Flying Octopus - Illustration animated in After Effects

Time lapse of painting a Claire Redfield jacket for cosplay

Friday sketch: Cartoon for painter and political activist Atena Farghadani

After reading Atena’s story I felt compelled to draw attention to her plight whilst exercising the freedom to draw political cartoons. Atena Farghadani peacefully protested against her Government through her art and was arrested, beaten and sentenced to over 12 years in prison. She has committed no crime. Visit Amnesty International to see how you can help free Atena.

Speed painting anglerfish in Autodesk Sketchbook

Speed drawing a broccoli character in Adobe Illustrator

The Engagement Coach - Explainer animation for employee engagement

One of my clients has launched their new business' website which has one of my animations on grin emoticon Go Check outhttp://www.theengagementcoach.co.uk/ it's a really lovely design!

Last month I made this animation for The Engagement Coach. Basically they teach managers how to help their employees to be happier and create better work environments. Amrit who hired me is a really nice guy and genuinely cares about making better working environments for people. He also gave me a lot of creative freedom with the animation as he wanted an explainer animation that looked different and stood out.

So I developed this ethereal animation style and used human hand metaphors to suit the abstract concepts within employee engagement. The colours and rendering of the animation area also designed to compliment the existing brand.

For those interested in more technical parts - the hand animation was rotoscoped in After Effects from video footage of mine and my partner's hands. I also included a few particle effects and lots of layer style glow.

More info at http://www.mairperkins.co.uk/animatio…/the-engagement-coach/