Kristian Duffy Illustration and Animation

Fishbowl

2012-02-11T00:53:00.000Z

Bit of a self portrait. I'll leave you to guess which one I am!

Happy belated new year!

2012-01-14T15:19:00.000Z

Hello blog!

Well I've been busy haven't I? But enough of my words, here's some pictures:

First off, some freelance character design I did for a recruitment website:

Interestingly my first professional foray into vector based illustration after avoiding it for so long. It's not so bad afterall, I actually enjoyed myself. Don't forget to click on everything to make it bigger!

Next up, some more sweet and sour!

The first pic is of the 3 most recent illustrations I did. I'm afraid it was a ficticious Tesco commission.

The next 3 are photomanipulations (in the case of the last one- it's mostly digital paint). The first two are self portraits! (with added beard)

And to sign out, just a little one I did of a bloke playing guitar (trees are too small though)

Finally, I'm working on some freelance animation too! Which is exciting, I'll be showing that on completion as well hopefully. 'Till next time, goons out

At the Beach

2011-11-14T00:07:00.001Z

Wanted to go a bit watercolour-y with this hence the texture and desaturation. Hope y'all like it!

Only One ATM in Antarctica

2011-10-25T16:53:00.001+01:00

Fictitious VW commission, if only they actually paid for and published this!

Domestic Alien

2011-10-08T01:34:00.000+01:00

Well, I coloured it in after all. That's me off to bed.

Bill Murray

2011-10-05T20:10:00.004+01:00

Here's a Bill Murray caricature. It's about half and half photograph and digipainting.

Just doing the ironing.

2011-10-05T02:18:00.000+01:00

To be coloured soooon.

'Born in Bradford' Campaign

2011-09-15T17:42:00.002+01:00

Just a few designs I put together for a project I was almost working on. A few other people tried out and in the end, I don't think they were looking for the high contrast comic book feel I was going for.

It was to be an 8 page comic about smoking around pregnant women. We were told to offer some initial designs for characters and setting. Good luck to the illustrator who took on the job, I'm sure they'll do it well.

Click them to enlarge!

Girl Walk Cycle 2

2011-08-31T04:11:00.000+01:00

Whoops, I forgot to blog this one!

I did this a week after my last girly walky cycle, trying my hardest to improve. I think I'm getting there slowly. Not touched animation since though, I do miss it. I want to cut my teeth mastering the walk cycle- once I've done that I can move on to the more interesting stuff, but for now, expect more walk cycles!

Animated Walk Cycle 2 from Kristian Duffy on Vimeo.

Girl Walk Cycle

2011-08-09T04:26:00.002+01:00

Been reading the 'ol survival kit a lot lately, wanna start from the beginning and get everything I can from it. I won't move on until I 'nail' walks.

This was animated traditionally then cleaned up in Flash. I also wanted to see how the new age digital tweening looked compared to classic step by step walking. I actually thinks it looks better, making it smoother and hiding my shortcomings in the animation. Though if the cycle was animated better (less jittery), I think it would be more natural step by step.

And finally it was also a test of my new light box. I gave in after all home made attempts came out rubbish and impractical.

Hoopla! Another update.

2011-08-02T01:23:00.007+01:00

First of all, a little comic I made:

(You'll probably have to click away to make it readable) Did to practice the medium/style. I've not done anything like this since I was about 14 so it feels like a new thing to me.

As a 'new thing', it was quite intensive and difficult for just 3 panels but I quite like it.Wrote the joke with a mate o' mine years ago.

Next up is my animation showreel, which I made to represent myself over the summer and ttttrrryyyyy to find some work:

And a little bit of limited animation I did to test out how speedy I can be, this took 2 hours start to finish:

With both, click on the HD or Vimeo buttons to view them in better quality, thanks and good night y'all.

BBBBBBVVVVVVTTTTTTTTTT!

A backlot of stuff!

2011-06-21T20:32:00.003+01:00

This is a series of 6 Illustrations I created over the last 6/7 weeks or so.

Wrath:

Envy:

Pride:

And here's the animations I worked on in tandem with said illustrations.

A Startled Bear from Kristian Duffy on Vimeo.

Tuesday from Kristian Duffy on Vimeo.

Thanks and enjoy! (Don't forget to watch them in HD!)

Some more things

2011-03-21T15:49:00.001Z

Not updated my blog in a while so here's a couple of things (created in December)

One was Photoshop, the other Illustrator.

And while you're at it, you may as well watch this here animation I made as well (now in HD at your local vimeo and youtube outlets).

Cool Guy on the Bus

2011-01-19T19:47:00.002Z

I was on me bus home today, as I usually am and this cool dude popped on:

He was wearing a leather jacket and walked with a heck of a swagger, point-winking at people as he walked past. He was the absolute essence of cool.

He sat down two seats behind me.

...he was about 10 years old.

Couple of illustrations

2010-10-21T01:01:00.000+01:00

Busy busy busy! Astrology greetings card ideas. Click them to read the inside message.

Gravia Layouts

2010-09-18T18:42:00.002+01:00

Here are 4 layouts from the animation I started work on over the summer. It's an advert for a fictitious brand of televisions:

I've been busy animating!

2010-09-06T22:22:00.003+01:00

Here's a few drawings I've done over the summer (the whole summer, I know, its a terribly small amount for any kind of artist).

There isn't a lot because I've been animating! Don't know why I haven't posted any of my layouts here, I might do that soon. (Here's the opening to that animation: http://vimeo.com/14086898)

First official drawing post!

2010-08-10T00:23:00.002+01:00

This is mainly what this blog'll be about, my sketches and whatnot. I'm thinking of making seperate blogs for things like, the production of an animation and so on. Anyway this be the main hub so, welcome home:

Stuff from around the interwebs

2010-08-10T00:15:00.003+01:00

Here's a couple of selected old works to get the ball rolling, roll ball roll!

Gary and Reuben, August 2009

Computer Virus, November 2009

Darwinism, February 2010

Underwater Current, April 2010

Check out my Vimeo to see some past animations, www.vimeo.com/kristianduffy. Cheers!

It begins!

2010-08-03T23:02:00.000+01:00

All this new fangled bloggity stuff is alright innit?