smalldifferences // freelance animator, illustrator and designer
Talented freelance animator, illustrator and designer Darryl Erez-Hutchison. UK based multi-disciplined creative with over 10 years of diverse experience.
A Fool’s wisdomWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Failure is crucial‘You learn to draw by drawing. Saturate your eyes and brain with work that is better than what you can do. Then put it all away and start working.’
The Language of thought“I’m trying to get close to the language of thought. It’s hard to put into words what the mind does, but drawing can map those processes better than anything but music. It’s so agile. It’s like a cloth you put over some complex object and it takes on the shape of the object exactly.”
Stan the ManStanley Kubrick was one of my teenage obsessions that didnt really pass with time and I recently repurposed one of my old acrylic portraits of him for a book cover.
Baby River HorseThe baby river horse is recognizable by its barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth (and teeth), nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size.
A Stag by the AntlersRight, 2011. Acknowledging my track record with keeping this beast updated I’ll be side-stepping the bulls horns completely to see what I can wrestle out of it this year…
Colour & ColeridgeWhen Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety. Unity in the wild variety of nature, perhaps more exactly, in the variety of our experience.
Portfolio updateThe word ‘portfolio’ suggests a selection of work that is easy-to-carry, simple to digest, smoothly streamlined. The body of my site is pretty far from that but that is because I hope it can function not only as a portfolio but also as a source of process documentation for other interested illustrators, animators and designers.
Overwhelmed & atrophyingI am frequently overwhelmed by the internet. Not just in awe of the sheer immensity of it, or humbled by openeness of its contributors, or stopped dead by its incessant growth, but quite literally ‘overwhelmed’ – there is too much [...]
One does what one isand, according to Robert von Musil, by extension “one becomes what one does”. So in this instance I am a ‘quick’ sketch of the piazza in Sicily:
I know Kung-FuWell… not really Im afraid, but its pretty much how I felt when I rendered my first 3D scene.
Please Say SomethingDavid Oreillys brilliant animation short that has been travelling the festival circuit and getting the recognition it deserves. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = [...]
Street art for chickensShow me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.
Minimalist album design“You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough…”
Some life drawing & ThoreauThe greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior…
I include myselfPeople generally consider themselves smarter, luckier, better-looking and more important than they really are. They regard themselves as exceptional and believe that they will avoid the divorces, premature deaths or weight gains that befall everyone else…
Waiting for trains: INot to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot
A couple of paintingsWe should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Portrait influenced by BergerRediscovered a painting with the scribbles from Berger’s ways of seeing all over it. “undisguised banality … it is this, beyond transcending the single instant and admitting subjectivity that distinguishes between voyeur and lover”
Thom Yorke says, here it isDespite a reputation for difficult interviews Thom leaves enough breadcrumbs across the music press to get a rough handle on how he thinks or feels about the processes of writing and producing an album.