Tue, May 27th 2008, 15:38
This is an early drawing from Fuggy Fuggy, all done in my irreplaceable moleskine books. Where it all starts. This is one of the first drawings I did for the Fuggy#1.
This is the storyboard for the fitness section. Not the neatest, but it all makes sense to me. Greg
Tue, Apr 15th 2008, 16:20
So I've always had this innate desire to have my own cartoon strip. I've started and rarely finished a whole raft of ideas. However this one I like. Ok it's not strictly a strip cartoon but it fits the bill in my eyes (which have never been right). So the idea was to sketch (not being too precious) any old thing which popped into my head then stick it in the post and send it to my son. He likes getting post! There's also something strangely satisfying about the extra marks you get on the cards as it goes through the sorting office, and because I use non permanent ink there are smudges and all sorts when it arrives back.
Mon, Jun 2nd 2008, 14:22
A proposed layout design for a possible Fuggy Fuggy series/film.
Tue, May 27th 2008, 14:23
These are the pencils I'm using for our latest film. There very soft which means I get a great finish but they wear out in no time. Greg
Fri, Jun 20th 2008, 09:31
Suckle, the pig like creature, has cropped up in a number of drawings and strips I've done. He's a bit like an old friend now. Never done anything definitive with him though, he sort of floats around and I come back to him now and again. Here's one from a couple of years ago.
Mon, Oct 13th 2008, 19:37
'Still' A series of seven exclusive prints available to view at the Lighthouse in Wolverhampton during the Flip Festival. The text comes from Myles' regular bouts of free writing which Greg has interpreted in a black and white hand drawn style.
Wed, Oct 15th 2008, 13:05
Hooray! Flip is on it's way. The Midland's very own animation festival is back for its fourth year in November. We will be there in various guises - with a print exhibition, showing our Dogg cartoons for 4mations.tv and also chairing a discussion about Doctor Who animations. And this year Greg has also designed the look for Flip Festival with a variety of kookie characters.
Mon, Feb 2nd 2009, 09:43
I am pleased to confirm Cullumpton the pearl binder is well despite his recent misunderstanding with a well known avant garde German electronica combo.
Thu, Feb 5th 2009, 08:28
I feel revitalised, but dirty and cheap too. I want to escape, but memories slowly start to fade and I find myself on the roof again, a large mongoose insect headed creature with no way of moving. I HAVE NO WINGS!
Tue, Mar 31st 2009, 11:40
The main character in our new short film The Moon Bird is called Teardrop. We've been through several designs, and tried out different styles, colourings, heights, species... but here is the final design.
And just in case you're wondering, here are some of the other designs for Teardrop that Greg drew along the way.
Fri, May 1st 2009, 11:53
We recently entered the NHS/Creative Review competition and are very happy to announce that we are one of the five shortlisted entries. The challenge was to send in a storyboard or short animation containing a health message. Here are some stills from our entry.
Mon, Jun 1st 2009, 10:53
A couple of watercolours I did while chilling out in Cornwall. Never been a big one on painting but I quite like these.
Tue, Jun 30th 2009, 10:16
Production designs and sample score from our in-production short film The Moon Bird.
Tue, Sep 1st 2009, 20:52
Something I did for the studio which we've used for a lot of our sound mixes.
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009, 15:22
Greg recently won an award at Images 33 run by the Association of Illustrators. You can see the exhibition of the illustrations, including Greg's entry, as it goes on tour around the UK. Here are the dates for your calendar!
Piece Hall, Halifax: 4 October 2009 - 7 November 2009
Shire Hall, Staffordshire: 14 November 2009 - 3 January 2010
Birmingham University: 6 January 2010 - 8 February 2010
Suffolk University: 13 February 2010 - 28 March 2010
Nuneaton Museum: 3 April 2010 - 15 May 2010
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: 22 May 2010 - 04 July 2010
Thu, Nov 5th 2009, 06:41
Now available to buy... a twenty page collection of musings and thoughts as seen through the eyes and beaks of Tweets.
From the pen of award winning illustrator Greg McLeod.
Only £4.99 including postage (to UK addresses).
Fri, Oct 9th 2009, 13:24
I don’t want to go on about the BAFTA thing (yeah! BAFTA BAFTA BAFTA), but while at the 2009 film BAFTAs, when we were nominated for a BAFTA at the BAFTAs, we met fellow BAFTA nominees (and former BAFTA winners) Marc Craste and Sue Goffe from the amazing BAFTA winning studio aka.
This year wasn’t our year because the legendary Nick Park was out and about and claimed the gong for Wallace and Gromit. But it did mean we’d got to commiserate with Marc and Sue and a little while later they asked to work with them on a project.
The Law Centres Federation runs centres around the UK which are not-for-profit legal practices providing free legal advice and representation to disadvantaged people. They wanted four short animations to explain what they did in a short and engaging way. So we worked on two of them and the very talented illustrator Chris Haughton worked on the others (you can see one on his YouTube channel).
We made one of the films in a style similar to our short film Codswallop. But for the other, we thought we’d have a go at something new. We’d had an idea about animating some fabric models and so, once we'd picked our story - about a family man overcoming a drug addition and volunteering at a law centre to get his life back on track - Greg starting sketching.
We then brought in friend and designer Asia Werbel of Colourspace to turn the sketches and illustrations into fabric models. She also created a fabric background complete with patchwork houses and button trees.
The finished models and background look fantastic and personally I think it creates a magical looking animated film. You can buy some of Asia’s handmade plushes and other designs on Etsy or at Uneeka.
The rest of the crew included the very talented animator Tom Evans, Paul Johnston from Rhythm Studios and the voiceovers for all the films came from Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty.
Here’s the finished animation.
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