girls

Just a couple of design ideas, not sure if anything will come of them. but they were fun to doodle.


The one on the right was sort of inspired by an existing character in a film, hehe.

Evil queen expressions

These were the last drawings I did in 2011, I was away for 2 weeks before the new year so I didn't get to draw after this. The next block of iAnimate has started up so I'll be concentrating on 3d stuff again (with maybe a little 2d mixed in). I'd like to keep drawing but it depends on how busy I'll be. It was fun while it lasted, haha!

spirits

Some ideas for a personal test. The idea is in the same spirit as Boris' ghost character. I think I'm pretty happy with the one on the left, so the final might be a slight variation of her. I also like the firey one, but she no longer applies to the idea.

Chase Modelsheets

Okay bigger than usual post! I had the turnaround done earlier already but I wanted to wait to post it all together. This was fun! I could tell that I started to draw him differently already by the end of it all. But apparently it's normal for that to happen when developing a character..I guess if I had drawn him a lot more before doing the turnaround it all would have been a bit more consistent, but oh well! For some of the poses I used images from google as ref, but tried to change it a bit anyway. I also used Rhino House for in motion dog ref. It's a really neat site, lots of great videos.

Chase colours

So Chase was definitely designed as a German Shepherd, but I thought it would be fun to see what he would look like disguised as different breeds. I think they all work :D

Working away at a model sheet, will post soon.

kid designs

Just some kid designs 8)

Shadow turnaround

Just a turnaround for Shadow. It's not perfect, but it'll do I think.

Super quick doodle

I started a blog to give some tips and help for the entry portfolio for people looking to get into Sheridan's Animation Program. I've only started it not too long ago and it's gone on hold as of right now while I'm busy and try to find some time to work on it (I'll have it posted and linked once it's gotten more on it).
There's a part of the blog where I redraw my portfolio pieces that got me into Sheridan and last night I was inspired to redraw my character that I used for the turn around and expressions.

It felt good just to draw something for fun, no stress!
Anyway, his name is Arrow and he's a bush baby (or something). I didn't look at any animal ref this time around (and I probably didn't for the first time around either, hah!) so excuse him if he doesn't really look like one. Just trying to show a simple structured character while keeping it appealing.


This horrendous thing under here is my original from 2006 that I applied with. What is going on with those circles!? lol! I guess my understanding of structure wasn't quite there yet.



Anyway just thought I'd share this. Have a Happy Halloween!

Titeuf scenes

I have been soooo busy as of late, I haven't done any personal drawing in a little while. Still working away at iAnimate, learning and having fun c:

I had meant to post this while ago, some of you have probably already seen it since Boris posted it on his blog already, but it's Boris' and my scenes from Titeuf: Le Film, compiled together. I think we worked on this the summer of 2010. I don't even remember it feels like so long ago already :S This was the first feature we got to animate on, lots of fun, lots of stress though since we had 2 jobs at the time! Never again, plz.



Sorry for the lousy update, really want to draw some stuff soon and post it! :p

Chase & Shadow

Some poses and expressions for the Egyptian cat, which I've called Shadow.
Although I liked the Anubis-like dog I drew before, I felt that it's much too similar to the cat, so I wanted something a little different for the dog, so while doodling I drew up this German Shepherd, and I think I like him! He is named Chase :) I'll hopefully get around to doing a model sheet for him too.

some doodles

Ehhh, just some doodles from the past little while.
I was trying out the Stumpy Pencil brush some weeks ago (the non-coloured doodles), really like it! Just need more time to draw for myself though. The orange haired girl was drawn with photo reference, but I changed it quite a bit anyway.


Been training my dogs for the past several weeks and it's super time consuming to try and rid them of their bad habits. Going out on long walks 3 times a day takes a lot outta ya, though it's very nice and extremely refreshing to be outdoors during the summer. I am so dreading winter.

workshop 1 progress reel

Since it was due yesterday anyway, here's my iAnimate Workshop 1 Progress Reel.
It's some pretty basic stuff, but I might as well post it! One more assignment in Workshop 1, though. I'll post it when it's done if it looks alright ;)

lineup

It's about time for an update! Boris and I have been taking classes at iAnimate since May and it's been going well so far. Will update with some animation later though, I'm sure nobody wants to see any bouncing balls.


Here's a few designs for a secret project Boris and I put ourselves in. It'll involve some model sheets of these guys (some or all, not sure) so if they turn out alright I'll probably post those up too sometime. It was fun to just draw whatever came to mind, since the designs were open to whatever we wanted to do.



At the moment the dialogue with the dragon design has been shelved (another thing shelved!? guh!), only because it didn't start off good, but I'll possibly do other dialogue with another character. Btw I named him Sam because Samwise's voice is who I picked in my head to voice him, and it just fits so well, lol!

.gif

Gifs are fun, but I had so much trouble just getting a good export :/
A long time ago I used to use a program called Animagic for making gif files (digmon blinks and stuff, ahah), it was excellent, but it's not really anywhere online anymore.
Photoshop can't get an accurate frame rate, and even then I was still having trouble with it for some reason.
I ended up having to do it in Flash, but I couldn't really change the quality much. Oh well.



I'm glad I did this walk though, I've noticed a lot of mistakes and there was a lot of trial and error with the tail, but I think it'll help the next time around I do one. Would love to do a run of this guy, but I gotta start on a dialogue test.

walk wip

Here's a preview of the walk I'm working on. The playback is a bit off since it's a .gif and I'm still working on some little things that I've noticed and am not happy with (mainly the tail >:C ).





And at work right now, Boris and I are on a little project animating a children's book in flash (hand drawn in flash though). The book is illustrated by Tony Fucile, you can see some of the illustrations here: Bink and Gollie