I’ve been busy with freelance commercial work and have neglected my blog. Plus I had to upgrade WordPress and migrate to a new host, which I just completed this week. With the migration and upgrade complete I’ll be back to posting regularly. Anyway, above is a color comp, cut-out design and character design I put together for a music video treatment I submitted last year for Neil Diamond through RW Media. I didn’t get the gig :(

My animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’, performed by Ceri Frost, is featured this week on Channel Frederator on their Frederator Show along with an interview on the Frederator Blog.

Channel Frederator YouTube Feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLMnSFHY0k
Channel Frederator Show Feature: http://www.channelfrederator.com/frederator/episode/CFR_20091110
Frederator Blog Interview: http://frederatorblogs.com/channel_frederator/2009/11/12/giles-timms-dead-all-along/

Channel Frederator is the ‘cartoon central on the internet and features original cartoons.’

Thanks ever so much to Bailee DesRocher and Bobby Miller :)

‘Dead All Along’ is featured as the ‘Film of the Day’ on the Portable Film Festival front page and blog.

Portable Film Festival: www.portablefilmfestival.com
Portable Film Festival Blog: Dead All Along – Film of the Day

Big thanks to Al Cossar and the rest of the crew at www.portablefilmfestival.com :)

‘Dead All Along’, my recent animated music video, is featured on Juxtapoz over at their blog: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/edward-gorey-inspired-music-video-for-dead-all-along.

I’m really happy to be on Juxtapoz as I’m a huge fan of their art and culture themed magazine and admire many of the artists they feature :)

‘Dead All Along’ is an Edward Gorey inspired animated music video performed by the talented Ceri Frost.

Big thank you to Katie Zupann and the rest of the crew at Juxtapoz.

Manifestations was featured on nofatclips.com. You can find the feature here: http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2009/05/giles-timms-manifestations.html

Many thanks to nofatclips.com!

Manifestations was also featured on BoingBoing along with a discussion of Mr. Chip and a short interview about my work. You can find the feature here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/01/bb-video-manifestati.html

A big thank you to Xeni Jardin and David Pescovitz of BoingBoing!

Manifestations was recently featured on Cartoon Brew: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/manifestations.html

Many thanks to Jerry Beck! And thanks to everyone who left a comment =)

The Gravatar plugin was supported with the Blix theme so all the hard work was already done for me, though I did change the default settings.

Basically, Gravatar allows you to upload an image or avatar to gravatar.com and then associate an email address with the uploaded image. Then, when you supply your email address in the comment form on someone’s blog, the Gravatar plugin automatically retrieves your avatar and you see a gravatar.

If you’d like to see a gravatar next to your comments on CHOBLE, simply visit www.gravatar.com and upload an 80 x 80 pixel image. Once your gravatar (it takes about a day) has been rated, your gravatar will be displayed next to all of your comments.

Here’s my gravatar image that I created in Illustrator and Photoshop. It’s a combination of a vector image overlaid on top of a painting that I posted in Welcome to the New CHOBLE.

Go make a gravatar!

To commemorate the new home and look of CHOBLE I created a shiny new header image. I darkened the final header image a bit, though the original can be seen above. The header was created with acrylic, gouache and Sakura pens and is 71/2″ x 2″.

I decided to paint the header as I have always been inspired by Ron Russell’s gorgeous blog header that has a wonderful hand-drawn quality to it. To view Ron’s blog header and his excellent artwork go to ronji.blogspot.com.

The figure to the left, in the new header, is CHOBLE (I think). He was derived from the sketchbook drawing seen below.

Also, I still haven’t properly finished the move over from blogger so this site will continue to be updated (and I’ll add links!)

I received a set of Prismacolour brush markers for Christmas and created a set of drawings that were inspired by Smook’s marker drawings (http://reddotblog.blogspot.com/).

I really like the painterly quality of the markers and the blending that happens when you lay colours on top of one another.

These images are all drawn from photos. I’m still trying to learn how to use the markers.

This one turned a bit dark.

These were my attempt at caricatures.