The Spare Tire

2011-08-09T09:35:00.000-07:00

A Garish Bird

2011-08-09T09:29:00.000-07:00

Brave New World

2011-07-09T01:45:00.000-07:00

Harry Holliday

2011-07-08T22:26:00.000-07:00

Marvel style.

A page...

2011-07-08T21:56:00.000-07:00

...from my heart.

Wawwwwg...

2011-07-08T21:03:00.000-07:00

on my blawwwwwwwwg.

Back from Asia, Back to Animation!

2009-12-28T10:04:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-05-28T13:17:00.001-07:00

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!

2008-04-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-04-09T11:15:00.000-07:00

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.

The Shark, the Fish, & the Anchor

2008-03-20T10:22:00.000-07:00

I was going through some of my old animation stuff on my computer last night around 2:30 (well, I suppose that'd make it this morning), and I thought I'd put some up.

This flash animation was done as my final project of Art III in high school. Though I got a good grade, I wouldn't say it's good animation. One- it's flash, and two- it's bad, motioned-tweened flash. Still, I like the colours. And fart jokes are always in fashion.

The Gift (in two parts)

2008-03-20T09:10:00.000-07:00

The last project for term two. A character comes across a gift and something happens...

Scene One: Long shot, character comes across the gift.

Scene Two: Medium Shot, character opens the gift.

Not bad...I wish I had more time to finesse and tweak, but that's life.

The Take

2008-02-29T16:31:00.000-08:00

Alright, here's another project from classical animation term 2 - The Take. Just in case you don't know what a take is, it's a sudden change of emotion, usually conveyed through a wild and crazy action, such as the character's eyes popping out, his jaw literally dropping to the floor, and/or pretty much anything else you could possibly think of. The take is one of the most enjoyable things to animate. For good examples of takes, check out some Tex Avery cartoons, especially the stuff he did for MGM. He loved takes so much, he created several cartoons just as a showcase for his . A personal favorite is Northwest Hounded Police:

Now here's mine:

Personality Walk

2008-02-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

Finally got some animation on here. I finally finished some animation. This was the first project of the term - the Personality Walk Cycle. For my animation, the buzz word is "cautious". I have a whole background story to go along with it too, but that's something for another day...

I'd like to get some of my older stuff up here, from term 1 and beyond. Not because they're particularly good, or because anyone other than my mom is reading this, but mostly for posterity's sake. It's good to have all this stuff in one place so I can look back at it someday. And laugh.

And yes, I realize that it's 3 o'clock in the morning and that I'm still at school. The best part is, I'm not even close to being the only one here! There's people in classes on the floors above and below me. That's what I love about this field, not just animation, but the arts in general. People have such passion and drive for what they do. I love it...

Pose and Expression Sheets

2008-02-28T11:20:00.000-08:00

Character Model Sheets

2008-02-27T12:02:00.000-08:00

These happen to be my model sheets for the character design crit tomorrow. This guy was featured in all three animations this term- the personality walk, the take, and the gift. As soon as I finish those, I'll post 'em.
Also, I got my marks back for life drawing. 93.3%! And according to the crazy canadian grading scale, that's 0.7% from an A+

Portraits

2008-02-26T18:38:00.000-08:00

Hand and Feet

2008-02-26T18:34:00.000-08:00

Long Poses, more than 10 minutes

2008-02-26T18:24:00.000-08:00

Medium Poses, 5-10 minutes

2008-02-26T18:20:00.000-08:00

Life Drawing Term 2 Critique

2008-02-26T13:03:00.000-08:00

The critique went really well. I should have the grades by the end of the day.

Here are the first two pages. 30 second to 5 minutes gestures:

A bit more in depth...

2008-02-25T16:14:00.003-08:00

So that's the end of the skeleton. I really enjoyed doing those. For some reason, I had an easier time with ol' skelly than with the actual models. Probably because skelly doesn't move. At all.

Feet!

2008-02-25T16:02:00.001-08:00

Legs!

2008-02-25T16:01:00.000-08:00

Hands!

2008-02-25T15:42:00.001-08:00

Arms!

2008-02-25T13:50:00.001-08:00

I feel it in my bones...

2008-02-04T11:18:00.001-08:00

This is the beginning of everything...

2008-02-04T11:10:00.000-08:00

Yay! This is my first post on my blog. Man, I hate that word - "blog." It just doesn't sound appetizing at all...

So, I'll try and get caught up with everything. I'll start with all the skeleton studies we've been doing in life drawing.