DEMO REEL

Whaddup dudes. It's been like... 2 years. ANYWAY. Here is my latest DEMO REEL:

Simon Cottee 2D Animation Demo Reel 2016 from Simon Cottee on Vimeo.

Drunk Animation Exercise

Here are some rough roughs for a drunk animation exercise.
I hope he seems drunk...



There are a few janky bits, like the wobble step and the reaction then fall... and the fact that his leg length changes so much on the attempted step. I'm pleased with how many frames I managed in only 2 sessions though.

Art Dump 2 - Sonja Smoke and friends

Here are my character designs for my friend Bronte's honors creative writing piece. It is an awesome collection of poems about these "super heroes" who aren't quiet heroes. Hopefully it becomes HUGELY famous and I know I did the initial visual designs!
I tried drawing these really organically, just going ahead and not cleaning them up much at all. It was a really fun and quick process. Start with the structure then just add in and remove linework all on the one layer.

Sonja

Bit of a weird design this one, she may look too much like an alien/feline thing.

Heart Throb

He is a hero but he also literally steals hearts. He ended up getting real Bob Dylan meets Travolta from grease.

The Hawk

I realized after he looks plenty like Dr Weird and Harvey Birdman. Also a bit of a super hero pimp... He is actually more of an ex hero now full time hero manager.

The Monster

A Star Wars monster meets the Pyro? The monster is a pretty cool character, but no spoilers here!!!

I'm meant to be on holidays for a week but have a billion uni work things to do!
I am going to start production on a new short film/graphic animation soon, about Laika, the Russian dog sent to space.

OH AND my housemate and his GF are hardcore pokemon players so I just picked up soul silver, I used to be nuts into pokemon in primary school. I just randomly ran into and caught a shiny Rattata! 1 in 8,192 chance apparently. They are uber jealous. Man what a fucking nerd. I am.

A New New Hope

Here is my Green Screen Assignment.
This is totally official canon now.



Made in After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop. Using some video copilot tutorials.

Spike and Mudley Crime Police DONE

Woo! Here we go. After a stupid few days of animating here is my "proof of concept" Spike and Mudley Crime Police episode. So think of it as a taste of a much larger story (which I may do next year).



Music
Arkady Michalik - Parkingi
Mr Jonathan - Gerald Lee
Grant Green - Luanna's Theme

Spike - Simon Cottee
Mudley - Jack Vening

I also threw it up on newgounds. Perhaps the largest advantage of using Flash as an indie animator.
My uni mate Tom uploaded his awesome animation in unison with me.
WE ARE NOW COMPETING!

Lava Level Shirt Store Live

I've finally gotten my little pixel shirt store live!
http://lavalevel.tshirt123.com/
So far there are 4 designs, I'll slowly flesh that number out.

I have no idea how to market this stuff, I guess I will just see what happens.

Hello the INTERNET!

May your communication cyber-tentacles hug me gentle and download tender electric kisses onto my virtual forehead. In return I will award you with bytes of precious data to fill your space coffers.

Hi, my name is Simon Cottee and welcome to my new blog which will chronicle my exciting adventures in the world of ANIMATION .
I am currently in my 2nd year of animation study (2D) at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia.
My primary programs are Toon Boom Animate Pro and Flash.

My current Uni projects are:

• An experimental cut out animation
• Some character acting exercises
• A video research project on historical and traditional art styles in modern animation
• Buncha life drawing and some character design
• Short script for an animation
• A production blog (WOAH META!)
  

My current personal projects are:

• Spike and Mudley - A goofy animated cop drama
• Weekly drawing challenges

PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY!!!