STARLADY

Design & Illustration
Pencil & Digital

© Image Copyright 2016 Keith Crawford

DUMB WAYS JR

DESCRIPTION
Designed for younger audiences who are fans of the Dumb Ways characters, the Dumb Ways JR series is a set of four fun apps starring younger versions of the Dumb Ways characters. Check them out on the app store now!

MY TASKS
Character rigging & animation
Minor character & prop design

CLIENT
Millipede for Metro Trains

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional Design & Concept - Millipede

DUMB WAYS TO DIE 2 - RIO STADIDUMB PROMO

DESCRIPTION
I storyboarded and animated this short trailer for the Rio Stadidumb Arena Update for the Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games mobile app. Remember to be safe around Toucans!

MY TASKS
Concept & Storyboarding
Toucan character design
Animation

CLIENT
Millipede for Metro Trains

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional Design & Concept - Millipede

STATS
600,000 + views in four weeks

Chief and Pinkworm

Design & Illustration
Pencil & Digital

© Image Copyright 2016 Keith Crawford

Android - Happy New Year from Down Under

DESCRIPTION
This was a fun little project and it was great to animate the Android characters with their disconnected heads and limbs! My role was mainly rigging and character animation in ToonBoom Harmony, along with the very talented Meredith Uborka. The sequences I worked on are highlighted in the screenshots. This commercial was produced with Studio Moshi and Airbag Productions.

MY TASKS
Character rigging
Animation

CLIENT
Android Australia

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Design - Darwin Tan
Additional animation - Meredith Uborka
Design and Planning - Studio Moshi
Production - Airbag

STATS
300,000 views in three weeks

Agent A - Intro Animation

DESCRIPTION
Intro animation for Agent A - A Puzzle in Disguise, an iOS game by Yak & Co.

MY TASKS
Intro and cut scene animation
In-game incidental character animation
Logo motion graphics

CLIENT
Yak & Co

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Design - Jono Yuen

AWARDS
Apple Editor's Choice Award in 30 countries
Best New Game in over 100 countries
App Store #6 Top Charts
PAX Aus Indie Showcase Winner 2015

DUMB WAYS TO DIE 2: THE GAMES

DESCRIPTION
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games is the award winning game from Millipede, developed for Metro Trains. The app has been number one in over 70 countries and been downloaded over 200 million times. My role has been as an animator on the updates for the game - level packs that are released every few months. This is a great project to work on, and continually coming up with new ways to help the Dumb Ways characters meet their demises never gets old.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Game design, art & additional animation: Millipede
Original characters and brand concept: Julian Frost

DUMB TEAM

DESCRIPTION
I was tasked with creating an animation to introduce the people behind the Dumb Ways to Die brand - four Business Beans who may need a Workplace Health & Safety refresher course.

MY TASKS
Concept & Storyboarding
Design
Animation

CLIENT
Metro Trains

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional Design & Concept - McCann

Dumb Ways to Die 2: Adrenaland Trailer

DESCRIPTION
I designed and animated this short trailer for the Adrenaland Arena Update for the Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games mobile App. It was a great opportunity to be able to play around with the Dumb Ways characters, and come up with a surprising and grizzly death for the poor bungee-jumping bean.

MY TASKS
Concept & Storyboarding
Design
Animation

CLIENT
Millipede for Metro Trains

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional Design & Concept - Millipede

STATS
400,000 views in three weeks

The Day My Butt Went Psycho!

DESCRIPTION
I spent two years working on character animation for the Nelvana/Studio Moshi animated production, The Day My Butt Went Psycho! This bizarre children's comedy features anthropomorphic derrières and is based on the very popular children's book of the same name by Andy Griffiths. This was an excellent project to be a part of, and meant I was able to work with ToonBoom Harmony, and the fun and talented team at Melbourne's Studio Moshi.

MY TASKS
Character animation, 40 x 11 minute episodes.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional animation, design and production:
Studio Moshi
Nelvana

CLIENT
Studio Moshi & Nelvana Ltd, in association with Scholastic (USA) for the Nine Network (Australia) and Teletoon (Canada)

BOOST JUICE: FREE THE FRUIT

DESCRIPTION
Boost Juice: Free the Fruit was developed by Millipede for Boost Juice. The app was a huge success in Australia with over 300,000 unique downloads. My task was to animate the characters, most notably the main character Mango Man, a bumbling, humanoid mango who desperately wants to rescue his fruit friends from being pulped.

MY TASKS
Character animation

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Game design, art & additional animation: Millipede

Pilot and Astromech

Design & Illustration
Pencil & Digital

© Image Copyright 2016 Keith Crawford

COCKATOO

Beneath - Short Film

DESCRIPTION
"Beneath" was my university graduate film, completed in early 2012 as part of my studies at SAE/Qantm in Melbourne. I wanted to combine the skills I learned and developed over the course, in 3D modelling and animation, traditional animation, and screenwriting. This was the result!

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Cockatoo Island Film Festival
Dungog Festival
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Access All Areas Film Festival

AWARDS
Atom Awards Best Tertiary Animation Finalist - 2012

Angry Butterfly - Web Series (In Development)

DESCRIPTION

"Angry Butterfly" is an in-development web series that I am working on with two friends, about a bodybuilding butterfly and his housemates.

Watch this space!

Mutant Mania

DESCRIPTION
Mutant Mania is a five-part web series based on the Moose toys of the same name - weird little collectable toys with swappable body parts! We made this at Studio Moshi in ToonBoom Harmony. Watch all of the episodes to see who wins the tournament! I worked on episodes one, four and five.

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

MY TASKS
Character rigging
Animation

CLIENT
Moose Toys

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Additional animation and design - Studio Moshi

STEREOLOVE - I WISH THAT

DESCRIPTION
Music video produced for Stereolove with the team at Oh Yeah Wow.

MY TASKS
Animation
Colouring
Cleanup

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Director: Jayden Dowler
Animation: Andrew Bowler, Jayden Dowler

Friendface

DESCRIPTION
A series of portraits of my friends... it's a challenge to try and capture their features in the limited graphic style. On-going - see my instagram for more!