Last week I saw the animation I had supervised in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. It was good to see it after a year in the can, but its always sad when something only partly made it into the film. Such was the case with globbie in the potions class sequence.

Globbie was planned as a lengthly shot where a potion comes to life, slopping from the cauldron and leaping from table to chair to floor, then turning into a four legged creature, before being caught by Professor Slughorn.

These are the designs I made for the first part of the shot. This was taken to full animation by Mark Kennedy, but the only part of his work that remains in the film is the slopping from the cauldron. Such is the film business.

In about 1990, Fox Comics was approached to be involved in an international children's charity, comic book.



The idea was that every country in the world would create a story. This was Australia's contribution.



A competition was run at a school in Melbourne to design a lead character, Nick Burstall drew Ron Rowdy. Dave Hodson wrote this charming story around Ron.



I drew the story. My coloured pages were then sent off to England, never to be seen again. At least I made some xeroxes.

21C magazine, 1992. An illustration for an article about a guy driving a gas guzzling car through a wind farm in California.



The instructions I gave about the spot colour were ignored and this is how it was printed.



This is how it should have looked.