Friends at Emma's cottage

Spent an awesome week-end at Emma's cottage, got to hang out with good friends, and got to meet some new ones as well! Here they are, save for Ryan and Kyle who managed to evade my scrutinous pencil. I hadn't sketched people in a while, it's really, really fun! :D

School's out forever

Well, it's over! Here are some shots from my film, it's almost done now but there's still a good amount of clean-up and coloring to do on some of the animation (about 35 seconds worth, out of 2:12min). It's been a crazy end of year, went by in a blur. I'm excited to see what the future holds :)

Film poster!

I didn't want to divulge too much about my film's plot on my blog too soon, but I guess we're close enough to the end of the semester to allow for some leakage. Probably most people who view this blog know what my film's about anyways, for the others, you'll have to wonder!

A quick dash of kitsch :D

I was listening to some happy love songs tonight and that's what came out. Recently I was reading a book that denounced kitsch as being illusory (well, it kind of is by definition, but anyways), and well, what can I say, I still believe in it. It's not because shitty stuff exists that happy corny stuff is fake! Anyhoo, I kinda like this sketch, maybe I'll finish it if I have time.

Oldish Winter Fair stuff

Those were drawn at the Ontario Royal Winter Fair this November, I never got around to post them, until now! In other news I'm still working away on my film, I have about 75% of the rough animation done so far, I'm excited about how it's looking so far :). Cheers!

A late Christmas!

Here's a Christmas gift I drew for my friend Abbey, it's her with her film's characters, freakishly cute! Colored pencils are fun.

Corteo

I saw this awesome Cirque du Soleil show on TV the other day, these were done while watching it. I really really love the art direction of this show, it's like a mix of baroque art and old Italian circus and gypsy culture, insane!

First scene!

Well, here it is, the first scene of my film... completed!... for now, at least. All my layouts are done, the color keys are done, so now I'm just painting away and trying to make those BGs look pretty, while being well suited to showcase the animation. This scene has no animation though, so it just has to look nice and set the mood, hopefully. I still have about 22 of these to go, hopefully I can get them done this week and then I'll have all of next semester to concentrate on animation only, yipee!!! :D

Russian clowns

I was watching a circus show on TV yesterday and those awesome clowns called Lizedei had a pretty funny number, it inspired me to draw this. Enjoy!

Some lifedrawing!

These are all 20 minute poses. We're so fortunate at Sheridan to have such amazing models and model coordinators, gotta make the most of it while I'm still here. In other news the film is going well, I'm about halfway through my rough layouts and I started a bit of animation here and there... It's so much fun!!! :D Later!

Character color studies

I took out my gouache set today and played around a bit, it was fun! I was trying to do that nice flat lineless style you see a lot in Disney and Pixar concept art. I don't think I really got it, but I kinda like the result anyway. Hope you enjoy!

Lifedrawing

Some stuff from my mid-term portfolio, 10-20 minutes. Hope you like!

The Nightingale

This was an assignement for my elective class "Illustrations of the Romantic Period". The first image is based on John Clare's The Nightingale's Nest and the second on Samuel Coleridge's The Nightingale. I really love using watercolors, it had been a while since I'd done it. If anyone's wondering, btw, watercolor is ALL ABOUT what paper you use. I used a cheap paper to do some tests for this and that totally sucked, but those here were done on Arches Coldpressed paper, which was total bliss. Later!

Storyboards!

Some clean boards for my film, I got a bit carried away with the amount of detail, but I figure it'll come in handy when I'm doing layouts. And I just happen to like drawing details too. I should be done with this 2nd pass on the boards by the week-end, then I'll spend 2-3 weeks trying to get the hell critiqued out of it and revising whatever should be revised, and then hopefully it's on to production!

Some concept animation thumbnails

Not much to update with this week, I've been mainly concentrating on my storyboards and leicca reel (with some lifedrawing here and there) these days. But here are some super rough poses for 2 scenes in the film. Enjoy!

Christine, Jeff, livingroom study and horsies

Wooh! I've been back in shcool for a week and it's going great! I'm almost done with my first pass on my storyboards for my film, and I'm starting to get my character designs a bit more fleshed out. Also on the side I've been trying to draw horses from memory, it's fun! They still look a bit off here and there but I'm getting there, I think.

A nice car ride

This pic was inspired by the same song that inspired me about exactly one year ago, "Deux par deux rassemblés" by Pierre Lapointe (you can see the previous pic in the August 2006 archives). It's my first time designing a car, it's pretty fun!

Film concept!

So 4th year's right about to start for me at Sheridan, which means it's FILM-MAKING TIME!!! Here's a first color concept for the style of my own thing, it's a start!

Lifedraw and caricatures

Some sketches from this summer, the caricatures are of various coworkers at Copernicus Studios. Enjoy!

Carriage... guy

Well that makes at least one update for the month of July. Just a quick doodle in photoshop, enjoy!