Life Drawing part 2

Here are some more life drawings done on some toned paper.

Life Drawing

I've been going to life drawing about once a week recently. Just to sharpen up on my gestures and anatomy. Here are some examples. :)

Work in Progress

This is a painting I'm currently working on. I was trying to play with spraypaint and the relationships between line and shape. I still have to add some stencil bits to the side of the god's head... not sure what types of shapes they'll be... probably simple shapes.

New Sketchies

Been playing with some brush pens and my new sketch book.

Scratchboard Illustration

This is a large scratchboard illustration. Also used a white paint marker on some spots too.

Pencil Necked Geek - New Animation

So I've been working on this animation for a while now. Getting the motivation to do this after work wasn't easy, but I think it's finally at a point where I can show some people and get their crits and feedback. Hope you guys like this one!

There is two versions, the really small web version that is compressed like crazy (and loses frames in some bits...doh), and the large version that is nice and silky smooth. They are both quicktimes. For the big one, you might wanna right click "Save as". Choose yer poison:

Large MOV
Small MOV

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sketches

Here's some playing with watercolours:

Delirium Tremens - red marker

"One of the most enigmatic forms of visual hallucinations are the highly variable, possibly polymodal Delirium Tremens, which is a form of withdrawl from alcohol in people with late-stage alcoholism. As the name suggests, the subject is usually agitated and confused, especially in the later stages of this disease. Insight is gradually reduced with the progression of this disorder. Sleep is disturbed and short, with REM overflow." said Wikipedia.

watercolours

Just recently playing with some watercolours for some concept artwork that I'm doing for my next short film...

Snowy Days in Vancity

So it's been snowing for the past few days now here in Vancouver. So I decided to take a panoramic pic of the city under snowfall..

life drawing... and painter art

I recently went to a life drawing night in a little, cramped studio space very close to my apartment. This is my first batch of drawings in sooo long. Gotta get back in the groove. The purple girl was done in "painter" just trying it out... I like her weird skinny legs.

New team... yay

I've just been transferred to a new team downtown Vancouver at the EAX studio. I'm animating on a new "secret" game that looks like a lot of fun. I'm stoked!

A couple of the guys on my new dev team pointed out this wicked drawing software (called open canvas) that lets you have network drawing "jam sessions"... check it out!!

Recently went to New York too, went out with some buddies from Toronto. Lots of interesting bars, people and art to behold. Maybe I'll post some pics in a bit.

random sketchies

Here's some random scribbly doodles.

Jan Svankmajer

Darkness/Light/Darkness a really great little short. Genius! By the great Jan Svankmajer.

quick doodles

A mishmash of some sketches I've done over the past little while... been procrastinating a lot lately. I've just begun a new animation that will feature my new character and an obstacle course. I hope to be finished the anim in a month or so... crossing fingers!!

Oil

An oil painting that I recently completed. I got these really cool oil markers that work pretty good on canvas. Good for doing detail work etc.

Sketches

Here is a couple characters I was doodling.

ROCKIN' RIGGLES

Here is a demo movie I whipped together on my latest rig. It's practically "finished"... well I can animate with it now. There still aren't much in the way of shaders and textures etc. But that stuff is lame anyhow... it's all about rigging and animation... right??!!... heh.

Small Movie
Big Movie

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lil' inkies

I got some brush pens a while back... just testing them out here. Messing around with some characters... just doodles really. I need to plan my drawings a little better ... perhaps with some blue pencil.. and then do cleanup's etc. These are just straight up ink...

Urban Sprawl on ZED!!!

My short film Urban Sprawl will be on ZED Wed. March 15th. The show starts at 11:25pm. Also my very short interstitial will be airing on Wed. March 8th.

I'm super-glad that this is going to be on a national television program. I hope people like it!

Urban Sprawl Screenings

My second short film Urban Sprawl has just been screened at PISAF in Korea and Animex in Britain! I'm glad that his film is getting some exposure! I hope it gets a good response.

It will also be on the CBC show ZED... Although, I'm still not sure when the short will air, it will be on their wednesday night show.

A little Vid... wasting time...

Here's a little vid...

RIGGING!!

I'm mid-way through my rig for the girl. I've got most of the body controls in place. The arms and legs have ik stretch, the spine has fk stretch... as will the neck. Still have a bunch of kinks to work out, but so far so good. I'll start playing with the face in a couple days. Gotta keep tweaking some geometry as well, like the hair for sure. and maybe the hands. I've managed to isolate the motion in her head as well. Plus I built some controls for her hood... I hope they work out.

Seattle

The whole NBA LIVE team went down to Seattle by bus last friday. I took some pics. It was pretty cool, got to see Shaq dunk on a couple guys. The Miami Heat won by a dozen points.

25th B-DAY!!

25th B-Day pics.

GIRL in the HOODIE

So this is what I've been doing at work recently... NBA Live 360 has shipped and we have some downtime before the next game really gets rolling so... I've been working on this character for a while... The body geometry is pretty much final. The hair still needs some work. Right now I'm experimenting with various squash and stretch rigging techniques... Very difficult to figure out... But just gotta take my time, and make sure it's really solid. It'll make animating her that much easier.

NUARTFOUR

Hammerhead... orange india ink

Neue Art - 3

Some orange india ink.

Nuevo Arto... numero 2

This piece was done in scratch board... my favorite medium!

New Art.... #1

So my computer got a terrible virus a couple of weeks ago, and I lost all of my programs and some artwork too... nothing really important tho. While my computer was messed up I managed to do a bunch of art in my spare time. So I'll post it up here... it's about 4 or 5 drawings. Also, last month this site was shut down because of too much traffic... Not sure how that happened someone must have linked some of my quicktimes to another site... anyhoo's less talk .... more art.
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