ANDREW CHIU Illustrator & Comic Book Artist
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PMC Retail Store Enabler campaign

4/12/2018

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​Project: PMC Retail Store Enabler campaign
Author/Commissioner:  Supreme Creative Ltd

PMC Store Enabler from PMC on Vimeo.

Supreme Creative Ltd are a creative graphic design, web development and marketing agency based in Reading, UK. I was commissioned by them to produce a series of illustration assets/storyboards that they could convert into an animation to help their client PMC Retail promote and explain the benefits of their Store Enabler product which is an E-shopping in-store retail solution that has had take up by the likes of Odeon cinemas and SpecSavers.

​The brief was to illustrate a number of scenes that could then be converted into the above animation loosely using a similar approach adopted in the comic book title sequence found in the opening titles of Grange Hill which was a much loved children's TV series on BBC1 stretching all the way back to the 1970s. Here is Supreme Creative's write up on the project.

​Below are a selection of the illustrations I produced. 
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Concept Art - Walk the Plank

13/11/2017

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Concept: Great Fire of London fire drawing (and others)
Commissioner: Walk the Plank (Manchester)
Event: Various, including The Great Fire of London Firework display, Hull Freedom Festival, Bournemouth by the Sea Festival
Walk the Plank, based in Manchester, are an established leading outdoor cultural arts events company with a national and international reputation - having worked on the closing ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the opening of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture in Finland. I have worked on a number of concept design projects with them  over the last few years.  Here are a selection of digital artwork I have been commissioned to draw.
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Great Fire of London firework display

23/1/2017

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Concept: Great Fire of London fire drawing
Commissioner: Walk the Plank (Manchester)
Event: The Great Fire of London Firework display
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I produced this concept illustration ahead of Walk the Plank's fireworks display at Victoria Park in London for Tower Hamlets Council.  I was asked to visualise a fire drawing representing the Great Fire of London in front of an onlooking crowd at the event venue. The display was part of a series of events across London to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the great fire.  

​Below is the completed illustration alongside a photo of the actual fire display which took place on 6th November 2016. Photo courtesy of Nathan Jackson, Head of Production - Walk the Plank.
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Manga App Illustrations

11/12/2015

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Brand: Undisclosed
Commissioning agency: Havas Lynx

I've been working on and off in 2015 for an award winning agency in Manchester who have a global reach.  They were named Consultancy of the Year at a recent industry awards, and the product I've been working on was also an award winner.  Due to non-disclosure agreements, I can't say much more about the project except that the client is a large multinational, and I got to work in a manga style on various character designs and assets for a gamification tablet app for their Japanese market.
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Inferno Concept Art

23/3/2015

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Concept: Inferno
Theatre companies: Walk the Plank (Manchester), Citrus Arts ​(South Wales)
I was commissioned to produce concept visuals by two contemporary theatre companies working in collaboration on an Arts Council bid to produce one of the showpiece outdoor performances to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wales Millennium Centre.  

Walk the Plank, based in Manchester, are a leading outdoor cultural arts events company with a national and international reputation - having worked on the closing ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the opening of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture in Finland. I have worked on a number of concept design projects with them now.  Citrus Arts are a Welsh based company that specialises in circus, street theatre, drama and dance.  Together they came up with the concept of 'Inferno', a crane-hung show tracking the development of raw industry as electricity and science change processes and possibilities, resulting in the creation of a new Super-Human.  They asked me to take some visual cues from Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' which heavily influenced the concept for the final scene.

As with much of my work these days, it was mostly done digitally sketching directly into a drawing program called Manga Studio 5 using a stylus and tablet PC (Microsoft Surface Pro 3).  Using such a portable set up is very handy as I don't have to be studio based and I was able to work on this commission whilst travelling regularly up and down to London on the train.
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    Andrew Chiu is a UK based illustrator working in comics and children's books, concept art, editorial, as a storyboard artist and visualiser, and any other area of illustration that will have him. All images on this blog are copyright of the publishers unless otherwise stated.

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