Sean Hayden

2011-10-11T10:52:00.003+01:00

My morning train takes me past the Olympic site and the enormous shopping centre that now graces the sky line. And each morning; outside the transport offices this stressed worker is always having a fag break.

2011-10-03T09:26:00.002+01:00

Here’s my attempt on a moebius starwatcher tribute running on the fantastic blog…
http://theairtightgarage.tumblr.com/

2011-08-11T12:31:00.000+01:00

2011-08-11T12:13:00.003+01:00

Last month i finished illustrating a Ladybird classics book of Treasure Island (out July 2012). Here’s a few of the samples i initially produced to get into the book. Was great fun doing these, and I’ll try and post up some work form the book after it’s published.

2011-08-11T12:01:00.004+01:00

A quick memory sketch, trying to recapture a sense of colour and light from the train home to sunny Essex.

a quick visual for a book i was reading at the time... Bernard Cornwell and his Uhtred series

2011-03-30T13:33:00.004+01:00

over on uli's....
http://ulimeyeranimation.blogspot.com/

CRETACEOUS CREATURES

2010-12-09T10:01:00.002Z

DRAGON

2010-11-24T11:08:00.002Z

cookie crisp BG's

2010-07-30T17:47:00.003+01:00

I once drew

2010-07-21T10:18:00.000+01:00

some randoms

2010-04-15T15:02:00.001+01:00

concepts for pilot

2009-07-01T11:56:00.022+01:00

Early this year we (Uli Meyer studios) completed a short pilot for a young children's TV series. Myself and the talented Tori (aka Tori cat) worked on the concepts and backgrounds, then we moved on to the HUGE task of painting the CGI environments. the pilot will soon be posted on ulimeyer.com

Some of my concepts below.

rendered shots coming soon.

short film progress...................

2009-06-05T20:43:00.012+01:00

A self motivation test: I’m post up some images from a short(ish) film I’m working on, and intend to post more as the progress is made. the film is a 9 and a half minute short film mixing 3d backgrounds with 2d characters.

These are screen grabs with a basic Maya light. (However the final renders will be painted with no cgi lighting).I’m getting my head around Maya as I go, so its great for that, although the hardest thing is remembering how to do certain things if its been a while.This guy is built to an extent, I intend to rig- animate- texture him in 3d with elements of 2d over the top. I’m aiming to get a very painted look for the film, this guy is going to be the biggest challenge.

Backgrounds will be a mix, some completely 2d and others 3d

Please come back for more updates... but probably not soon!

personal stuff

2009-04-28T17:21:00.003+01:00

Concepts for personal projects and ideas

Late summer oil painting

2008-09-16T14:30:00.004+01:00

Last week I was fortunate to attend a one week oil painting class at Central Saint Martins, the class was taught by Mike Major.
I really had a great time. It was a small class of about 8-9 people, all working in oils.
We had the same model all week - 4 poses. 3 one day and a two day to finish off.

First day,- - free to do what we wanted

Second day, as it was a small class we couldn’t move our easels around the room. At first I hated my view. But was pleased with the end results. For this we used earthy colours, basically we couldn’t use any strong colours.Third day. No brushes, no fingers, only pallet knife. For all these paintings we put a wash on first, for this I used a strong pink.
The first of a two day. Only four colours- Light yellow, dull green, dark red... and black! Sorry can’t remember the exact names.

The final canvas after two days, sadly not yet finished on the bg.

big thanks to Uli

wildlife

2008-05-05T17:27:00.004+01:00

I drew these for a friends wedding dinner - animals instead of table numbers , makes the day a bit more fun.

post-it

2008-04-28T22:22:00.001+01:00

2008-04-24T15:23:00.001+01:00

post-it

2008-04-01T12:30:00.003+01:00

post-it

2008-03-27T10:43:00.004Z

Almost finished

2008-02-20T18:21:00.005Z

lee

2008-02-20T18:07:00.005Z

Christopher Lee!

brendans head

2008-02-12T12:47:00.002Z

like Uli and Boris im sculpting brendans bonse, this is so much fun.

Back on a rainy day

2007-09-11T15:25:00.001+01:00

The last... last crusade.

2007-07-19T19:04:00.003+01:00

Indiana Jones 4… 50% excitement - 50% curiosity. Spielberg re-visiting his popcorn film making, and with a new take on the characters. The cgi special effects shunned… and we get a new drew struzen poster!

stoking the fire

2007-06-10T09:41:00.001+01:00

Been some time since i last blogged, arguably i don’t much anyway... had most of these on my usb stick for some time... finally blogged

colouring with the wacom

sketching with the wacom
life drawing at uli's.

More recently I visited the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, which was sweet and charming.
They wouldn’t allow cameras inside, but as you can see the outside made up for it. Inside they had animators desks made up with art work pinned everywhere; blew me away, backgrounds unframed, and every room designed with so much care and detail.

The project I’m cooking away on my desktop.

and now for a new post

2007-04-24T10:16:00.001+01:00

an airship and a dog

(mr schlingmann, now post yours!)

Life Drawing/sculpting

2007-03-14T13:38:00.002Z

Uli kindly lets us take over the studio once a week to arrange life drawing, these were yesterday’s creations. Thee sculpt was from a 45 min pose. The first photo was the angle I set myself up. As you can see from the second photo I was to lazy to move around. But it was great fun.

space cadet

2007-02-13T19:39:00.001Z

The most enjoyable part of an animation venture is creating the initial idea . I lose interest once I sit down to do it- ( when the hard work starts).

I say this because im currently trying to work on my own film, where inspiration comes and goes. I battle to stop beginning other projects but sometimes I need to just create something - get it out my system - and put it away on the shelf. so here it is... a sculpt of a character

Raiders of the lost cereal bowl.

2007-02-09T12:18:00.000Z

Boris enters the tomb of the honey bee

easy rider

2007-02-01T21:42:00.001Z

I hate my laptop screen, strong word 'hate' but I do, it lightens everything. I colour something... am happy with it, have a look on another monitor and I can barely see the thing especially dark pictures (obviously). its really frustrating, but I prefer drawing on the laptop to the pc. portability is great!
Via the magic of the curves tool... we have this!

Big Giant Rabbit

2007-01-26T09:49:00.001Z

so the sounds a bit out-of-sync...

Does anyone know how to get a youtube in sync? i uploaded a avi and an mpeg, both rubbish!

Hello !

2007-01-20T14:46:00.001Z

Mr Cosmic and his chin

After a bloging pause I finally got some motivation to post some new artwork. the picture above is from a quick doodle which I later coloured on the pc. Somewhat meaningless, but part of my new years resolution is to sketch more... and watch less big brother!

Run forest run

2006-11-23T23:15:00.001Z

The archer makes a dash for if.

Rodin

2006-10-29T20:01:00.000Z

Will talking to his pupils.

This week I visited the fantastic Rodin exhibition at the royal academy with a few friends on a 'sketch crawl'.
At first I questioned drawing sculptures, but I really enjoyed it. it’s a great way to really study a sculpt and take it all in. drawing these instead of life made me concentrate more the mass of the objects and keeping that consistent. I recommend visiting the exhibition .

Pirates ahoy !

2006-10-22T22:02:00.003+01:00

After watching the swashbuckling movie master and commander this weekend I dug up some old pictures. They were part of a comic book I started at college, so bear with me, They were the best of the bunch.

Backgrounds

2006-10-19T18:14:00.003+01:00

Backgrounds created for cran assure .

Line - hand drawn, color and texture - Photoshop

Domestos

2006-10-12T12:01:00.000+01:00

A few weeks back we worked on a pitch for the domestos ads. Sadly unsuccessful (do'h!)… anyway a concept I did .

Now apply your 3d glasses

2006-09-19T10:09:00.001+01:00

The Airship Chronicles

2006-09-06T18:21:00.001+01:00

I have updated my Airship blog, not much but a bit. I should have better things to do with my time... actually I do have better thing to do...unfortunately I cant stop developing the chronicles and thinking about stories. Meanwhile hope you enjoy the blog.

Attack of the carpet shark

2006-09-05T13:47:00.001+01:00

ANIMAL!

2006-08-28T14:26:00.001+01:00

Been a while since I posted, (had to think about my password). Got a few things to post up, this blog and the airship chronicles. So come back soon!
Meanwhile take a peek at the images below.
My elder sister recently got married (congratulation!), instead of table numbers for the sit-down meal they had different animal pictures on each table, (Safari animals with relevance to the honeymoon). These are the images, ill post more soon.

Harlequin

2006-07-26T12:17:00.001+01:00

An archer of King Edward III awaiting orders.

The giant from the Depth

2006-07-10T12:13:00.001+01:00

This was my last entry for Eurovision, (Giants) sadly only 6 entries this time.

next time is 'All must play!'

I call it...'Girl in the Wall'

2006-06-28T16:04:00.001+01:00

One-of-those

2006-06-09T12:44:00.003+01:00

Baby one-of-those is growing up fast! Celebrating his first birthday,
Mother tells him to make a wish.

2006-06-06T15:44:00.001+01:00

Celebrate good time… COME ON!
One thousand hits!

Again with the naked people!

2006-05-18T13:26:00.000+01:00

15th May

Life Drawing

2006-05-10T15:25:00.000+01:00

Angel - 9th May
life drawing - Angel - 9th May-

Clash of the special-effect techniques

2006-05-03T16:13:00.001+01:00

Yesterday I read over on 'animated-news' Warner brothers are planning a remake of Clash of the Titans. Instantly I mumbled and cursed in annoyed grunts. I grew up watching this film... all Harryhausen movies.... why remake it!

I hope they rework the story based on the mythology and not recreate the Harryhausens film with cgi.

Never smile at an Alligator!

2006-04-06T12:47:00.001+01:00

My blog’s moving along at a slow pace at the moment, been busy.
Please stop by my air ship chronicles blog.

Smudge

2006-03-24T11:27:00.001Z

Mountain - sea - lake... inspired by watching endless Bob Ross videos when i was at school.
This was my first go with a wacom tablet at Uli’s.

A NELLY & MR COSMIC

2006-03-16T21:51:00.001Z

Doodles from my desk while waiting for my computer

tiger tiger !

2006-03-16T10:28:00.001Z

Made with real genuine paints!
This was a Christmas present painted end of last year for my cousin.

Textures

2006-03-11T16:18:00.001Z

This background, i did a few years ago for a uni project, when i first started playing around with layers in Photoshop. The texture on the walls were scanned from a small paper bag out of an art shop. You can find great textures all over the place, but now i collect these bags whenever one looks interesting. I'll post up some more examples soon.

2006-02-26T20:42:00.001Z

This little guy is from my film. I originally made just his head as a drawing reference then added the body later, he’s modelled out of air clay and painted with oil.

Shadow of the Colossus

2006-02-21T23:12:00.001Z

Computer games may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but this very original game is perhaps the most inspiring game I have ever played. The scenery and scale is just remarkable, so much talent appears to have been poured into the building of the environments and levels, but not just that… the animation (of the horse especially) is just fantastic. if you have a PS2 check it out, a visual treat!

fairy doodles!

2006-02-16T17:52:00.001Z

These guys were flying around my desktop asking to be bogged. They were quick sketches drawn up for a project that unfortunately never progressed. I believe it was intended for nickelodeon again.

One-of-those

2006-02-15T17:35:00.001Z

Baby Oneofthose meets Grandpa Oneofthose for the first time.

Matt's website

2006-02-14T10:56:00.000Z

These are designs made for Matts cd and website, the top is printed on the cd and the second a variation of the cover, check out his website here....
http://www.mattsaxton.co.uk

Bens blog

2006-02-13T22:36:00.000Z

Mr Benjamin Mantel, a good friend of mine has started a blog!

link... http://bigben80.blogspot.com/

Rugrats !

2006-02-05T20:49:00.000Z

These are stills grabbed from a 30 second and a 20second we did for Nickelodeon. I got to design and direct, and had good fun animating with Cako Facioli. I created layers in Photoshop and we animated in After effects.

2006-02-05T20:25:00.001Z

"Eyes off the cookie!"

This weekend I went through a pile of old work, this is why I've uploaded a load of posts all in one go. This post is a bit varied.

Those darn martins just keep coming

Sketch book !

2006-02-05T20:04:00.001Z

These images I’ve grabbed from a sketch book, I think from 04- early 05. I don’t keep a sketch book at the moment , but scanning these has reminded me I must keep sketching regularly!

The Carousel

2006-02-05T19:55:00.001Z

Relating again to a previous post, above are images I did for my college project, which screened in the Edinburgh festival 04. It is just a student film and as I watch it again now there are many things I could change and improve , but hey, we must move on !

Work in progress 2

2006-02-03T12:05:00.001Z

Continuing from a previous post 'work in progress' this is a Photoshop picture; put together more as a concept layout rather than a background piece.

Christmas... again

2006-01-18T10:23:00.001Z

The uli Meyer studio's Christmas card

Edgar

2006-01-18T10:15:00.000Z

Another picture the Edgar project.

Airships

2006-01-04T21:39:00.001Z

I have a new Blog www.seansairships.blogspot.com
Please take a peek.

Essex

2006-01-04T21:31:00.000Z

In respect to Chuckdee's blog ( travellingdreamshow.blogspot.com/ ) he lacks any pictures of Essex, so I’ve put it upon my self to represent....

december

2005-12-02T18:23:00.001Z

Its now December and we can officially play Christmas songs! Wooooo!

2005-11-07T20:34:00.001Z

Because I’m a lazy git when it comes to updating my blog, I thought I would post a bunch of pictures in one go.

This was my attempt at a thumb nail picture. You may notice its not really that small , I find it hard to paint or draw to a tiny scale; something I’m working on.

From a life drawing class in the Tate modern.

A prehistoric sea creature who stalks the Ocean's surface.

In wake of the new Kong film I thought it relevant to post up my Eurovision image. This was a great Theme , loved the excuse to draw anything Kong related... Thought it would be fun to depict the characteristic blonde bombshell in the theme of a 50's pin up (or try).

This I did a while ago for my college film The Carousel, with oil pastels and white spirit on card.

Nutty Bottom

2005-10-31T11:01:00.000Z

Nutty Bottom was a character created for Nicktoons TV by brain Boyle.

At Uli's studio in Camden we created just over 30 '10 seconds' and 2 '30 seconders'
all were animated in After effects.

if you have sky or digital (uk) be sure to watch out at weekends during the advert breaks.

The backgrounds are Photoshop creations with textured layers.

a squirrel monkey!

drawings !

2005-10-16T19:40:00.000+01:00

Here are some sketches... to Dog is from a sculpture in the british museum.

...Must come down !

2005-10-16T16:42:00.001+01:00

An airship flying dangerously low.
Initially my intentions were to paint with oils, so I began to sketch up some ideas on the computer first.... But - its soooo much easier on the computer (cutting things up... rubbing them out... etc), I got a bit carried away and didn’t bother.
last year I read a great kids book called Airborn, which just fuelled my fascination further for these fantastic beasts. I urge anyone who can get through Harry potter to pick this book up.

flowers

2005-10-09T18:34:00.001+01:00

eurovision

2005-10-09T18:02:00.000+01:00

The theme 'spaghetti western'. i had spring to mind the scene in 'stand by me' where the main kid is telling the others a story about a pie eating contest, not really relevent to spaghetti western, but what the hell.

science fictiononce upon a time , oil pastels ... a brother grim story ‘the goat and the seven kids‘, the mother rescues her children from the belly of a sleeping wolf, she cuts him open- and fills his belly with large rocks. He later drowns in a well!

horse

2005-09-13T21:10:00.001+01:00

moooo !

2005-09-13T20:46:00.001+01:00

These were done for a project we worked on at uli's studio, you may have seen some work on his blog under the 'Edger' title .

Doh !

2005-09-13T09:53:00.001+01:00

uhh !

Work in progress

2005-09-10T17:38:00.001+01:00

These are pictures for a short film idea I have about a giant sea turtle

Big Giant Rabbit

2005-09-10T17:34:00.001+01:00

The first picture is a still from Big Giant Rabbit, viewable on www.ulimeyer.com check it out

The second is an idea for a further short.

Paintings

2005-09-10T17:29:00.001+01:00

Thought I would post up some paintings for variation. The first one is drawn whilst lying down, thats why its on the wonk!

Eurovision

2005-09-10T17:25:00.001+01:00

These were entries for eurovision, do you remember, and jazz !

The Carousel

2005-09-10T17:19:00.001+01:00

This was a background from my final year student film, from Surrey Institute of Art and Design.

These are models, the ring master from the film and a random horse.

War of the Worlds

2005-09-10T17:14:00.001+01:00

Just finished the book, although I drew these before, otherwise I would have drawn them with three legs! I also lost my files so I had to scan in some prints.

Welcome to my blog!

2005-09-09T16:01:00.001+01:00

Hey,

Check out some of my pictures. I'll be updating it whenever I remember!!