the many adventures of nicole dubeta

sailor friends

2011-09-26T11:42:00.001-07:00

starring jeremy bondy (twice), bijan, and ian macdonald as arctic explorers.

more film stuff

2011-09-19T14:52:00.000-07:00

A character lineup of one design take on my two main characters in different stages in their adventure.

And here's a jolly fellow in the crow's nest at the start of their voyage.

paintinnnns dump

2011-09-13T19:39:00.001-07:00

here's some more paintings in various states of completion:

A sailor on a ship exploring the Arctic loses his nose. My concept for the thesis film has to do with the search for the Northwest Passage, and some pretty crazy stuff went down up there, legit.
Aaaand here's an icy-looking sea captain as well.

Apparently everything I do is Arctic themed, I don't know. This one's gotta get finished some day, it is a present for my good friend, former roommate and fellow fourth-year animation student, Frank Madden. Just two monsters having an interesting discourse at sea, guys.

so I do actually exist

2011-09-13T19:12:00.000-07:00

I figure I better post a painting I was working on in the summer. It isn't finished yet, but since we're getting into the swing of our thesis films now I don't expect much time to nitpick in the near future.

Smerdyakov is the most frustratingly unknowable character in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Every other character in the novel unfolds psychologically before you in such a remarkably believable and fascinatingly human way, and then there's this gap where Smerdyakov is working unknown things in the dark in his head and Dostoevsky never fills it in. He's an attractively repellant character to me and it really got to me that he never explains his actions in the novel--which is the whole point, I think. So here's some Russian Lit fanart of a real twisted, morally despicable coward wooing a lady with his guitar skills, I guess.

Also I do lots of art, I'll post more of it sometime.

oh hey, an update

2011-01-24T17:27:00.001-08:00

Here's a pic from my sketchbook I took the time to colour.
And a few things from a while back for the group film too!

I love me some pen tool.

oh boy

2010-10-12T20:58:00.001-07:00

a few things for the story i have to pitch tomorrow (...today):

it is basically exactly what it looks like...honestly, i just don't know, guys

banjos and farmers tans

2010-06-19T12:16:00.001-07:00

Two of my favourite things!

sleeping animals in profile are my forte

2010-03-29T18:17:00.000-07:00

Profile views. All the time.

Cowboy from character design.

Aaaand my Supaflakes! layout. I fixed it up a bit on the school computers but this is what you are getting.

I drew a hipster

2010-03-06T10:04:00.000-08:00

Accidental Kyle, if he were a giant tool? I should post my accidental Bijan drawings, I swear it happens at least once a week.

ALSO I LOVE THE PEN TOOL SO MUCH, WE ARE GOING TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER

FOR DARRYL

2010-01-10T19:47:00.001-08:00

Soooo I tried to digitally paint you riding your magnificent battletiger through space with that fierce look in your eyes you get sometimes, but that didn't turn out so well. And then I thought to myself, "You know what else Darryl would like? A picture of a grizzled sea captain whose nostril is mysteriously in the shape of the number 9 losing a game of Battleship in a scene with no background and an indeterminant light source. YES!"
I think I'll try to finish up that battletiger too someday, man, but happy belated Christmas nonetheless!

ALLONS-Y!

2010-01-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

There was totally a background to this, butttttt it was not a good one. Maybe I'll try again some day. If you don't know who this is supposed to be you should probably watch some Doctor Who, son, because it is friggin rad. True story.

In other news I cried like a little girl at the finale because I love Ten tonnnnns but I am totally excited for the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith looks fierce in tweed.

OH MAN AN UPDATE

2010-01-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

What an unexpected event.

I am trying to figure out these computer contraptions, they are tough.

I am sorry for never updating

2009-11-15T11:27:00.000-08:00

So here's a really quick post. Armadillo skeleton from the Rom,

and a terrible scan of my character design from the weight lift toss animation we did. Which I will totally post later.

sharkman wants a goldfish cracker

2009-08-29T18:56:00.000-07:00

He can't have one. Double amputee, how could he even hold it?

head turn

2009-04-25T06:25:00.000-07:00

Oh man, this assignment gave me trouble. I liked the lip sync, but the rotation and the expression change were major trouble and exacerbated my neurotic tendencies. Fun times.

playing blog catch-up

2009-04-24T16:55:00.000-07:00

First up, the Pink Panther walk. I enjoyed it, though it turned out a little on the robotic side.

My first year in Sheridan animation was phenomenal. To all the people in my year: I salute you guys. Aaaand I will try to post the rest of my animations in the near future.

some old animations

2009-04-23T06:03:00.000-07:00

Here's some old stuff I never got around to uploading. First up is the second assignment of the first semester, the seaweed/page turn. I had a very hard time with the page turn starting out, but rest assured that I now know my S and C curves like nobody's business.

Next up is the box fold, which was not the most exciting of assignments.

And finishing up the stuff from first semester, here's the ball and tail. I'll try to get up my second semester work up in the near future.

Squirrel time

2009-04-07T19:32:00.000-07:00

Here's the character poses and expressions for our final (?) project. I like squirrels.

Aaaand a couple of zoo drawings. Life drawing: not my strong point.

SEEKING FELLOW ADVENTURERS

2008-12-28T10:32:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wanted to go on an adventure? Me too.

I don't care who you are, or what precisely the adventure is. Are you a bank manager, bored with the rote tasks of your daily life? A 84 year-old grandmother dreaming of doing something outlandish and fantastical before your kids send you to the nursing home? A peasant who has spent the last twelve years of your life mastering the most deadly forms of martial arts in order to avenge your parents, who were murdered by a one-eyed Mongolian warlord? Was your great great grand-uncle an American Civil War general from whom you have inherited a map and a series of cryptic clues that may or may not lead to buried gold? I'm in. I don't care if you don't have a TARDIS or a DeLorean, I am willing to go on a timetravelling journey with you, one second at a time. Ever wondered how supremely awkward it must be for two people with palmar hyperhidrosis to hold hands? Me and my perspiring palms are itching for an adventure into the outer realms of uncomfortable self-consciousness with you. Let's do this thing.

I must admit that I lack a rocket buffalo. Take the image above as a mere suggestion of where the whims of our explorations could very well take us. If you wish to go searching through the Rocky Mountains with me in a quest to find a space bison, I would be interested. No, I will not be providing drugs. Unless you find the euphoria of an epic voyage into the unknown to be as narcotic as I do.

2008-12-11T06:40:00.000-08:00

Here's the posesheet I threw together for our Mauryboarding semester final. Little did I know that I could have just spent all of two minutes searching on Google and then printing off a posesheet for an established character. Ah well. This was rushed because at approximately 11:30 on Sunday night I actually looked at the guidelines, went "AT LEAST EIGHT POSES AAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" and then had to draw like four more. Well played, self.

BOOOOONES

2008-12-06T20:44:00.000-08:00

The scapulas are mostly fail because I drew them first and I was like "lol what am i doing" the entire time.

SHAZAM

2008-11-25T17:33:00.000-08:00

Here's a little character design for you folks. I call him the Rockatoo.

NOBODY MESSES WITH THE COBRAS.

Royal Winter Fair

2008-11-20T19:05:00.001-08:00

Here's some stuff from last Friday at the Royal Winter Fair. It was a good time, I befriended an alpaca with ridiculous teeth (I should mention that I bought said friendship with food, as it snubbed me until I did) and ate a bison burger because there were none there to make me feel guilty about feasting on their flesh.

2008-10-07T17:33:00.000-07:00

Well, I succeeded in finishing my first animation project on time, thanks to some long weekends and late nights spending some quality time in the animation lab overdosing on Jolt Cola. Let me tell you, guys, this stuff is majorly exciting.

Scintillating, yes? Got you on the edge of your seat? Well then, tune in just a few short weeks from now to be absolutely thrilled by a book page turning and some seaweed swaying in the ocean current. Oh, the places we will go

And for kicks, here's my first assignment from Character Design class.

Why hello thar

2008-08-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

And welcome to my blog, which I hope I will use to keep everybody updated with my artistic progress at Sheridan (oh sweet heavens I had better improve). I'm very much looking forward to the semester starting up and diving back into figure drawing, because extra life class is totally sweet, kids. It was like, my largest single activity I did in Art Fundamentals, and I am still not very good.

I have been drawing this summer a lot, so hopefully I haven't fallen too far behind already. I am nervous for the first day of class like I am starting kindergarten all over.