Mural at Seed HQ

This is one of the things I was working on last year. The mural painting at Seed Animation Studio HQ in London Soho hooray! Have a look at my website (the Mural & 3D Crafts chapter) for more close up photos!




Days and days ago before the summer in 2011, I think I sent my CV to Seed as an animator as I liked their cute but edgy character based animations. Instead of a desk and a chair, they gave me a 3x6 metres wide blank wall to cover with my illustration and I thought yeaa sounds delicious. I spent whole 2 months sometimes painting till midnight because it was great fun indeed :)




The drawing is based on this poem about seeds, referring to the name of the studio.




The Magic Seeds

There was one old woman who sowed a corn seed,

And from it there sprouted a tall yellow weed.

She planted the seeds of the tall yellow flower,

And up sprang a blue one in less than an hour.

The seed of the blue one she sowed in a bed,

And up sprang a  tall tree with blossoms of red.

And high in the treetop there sang a white bird,

And his song was the sweetest that ever was heard.

The people they came from far and from near,

The song of the little white bird for to hear.

(by James Reeves)




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去年やっていたことをやっと報告できます！

ロンドンのソーホーにあるSeed Animation Studioというアニメーション事務所で描いた壁画。私のサイトの英語の方にもっと写真アップしました。日本語の方もあとで更新します。




Seedのアニメーションはキャラクターが可愛くてちょっとエグイのがとても好みで、去年の夏前にアニメーターとして履歴書を送ったところ、アニメの仕事よりまず壁をくれたのでした。3mx6mの壁って思ったよりでかいです。結局２ヶ月かかりましたが、プロデューサーと好みがとても合ったので、始終ノリノリで描けました。おばあちゃん最初はちゃんと可愛い顔あったんだけど、「もっと気持ち悪くなんないかなぁ、例えば顔が触手に侵食されているとか」とのご指摘を受けたので、喜んで顔をつぶしました＾＾

イラストは、上記のMagic Seedsという詩を元にしています。もちろん事務所名とかけて。