Accumulous, 1.5 years

Right, here are some scary pictures of the accumulated artwork from school... This first one, that's life drawing, all of it... well most of it, I've thrown out a few days worth of it, but thats still a ton.



So how much animation have you done? about 2 inches worth, (plus there a few scenes from LBH project that haven't even joined that stack yet)


The painting mountain isn't very big, but represents far too much time... its the pile on upper right hand of the drafting desk. Oh and thats a new background from LBH stretched out there.


right, I'm back in school tomorrow, so hopefully I'll still have a chance to post more work over the coming weeks, but if not, I'll be sure to dump it on here when I hit the 6 week break.

Projected Retitling... etc...

Ok, so my insomnia is back, so that title probably makes very little sense, but its been a good 3 or 4 days without any decent sleep. So this post might not be the most coherent.... anyways, just figure I'd post a few random sketches...

Sack Sketches, a character sheet of movement range of the little jumping sack that I animated. There were a few other pages, but no need to bog down the blog.


The Take, figure I'd get a jump start on the next animation assignment. These are a few sketches for "The Take" which is as basic as it sounds, but has been around since the beginning of animation. Seriously, check out Gerdy the Dinosaur.




This last one is just an old sketch I ment to post a while ago, but didn't get around to it. The character is for a little narrative I thought up, but apparently not before Bill Plympton did. It was a basic dialog where an angel its swindled by a vixenish devil and is drowning his sorrow at a dive bar.


Oh and to make this post's title make sense, I've simply abreviated the title of that massive round headed character project. It's still a working title for right now and bound for inevitable change, but for now I'm referring to it as LBH. I'll be posting some new work from that project shortly

Cycle upon Cycle

Hey, so finally got the official final grade for the term... High pass for animation, so figure I'd share the fruits of my labour with everybody...

now these are just line tests, and these animation are still on the 'rough' side to help save on time... plus they are just exercise in comprehending movement and timing... think I did really well on them... but take a look for yourselves... also it looks like youtube and Flipbook have conspired against me... the final few frames of each video have been cut off... gunna see if I can fix that...

Simple waving line test... (which no longer works and is about 4 frames long)


Falling Paper Exercise, messed up a lot of the perspective on the character, but really enjoy the walk cycle gag at the end...


The final project, just finished it off yesterday... The exercise is to make a basic 'sack' character jump once. Demonstrating the principles of squash and stretch while moving a character. I went overboard and structured a multiple scene loop.


Well thats it for now... there are still a few more to post, more technical exercises, but think I'll fix up those lost frames from the loops first.

Cartooning Quicky

Alright, just a quick little update. Had my first cartooning class this term, its been a bit tough getting the proper construction of characters, but I've started to get a hang of it.
Start off with some crappy Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes... not the best example, but only easily scannable one.

Also got a few character rotations in. This guy is from my ill-fated "flight" project, Might actually look into doing a bit more with him... maybe a few test animations or something

Finish it off with some skull/face gestures/drawings... For some reason my teacher seems very scared of the 3/4 rotation skull, as she has only ever given examples for the front and side skull view... so naturally I gave it a try.



ok... that's it for now... Next I'll try to get up some life drawing, or some more animation... Till then, have a good one!

Year 2 Term 1 - completed

Well that was... interesting.... Still gotta finish up some make up animation classes, and complete a kick ass little animation loop. But I got the all clear from teh rest of my courses, so I can finally take a break... figure I would start by updating the blog with some work from this term. hmm... might as well start out with some background painting... as its the easiest to scan.






Might not seem like alot but each one of these paintings represents several evenings of brainstorming new creative strands of swearing torrents... It was a real struggle cause they had to be completed in Gouche paints... a medium I still can't get used to... friggen watercolour that wants to be acrylic, but always dry's too light.

anyways, more random work to go up over the next few days...

Subway Sketching

More animations to come up shortly, but for right now a little subway sketching...

Back from the wayside

Hey Everybody,

Sorry about forgetting about this blog, but needless to say that the painting a day experiment petered out. I did manage up to 5 days, but got too busy with other work, till summer ended. Anyways, finally gotten a break from school so figure I'd post some work from the year so far. I'm gunna try to get a bunch over work up over the entire week. least attempt to practice regular update...





Couple of boxed form drawings, and a modelled drawing using india ink(on cardboard backing)

oh, and finally started to learn how to animate





got a few more little test animation, but have to wait to later this month to put them up. Plus these are a bit poorly shot, so might repost them later.