Forbidden Planet, Who doesn't Like superheroes? 


I felt like I needed some inspiration so decided to go to London and ended up buying an 85 mm telephoto Cannon lens and a very cool street fighter art book from the famous Forbidden Planet store in Covent Garden. 

Iron Man


Forbidden Planet is a truly awesome place, the models are almost perfectly matched to superheroes you see in the comics and films.  

Forbidden Planet has a very impressive display cabinet, containing very expensive miniature figures of comic heroes and other characters from games and films.  I took the opportunity and snapped away.  

Iron Man and his various suits of Armour. 

Alien Predator Hybrid.


This was a good opportunity to test my new camera lens and also simply admire the level of detail of this model.

Alien Predator Hybrid.

Here you can clearly see the level of detail and accuracy of these models. Just look at the anatomy and the way the hand falls. 

Visit the Superheroes, get your self down to Forbidden Planet and you may bump into Johnathan Ross I here he's a regular. 


Art Inspires Technology, Technology Inspires Art ''John Lasseter'' Director and Chief Creative Officer of Pixar.

Designing a Native American Warrior in a digital concept art style. I ensured that my sketch would be from real life, I asked the subject to pose to quickly capture the stance. 

First sketch, capturing the pose.

Second Pose referring to an anatomy book, putting in a basic skeleton to make my character have weight and sense of realism.

Starting to take shape, some muscle definition.

Sketching the Armour. The wolf head on the shoulder will blend in to an armored shoulder pad. After researching native American culture, I discovered much of their traditions and customs are closely related to nature. The crow on the characters head will act as a helmet.

Starting to paint the flesh.

Slowly starting to take shape. 

I'm trying this new thing , where I take my camera around with me almost everywhere I go.

I needed some inspiration from a sky , as I'm collaborating with a friend and my job is to paint the sky's.

This cloud was perfect for a storm. When I looked at this cloud I started to imagine it stretching out and taking form of a monster, imagining it stretching out from a tight ball, suddenly stretching out its massive arms. 

Using that Image I tried to transfer it by painting it in photo shop. My friend drew the characters in the following images, while I painted the backgrounds. The clouds symbolize the task at hand.

The final Animation will Have a 3.D mountain in, this is a work in progress.

The sun begins to come out showing a sign of hope, as the character almost reaches the top.