EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 12 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

7 South Tampa Medical School, where he dissected and studied cadavers at close quarters to gain real insight into anatomy. As he says; “You don’t really forget it once you cut open somebody’s back. It’s a great way of burning images into your mind.” His time at Ringling also afforded him the opportunity to work with Jason Wen, one of his art school peers, on a personal project of Wen’s called ‘F8’. Wen had seen enough of Jones’s college work to realise he would be a huge asset to his production and got him on board as a concept artist. As a result Jones found himself working solo on the digital direction of the film, creating scenes, characters, vehicles, guns and any other of the myriad props required for such an undertaking. The work, which called upon all his drawing skills as well as his conceptual vision, was then transformed into 3D. He found the whole experience to be a huge leap forward in the potential that it promised; “… it was the first time that I was able to see my concepts actually in 3D, after seeing the updates and the models in LightWave [another industry standard 3D package], I remember ABOVE: 'Love is a Riot', created as a response to demonstrations in Turkey and around the world. ABOVE TOP: 'Electric Love'—this amazing work was created by Jones using Photoshop, Painter and ZBrush. FACING PAGE: 'Existence' which accompanied the album of the same name from Audiomachine .