Tom Gran - Animation/Illustration

Ministry of Curious Stuff animatics

2012-02-24T13:39:00.005-08:00

Ministry of Curious Stuff is a CBBC show I worked on at Wonky. Here's a few of the animatics I made for it, along with the final animated sequences that appeared in the show.

Cavepaintings

Frogs Eating

Soldier Monkey

Talking Parrot

more Whaleman stuff

2012-02-21T16:57:00.002-08:00

Nearly done.

Whaleman Stuff

2012-02-12T15:54:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a comic book-style piece of animation for these guys. It looks like this.

Buck and Rick - SNEAK PEEK

2012-01-15T07:40:00.000-08:00

my pitch to the videogame industry

2012-01-09T12:24:00.000-08:00

Lone Wolves

2012-01-09T12:09:00.000-08:00

Had an idea for a sitcom about three brooding loners who are also room mates.

Christmas Dancers

2012-01-04T12:33:00.000-08:00

I made these for some music website before Christmas. Figured I'd better post them before everyone forgets Christmas happened.

spooky Flash bug

2012-01-03T12:12:00.000-08:00

TNT and cutoffs

2011-12-30T07:07:00.001-08:00

If I don't finish this damn cartoon soon I'm gonna kill myself.

Buck and Rick colour tests

2011-12-18T15:52:00.000-08:00

guns guns guns

Truck and guy

2011-12-14T19:28:00.000-08:00

Celebration Post

2011-12-09T19:51:00.000-08:00

I just finished a huge massive chunk of animation for Buck and Rick. Here's some more screenshots.

Bottoms Up - final pieces

2011-12-04T11:55:00.000-08:00

Molls

2011-12-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

Had an idea about gun molls. Everything I come up with seems to star double-acts.

Buck and Rick stuff

2011-12-04T11:40:00.000-08:00

I've been working away at the first episode of Buck and Rick for the last month or so. Here's a bunch of pictures. These are all final animation but pre-colour.

New show reel

2011-11-25T08:22:00.000-08:00

Rajesh Finesse

2011-11-25T08:08:00.000-08:00

This is another concept with nowhere to go. Rajesh Finesse was invented by me and Martin as a response to the lack of Middle-Eastern adventurers around these days. Back in the 20s you couldn't move without tripping over a heroic desert-man but these days all they're allowed to do in films is get shot.

Rajesh Finesse is a daring Arabian prince with a flying tiger-skin rug and an appetite for virgin priestess vagina. He crosses the sand dunes with his colonial manservant, Alabaster Strong (pictured above), seeking out ancient treasures and mysteries and probably genies and stuff. He's also a massive asshole.

Peace Starts With Me - concept art

2011-11-24T09:10:00.000-08:00

Having a proper blog is nice because I can stick stuff here that I made a while ago and then forgot about. Like these:

You can see the finished film here.

Bottoms Up

2011-11-24T08:35:00.000-08:00

These are some sketches I drew for Bottoms Up, an exhibition based around the idea of surviving the effects of climate change. I think it's being turned into a short film too.

You can look at the final images I made here.

The Tumblin' Dice

2011-11-24T07:56:00.000-08:00

These guys are part of a gang in Dead Beat. They're all named after dice rolls in Craps.

Arbitrarily naming characters after cool stuff is the best.

Dead Beat

2011-11-24T07:48:00.000-08:00

Dead Beat is a comic I wrote with Martin Woolley about a dead detective investigating the death of his dead girlfriend. It's on hold at the moment until some older projects get finished but here's a couple of test pages I made to try and figure out how the hell you put a comic together.

Ignore the nasty fonts. The text won't look like that in the proper comic.

Thugs and Racists (and probably rapists)

2011-11-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

These guys are extras for the bar fight in the first episode of Buck and Rick. It takes place in the most disgusting, violent and racist bar in the world.

Fantom and The Hands

2011-11-24T07:14:00.000-08:00

Fantom and the Hands were conceived when me and Martin were trying to work out how short it's possible to make a murder mystery without it being rubbish. They are turn-of-the-century magicians who moonlight as detectives. Gabriel Fantom is a diminutive, womanising escape artist and The Hands is a blind, European sleight-of-hand expert.

It turns out that a murder mystery needs to be at least 20 minutes. I don't intend to make a solid 20 minutes of animation any time soon.

Bull

2011-11-24T07:07:00.000-08:00

Celebrities

2011-11-24T07:01:00.000-08:00

Business Animals

2011-11-24T06:54:00.000-08:00

Slick 1960s animal men.

Catastropher Robins

2011-11-24T06:16:00.000-08:00

If I ever get to make a kids' show it's going to look like this.

Knights

2011-11-24T06:12:00.001-08:00

Suits of armour.

Superworld Characters

2011-11-24T06:11:00.000-08:00

These are some characters for a comic that we had to give up on making because it was way too complicated. Hopefully I can go back to it some time in the future.

This is a new blog

2011-11-24T02:38:00.000-08:00

I got sick of tumblr so now I'm using this.