WOBBLYLOBSTER is award winning multi-style animator, director and illustrator Stephen Smith.
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Over the past 18 years, Stephen has created countless visuals for animated shorts, music videos, documentaries, illustration artwork, murals, branding & scripted comedy.
Music industry clients include huge record labels like Sony, Universal, BMG and big acts like Robbie Williams, Amon Tobin & Slipknot’s Sid Wilson.
Broadcast and streaming clients include Sky & Netflix.
A multi-style artist, fequently working with 2D Motion graphics, character design and animation, lip-sync, photo cutout / collage animation, typography and line art.
Storytelling skills and an uncanny ability to evoke a clear and powerful connection with an audience - (make them laugh, make them cry, make them think).
Stephen’s visuals lifts scripts, songs, messages and themes to their maximum potential, sometimes in unique and unexpected ways.
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Animated short ‘The Hitchhiker’ for comedy podcast ‘Like Father Like Son’
Audio from ‘Like Father Like Son’ comedy podcast. Starring Jordan Richie & Mark Richie.
Short comedy animation visualising a freeform anecdote lifted from the Like Father Like Son podcast.
Visualising the narrated scenes and imagined scenarios, using tight lip sync and expressive facial responses to enhance comedic deliveries. Plus creating additional visual jokes and repurposing dialogue to extra characters.
Using 2D illustration character design & motion graphics to create a funny and engaging cartoon that showcases the hosts’ individual character traits and their joyous relationship.
Official music video animation for electronic music icon Amon Tobin.
A distorted figure explores an alien world with a unique eco-system.
An abstract piece with a mix of 2D and 3D animation follows a lone figure through an alien landscape as part of a strange ecosystem.
The figure is potentially guided by plants, oblivious to it’s part in the environment’s lifecycle.
The almost fleshy branches of trees twist and morph inside themselves, tentacles uncurl revealing cave mouths, floating pores entice and plants walk across the shifting woodland floor.
Feature on PromoNews
Official award winning animated music video for New York pop-punk band PowerSnap.
A wild retro ride through old-school computer games.
Winner of Best animation music video at UK Music Video Festival. Plus semi-finalists, official selections and nominations at 10 other awards / festivals.
‘Lame’ follows the visualisation of the end of a bad relationship via a intense and disorientating journey through retro computer games, old TVs and vikings!
Directed by Meital Ner
Animated by Stephen Smith
Pixel Art by Darius Anton
Exclusive Producer: Hagar Raaran
Official music video animation for TheBandKnives - ‘Garbage Truck’.
Nominated ‘Best Music Video 2020’ at London International Animation Festival.
A robot garbage truck malfunctions, sucking up everything in it’s path.
Animated documentary short on the life and music career of Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.
Line art and collage animation with VO narration.
Official music video animation for NNAMDÏ ‘Glass Casket’ premiered on Adult Swim.
Nominated for ‘Best Music Video 2020’ at London International Animation Festival.
Multiple illustrations of musician in different outfits and various characters.
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