New film coming out soon!I worked on it with Tom Plant as co-art directors
The Art Bastard Show

See it the trailer here:

Kid's characters

It's been a busy few months of secret projects...soon to be revealed... in the mean time, here are some random children's book character experiments I have been developing...

Exhibition - SUPERNATURE

I have been very busy lately working on 2 big animation/ game jobs, more on this soon.
But also, I am curating an exhibition in Bristol, UK. Please come along it's in the Glass Walk, Cabot Circus, Bristol, BS1 3BX from the 31st of May until the 29th of June.
There will be over 20 artists and makers from all the around the UK working along the theme of nature...

Get more info on the event here:
https://www.facebook.com/bristolcontemporaryart/events
or here
http://www.bristolcontemporaryart.com/supernature-exhibition.html

TGI FRIDAYS - Social Media

So here are the last 3 from the series of 5 illustrations I did for a TGI Fridays UK social media promo called '100 works of art for 100 cocktails'. 
It was really fun job with a very fast turnaround - 3 and half days for all 5 illustrations from concept to delivery!

A Productions Christmas Card

And here is this year's christmas card I designed for A Productions! 
Idea by Mr Paul Hill.... inside the card it says:
"Um... we may have overstated the word 'fun''

Skwigly Online Magazine Advent Calendar

Here is an illustration I did for Skwigly Online Magazine's annual advent calendar.
If you have never heard of it and you have an interest in illustration or animation you should check it out. Great articles and podcasts and industry news! 
You can see my picture in situ here!

The illustration was inspired by news stories of dodgy, badly put together Santa's grottos that pop up every Christmas around the UK - to the disappointment of many children!

TGI Fridays

Here are a couple of illustration from a series of 5 I did for an online TGI Fridays campaign called '100 cocktails as 100 works of art' with Telegraph Hill. It was quite a free brief, I chose a cocktail from a long list and had to come up with a visual to illustrate its characteristics.

This one has been made into a poster to put on the Ladie's loo doors! Will try and smuggle into the loos and get a picture soon!

Property Larder

 A painting I did last year, although I had the idea in a sketchbook for 2 or 3 years - only just got round to scanning it properly!

RSPB film with SEED animation

RSPB Change from Leah Heming on Vimeo.

A short film made by Seed Animation for the charity RSPB.
I was commissioned to do all the designs and typography on this project.
I used RSPB's corporate colours and a kept a limited colour palette for the design.
You can watch the shortened version here: youtube.com/watch?v=sttiky0dXPc

Here are a few stills:

 

Bristol, Bristol...

I haven't posted anything for ages! So here are a couple of paintings I did last year around an ongoing theme of my home-town's fantastic transport system...

You can purchase prints of these very soon here:
http://www.bristolcontemporaryart.com/leah-ellen-heming.html

The Liver Song

A little animation made with Upstart Thunder - she did the animation, I did the designs.
The short features a dancing liver to the voice of the late Graham Chapman who tells us why livers are so important. 
Made for 'A Liar's Autobiography Animate Chapman Competition'.  Enjoy!

The Liver Song from Leah Heming on Vimeo.

Animation Artwoks at the Loco Film Festival

So it's the Loco Comedy film festival in London this weekend (24th-27th of Jan 2013)!
There will a preview of 'A Liar's Autobiography' a discussion panel and an exhibition of the original artworks for the animation! Here is a sneak peek of a design I did for King Arthur next to the original crest from the 'Holy Grail' costume!

Bristol Old Vic Poster

A poster I designed for a children's play at the Bristol Old Vic. It got made into flyers, leaflets and program pages!
The original illustration had a purple background (see below) but they decided to change it to a lighter blue to tie into the Christmas period - I think it works nicely!

My Showreel

Leah Heming showreel 2012 from Leah Heming on Vimeo.

My new showreel!!!

A Liar's Autobiography - Poster!

The poster has just been released! A few of our designs are featured hehe...

A Liar's Autobiography - official trailer!

So here is the trailer for the 'A Liar's Autobiography' on which I worked on last autumn.
I art directed the song section of the film with Director Jane Davies from A for Animation - it was soooo much fun!
And I am very chuffed that they used our design as the title image!

Goodbye JSA!

After 6 and a bit years of fun and hard work, I am sad to be leaving Jamaica Street Studios and all my great friends and colleagues. I will miss the views, the gossip, Katie and Kim's Kitchen, the beautiful Tom Plant and all the oddities that Stokes Croft has to offer.
I am not going too far out of my comfort zone though, as I am setting up my new studio down the road in Old Market alongside the kind and talented animators of A Productions.
I will still be freelancing and doing business as normal, the only difference will be heating in the winter and an endless supply of cake! Wahey!

Knitting Hero!

This is an editorial I did a couple of months back for Knit Today magazine.

I was commissioned to design a logo and a superhero character for a knitting competition.

This was a really fun job as I got to design some typography and characters.

I experimented with making brushes on Photoshop and am quite pleased with the textured results.

Here are some of the designs that didn't make it:

 

A Liar's Autobiography crew screening

Wahey! Last night I went with Mr Paul Hill from A for Animation to the  

Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography crew screening. 

Paul was compositor and I was art director and designer 

on the 'sit on my face' song section of the stereoscopic 3D animated film!

Sadly Director Jane Davies couldn't make it as she was getting a tan in France...

There were about 300 people and we got 

free sweets and popcorn!

I packed some smart shoes to posh for the night

but realised I had brought 2 different right shoes.

I wore them anyway.

Jamaica Street Artists Open Studios 2012!

Friday 8th of June 6-9pm and Sat 9th  11-6pm and Sun 10th 11-4pm.    
It's that time of year again!

Come on down to our Open Studios, bid on some 
original art at our auction and come have some fun!
You can see over 45 artists and illustrators' work 

(including some special guest Argentinian artists) 
as well as glimpse at the inside of our beautiful listed building!

Check out the website for more info: 
http://www.jamaicastreetartists.co.uk/

Bristol Booze Cruise

New painting for our Jamaica Street Artists Open Studio Auction!

You can place you early bids here.

Check out our website for the event details: 
 http://www.jamaicastreetartists.co.uk/

Animations for health website

Above 'high blood pressure', below 'stop smoking'

Here are some designs I did for the short animations with A Productions for MV Studios which was for the My Health Tips website (with the voice of Terry Jones!!!).
The pile of dead animal meat was later changed to a burger.
- You can see the 'high blood pressure' animated short here:http://vimeo.com/37741057
- You can see the 'stop smoking' animated short here: http://vimeo.com/37743248

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!
This is a design I made for this year's christmas cards - hope you like it!

A Productions Xmas card!

A little festive commission for A Productions!
Great job to do as I love designing 50's style type
and the greeting card has also come out really
nicely in print - so am quite pleased with this one.
The copy was written by Mr Paul Hill!

Filming Driver Dan's Story Train!

Here is a picture of me, queen Suzanne and the rest of the
Driver Dan Story Train crew from A Productions and our fab
mini actors at a film shoot in a green screen studio.
At the end of the story book section of each episode we get kids
to imitate actions that the characters do in the story. We film them
in the green screen studio then composite the footage so that the kids
look like they are playing in the illustrations!
I love going to green screen days, a day out the office, fun times
getting the kids to act out silly things and lots and lots of cake!