Doghouse Media is home to Chloe Liston's portfolio of animation, illustration, web and graphic design work.
It's a place I can stash all of my favourite pieces, both personal and professional (with the kind permission of my employer;
Drive By Websites
&
Drive By Design
, and the respective client, of course). As a full time
graphic designer
, you'll get to see a lot of
logo
and
print design
work along with
website designs
; Drive by Websites being predominantly a
web design
company. Generally speaking I design the look and pass it over to our
web designer
who gets coding, although I am learning how to
build websites
, this one being my first real endeavour. We're also expanding into
motion graphics
and
animation
because why not? So hopefully you'll be seeing some of that too.
I actually started off as an illustrator, but it's the artform I do least of right now. My ambition was to become a writer/illustrator after a meet-and-greet with one of my all time heroes, Chris Riddell. However, after winning a couple of LAFTA awards for an animated short I did with some friends in sixth form, I discovered I was more suited to animating and got my degree in animation and illustration.
Aside from all the graphic design I get done at work, I'm currently creating a collection of
animated short films
, beginning with
Ammil
.
This collection is a completely solo project from
writing
,
set building
and
pre-production
through to
animating
,
compositing
and
post-production
. The aim is to push my
animation
and
filmmaking
skills, explore some of the less common forms of animation that I've been dying to try my hand at and hopefully bag an award or two when I submit them to
film festivals
upon completion of each piece.
Subscribe to my blog and follow me on social media for my latest pieces, regular progress updates, to get involved by letting me know what you think of the work I'm doing, and get an exclusive
behind-the-scenes
look into how I make my
short films, illustrations and design work
happen.
Watch this space.