Name: Seth Mulcahey Banks

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Job: Illustrator, Animator, Painter

Url: http://www.behance.net/sethmbanks

About: I graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and now i live in Brixton. Since then i have had several shows in and around London most recently in the Foundry on Old Street, and last year at the New Designers Selection part of London Design Week in September. I have a strong interest in colour and pattern and consequently my work is vibrant and colour rich. I am inspired by many things in the world but nature, fashion and music are the most prominent, so i guess raving in a field with some RayBan’s and a grizzly bear would be my perfect incubator for an Illustration concept. I use many mediums including photography, collage and many types of pen and ink. I love to combine both hand rendered and digital techniques in both illustration and animation. Most recently geometric shapes and obsessive line drawings have been frequent in my Illustration but last year i was desperate to use my art to con vet my feelings about climate change and the state of the planet where this is concerned, the quantity of 4×4′s in London causes me great anger and i used animation to express these feelings. The Envrion-mental project will show you the body of work and animation for this which will also be in The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration out in the Autumn this year. I am currently seeking work in Illustration and Design both Freelance and full time.

Get Inspired by: I get inspired by a night with my friends listening to the music i love as much as walking through nature in a forrest somewhere or from the Observation of shapes within architecture or even a pair of trainers, I take inspiration from all i come into contact with, people, animals, objects. Many of my ideas come directly from my mind influenced by my dreams and the things around me but often I put pen to paper not knowing what will come and just let shapes and obsessive lines be the driving force, letting the images evolve and grow around that.

Name: Brian Castleforte

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Job: Artist and motion graphics designer/animator

Url: http://www.castleforte.com

About: Professionally, creating cutting edge film and television graphics for over 10 years, for many of the industries best and brightest studios and agencies such as brand new school, imaginary forces, exopolis, buck, logan, blind, to name a few, for clients such as nike, sony, warner brothers, bacardi, madonna, mtv, etc. proudly listed among the cream o the crop on motionographer.com.
Personally, creating everything from original character illustrations, custom toys and paper craft, to, more recently, designing original games for the iphone. Known by some as nicebunny. creator of nicebunny.com and nicepapertoys.com, the first and only paper toy social network. Featured, interviewed, mentioned, in countless blogs, zines, web sites, etc, for everything from motion graphics to paper toys. recently included in the book, urban paper, featuring 26 of the worlds most notable paper toy artists. Always keeping very busy, doing motion graphics, designing an original iphone game, solo and group art shows, artist collaborations, custom toy designs, two more paper toy book inclusions on the horizon, running nicepapertoys.com, connecting with nicebunny fans, social networking like crazy, raising two awesome puppies and being a loving husband of 14 years, with no end to the beautiful madness in sight.

Get Inspired by: For me inspiration comes from anything and everything that elicits strong feelings within me. And being the very passionate and feeling person that I am, this happens a lot. I get very excited about many things, especially things that are man made. That’s not to say that I am not a lover of natural things, on the contrary. But I find the amazing things that humans do to be absolutely mind blowing at times. Especially when it comes to things like art, animation, movies, video games, music and toys. 
I love all things animated… cartoons, stop motion, 3D, motion graphics, etc. I think you will find that much of my illustration work could easily be a frame from an animation. And many of them are still waiting to one day be animated. I also really love anything character driven. Doesn’t matter if it’s cute or dark, art or a video game,  paper or plastic, pencil or digital, color or black & white, I love it all. As a result the only constant you will find in my work, as in life, is change.