Patrick Blake on SoundBetter

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Hello, I’m Patrick. I'm an award-winning Motion Designer and Illustrator based in London, UK working across broadcast, sport, music and food industries. Over this time I’ve been weaving sound and motion together in 2D and 3D in to enegetic music videos and working closely with a wide variety of major brands.

I started working in art and design while making music videos for my friends and my own band. Gradually I found total passion for design and animation and now I work full time as a Freelance Motion Designer including working on perma-lance basis with the BBC. My other clients include: Lego, Fox Sports, Chelsea, Gran Turismo, World Rugby, The Daily Mail, Royal Ascot and many more.

I work in 2D and 3D including illustration and 3D modelling. Please take a look at my work for a flavour of the variety of styles I can put together for you.

I'm here working on Spotify because I'm passionate about music and simply put I love working with music artists.

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Credits

113 Reviews - 20 Repeat Clients

by André T.
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Great experience, excellent animations and clear communication. Working with Patrick delivers brilliant results.
by André T.
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Another superb collaboration with Patrick. Brilliant animator and great communicator.
by André T.
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Patrick has been superb to work with. Friendly, approachable and highly talented. Looking forward to future collaborations.
by Alex C.
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Quick, communicative, and creative. Working with Patrick (on both an 8 second canvas and a 30 second ad looped from it) was excellent!
by Andrea R.
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It’s always a pleasure to work with Patrick!! Thank you for your high quality work. Hope to work again together.
by Tom K.
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As always, Patrick delivers and is a really joy to work with!
by Tom K.
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Patrick is always great in execution and communication! Top notch and super friendly
by markraeofficial
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Patrick is a real talent and incredibly professional too. I highly recommend his work. For this job, a slide show was presented in a 3D space rendered to look like a 1970's lounge. Stunning work.
by Nicholas J.
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Brilliant! Such a pleasure when a job comes off without a hitch
by JaXs
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Great service and a clean canvas
by markraeofficial
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Patrick is a very accomplished artist, 3D designer and Animator. I highly recommend his work, he did a great job for my New Town Ghosts novel and soundtrack project.
by Anthony T.
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Great Job as ever, go to source for the best Canvas work
by Tom K.
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Patrick has been so helpful and pleasant along the way. Great experience and solid work!
by Andrea R.
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Really a great professional with a lot of experience. Thank you Patrick
by Josh F.
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Patrick was great! Really cool ideas for canvases for my whole album and he did a fantastic job on them! He tied all of the songs together with a similar theme which really brings all the visuals for the album together. Highly recommend!
by Jesse
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Working with Patrick was very easy and professional. The work he did was amazing and knew what I wanted! He was also very understanding when something could be added/changed for the direction! I highly recommend working with him!
by Jeff May
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Gave Patrick a small drawing that he animated brilliantly, cant recommend enough.
by randybschuit
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Amazing job, so quick and very creative. Will definitely be coming back for future projects!
by Anthony T.
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Always first class in every way.
by RIC G.
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Excellent all round. Good comms, great result. Patrick knows his stuff. Thank you Patrick!

Interview with Patrick Blake

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Advertisement, digital and broadcast graphics, 3D visuals, illustration and energetic animations.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Self-learning.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: High-spec desktop computer, three screens because I'm cool, laptop for spill over render work, studio speakers for pumping out the jams and a load of house plants.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Tame Impala, Run the Jewels, Meshuggah
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Low-fi, alt-rock, trip-hop, RnB
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: Energising the artist's music further by boosting the key emotions of the track.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Classical Art training background that now underpins much more clean/modern stylised design and character work.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Typically more time in the planning stage than the execution, though both are vital. Then when production's underway I always work listening to the artist's tracks.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Politics degree -> Musician -> Fine Artist -> Music Video Director -> Motion Designer/Artist. Never believed that life should be a straight line. I've been at this for 8 years.