CREATIVITY + DESIGN
My name is Neil Gittins, I AM A DESIGNER for the CREATIVE industries. I thrive on creativity, and I create high-level conceptual ideas and designs.
With over 15 years of experience as a designer and director, I possess a positive, creative mind which is always eager to learn and grow. I am skilled in working IN 2D, and 3D. I enjoy being part of a team, leading a team, or working independently. The central themes and ideas are crucial to me, and everything else revolves around them.
MY EXPERIENCE AS A senior designer include:
Developing creative concepts: Creating original work for film, animation, and digital projects
Leading projects: Taking projects from briefing to delivery
Providing art direction: Contributing to art direction, including storyboarding and post-production management
Mentoring junior designers: Sharing guidance on techniques and best practices
strong communication and presentation skills, and being able to justify creative ideas
OTHER skills and experience include:
A passion for animation, motion design, and film
A strong understanding of animation principles and motion design
FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE OF VISUAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES
drawing + DIGITAL PAINTING skills
Experience using Adobe Creative Cloud suite, C4D, ARNOLD, REDSHIFT.
Excellent time-management and organizational skills
BELOW are my FUNDAMENTAL design AND DIRECTION principles that guide me during MY CREATIVE process.
If you can imagine, you can create.
Failing is part of the process of learning.
Every problem is an opportunity to improve the work.
DIRECTION PRINCIPLES.
What effect or feeling do you wish to create? Name the emotional mood.
What reaction do you want from your audience? Make sure you have this in mind for every decision you make.
What is my subject?
See new ideas by seeing new connections between different subjects.
What are the visual stylistic requirements?
What are the characters thinking & feeling?
Which images or pictures could represent this theme?
Picture making is a reaction. You want to get the audience involved.
The picture is how you visually feel about the idea.
Great picture making whether still or moving will manipulate the subconscious.
Good art should feel like you’re sharing in the artist’s dream, mind, or consciousness.
Design can create rich meaningful experiences.
A good image is about something.
Nature is the ultimate designer.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES.
What colours, lines, perspective, shapes, and values will represent this?
A good picture should have the following 4 basic attributes - Contrast / Idea / Rhythm / Sense of Scale.
The pictorial composition should always suggest a natural possibility.
You make things meaningful by aligning and organising them.
You take what is there and reduce it to design.
Everything in a picture is a compositional tool.
By showing less you communicate more.
All areas should help to establish the focal point.
Design where your contrast is.
Contrast is the key.
All arrangements must appear casual.
Work in stages of iterations & build to a finish.
Sketch ideas to see the visual potential.
Use the rule of thirds / golden proportion ratios to compose elements in the frame.
AUDEMARS PIGUET RD#2
THIS PROJECT WAS A COLLABORATION BETWEEn SILENT STUDIO, THE ELECTRIC THEATRE COLLECTIVE, AND MYSELF AS A SENIOR DESIGNER TO DEVELOP THE DESIGN LANGUAGE OF A WORLD THAT WOULD REFLECT THE BEAUTY AND PRECISION OF THE RD#2 WATCH.
KEY, STYLE FRAMES, CONCEPT ART, AND GRAPHIC DESIGN.
FINAL ANIMATION.
CREDITS.
ELECTRIC THEATRE COLLECTIVE
Producer: Jon Purton
2D Lead: Alex Grey
2D Artists: Chris Fraser, Tom Humphrey, Courtney Price
CG Lead: Simon French
CG Artists: James Sindle, Sergio Morales, Tobin Brett, George Savas, Joao Pires
SENIOR DESIGNER: Neil Gittins
AGENCY
SuperCulture
Creative Director: Paul Jarvis
Producer: Ciaran Bennett
PRODUCTION
Friends Electric
Director: Silent
Executive Producer: Alex Webster
Producer: Doireann De Buitlear
SOUND
Silent
Andy theakstone, Liam Pato
PUBLICATION.
BINARY EXIST
Binary Exist delves into the complex subject of Artificial SUPER Intelligence (ASI) and its potential FUTURE evolution.
TITLE SEQUENCE. CREATIVE. DESIGN AND DIRECTION.
CREATIVE DIRECTION.
FOR THE CREATIVE DIRECTION OF THE TITLE SEQUENCE I envisioned SYMBOLLICALLY representing THE JOURNEY OF THE ASI AS a sphere in an ABSTRACT, bio-mechanical environment. THE SPHERE IS ONE OF THE MAJOR SYMBOLIC THEMES OF MISE en scène IN THE WORLD OF BINARY EXIST. AS THE SEQUENCE PROGRESSES THERE IS A TRANSITION TO A contrasting style that NODS TO the unknown PATH AHEAD FOR THE superintelligent BEING, AND HUMANITY.
INITIAL DESIGN.
COLOUR EXPLORATION.
FINAL DESIGN.
DESIGN FOR MOTION.
KEY, STYLE FRAMES, CONCEPT ART, AND GRAPHIC DESIGN.
DESIGN FOR 2D/3D TRADITIONAL ANIMATION STYLE.
KEY, STYLE FRAMES, AND GRAPHIC DESIGN.
DESIGN FOR SCIENCE-FICTION.
KEY, STYLE FRAMES, AND GRAPHIC DESIGN.
DIGITAL PAINTING.
CREATIVE PROCESS.
MILE HIGH CATHEDRAL.
CREATIVE.
Mile High Cathedral represents an unconscious society being ruled by an elite living in delusion. All sense of perspective has been lost. The Mile High Cathedral continues relentlessly to spread itself across the surrounding landscape destroying everything in its path. The everyday situation that is forced upon the people of this fractured and enslaved society leaves them desperate and in despair. Power and control are the absolute priority of the ruling power. The Mile High Cathedral governs in the hands of ideologue (destiny), rather than taking responsible actions and accountability. It doesn't matter what the effects are. Destiny must reveal itself.
THUMBNAILS.
ROUGH SKETCHES.
FINAL PAINTING.
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