[Demo Reel] 2015

My name is Jack Gray, and this is a demo reel I created in December 2015, my online alias is MrCurlypanda and has been since 2009 when I was 17. I have studied at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology and Leeds Beckett University and I currently work at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology teaching Games and Animation while animating freelance in my spare time; this is a collection of all the work I have done from 2013 – 2015, ranging from personal videos, commissions, university projects and college projects. The video is just under 2 minutes long and features the music of Aloe Island Posse; Downtown.

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Running Time Approx 1 mins and 56 secs
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[Commission] Children in Care - Life Stories Animation

This was a commission I did for Sheffield City Council, I worked with a company called Sort of… Films to create this video, I was to create a 3 minute animated opening while the video editing company provided live action footage for the rest of the video. The video was about Children in Care homes, and my part of the video featured children who talk about their experience of going into a care home at a young age and how it’s affected them. The video was started in the beginning of February 2016 and finished on the 26th.

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Running Time Approx 2 mins and 51 secs
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[Commission] SHU Animation - Discussion

The second commission for Sheffield Hallam University to help Tutors understand how to teach lesson plans to their students, in this case; the video is used to help discuss "discussions" among the students. The video was commissioned to me by Andrew Bullough a curriculum developer and project manager for Science Education based in Sheffield Hallam University. The video took a little over a month to complete, starting on the 6th of November until the 8th of December, I recreated the character models rather than using the models from the previous animation as requested by the client.

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Running Time Approx 4 mins and 19 secs

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[Animatic] Joshua Man

This is the most recent animation I have started in my spare time, a short video titled ‘Joshua Man’, Joshua man is a character a friend of mine had when he was 4 – 5 and we thought it might be good to take all the old drawings he had and turn it into a real super hero. This is currently only an animatic, so some scenes are subject to change or be shortened/lengthened. The animatic took around 2 days to complete and I’ve been discussing whether or not I should send this video to an animation festival.

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Running Time Approx 1 mins and 37 secs
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[Drawings] Animated gifs

Here are a few animated .gifs that I have done over a long period of time, from the very beginning of using Flash to some more recent drawings; Making animated .gifs is somewhat more enjoyable than drawing still images, because it doesn’t take quite as long as creating a full animation and you can have more fun with it than creating a simple drawing. The spinning head was part of the pre-production I did for the Sheffield Hallam Animation I created, the horse was animated in my spare time, and the girl is a clip from the animation Magical Girl.

[Commission] SHU Animation - Dilemma

The first commission for Sheffield Hallam University to help Tutors understand how to teach lesson plans to their students, in this case; the video is used to help discuss and solve "dilemma" with the students. The video was commissioned to me by Pat Morton the director of WiSET and project manager for Engage based in Sheffield Hallam University. The video took a just over a month and half to complete, starting on the 17th of April until the 22nd of June, I received a lot of feedback throughout this project while animating independently. This video is the first of a possible six.

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Running Time Approx 3 mins and 4 secs

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[Commission] Mashed on 4oD - Boobs, Dragons and Plumbers

This animation was created for Channel 4’s YouTube Channel; #Mashed. The video above were segments for several episodes of their show to be featured on 4 on Demand. Though Anthony Price drew the character I lip-synced everything you see and edited the character to wear different clothing’s and feature different hairstyles, though most segments weren’t used in the episode also provided, some were used for adverts and trailers for the show. The video was used throughout 2015 in several videos, taking snippets and dropping them in certain videos. Here is a link to the full video: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/mashed/on-demand

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Running Time Approx 3 mins and 28 secs
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[Personal] Super 80's

Super 80’s was a video I made as a Flash / After Effects Test, the video was finished on 18th of July in 2014 and uses the soundtrack from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City game. I created it during summer as a little solo project while I wasn’t busy with commission work; everything was drawn and animated by myself. The video was influenced by the 80s TV show Miami Vice. I started animating a second Super 80s the following Summer, however due to time limitations I cancelled the project, it can be viewed; here.

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Running Time Approx 1 mins 20 secs
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[Drawings] Backgrounds

The top row are backgrounds from Super 80s and the unfinished animation Adventure Faeries, the row below are backgrounds from an idea I had for an unnamed  university project and a commission for a client. The row below is a lighthouse from a commission I did at university and a still from Space Girl 300, the row below are 2 stills from the unfinished animation Super 80s 2, and the bottom row is a background I drew of a Pirate Ship from a TV show and a recreation of an old background I drew in 2009.

[Commission] The Science of Power Ups: Ocarina of Time

This animation was created for Channel 4’s Youtube Channel; #Mashed, I was the lead animator for the project whereas my good friend Anthony Price did the pre-production and post-production. The video was created in just under a month once the pre-production was done, I started on the 1st of December in 2014 and finished December 22nd in 2014, the post production was finished on the 1st of January in 2015. I bounced ideas back and forth between Anthony while animating in how I should go about animating it, however we were both pleased with the outcome as were #Mashed.

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Running Time Approx 3 mins and 8 secs
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