Picking is a trained sound engineer and artist, and he has worked on 3D visual effects for the film
Resident Evil. In 2003, he made several advertisements for
Anchor Butter in the style of his Weebl and Bob animations (but featuring cows) which were broadcast in the UK. The television program
Totally Viral on
UKTV G2, consisting of video clips and cartoons from the internet, has an animated title sequence and links made by Picking. Picking set up his own production company called Sumo Dojo, which he later left to set up Weebl's Stuff Limited, also known as Weebl Ltd. Weebl's Stuff Ltd was dissolved in 2014, and Jelly Penguin Productions Ltd was set up in its place shortly afterward. In 2009, Picking produced several radio and television advertisements based on the tune of the first "Magical Trevor" for the
118 24 7 service of
Yell.com. These appeared on the
ITV television channel, amongst others. It was voted 6th Most Irritating Ad of 2009 by Marketing Magazine. He is also an admitted fan of
Wesley Willis and created an animation for Willis' song "Merry Christmas".
Weebl's Stuff Weebl's Stuff is Picking's personal website. Whilst initially starting with his own creations (The show "Weebl and Bob" was previously hosted on
Newgrounds before moving to Weebl's Stuff), it quickly grew to incorporate numerous series and numerous staff. As well as providing the site with animations, usually at least twice a week, Weebl's Stuff also provides animation services to companies. Clients have included
E4,
Yellow Pages, and
Anchor.
HuHa In 2012 Picking began contributing to the YouTube comedy channel HuHa under the name of Jelly Penguin. He produced several shorts, including Evil Guy (a parody of super-villains from comic books and Saturday morning cartoons), Beef House (a parody of
the A-Team in which the protagonists are butchers) and BAD Advice (a parody of public information films from the 1970s and 1980s). As of 2014, no further works for HuHa have been produced, either by Picking or others.
Team Badger In 2013, Picking teamed up with
Queen guitarist and
animal rights activist
Brian May and actor
Brian Blessed, along with a number of animal rights organisations including the
RSPCA, to form "Team Badger", a coalition against the British Government's
proposed badger cull. Picking, May and Blessed recorded a single,
Save The Badger Badger Badger, a
mashup of 2003's
Badgers, and Queen's
Flash, featuring vocals by Blessed. Picking also animated the music video, which parodied elements of the original "Badger" animation, as well as a scene from the 1980 film
Flash Gordon, in which Blessed played Prince Vultan, and for which Queen provided the
soundtrack. On 1 September 2013,
Save The Badger Badger Badger charted at No. 79 on the
UK Singles Chart, No. 39 on the UK
iTunes chart and No. 1 on the
iTunes Rock chart.
Savlonic Savlonic is a synthpop/synthwave
virtual band consisting of singer Rosco (formerly Roscoe Thunderpants) portrayed by Picking, singer/keyboardist Eve (formerly Evangeline D'isco) portrayed by Sarah Darling, backing vocalist/drummer Kandi Flaus (portrayed by Katt Wade), and guitarist Kaspar Funk (Daniel Dobbs). As of March 2019, nine Savlonic songs have been made into music videos: "Electro Gypsy", "Tiny Japanese Girl", and "Action Causes Reaction" were all animated by Picking, the latter-most being animated in the Unity engine as a VR experience. The videos for "Wandering Eye", "The Driver", "Computer Guy" and "Spelunker" were animated by Peabo. "Broken" and "Hi-Lights" were animated by Kr3id. The band has released four full-length albums:
Red (2014),
Neon (2016), and
Black Plastic (2019)
Ultraviolet (2024). The fourth album,
Ultraviolet, was successfully funded through crowdfunding website
Kickstarter.
Emulat0r (2017) and
Emulated (2020), two cover albums, were released in 2017 and 2020 (these do not count towards Savlonic's numbered releases). They have also released a five-song EP named after the band's animated frontman Rosco, and multiple tracks released as singles ("Sweet" and "00:00:00"). The
Red,
Neon and
Black Plastic albums were funded by the fans of Weebl and Savlonic through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter The campaign for
Red raised £34,768 from 1,320 backers, the campaign for
Neon raised £40,778 from 1,276 backers, and the campaign for "Black Plastic" raised £37,055 from 847 backers. ==Personal life==