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Spirit Bridge Studio

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🪄 World's greatest creative studio, based in Coventry, UK, creating world-class 2D and 3D animation, illustrations, music, and motion graphics. ✍️🧑‍🎨 We're passionate about bringing stories to life and making a positive impact on the world.✨🌍

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · Feb 17

🎬Terry the Toucan is off on a new adventure!🦜

Terry, the global post-bird, is soaring into the intro for Bucky the Unicorn Bear, an upcoming children's picture book and 2D animated series!💜🐻 It's an enchanting journey filled with hope and friendship!✨

#2danimation #animation #unicorn #friendship

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome! You're welcome, keep it up 🤍

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

Apart from that, it is a characterful movement, executed very well. 🤍

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

This is really nice. We would make the pupils less busy. They distract from the main movement. And watch the proportions on the arms. They appear thicker when the body is facing forward and when she has her back to us the arm that is further away looks thicker than the near side one.

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

The white on the neck and hands are a bit confusing. If it is colouration then we would try it as an identifiable pattern. The perspective on the beak is excellent.

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

People often hate drawing hands, but if you are attempting to draw a tricky one like the one in the picture we're sure you will do a good job.

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven't already, we would start with an underlying drawing. This will allow you to be more defined in the edges. A wing turned into a hand is always a challenge, so we would start with hand studies.

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Thomas! 💜

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for the love, @warpedworlds.bsky.social! You're always on point 😎💯💜🤍

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. It means everything to us that you see the heart of the mission 🙏💜🤍

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

What a day! ❤️💜

Our team visited Birmingham Children’s Hospital with Bucky the Unicorn Bear & Bertie Bear to present our Dragon Boat Race cheque.

Thrilled to announce we’ve now raised £13,300! Absolutely amazing! 🤍

#animationstudio #2dart #mascot #unicorn #art

Bucky the Unicorn Bear mascot and Bertie Bear mascot stand side by side on green artificial grass under a colourful striped canopy, holding a large cheque made out to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity.

Six members of the Spirit Bridge Studio team (Guedi Absiyeh, Henry Haigh, Pritpal Rai, Ben Barter, Nathan Hil, and Robert Schiopu as Bucky), wearing purple Bucky the Unicorn Bear t-shirts, pose with Bucky and Bertie Bear mascots. They are on green artificial grass inside Birmingham Children’s Hospital, holding a large cheque.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

You're very welcome! You keep cooking 🤍🙏

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

Again, we may be preaching to the converted, but spray a fixer on the image at the end to protect it. If you don't have a fancy one, hair spray works too.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

If you haven't already, a good technique to employ to avoid accidental smudging is to rest your hand when drawing (when you need to for accuracy) on another clean sheet of paper on top of the one you are working on.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 6d

It looks like you're getting a good handle on your materials. Yes, those softer materials can be a nuisance.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 7d

Try to avoid smudging with your finger. Some artists do this but it doesn't lend itself to accurate toning. Try practicing feathering with your pencil, applying different weight. If you haven't already, try different tones of pencil. Perhaps HB and 4B.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 7d

You have made the left side of the face (viewers left) larger than the right. An easy way of checking symmetry is to look at your picture in a mirror/hold it up to the light and look from behind. We get so used to looking at a page that we don't see things that are obvious when the image is reversed

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 7d

Meet Henry Haigh, one of our brilliant digital artists! 🧑‍🎨🤍

He builds our worlds through concept art and character design, telling powerful stories with every visual.

#digitalartist #conceptart #worldbuilder #animation #2dart #illustration #art #OC #illustration

Henry Haigh, smiling, wearing a black Spirit Bridge Studio hoodie, sits at his wooden desk in the animation studio.

An over the shoulder view of Henry Haigh drawing a 2D character on a graphics tablet.

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 7d

💜🙏🤍

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 10d

The wait is over! 💜🚀

Our Bucky the Unicorn Bear and The Elves of Christmas Eve picture book is officially out.

Immensely proud of the team. 10% of proceeds go to Birmingham Children’ Hospital.

Get your copy: buckytheunicornbear.com

#childrensbook #picturebook #animation #art #2dart #illustration

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 14d

You're very welcome! You keep up the amazing work 🤍🙏

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 14d

Also, the waistband looks almost like a straight line. It needs to curve around the waist. Otherwise, a cool little character this is! 👏🤍

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 14d

We'd suggest a couple of small amendments. We think someone has already mentioned the buns. The middle of the trousers are facing the viewer, but the character is in a three quarter pose. We would change the middle of the legs to reflect this.

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 14d

That's an awesome work! You keep it up, can't wait to see what you'll be cooking 🤍

Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 15d

You are clearly thinking about highlights and shadows as well. It might be a bit too soon, but have you considered texturing the colour? Placing a texture behind can really add something. Not always necessary or suitable though. Nice work so far!

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Spirit Bridge Studio @spiritbridgestudio.bsky.social · 15d

Really good selection! You'll find that a lot of artists, when developing a character, will go through a range of iterations. This is a great starting point though.

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