Author: Ant Mercer

Conk reet

Ant Mercer Photography

Conk reet

Photographs of concrete structures from various cities, such as Liverpool, Budapest, Glasgow, and Lancaster, capturing how form and surface are shaped by light. The images focus on the quiet shifts that occur as sunlight moves across the built environment—shadows stretch, edges blur, and familiar structures take on a different presence.

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Dinosaur Park Set design/storyboards

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DIno Park Ad & Creative

Often in my role as a storyboard artist I can work on a project and never hear of it again – projects get cancelled, clients decide to use another concept – many reasons.

But I thought I’d show an advert by one of my clients, NeamTV, for the VTech playset “Toot Toot Friends.” It’s got my dabs all over it.

First of all, I was hired to create the back drop of the set. Here’s a few images from the set of my artwork, printed IRL at huge size.

*Set photography courtesy of NeamTV.
*Set photography courtesy of NeamTV.
*Set photography courtesy of NeamTV.

In addition, I was asked to storyboard this advert:

…and here’s the final broadcast advert.

Harryhausen

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HarryHausen.

 

Ray Harryhausen’s films left a deep impression on me as a child—those Sunday mornings watching Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, or Clash of the Titans became formative visual experiences.

 

The creatures, movement, and atmosphere still sit somewhere near the core of how I imagine and make images.

 

This series began during the lockdown, with a drawing of Calibos from Clash of the Titans. Since then, I’ve returned to Harryhausen’s world again and again, building a loose collection of drawings and paintings that pay tribute to his iconic stop-motion creations. The project is ongoing—I’ll add to it each time a new figure or moment insists on being drawn.

 

Portrait sketch dump

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Portraits.

Early on in the 2020 lockdown, with a bit of time on my hands, I started to do a bit of digital archaeology and dug deep into my archival hard drives for the first time in years. Part discovery and part clearing away an accumulation of digital detritus I unearthed numerous dead projects, ideas, doodles and other crap.

One of the things that I found was a folder called “To Draw” where I’d stored images and reference for later study. From anatomical study, interesting faces or statues or, as in a batch of images, photos taken off the TV of some unusual guests on the late not-lamented-at-all Jerome Kyl-e show.

The Great Hall, Hampton Court Palace.

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THE GREAT HALL.

3D Visualisation: Hampton Court Palace

This previsualisation project was created to help plan a wedding event set in the extraordinary surroundings of The Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. Working from reference material and floorplans, I developed a 3D model of the space that captured the room’s major architectural features—most notably its stained glass windows, carved hammerbeam ceiling, and historic tapestries, some of which were likely commissioned by Henry VIII.

The challenge was to balance fidelity to these details with practical limitations on time and budget. The result is a set of images that reflect the grandeur of the space while providing a clear and useful visual reference for planning layout, lighting, and atmosphere. I handled all aspects of the modelling, layout, and visual rendering.

This is a pipe

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This is a

Pipe

Specifically, it’s my Granddad’s pipe.

As a kid, I was always fascinated by the details – all the creases and folds, the fingernails. It’s a lovely object. Made of meerschaum, I think. My Ma cleared out the attic a few years ago and it finally came to me. My Granddad was a blacksmith, pretty handy with DIY I would guess. Not sure what he would make of my skills making the frame, but it’s framed and up on the wall.