Kyle Platts

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0:13hi hi my name is Kyle Platts I'm a guy who works for pleasure and goes out of his way to live a stress-free River to live a stress-free life when possible started drawing when I was a child like most people.

0:38But I started to take my work more seriously about 20 years ago and my early influences were films and computer games like Jim Newcomb Grand Theft Auto Metal Gear Solid and films like die hard and matrix so I like to embellish these drawings with little details sometimes so they're not so I don't know mean these funny bits like a little dog carrying a weed flag or junkie Jesus I didn't really care much for a school work.

1:27So I would embellish my school book pages with accompanying illustrations they weren't always appreciated but every now and again I got some got some really good feedback so jumping forward a few years. And now I'm a professional illustrator I guess I moved to London to study illustration I've been working professionally for about seven years now as Alex just said and this is what my work looks like now this was a poster a design for a Jazz Festival in in southern France and this is a piece for the book of everyone and my work is kind of graphic now quite controlled but I like it to have an element of humility to it this piece is for size and I use like the same tones of primary colors in all my work because I find that clients like to see continuity throughout your work so throughout everything I do pretty much you see the same tone of blue red and yellow this is a piece for this is a printed ad for fur Moog fur move music they make synthesizers this is an editorial illustration for Soyoung magazine it's the portrait of the band that O'Reilly and I find that it's quite beneficial if you're an illustrator that you can kind of draw humans with some semblance to real humans and you kind of get more commissions that way comics I've been doing these for a while now and found that making comics it's a really good exercise working with narrative in this way in particular really helped me develop as an illustrator and actually working with working with storyboards kind of made it a lot easier for me to work as the animation director later on it seemed like a natural transition here's the comic I made for is a couple of three panel comics are made for career magazine and this is about the evolution of the office space this is about the pet owner relationship posts social media age so about four years ago.

4:35I decided to make that transition into working with animation having wanted to for a long time. And initially I worked with professional animators collaborated and that's something I still like to do now but what I want what I want to talk about specifically is how important it was for me to learn how to animate myself and how that's affecting my work.

5:12This is my first walk cycle and I use a Cintiq now but when I made this I drew it on like pieces of paper and that and scanned them all in it was long last year I decided to give myself the challenge to complete my first commercial job entirely independent to animate the whole thing and fortunately MTV came forward and asked me to do this 15-second ident so here is well-done beans for MTV and then later in the year yeah later last year I did this bump for Adult Swim UK and bump is kind of like the little clip like an ident is the same thing like a little clip they put in between shows and stuff so this is another good exercise for me to like put something together on my own and something that I really enjoy about working animation is I get the chance to collaborate with musicians in standard I so like that last clip and this one I worked with long dark and those guys like super talented and a pleasure to work with so this is another animation by me and music by Languedoc ♪

7:30yeah also like being able to animate my own work is good because I can create new assets like different assets for first more jobs so this was a animated beasts are made for blasts gates to coincide with a poster that I design for him.

7:54And this is the poster design and I used like the framed from the animation to create a poster and not something I'm kind of interested in now is using animation taken techniques in 2d illustration so here are two gifts that I made for to help me promote like a t-shirt graphic that I made and basically you know it would not be cost effective to hire an animator to work on something as small as this so again it's just been really handy to be able to make little Clips like this on my own and put them out there.

8:39So I want to finish by just talking about one animation project and a little bit more detail and I actually just finished it like two weeks ago.

8:53This is the sticker set for giffy and they wanted me to create a set of 15 animated stickers with the theme heatwave it's like summer soon now. So it's create the main character it wasn't really that difficult to figure out because the Sun actually features quite a lot as a motif in my work already here's the saw and then a thing that did for an exhibition and here's the Sun and the thing just started did just personal work here's the thing is it's doing anything I did for it's nice though on its own in a comic that I made and it's known in the print that I made for it's nice that last year.

9:41And so I owned in on this one and is the incarnation of the Sun I chose to go with so I refined in a little bit. And I just like made a bit more enigmatic and so there's the the main character they ended up with and why the enigmatic son well I just did like a little bit of research and then discovered that they were like loads of smiley songs already so and also like I like the aloofness of the neutral zone so here's some sketches but all the different stickers that I made is just how they looked when I was making them on paint wanna finish your sketches put them all together just to see that they have like coherence with each other and that they work together as a set so here's the Sun not sure where to get outta bed or not here's a barbeque pig having a pig time beer barbecue Aperol spritz top stuff I mean just you know why the flower blow in the wind melt time heatwave let's play on words Rose blooming because you have some pretty ones in there Stadium clap or a sarcastic clap each other you want it to be the Sun trying to eat an ice-cream but its head is too hot and the Sun burn and then you know just the small matter jános so these are all live now and you can use them on Instagram or on Twitter or tinder or whatever and all you have to do to find them in search at Kyle place or melting head or whatever thank you very much [Applause]

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