Somethin from 4th year

Here's something from 4th year that I found lying on my harddrive that fills me with nostalgia.  I never posted/finished it because the linework got inconsistent and I was pretty busy at the time.  These are some awesome friends from my time at Sheridan, Spencer Duffy, Jeremy Bondy, Kyle Mowat, Bijan Shahir, Dylan Glynn, and Ian MacDonald, who all appeared as dead sailors in my film.  Miss you talented lads all a ton!

Also, please ignore the magical extra hand.  It was for Parker Bryant, but I had to cut down on my number of background characters to save time! Sooorry bro.

CSU Summer Arts

Well here's something that's a long time coming--the piece I did for CSU Summer Arts in Monterey, California in July.  I was lucky enough to place pretty well in a CTN Expo demo reel conest and had a good chunk of my tuition covered for it.  I had an amazing time learning from some amazing Dreamworks  animators (and former Disney and  Aardman animators, at that!), our very talented and enthusiastic course instructor, and some wonderful acting coaches too.  It was a crazy two weeks (I never even went to Monterey, except to catch a bus.  We were on the college campus outside of it almost the entire time), learned a ton, and met a lot of wonderful 2D and 3D student animators from across the United States while getting to work with a couple former Sheridan classmates too.  It was a great experience, thanks CTN and everybody else involved!

My piece was based on that awful moment when you can't find your credit card when you're at the checkout.  I hope the ending reads, we got a little rushed for time as we spent most of the first week working things out with our acting coaches and getting some great lectures before we got down to the actual production of things. 

(The card is in his shirt pocket, the cashier grabs it for him.)

just droppin' in

Some sketches from earlier this year. Gotta scan a few things in my new sketchbook when I get a chance.

sailor friends

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

more film stuff

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

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

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

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

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

Two of my favourite things!

sleeping animals in profile are my forte

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

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

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!

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

What an unexpected event.




















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

I am sorry for never updating

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

 

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

head turn

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

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

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.