Under the sea

Concepts for  the classic book by Jules Verne.

Treasure Island

Ladybird Classics: Treasure Island

Ahoy land lovers! 
Last July I completed illustrating my first Ladybird book. 'Treasure island'. I was very excited to be working with ladybird and this title, and enjoyed the job tremendously. A year later and its hitting the shelves. Below are a few examples from the book as well as some working images detailing my process.





These are a handful of  concepts  I did before starting the project.
First Pencil Designs
What better excuse to visit the docks at Portsmouth, the Victory was a much larger ship then the schooner described in the book, ...we went anyway.

I built a small head sculpt of Jim Hawkins with some soft clay to get a better idea of angles and light.







Sinbad the Sailor

 

C is for Cookie


On this one i built and designed the BG's (Maya/Deep Paint/Photoshop)

Cookie machine


The first image I created for the pitch on a cookie crisp commercial, and the second I built in Maya.
My morning train takes me past the Olympic site and the enormous shopping centre that now graces the sky line. And each morning; outside the transport offices this stressed worker is always having a fag break.

concepts for pilot

Early this year we (Uli Meyer studios) completed a short pilot for a young children's TV series. Myself and the talented Tori (aka Tori cat) worked on the concepts and backgrounds, then we moved on to the HUGE task of painting the CGI environments. the pilot will soon be posted on ulimeyer.com


Some of my concepts below.

rendered shots coming soon.