A Garish Bird

Brave New World

Harry Holliday

Marvel style.

A page...

...from my heart.

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on my blawwwwwwwwg.

Back from Asia, Back to Animation!

My final project from the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts Classical Animation program, "A Faun Farewell," with music by composer Ryan Leach. I love the soundtrack, it adds so much to the animation. Check out his website at www.ryanleach.com

A Toddyssey of Epic Proportions!

I'm working on a new blog to follow my adventures abroad:

Kevin & Todd's Excellent Adventure!

Join Todd, the intrepid young explorer and artist, along with his devil-may-care brother, as they travel to the far reaches of the world. Journey to magical islands, to the deepest jungles and highest mountains...

New Character Design!

For our third term of animation here at Vanarts, we're focusing on dialog. Our second exercise involves a banter between the first character we designed (good ol' Boots Newton) and a new character. Since we had our mid-term crit today, I had to put together some model sheets. So here they are for your viewing pleasure:

and we'll go ahead and throw a Boots mouth chart in here for good measure...

oh, and by the way- the letters under the mouth shapes don't represent the actual letter he's forming. When animating, you keep track of your drawings by numbering them. With mouth charts, you label the poses alphabetically. The reason for this is, (in the working world) when an animator is calling for various mouths for inbetweens, there is no mistaking that pose for a numbered drawing.

Panning Background!

So we're in Adobe Premier class right now. We're learning all about editing and whatnot. It's all stuff I'm all pretty familiar with. However, we did go over exporting specifically for web which I found helpful. So here's a re-edit of my panning background that includes all the things we learned today. I added some audio (K.K. Western from Animal Crossing). I keyframed some fade-ins and fade-outs. Then I added some titles. Unfortunately, Youtube sucks any amount of quality out of uploaded videos, so it's not as clear as it should be.