Like most small children I loved story time, the trouble is, I never grew up…
I wrote story after story, drew picture after picture-consuming paper by the Ream.
After graduating from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2003 I started my career in children's animation. I worked on programmes such as Bob the Builder, Pingu, Roary the Racing Car, Postman Pat, Shaun the sheep, Timmy Time and most recently on the Aardman film, Pirates.
Over the last 10 years I have made and designed props and sets, sculpted and constructed puppets, story boarded episodes and even wrote a Pingu script called, (Pingu makes a Splash).
During this period I continued to create and develop my own illustrations and stories in my spare time spending hours honing my own writing and illustration style.
I made the move into full time illustration in 2012 developing a number of my own books;
“When will this acorn grow?”, “Don’t mention the Elephant” and “What’s my noise? “
I am also building a character from which I hope to develop a whole world to expand into with products, books and ultimately an animation series. His name is Jack Haddock, ‘The unluckiest fisherman on the seven seas’.
You can see illustrations of him in the gallery.
To me, humor is a very important part of children's story telling and I try to bring as much interest, fun and laughter to each page. I love how a good picture book can bring so much fun to a child and leave a lasting message.
To see more work by James Taylor please click this LINK.
I wrote story after story, drew picture after picture-consuming paper by the Ream.
After graduating from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2003 I started my career in children's animation. I worked on programmes such as Bob the Builder, Pingu, Roary the Racing Car, Postman Pat, Shaun the sheep, Timmy Time and most recently on the Aardman film, Pirates.
Over the last 10 years I have made and designed props and sets, sculpted and constructed puppets, story boarded episodes and even wrote a Pingu script called, (Pingu makes a Splash).
During this period I continued to create and develop my own illustrations and stories in my spare time spending hours honing my own writing and illustration style.
I made the move into full time illustration in 2012 developing a number of my own books;
“When will this acorn grow?”, “Don’t mention the Elephant” and “What’s my noise? “
I am also building a character from which I hope to develop a whole world to expand into with products, books and ultimately an animation series. His name is Jack Haddock, ‘The unluckiest fisherman on the seven seas’.
You can see illustrations of him in the gallery.
To me, humor is a very important part of children's story telling and I try to bring as much interest, fun and laughter to each page. I love how a good picture book can bring so much fun to a child and leave a lasting message.
To see more work by James Taylor please click this LINK.