Matt Layzell Animation and Illustration

2011-10-11T18:09:00.000-07:00

Some other things

2011-10-10T19:22:00.000-07:00

The Holy Trinity

2011-10-10T18:38:00.000-07:00

Mixmag

2011-07-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

Mixmag kindly asked me to do a map of Creamfields Festival for their August issue. Here's the original and below what it looked like printed. Funnily enough my brother, Paul Layzell, made it in to the magazine too, in the form of old field day picture taken when his hair billowed forth in wavy dreads of curl, funday times!

Burn the Witch

2011-06-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

I was asked by a really good illustrator, Oliver Cramm if I'd like to do some drawings for a book themed on the occult, black magic and all that deathly jazz. I did them and above are the results of that doing. I liked the idea of 'doing' them in a sequential way, so the bottom one is supposed to go to the left of the top one, although they kind of work on top of each other. Witch hunting was a strange superstitiously fueled activity that caused a lot of innocent women and men to be brutaly put to death and I wanted to convay that somehow. No way, Bob Dylan is talking about witches as I type, on his radio show, shit, I think that could mean something, the witching hour. Shut up Dylan, you're scaring me.

Magic Spy

2011-06-17T07:45:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a 3-D sterio-scopic film about Graham Chapman and there's a part in it that I wanted to look like a magic eye, so I was looking around at how they work, which was interesting, and I found a neat little custom magic eye maker site. So I made this one from my own pattern and mask to generate the 3d thing in the middle. If you cant do them dont bother with this one, its rubbish and just an experiment and it'll probably give you a headache but I will try and do a good one that will reward your brain ache with a FANTASTIC image. Watch this space...LITERALLY

Critters

2011-06-13T15:16:00.000-07:00

A while back I went to see a Critters/ Tremors double bill at the Prince Charles cinema. After watching them, I thought it'd be fun to do a series of illustrations based on horror films that feature families under threat. I basically like those horror films where a family are forced together into a fighting unit to battle a deadly force that's out for their blood. I thought, YES, this will be fun, and a good idea to boot! So I started, feverishly, with Critters. Gradually I grew to hate the drawing and got bored of the idea but I thought I should put it up here anyways, not sure why, maybe to remind myself to do better stuff or just to keep the idea in mind for a later date.

GLOOOOOOM!

Interview

2011-04-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

Top-notch illustrator/ mover and shaker, Tuesday Bassen, very nicely interviewed me for her blog Studio Sweet Studio.

Its a real good blog full of interviews and bits of interesting information.

A-thanks to her for asking me to do it, although compared to all the other guys on there I look and sound like a common schmuck but hey, i yam who i yam.

If you fancy staring at a poor use of the English language mushed together in a vaguely informative way on a computer/ palm devise screen then head over there and check my spelling and punctuation out.

Banshee

2011-04-13T15:39:00.000-07:00

Delaney

2011-04-10T09:44:00.000-07:00

Something swilling around that big purple pipeline

Hidden Beast

2011-04-06T09:06:00.000-07:00

I want to make a proper website for myself, so I watched a lot of tutorials and tried to learn how to use HTML, then I got bored of it all and decided to do a new drawing instead. I need to ask someone to do it for me, the website not the drawing, its already done, as you can see. You could call it a web-'sight' as its on the web and is visible, it sounds like web-site but isn't, its sort of clever.

Mazes Music Video

2011-03-31T09:53:00.001-07:00

A music video for the band Mazes done with my brother Paul. You can see his stuff here- paullayzell.blogspot.com/

We tried to make the video like it'd been filmed by a bunch of skater kids, just messing around and being stupid.

It took us a year to do, on and off, and was really fun to do. I especially liked working 2d animation into 3-d spaces and having to think about animating a character doing something whilst changing the angle to fit a camera move.

Kew

2011-03-01T14:05:00.000-08:00

A short insert done for a film directed by Mike Paterson about Kew Gardens and their efforts to track and help the old climate change/ death to forests problem, it a biggie and they've got some good things going on.

Thanks to Mike for letting me do it, he makes good films and has a really interesting series called colliding particles which I love to watch. http://vimeo.com/mikepaterson

Also thanks to Robin Bushell for his sweet and nimble fingers

Hot Newness

2011-03-01T06:09:00.000-08:00

Super superficial have super- kindly put another of my drawings on clothes. So if you'd like follow the link and peruse and sniff around at the thing, maybe you'll wanna throw a lil money in its direction. Heck! they've got a green flavour too and on a jumper.

http://supersuperficial.com/v2/goods/list.php?c=001000000

Anyway, thanks so much to Louise Pomeroy and the others from SS-ficial.

Smidge Wigget

2011-02-10T18:25:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty busy at the moment, which means there should be some good stuff to put up here rather than these flash drawings I do at 2 in the morning.

Badda-boom Badda-bing

circluur

2011-01-28T10:40:00.000-08:00

I could'nt sleep last night so i did a shit drawing instead but within its shit shell there was bare bead of something likeable

Huhnerhaus

2011-01-26T12:05:00.000-08:00

My wee sister is starting a new night at her uni bar in kingston, i did a wee poster for her, if you're around those parts go check it out

Cheifnips

2011-01-06T16:18:00.000-08:00

E4 Xmas idents

2010-12-18T12:28:00.000-08:00

I very recently finished directing 5 idents for E4 on the topic of Christmas. I did them as part of Treat (a collective I'm in) and I did them with the aid of Bishoy Gendi, Michael Gendi, Jonathan Harris on the animation side and Danny Boyle on the sounds.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!!

I'll add more as they upload to vimeo

SuperSuperficial Teeshs

2010-12-18T11:53:00.000-08:00

Ho Ho Ho merry snow
in the thicket and under bow
know not what
your father said
for on this day
we must to bed

A poem there and the rest is to say, my hand drawing was kindly put on t-shirts by the super, super superficial. They have shops in London and probably other secret places too but there is also a website.
link

Buy one for your Granny this christmas, she can use it as a dishcloth and the kids? well they'll just love it for that fairy softness and you're dad? a ghost costume.

Skrizzbls

2010-12-01T12:10:00.000-08:00

Funny things happen on computers when you're watching stuff, here are some i have kept.

The hand has colour

2010-09-07T04:23:00.000-07:00

I ditched this idea for a screenprint last week but i coloured it anyway, it certified gave me a headache late last night. I was going to print some off to sell at this show, will anyone buy it? would I buy it? what is life? how is there being? what lie-eth there? and so on and so on forever and ever and ever and ever...

Wu Leathers

Berlin show trailer

2010-09-03T02:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a trailer for a that show in Berlin i've been BANGING on about, see the treat blog for a more cohesive explaination of it all. http://treatstudios.blogspot.com/

BANG BANG BANG all the bloody time, stop BANGING!

I do like these two words- Szechuan beef chicken foie gras

Chasm

2010-08-26T06:06:00.000-07:00

A screenprint I am doing for a show in Belrin by a collective that i am a part of, called Treat.
It'll be for sale which will be a nice change from doing pictures for me to look at and go "thats a picture that i have drawn, maybe i'll put it on my blog, or maybe not"

Hand-a-hand

2010-08-22T07:48:00.000-07:00

For a screenprint i was doing for this show i'm doing with Treat, a collective i'm part of. Its too complicated though and requires many a colour i think, too expensive TOO EXPENSIVE!!!

Purple Garden

2010-08-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

I did this a quite a while back back, it was a scene from a film i never finished, i think i did another one, a scene, i shall find it

Skrentbook

2010-08-11T02:26:00.000-07:00

I've got a lot of computery stuff on my blog which can be boring, so to prove i still use pencil paper combination, as the two marry together in skrinchy match-makin', body, flecking out mmmleck black flake a-plenty, here are some bits from my sketchbook.

SPAIS

2010-08-10T07:26:00.000-07:00

I made this video with Lori MacGregor for the straight 8 film competition.

It was all done on a super 8 camera with no editing and it was fun and it was tiring and it was nice.

Many many many many muffins.

The Creation Of Fire By Man

2010-07-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

I'm just keeping myself of the streets

Networking

2010-07-01T06:50:00.001-07:00

Things

2010-07-01T06:10:00.000-07:00

Some images for a thing about a thing, its going to be a good thing
thiiiiing....

Eat fresh meat

2010-06-29T05:20:00.000-07:00

teenage brothers

2010-06-21T15:05:00.000-07:00

brain fluff

Rhinoceros

2010-06-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

A last thought of the day....

Space face 3D

2010-05-03T12:34:00.000-07:00

Still WIP-in it

space face

2010-05-02T06:42:00.000-07:00

a little work in progress

CRUNT

2010-01-06T04:34:00.000-08:00

Bike Girl

2009-12-10T17:55:00.000-08:00

As seen through Freddie Murcury's eyes

7

2009-12-10T17:49:00.000-08:00

I recently watched Seven Samurai and was reminded about what a great film it is. I had to draw out the charcters, Kurosawa was great for picking actors with good faces.

The Pack

2009-12-01T06:46:00.000-08:00

Some characters I did a while back, still like them though.

Teenage God Gang

2009-11-03T16:02:00.000-08:00

Kids are gonna love it!

Abba Totem

2009-11-03T08:17:00.000-08:00

A design I did for my collectives most recent film done about Abba
It was all about the hair, that beautiful, beautiful hair

Covered

2009-10-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

Above- the cover
Below- the original

Robert Goodin kindly put featured me on his covered blog, its a cool idea for a project, had much fun doing it, check it out here

Movie Squish-up

2009-10-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

Some designs i did for an E4 spot, made with my bestest buddies at Treat studios. Name them all, i dare you

Cock

2009-09-12T17:40:00.001-07:00

Tits

2009-09-12T16:14:00.000-07:00

Ye olde pun

Late Night

2009-08-28T20:45:00.000-07:00

Slugs and snails

2009-08-28T15:04:00.000-07:00

To Hell and Bach

2009-08-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

Frogozu

2009-08-23T12:29:00.000-07:00

The Frog Warrior has arrived, hide your kitchen ware

2009-08-23T12:25:00.000-07:00

I'm using flash quite alot for drawing recently, its annoying like hell, but there's something about the super clean line i quite like

Blow Up!

2009-08-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

To welcome in the blog I dedicate this picture to it. Its a spread from an upcoming publication i'm putting out, more on that later.