Otokonoko

Hello world! Sorry for the lack of updates blablabla... Anyway, I've been in Halifax for 3 weeks now, interning at Copernicus Studio, and it's been pretty sweet so far. The workload in my department has been kinda light recently though, so I'm taking a bit of time to train on my own or to just draw my own stuff. So yeah, I'll try to post some interesting stuff shortly, meanwhile delight in my excellent Windows Paint creation. I've been taking Japanese classes during the evenings and week-end, I guess I was inspired by that!

Group film!

So the school year has come to an end and REDRUM, my wonderful group, succesfully finished The Monster Drawing (the short animated film!). An online version will be posted within the next week, so be sure to keep checking our blog for it to pop up. Go check it out now too and marvel at our trailer poster!

lifedrawing

Just some lifedrawings for my final portfolio.

Some birds after work.

They just looked kinda plain without ties, so there you have it, office birds! :D

I bought a guitar! And stuff.

I bought a guitar this week-end! It's an acoustic and is nothing like that drawing here, but hey, guitars are cool!

A character for a potential story I'm developping for my 4th year film. He has a secret life!

This last one is dedicated to Sarah who had to sit through a very annoying conversation recently.

Demo Reel

Here it is, my demo reel! You tube made it a bit slower than it really is, but it still works alright. Enjoy!

Taxi

There are a lot of problems with this drawing but eh, it's a doodle. Aah, it's past my bedtime again, gotta get up early tommorow to work on the group film. Anyway, uh, I'm checking out now, peace.

On a roll!

Woooh two posts in one night, I'm on fire. I wanted to try getting more intense colors without resorting to any photoshop tricks, there it is. I should go to bed now.

Guitaring

Just felt like doodling and trying out some color stuff in photoshop. I wanna buy a guitar.

Woodsmen

French Canadian woodsmen! I think I might use the middle one for the big character assignment in our 3D class this semester, we'll see if he makes the cut.

The G

My pal Mario and I had a rather unusual caricature battle where the assailant, instead of humiliating the victim with caricatures, plagued them with self-caricatures pasted over the victim's desk area... good job if you were able to make sense of that, where the logic in that resides, I don't know. Anyway, the point is, here's a self-caricature of yours truly, enjoy!

Ballet

This is a layout/animation/compositing assignement. I'm currently working on the animation, but here's a shot of what the finished thing should look like. Dancers are fun to animate!

An update of sorts

Well I felt like updating my blog tonight, but didn't really have anything to scan (it's all at my desk at school, yeah...) , so I decided to just fool around for a couple minutes in photoshop and post whatever came out. Here it is, call it Simplistic Naive Charm if you will.

Mario

Here's a caricature of my good friend Mario, I was trying to get back at him for all the unflattering renditions of me that he's done over our years here at Sheridan. After some consideration, I think I still have a long way to go before I reach his level of grotesqueness in my own caricatures. Ahh Mario, you're an inspiration.

Francine

Yohoho! Group film projects are now well underway here at Sheridan, and I must say my team kicks ass! We're getting pretty close to reaching a final story script and direction, and a project blog should be set up shortly. In the mean time, here are some story sketches I did last week as part of uh, pre-pre-production? We decided yesterday to go with a pretty different direction (not everyone likes bright bubbly stuff the way I do, hahaha), so I'm posting them up here. Sorry Francine, that's as far as your existence is going. It was good while it lasted.




Stay tuned for more stuff!

Cafe drawings and doodles

Hey! It's been a while since my last update, I've mostly been doodling random "unworthy of my blog" stuff lately (that's all quite relative), so uh, that's an excuse right there! I finally ended up deciding that posting doodles was probably better than posting nothing at all, so there ya go, doodles!

Some sharpy caricatures done at the local mall, I slapped on some colors in photoshop while I was at it.

Random characters (and a pair of misconstructed legs?) doodled in my litterature class this morning. It's a good enough class, plus the teacher gives us a lot of time for in class exercises, so that's fun!

That girl is apparently faking surprise.

I don't know what my big problem is, come to think of it I've been posting "doodles" since the very start of this blog. Ahh the absurd complexities of my mind. Anyway, stay happy, until next time!

My website is revamped!

Hello all! I just revamped and majorly updated my website, go check it out! It's at http://rydia.net/clairvoyance . Enjoy!

Pierre Lapointe

It's been a while since I last made a more finished, polished drawing, it feels good! I heard some new music upon coming back to Montreal, some of which was terrific! There's this young signer-song writer-composer over here who's pretty popular these days called Pierre Lapointe, he's great! One of his newer songs, called "Deux par deux rassemblés" (Two by Two Brought Together) really gave me a kick, I loved it the first time I heard it. And then I saw the music video, it was INSANE. So crazy and fun and unexpected, and the style of it really resonated with me.

Anyway, this really inspired me, so here's the result!


If you wanna see the video it's at http://www.audiogram.com/nouvelles/20060621/ . Enjoy!

Various stuff

Hello hello! I'm back home safe in Montreal, now there are only 3 weeks left 'till the beginning of school. What a summer! I had a blast in San Jose at Gaia, the San Fransisco Bay area is definately a cool place to live in... at least judging from the 2 months I spent there. Anyway, here are some sketches!

Some portrait of a made up 80's rocker type chick. I was kinda thinking about Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jet there, although what I came up with kinda lacks the attitude. I still like it alright.

Some sketches for a short scenario I'm developping, it's nothing epic but I'm having fun with it.

Drawing people at the San Fransisco Airport.

And finally a fashionable chick taking a stroll. Listening to KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" song makes me think of pretty girls happily strutting down the city streets, it's a good song!

Little Miss Sunshine

Woah, I don't usually advertise stuff on this blog, but here's something worth mentionning: Little Miss Sunshine. I went to see it with some friends yesterday in Emeryville, and I gotta say I haven't enjoyed a movie that much in a long time. The story and characters are just so amazingly well written and developped, the cast is amazing, the movie just sucks you in from the very first minute. The whole thing is so well paced with a good balance of comedy and drama, every main character (or almost) have their own story/subplot that ties in perfectly with the main plot. It's just such a satisfying, moving movie. I'll leave it to that, now go see it!