This short animation was for the final project of my first year on the course, I think it was definitely my most successful module and its certainly the work I'm most proud of. It took days and days of practically solid work to pull it together but this is the kind of high standard I really want to apply to all my work from now on.

The character was inspired by a British engineer called Richard Trevithick from the golden age of steam engine technology who became famous for his public exhibits of new designs and machines, especially his road locomotive "Puffing Devil", which he drove around London on Christmas Eve, astonishing onlookers. But in 1810 Trevithick caught typhoid and seemingly disappeared. This is where I came in with my side of the story, I decided that Trevithick, driven into desperation by the threat of his own death, perfected his steam engine technology and built his masterpiece "Puffing Devil MKII". This wildly ingenious mechanism would become his life raft as he transfered his brain and various other organs over and continued to live on, escaping his mortal coil...

Hope you like the video!