Tales of the City pitch

Design pitch for graphics on TV series about the workings of the City. We didn't get the job but I thought this was  good frame. We could have given them a good set of graphics. The show featured the guy from Dragons Den - cant remember his name.

Science you cant see

Our friend at Red Bee brought us her design for a promo to a knew BBC factual series about science behind everyday appliances and applications. It had a few moody elements to depict the driven almost obsessional pursuit for knowledge of the scientists.

the Heist

during the summer after the disastrous fiasco with the Russian movie which had ended with Dmitry having to go find a proper job I was left with a studio and equipment but no work or partners. However the rent was very cheap on our first Shoreditch studio ( literally a square room ) so I took out a loan, paid off debts and carried on doing little jobs for JML shopping channel and odd little things for design company Fibre. The independance was pretty great after 10 years at Liquid TV.

 Then I briefly teamed up with pal Ian who helped me get this TV title sequence for Windfall Films. I had previously worked on two Windfall titles at Liquid so we all I knew I could do a good job . This was only the second title sequence I've ever designed as well as animate ( I also did My Parents are Aliens before at Liquid )

the show was on Channel Four - about a group of ex cons challenged to try a pull off some staged robberies with real security etc. The animation was 2d Flash and ToonBoom, with some 3d elements - the van and camera.

Baby Channel idents

with Vicky onboard , SquareZero finally got moving and networking. Leon Hawthorne was also in a start up company position when he approached us to brand his Baby Channel for which he had recently found funding to launch on Sky. Of course the funding barely stretched to graphics so the entire channel brand along with various programme titles were done for a low budget in which I designed various parts and Vicky dealt with a crazy three day shoot involving loads of kids, parents and friends helping out as extras. Jon had joined as junior animator and various freelancers put their hand in so we felt like a proper company with a proper commision at last.

Film effects work 'Miracles in Reshetova'

I set up SquareZero with Dmitri Lavrov end of 2003  - the idea was to produce special effects for a russian directors film. We made forty plus scenes of varying degrees of difficulty . They included a CG creature, a talking cat, a mermaid, magical transformations, melting bodies and a witch flying in a washing machine. The two of us spent four months working 12- 18 hour days using just the first Apple G5 and an IBM workstation. It went horribly overbudget and the director ripped us off balance payments so the company nearly went bust before it had even started. It took a year of hard scraping and begging for small jobs before we really got going again.

Travel drawing ' skullman'

You think scabby London beggars can look down on their luck ? then go to India. We saw this man who had no eyes or nose ( thats cotton wool stuck in the hole ) begging by a bus station in Northern India. All his teeth were in a bad way as well and can't imagine he had long left. 

Spaceships

Recently been plundering our 3d models archive and using some of the parts to come up with some monster spaceships. Like most of the stuff on this blog it's all work in progress -  ie I never finished it !

Traders and villagers

Some character and costume designs for some fantasy / medieval types

Pirates

Some sketches and designs for some pirate era characters. Spring 2009

Biblical Musion hologram designs

ideas for a never realised project putting biblical holograms into a massive high tech US church.

Checking out the Albion Fairs from my youth 

Discovery Channel idents

I worked on some of the main idents for various Discovery channels whilst at Liquid TV in the late nineties. I did most of the compositing in the featured idents as well as all the 3d in this particular ident. Design was by Tim Varlow at Liquid TV.

Comedy Channel idents

Channel ident made at Liquid TV. I shot the objects at the studio on digi beta and using a 3d logo and NASA footage composited them all together in Shake. Original concept by LiquidTV for Paramount Comedy Channel.

As If

Title sequence design for cult youth show As If . Designed by Rachel Alcaley at Liquid TV - all 3d and compositing by Olly Tyler.

My Parents are Aliens

My Parents and Aliens - Classic children's show titles designed by Olly Tyler at Liquid TV. Animation by Olly Tyler and Thorsten Rienth.

Return to River Cottage

Original titles for River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. I designed and animated the whole sequence at Liquid TV for Keo Films / C4.

Nickelodeon TV idents

This was an award winning channel ident for Nickelodeon's NickToons TV. This was made whilst I worked at Liquid TV in the nineties. Design was by myself and Tim Varlow. All animation and rotoscoping of the characters was by myself. Winner of a Promax BDA award.

Welcome to my Blog

Hi there everybody.

I was born in 1968 in Brighton, England. I have always artistic and my skills took me into animation and graphics for television and media.

I am the founder director of a successful animation company called SquareZero in Shoreditch, London. We have been expanding steadily over five years now you can see some our latest work on the company blog. Before that I worked professionally animating and compositing for 11 years in Soho.

I've been meaning to make a personal website for several years but been to busy. Well I'm still to busy but at least with blogger.com I can now make a splash on the web with less effort. This blog is really a historical showcase of my previous work mixed with some personal stuff.