Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Friday, 15 March 2019
World Sleep Day
Labels:
animals,
cat,
character design,
dog,
illustration,
sleep,
steve may,
world sleep day
Thursday, 15 June 2017
Nickelodeon designs
Here's a selection of designs I produced for some stings for Nickelodeon a few months back for Picasso Pictures. The stings were all based around 'Awards You Won't See' - everything from 'Biggest Birthday Cake','Brightest Smile', 'Juiciest Stunt' to 'Crunchiest Eyeball'(!) so my brief was to design characters & scenarios for the various sequences.
Clients included Nintendo, Hot Wheels, Crest & Toyota
Clients included Nintendo, Hot Wheels, Crest & Toyota
Labels:
advertising,
character design,
Crest,
illustration,
Nickelodeon,
Nintendo,
Picasso Pictures,
Toyota
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Monday, 4 April 2016
...& the devil in a black dress watches over...
I'm rather fond of a devil & a recent conversation reminded me of the line from Temple of Love by The Sisters of Mercy mentioning the 'devil in a black dress' so I thought it'd be a shame not to depict one.
More devils?
Go here!
More devils?
Go here!
Labels:
black dress,
cat,
character design,
demon,
Devil,
goth,
illustration,
Sisters of Mercy,
steve may,
tattoo,
tattoos,
Temple of Love
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
cats & laptops
Labels:
advertising,
animals,
cat,
cats,
character design,
children's illustration,
dogs,
laptop
Friday, 27 June 2014
Happy Tramp
A while back I was approached by Inbetweeners movie director Ben Palmer & Zeppotron co-founder Neil Webster who were in the process of launching Happy Tramp, a new independent production company specialising in scripted narrative comedy to design a logo which would work for print in various formats with the idea of making it move at a later stage.
Armed with only a copious amount of extra strength lager (for research purposes) I initially sketched out a few ideas... & we fairly quickly decided on the finished logo. I tried a few handwritten typefaces but we settled on trusty old Gill Sans
After the Special Brew hangover died down a few months later I took the character & directed & animated the short clip. I sent the guys an initial animatic to which they replied -
Thanks for this. We've got a lot of notes...
1. We love it.
Why aren't ALL jobs as fun painless as this?
You can see the clip here
Happy Tramp from Steve May on Vimeo.
Armed with only a copious amount of extra strength lager (for research purposes) I initially sketched out a few ideas... & we fairly quickly decided on the finished logo. I tried a few handwritten typefaces but we settled on trusty old Gill Sans
After the Special Brew hangover died down a few months later I took the character & directed & animated the short clip. I sent the guys an initial animatic to which they replied -
Thanks for this. We've got a lot of notes...
1. We love it.
Why aren't ALL jobs as fun painless as this?
You can see the clip here
Happy Tramp from Steve May on Vimeo.
Labels:
animation,
Ben Palmer,
character design,
comedy,
Happy Tramp,
illustration,
Inbetweeners,
logo design,
Neil Webster,
TV,
typography
Friday, 11 April 2014
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Mind that seagull!
Labels:
character design,
colour,
creatures,
illustration,
monster,
monsters,
pencil,
seagulls,
sketch,
sketchbook,
steve may
Friday, 3 January 2014
Friday, 23 August 2013
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
National Orgasm Day
Hot on the heels of National Hot Dog Day the other week, yes, apparently it exists, go on treat yerself! x
(I did these for a pitch the other week. I liked them. The client didn't. Their loss.)
Labels:
advertising,
bondage,
character design,
come,
illustration,
orgasm,
pornography,
sex,
vibrator
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Inside Housing Magazine
I drew some angry shouting folk (& dog) for Inside Housing Magazine last month, in the 'Advent of Unwanted Gifts' frenzy pre Xmas I didn't get round to posting it. I've posted it now. Happy New Year everybody*!
*Yes, you too!
*Yes, you too!
Monday, 29 October 2012
Purple beastie
Labels:
beast,
character design,
creatures,
illustration,
monster,
monsters,
steve may
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Noir bar
Labels:
bar,
black and white,
character design,
illustration,
martini,
moll,
noir,
retro,
sepia
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Glass half-full
Labels:
animals,
booze,
character design,
glass,
monsters,
sketch,
sketchbook,
teeth,
wine
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Monday, 27 February 2012
taptaptaptap...
It's Onomatopaeia Monday™ folks!*
(*this is a made up day, any resemblance to any other day living or dead is purely coincidental, don't all start going out to buy Hallmark cards for the occasion)
Labels:
character design,
onomatopaeia,
sketchbook,
steve may,
tap
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