deanroberts

2012-01-26T01:26:00.000-08:00

So here's a picture of what David Mitchel would look like after he's been suffering from a long term illness . Even I'm beginning to think this blog is a bit random .

2012-01-12T08:27:00.000-08:00

This is what happens - I was looking for reference on the internet - an image of Morissey pops up and I thought to myself-" he's got a good face , got to draw that ." unfortunately he ends up looking like the love child of Danny Boyle and will young !... and I've wasted time .

2011-12-27T05:00:00.000-08:00

I think I would like to board at least one episode of Doctor who in my life . - must get around to that some day .

2011-12-14T06:31:00.000-08:00

Milan or Tottenham - doesn't matter . he'll still fall over on a blade of grass !

2011-12-14T06:28:00.000-08:00

Brooding elephant -like thing

2011-11-14T11:17:00.000-08:00

As if he isn't everywhere already !

croc for no reason

2011-11-14T10:29:00.001-08:00

you can't have a tiger without a crocodile .that's just the law of the savannah !

wow - my blog still works

2011-11-14T10:25:00.000-08:00

A tiger doodled in Storyboard pro . i post this only to find out whether my blog still works - and for any one who likes tigers ... who doesn't .

I wandered lonely as a transformer ....

2009-06-24T05:54:00.000-07:00

West Side Storyboards!

2008-11-27T09:27:00.000-08:00

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

2008-08-03T12:38:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-24T05:54:00.000-07:00

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

2006-06-20T04:49:00.000-07:00

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

2006-06-16T03:39:00.000-07:00

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?

2006-05-24T08:15:00.000-07:00

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

Lucy's shoes

2006-05-02T09:43:00.000-07:00

Lucy’s shoes

Lucy’s new shoes were so big
She had the biggest shoes.
Her shoes were so very pink
Lucy’s new shoes were big news.

She wore the new shoes all day,
She wore them in bed all night.
She always wore the new shoes.
Lucy’s new shoes were just right.

Lucy showed off her new shoes
And all her friends loved them too.
Her shoes were the shoes they’d choose
If their feet were size twenty-two.

Then one day the shoes came off
As Lucy walked down the street
Which wasn’t surprising really
Because Lucy had very small feet !

So the shoes went back to the shop
And replaced with shoes the right size
You can’t wear shoes ten sizes too big
If they’re pink and up to your thighs!

So Lucy no longer has big shoes
And it came as quite a big shock,
It’s not so much the size of your feet
It’s all about the size of your sock!

a little poem i wrote for my mates daughter .she seemed to like it .

keep your eyes peeled for 'penelope's poo' !!', coming soon .

land of the dead arrive

2006-04-14T03:04:00.000-07:00

i found these beat boards whilst having a hard drive clear out . they were drawn to present ideas for the sequence when the land of the dead arrive in the land of the living during the wedding party banquet .some didn't make it into the final film . i think it was a pity that Barkis never got to eat a slice of maggoty wedding cake !

don't get lippy !

2006-03-31T11:11:00.000-08:00

Ok don't get lippy - I know i haven't posted anything for weeks . Its just that i have been working 7 days a week and have not had the energy to blog - I'll get my life back soon and I'll be right back on the case .... promise . I know you only come here via Uli's site anyway . you don't really care about me .... oh why do I bother !!

valentines' day

2006-02-15T01:20:00.000-08:00

This is the Valentines' card i drew for my wife, Selena ( yes Gary i know - only if you're sure !) I'm not sure how romantic it is but it made her laugh . Edwin has assumed the character of powerman recently and using his drumstick of power along with his glasses of power he can hover about 3 feet off the ground ( using the dad of power as his sidekick !) my little girl ,Delila is the one with the real powers obviously. .

If you look carefully you will see hearts dotted around the picture . The exact amount will show how many years we have been a couple . answers next blog .

Batman Break

2006-02-07T04:24:00.000-08:00

You know how it is . You just need to have a break from what you are drawing for a living . i used to have Hulk breaks on Corpse Bride ( skeletons to muscles !) its Batman now........ok back to work.

Wallace and gromit

2006-01-25T11:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry to anyone who has been checking out my blog and found nothing new of any interest for a long time . In fact nothing new for a long time since last year ! I have been very, very, very busy on a top secret project( that all my friends know about) working on an h.d. anamatic as part of the pitch to get the movie of the first book of 'his dark materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman green lit . The presentation was really top end and if I had a couple of hundred million I would want to make the film . Its early days but things look promising.
Why the Wallace and Gromit storyboards I hear you ask ? Good question ....Both of you ! I drew this as a test to get involved in the movie based on a few pages of early script. I ended up on Corpse Bride , the rest is history .
so there was a loose connection with the two things ....Just about .
any comments appreciated- just to know someone is still looking !!

2005-12-14T02:40:00.000-08:00

Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!

2005-12-07T06:15:00.000-08:00

This was a poster i produced for the Philharmonia Orchestra to promote their Stepping Stones project . The idea was to create character orchestra members playing their various instruments to inspire children to get interested in music . ( the conductor is called Phil Harmonia ......its genius !!) The poster was displayed in schools across the country and apparently it was a successful scheme . Applications to join the orchestra went up by some 38%.............well they might have done ....it's possible !

more bloated !!

2005-11-23T14:24:00.000-08:00

My ain't he grand!

A whole mess o' monkeys

2005-11-23T13:41:00.000-08:00

Sit back in your tree, peel a banana and have a look at all things Tarzany .These were drawn for the first version of the movie . Yes ,we boarded the film twice . So its good to get a chance to show people stuff that would ordinarily not see the light of day

bloated man

2005-11-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

These were my designs for the bloated man ! A man who had died on the beach at Brighton after going for a quick dip and got caught by the tide and was washed up weeks later and found by a bunch of chavs who poked his bloated body with sticks !
He was a character from the Corpse Bride film that never featured , unfortunately . I think the budget for new puppets had run out and so was never made . It was a shame really because he would have been an interesting character and a bit different from the usual zombie/skeleton type . He was going to have water squirting out of him every time he moved . i think the animation dept saw it as a lot of work ......they were probably right !!

just to keep my regulars happy!

2005-11-10T15:04:00.000-08:00

More Tarzan 2 design work

2005-11-08T13:17:00.000-08:00

A variety of stuff here . All drawn in pencil and then accented using Photoshop . I like organic shapes . My friend and fellow artist, Richard Dolan once said to me that when he draws trees he thinks of them as bits of human anatomy such as the muscles of the arm . I always have that in my mind when thinking about natural shapes . So thanks for that Rich .( I am certain he won't remember ever saying that to me - He's a vegetarian and can barely remember what he had for lunch let alone something he told me over a decade ago !)

tarzan 2 conceptwork

2005-11-05T02:31:00.000-08:00

these are some of the beat boards and location ideas i did for tarzan 2- i had great fun . more to come . ( i still don't get the blogger layout thing )

jellyvision

2005-11-03T14:42:00.000-08:00

I've just visited Harold siepermann's blog ( which is fab by the way ) not only did he work on Tarzan and he has a link to the thief and the cobbler, ( which I worked on for two years ) but he has just posted a great picture of a jellyfish . So to keep our symbiotic relationship in harmony I thought I would post the jellyfish I drew one evening for a pitch for a commercial . Apparently they didn't use my designs !!

Happy Halloween

2005-10-30T12:36:00.000-08:00

We made a pumpkin lantern this weekend . I said to my little boy ," would you like to design it first ?" . These are the faces he came up with . Children's drawings are just the best .
( ruined by me in photoshop - sorry Edwin )

wallop - stitch that !

2005-10-28T14:13:00.000-07:00

well tomororrorrrorroww is saturday and that means football day . so lets hope this doesn't happen to me ....again !

it was my own fault really . i looked at him . i was asking for it really!

family photo

2005-10-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

I thought you might like to see a picture of me and my little boy ( who is now four ) thanks to Gary Dunn for the stirling photoshop work !

shave and a hair cut- 2 bits ....fall off !

2005-10-25T15:09:00.000-07:00

A few more Corpse Bride boards . The two above are of Victor's attempt to escape the Land of the Dead but to no avail .
Early boards of victor staggering into the land of the dead barber shop .There was no specific script for these scenes which allowed myself and the other board artists freedom to come up with ideas and to stage things how we saw it . A lot of fun .

freak

2005-10-24T14:48:00.000-07:00

FREAK

I am not officially entered for the eurovision art contest but i wanted to do a picture for fun . I kind of drew the beasties freeform to see what would happen, then I worked over the top .

2005-10-24T13:44:00.000-07:00

Please view these storyboards from the bottom to the top. I published them in reverse order just to add confusion and mystery . I'm new to this game .Come on give me a chance . I'll get there... eventually !

2005-10-24T13:36:00.000-07:00

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2005-10-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

corpse bride storyboards

2005-10-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

Here is a little selection of the boards i drew for Corpse Bride . As you can appreciate posting a whole sequence would be time consuming for me as i can't work out how to post them on mass ( i tried last night for 3 hours and couldn't get them to run in sequence - they shouldn't let me near computers !) . it would also be a bit tedious to look at after you've viewed the first few.
Anyhoo , i've picked out some early ones that i subsequently redrew many times . this sequence snippet is when victor arrives in the land of the dead ( in the town square and not in the pub as he does in the film )

2005-10-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

2005-10-21T07:26:00.000-07:00

Corpse bride

2005-10-21T06:29:00.000-07:00

Hi to everyone,
well its been a long time coming but I have finally got my act together and posted stuff on my blog. All my friends seem to have turned into blogaholics . Matt Jones is a blogaholic and Uli is definitely a blogaholic. So its my round . But they always say that!

for nearly two years I worked as one of about six storyboard artists on Tim Burton's corpse bride film . That may seem a long time to spend boarding a 77 minute film .....and it was .
Story development never goes in a straight line but I think it is safe to say this went through a particularly twisty ,curly ,Tim Burtony route before we ended up with the film you see in the cinema today .During a six week period early in the production 'story' was halted whilst rewrites took place . So the art dept. asked whether we could paint some portraits and landscapes that could be used on the model sets. So I jumped at the chance . Some were used in the film and some weren't .

Thanks for looking at my blog and don't forget to go and see the corpse bride so that we can make more movies in London !

dean

howdy everyone

2005-09-22T05:58:00.000-07:00

welcome to my blog