I wandered lonely as a transformer ....

West Side Storyboards!

I was watching the movie and copied a few panels . Drawn on toon boom's storyboard pro program via cintiq . I don't draw on paper anymore !

The Golden Compass - the bear fight

The long awaited movie of the Golden Compass based on the trilogy of books by Philip Pullman ( known in the UK as "His Dark Materials ") was released at the beginning of this year ( 2008) . Very early in the production I was asked to board an anamatic of the bear fight which was to be part of a half hour HD presentation pitch to get the movie green lit .The completed anamatic had full dolby surround , sound fx , the works - I only saw it once at a special screening at Cinecite in London . I never managed to get a copy due to the then Director, Anand Tucker leaving the project . i thought my connection with The Golden Compass had ended at that point.
I am pleased to say that much of the sequence remains in tact in the film . i produced over 200 drawings drawn with pen and ink on paper and then colour rendered in photoshop . What follows is just a selection from the full anamatic .

( all work copyright Dean Roberts )

i'm back

you've waited 2 years for a new post and now its here - worth the wait eh ! time to reclaim my blog from the porn industry. you've been so patient .
i will be posting some very exciting pictures very ,very ,very ,very soon ! promise .

garden art

Now this is real action art !

suffice to say my son was really chuffed with his name in 5 foot high letters .

(i was going to write his full name , Edwin but realised just in time that i was going to run out of garden !)

a bit dizzy

a lot of storyboard panels for one shot but sometimes there's no way round it .taken from Tarzan 2 . zugor flees as his tree is trashed by rogue gorillas.its kind of how i felt after watching England win against t 'n' t yesterday . very much the great escape !!

drought?

this has to be the wettest drought since records began !!