I HAVE MOVED TO  http://samtayloranimation.tumblr.com

I cannot really justify how long its taken me to do this but I'll be retiring this website from here on out. Please update your bookmarks and feeds. Thank you very much.

Beats Music

Together with The guys from The Line, Iria Lopez, Carlos De Faria, and James Hatley I had the enviable opportunity of providing animation for this commercial, made at Electric Theatre Collective, and directed by the legendary Shynola.

We animated digitally and then scratched and painted the final pieces on acetate. It was some of the most fun I have ever had on job, and working with Shynola was proof that its sometimes ok to meet your heros.

Happy Hour at The Pegbar and Grill

I've been doing a podcast with my friend and Line cohort, Tim McCourt. Here's the first episode. We plan doing about 15, and we aim to release them weekly over the coming weeks.

In the first episode we talk to Ed Barrett and Tom Judd of Animade.

Subscribe to us on iTunes if you like.

Show Reel

I thought I'd dip my toes into the world of show reels as a way of wrapping up the year.

Together with the guys from The Line, Si & Ad, plus the excellent people at ETC, I helped design and animate this commercial  for Talk Talk TV. Here's a few designs I did. This was day one, page one.

For Jo and Luke.

Visual development for an advertising campaign

Some Character designs from the film

Our short film is finally up...Its been a long journey. 

New Music Video

Easy - Mat Zo & Porter Robinson (Official Video) from The Line on Vimeo.

This is something I've been working on since the beginning of the year at our studio in Hackney. I was heavily involved with the compositing. I also worked on the storyboards and 2D animation. 

Its directed by Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis. Our collective is called The Line.

A poster I did for an event at Platform Cafe and Terrace at Netil House in Hackney

A wedding card for Karim and Rebecca

Doodled whilst watching this epic video.

Mugs

My Mum made these. I did the drawings. Thanks Mum.

Call for assistants

I have been working on a 5 minute short film over the last months with boy-genius, Bjørn-Erik Aschim. We're coming to the end of rough animation now and we're looking for anyone who might be interested in helping with the cleanup.

If you're amazing at drawing and know Flash, or know someone who does, please get in touch. We would be immensely grateful for any assistance.

Tom Loughlin has made us an informative and colourful website.

http://www.everythingicanseefromhere.com/

Thank you thank you thank you

Sam

When there is rain I take the train

Spent the last week setting up a new studio space with Bjørn-Erik Aschim. Soon to be joined by the animation dream team of James Duveen, Jon Topf, Fritzi Nicolaus, and Tim McCourt. Exhausted but smug.

Christmas Cards

T Shirts

I have been putting together a short film in my spare time with my friend and collaborator, Bjorn-Erik Aschim. 2 weeks ago we took a day out to print T-Shirts for all the people who are giving us a hand with our mountain of work. Thanks (once again) to Luke James, for exposing the screens, and for showing us how to do it.

Also, we have Tom Loughlin to thank for the wicked website he's done us. Stay tuned for more....

Violence Street

I put together an animation workshop in Myatt's Fields Park this weekend in Brixton as a part of The Big Draw.

It was so much fun.

An illustration for a friend of mine's magazine. Its called bodytalk . and its very good. Check it out.

Istanbul people

Concept storyboards for a university recruitment event

filo

sexy soup

http://www.theydrawandcook.com/

N.A.S.A 'Strange Enough' official release

N.A.S.A Feat. Karen O and Ol' Dirty Bastard - 'Strange Enough' on Vimeo.

Three months ago I made this music video together with a few friends of mine. Today it was officially released on BoingBoing.net. There is a short story of how we did it on http://www.studiogiblets.com/, our collective's new website. BoingBoing have a 24 hour exclusive, so the Vimeo video will be made available tomorrow morning.

*update - our collective is now The Line.  

A Tribute to the mustachioed master, and national treasure, Peter Parr, who retires this year.
Peter was the animation course leader while I was at The Bournemouth Arts Institute. He set the course up in the 70's, and between then and now has encouraged several generations of animators to go on and do great things, as well as putting together an awe-inspiring library of sketch books himself. Whats next Peter Parr?

(In going some way to answering this, PeterParr has forwarded me a link to his new blog http://peterparr.tumblr.com/ where he's posted several very nice sketches from his sketchbooks)