them a bit for fun

2010-04-28T15:30:00.000-07:00

Heres my 3rd year film done at uni. Its aaaaaaalllllll Flash :)
Super Lexi Game! A look at the life of a video game character.
Enjoy :D

Sambooka's lifetime

2010-04-22T06:10:00.000-07:00

This weeks design a characte challange was to show the stages in the lifetime of a character. This is Sambooka the pirate, a potential comic character. Arrrrrrrr

Expressions

2010-04-11T11:40:00.000-07:00

Girls!

2010-03-26T12:49:00.000-07:00

Animals

2010-03-15T04:35:00.000-07:00

Just some boredom doodles

Style callange

2010-03-11T05:11:00.001-08:00

This weeks design a character challange was to design a character in the style of Chris "Lilo and Stitch" Sanders. I ended up going with a devil hoebag and her demon panda. Nice XD

Link to the design a character group- http://design-a-character.deviantart.com/

Alice and the cat

2010-03-08T10:01:00.000-08:00

Did this for a Cheshire cat drawing contest but I ended up drawing him waaaaaaay too creepy. He kind of freaks me out a bit ;_;

character shape challange 2

2010-03-03T13:11:00.000-08:00

Same idea as th previous post :P

character face challange

2010-02-23T12:18:00.000-08:00

Theres a great new group on deviantart which sets character design challanges every week. For the past month they've been posting shapes which you have to create designs from. Here's my attempt from a week ago.
I'm gonna try again this week. Its so fun and great if you've got a bit of an artists block :)

Heres the group
http://design-a-character.deviantart.com/

Doodlings

2010-02-09T08:57:00.000-08:00

Havn't updated in a while so I thought I'd post some doodles from my sketch book

Red Gold and Gretel

2010-01-22T02:36:00.000-08:00

An idea I had for a story where Gretel is trying to save her brother from the evil witch in the ginger bread house and along the way she teams up with the pistol wielding thief GoldyLocks and a traumatised Little red riding hood. Goldy is on the run from the bears because she shot their kid, and Red is being hunted down by the wolf mafia as she killed their boss.

snow day

2010-01-12T08:51:00.001-08:00

Inspired by the recent British weather.

Adobe Illustrator shizzle

2010-01-06T15:38:00.000-08:00

In work we were taught to use Illustrator to create characters that could be then rigged up in CelAction and animated. I made a Dinoroo :D

I also got to make a background as I needed to animate a scene with my character and a another 2 by the other trainees.

I actually ended up quite liking Illustrator after years of not getting it. Flash is still better though

Wakfu fanart

2010-01-05T04:07:00.001-08:00

Taking a bit of a break from my showreel I decided to do some Wakfu fanart BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME. Wakfu is a French Flash andimated series BTW :P

Sad Kitty

2009-12-20T08:16:00.000-08:00

Quicky done in flash

Some guy

2009-12-06T12:31:00.000-08:00

Pirate

2009-11-30T02:49:00.001-08:00

Yahhhhhhhr!

Quick characters

2009-11-27T06:19:00.000-08:00

Here are a few quicky randoms I did to fill up my portfolio a bit at short notice.
All done with flash

Powering up

2009-11-19T13:27:00.000-08:00

TOO MUCH COLOUR!!!!! I'm gonna calm down with it after this @_@
Lineart done in Flash, colouring in Photoshop.

Wizard siblings

2009-11-03T05:20:00.001-08:00

More Flash experementation. I really dont know why I havnt used it more for art in the past. Its so fast!

Flash fun

2009-10-05T06:58:00.000-07:00

Having a go at illustraiting in Flash. Its pretty fun! I think I'll use it more often :D

COLOUR AGGGGRRRRHHHHHHAAAAAAHHHH

2009-09-22T10:51:00.000-07:00

I think they're having a race but I guess it doesn't really matter as this image makes no sense what so ever *shrugs*

New job and some artypoos

2009-08-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

Gah! I keep forgetting about my blog.

Anywho, I have a job now! Whoot! Currently I'm working at Cardiff based company Dinamo on their series "Happy Vally". The project is done using Toon boom harmony so I'm getting loads of experience with the programme which I'm sure will help with future endeavors :)

Here's some art I did a few weeks back and completely forgot to post here -_-

Fishing (badly) for mermaids

2009-07-04T10:11:00.000-07:00

Just a little illustration that popped into my head. The fishing kid is the character I used for a lipsync project in my second year. He was a patheticly bad fisherman -_-

Showreel

2009-06-17T14:13:00.000-07:00

Finally got my showreel to work on Youtube. It was originally set to "Just a girl" by No Doubt but had to be changed due to copyright :(
This features work that I've done over the last 2 years on the animation course

Sketches

2009-04-25T07:43:00.000-07:00

3rd year film pre-production

2009-04-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd post some of the pre-prod work I did for the Flash film I'm currently working on. This was done back before christmas so it feels a bit old now and Lexi, the main character, has changed quite a bit design wise.

Princess, hero and witch

2009-04-07T04:13:00.000-07:00

Some character designs
I tried to mess around with my style a little on this one

A face in the woods

2009-03-31T09:58:00.001-07:00

Heres a drawing I did over the weekend using my brand new Wacom bamboo and Photoshop.
So glad I bought that thing <3

Concept art for RFTM

2009-03-30T04:17:00.000-07:00

Whoop! Next day update. I'm trying to start as I mean to go on and I've got quite alot of old art I'd like to post here.

To follow the second year theme heres the original concept drawing I did in the summer which lead to the story used in Reaching for the moon. The designes changed quite alot (these guys would have been too hard to animate 0_0) but I think I managed to get the over all feel of the picture into the film...somehow..

It was done using Markers, watercolours and Painter 7.

And while I'm here I may as well post some other old things to get them out of the way

Yay film!

2009-03-29T05:00:00.000-07:00

Finally kicking this blog off. Seems like my first film is a good place to start.

This was done in 2008 during my second year on the HND Animation course at the university of Glamorgan. Took about 4 or 5 months and was fully animated in traditional 2D with the colouring done in animo and the backgrounds coloured with Photoshop.
Enjoy :D