Recent Animation Projects

Last summer I animated most of the squiggly bits on these cute promos for Cartoon Network

 

I did a little bit of animation on Yuvaroo Studio's video for I Love My Nails by Netta earlier in the year

Also working for Yuvaroo, I did a big chunk of the cartoon animation on this video for Vox last Christmas

 

and on this one

And before that I animated the cowboy, when he's flying, surfing and riding on a chip (but not the bit where he's walking) on this advert for Proper Chips, made by Blink

 

And before that I animated the lamp, washing machine, and dishwasher in 

this lovely advert for Amazon Alexa, 

for Passion Picturews, directed by McBess

(sorry - can't find a video that's easily embeddable)

Spongebob Squarepants

 I've done a lot of work for Nickelodeon, so I'd almost forgotten about the time Spongebob edited an issue of ID magazine. I was asked to illustrate the cover and several interior pages, but when I was about half-way through the job the Spongebob people in America decided they wanted to do the artwork themselves. Apparently they liked my drawings, but it seemed like such a fun project they couldn't resist. Something like that anyway.

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words - designs

 For years I've been telling people that I've been working on an animated film. Well it's true and it's almost finished. Here are the first character designs, followed by a couple of stills from the actual film.

More Animation

I've no work at the minute (I'm available!) and I was wanting to have some fun with some animation of my own again, so this is what happened.

Showreel 2021

 

This is my new showreel, made up of animation work that I've been involved with recently, mainly as a senior or lead animator.

Cake Foot Animation

I've had a lot of time on my hands, so I've been animating again.

Cake Foot Animation from Alex Potts on Vimeo.

Two Doors Down by Dolly Parton

Last year, I animated this promo piece for Dolly Parton's new Netflix series, for Made by Radio. Click here for more.

Head Morph Animation

The Coronavirus is out there, so I'm staying in and working on some daft animation. And daft audio too. To make this I started in Adobe Animate, then I did the shading using Photoshop, some effects in After Effects, and then mixed the audio in Premiere.

Music - The Swine Disco by Elvis Herod/Plushgoolash

Licensed under creative commons - https://tinyurl.com/cqgrabj 

Sounds effects from www.zapsplat.com

Heads?

Things have been quiet for the past few days, so I've been messing about, trying to have fun. This is what came I came up with.

Maybe I'll finish it off and make it loop.

The Last Mile

At the end of last year I had the pleasure of working on this short film about the VW Beetle.

At Nexus, directed by FX Goby.

Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles

I worked on the 2D animation on this video for a very well known band. 

(At Trunk animation, directed by Al and Jock.)

Animated Sketch

In recent years I've been enjoying sketching people while I'm out and about. I've filled a couple of sketchbooks with these drawings, and you can see many of them on my instagram if you're interested.

I'd been wondering it I'd be able to animate these sketches using TVPaint, and it turns out that I can! See below, and see further below for the original sketch.

Give Cyclists Adequate Space

This is the second film I made at GTB for Ford, Driving Skills for Life.

I designed, storyboarded and animated this from start to finish.

Very Short Film 2

Another clip from the short film I've been working on.

Very Short Film

I've been working on a very short animated film for a while now. It's going to look a bit like this.

Travel Safe - Winter Driving - Ford DSFL

Here's the first of some road safetly films I've been working on for Ford, via GTB.

Recent Animation

This is all stuff that I've worked on in the past year. I'm a traditional animator and I mainly use Flash/Animate. 

The above two were animated for Trunk Animation.

And these two were done at Nomint.

New Showreel

The best of the animation work I've done over the past couple of years for Trunk, Nomint, and Cartoon Network.

Recent Animation

Last year I was the main animator on this advert. For Nomint.
 

 
Christmas IDs for Disney XD Africa. Space Horse.
 

 
I designed the characters and props for this, and animated the section that starts at 0:40 and finishes at 0:58. (The rest was animated by Mark Abbott)
Space Horse, for Disney XD Africa again. 
  

 
First I did the storyboards and then animated all the characters. 
For Cartoon Network.

I've been working on other stuff too, but I can't show it to you yet.

Rattle That Lock

I recently worked on this video for the song Rattle That Lock by Dave Gilmour. It was produced by Trunk Animation and directed by Alasdair and Jock. I animated the cormorant.