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The 'Peg

I hear a lot of people say a lot of bad things about Winnipeg. It makes me wonder if they've ever spent any time here. It's a fantastic place (although this photo isn't really sellin' it).

stool

This actually happened.

much art being created these days, but no internet connection.

is there a correlation?

merry christmas

Here is a pretty christmas image for everyone to contemplate and share in the Holiday Cheer with me

crazy days

Despair, anger, revelation, meditation and experimentation and probably a few other things went into these sheets yesterday.

where i'm at

Staying in a spare bedroom at a friend's place in Whitehorse.

Daily art / photos will resume now that I'm settled in. I'll be animating by day, painting by night, so there will be lots to post.

nuttin'

no post today, too busy packing for long trip and finishing project.

camera move

The theory is I can track a camera across this and it looks like the camera is panning (rotating) from the wall to reveal the classroom. It usually works. The image is even longer than this but I'm doing the rest digitally. Then I'm going to paint it. Tonight. Stress. Flying north to Whitehorse on Tuesday and I want to get this done before then.

Skupiq

Alhxapaliikw

matskw'

matskw' - frog, in the Nuxalk language (Bella Coola)

Matsqui - the town I grew up in, which has since been amalgamated into the city of abbotsford. It used to be a lake and marsh, but it was drained in the early 1900's to access the fertile soils underneath, and to eliminate the mosquitoes that thrived there. Did I read that the First Nations people used to spend that buggy season way out on the lake, fishing, away from the skeeters? Maybe it was a dream.

In the spring, the fields still flood occasionally, and when I was younger we would drag rubber rafts down to the flats, paddling over the barbed wire fences and alongside cars that were abandoned in too-deep waters. The land remembers how it used to be.

see and talk

listen to Q-Tip, Common, then Lou Reed while drawing and this is what happens.

sealgirl

sealgirl.

teacher textured

Modelled, weighted, textured, and ready to animate! Rock on, teachertron.

Jay

teacher teacher teacher

I've realised that I need to try new things constantly to keep from getting bored with my artwork. I'm going to try to make a 3D model that looks just like this, including the unfinished paint strokes on the shirt.

Ready, set... GO!

teacher teacher

A Sketch for a character I'm designing and starting to model today (if all goes well).

Pub Night

Volunteered to be "Security" at the Emily Carr pub night last night. This involved chillin' at a table and drawing people and letting students buy me beer. Good DJ.

R.

A random person I drew while waiting to see Hazel perform yesterday. Later that night, we ended up hanging out with this guy and his girlfriend, and others. We played Werewolf (same as Mafia) for over four hours!

i promise

i'm starting to slack heavily now - shitty little doodles and scans from animation projects weren't the intention of this blog. however, the intention of this blog was to track my fun-drawing progress, and it's doing a good job of showing that I'm not doing it.

does that even make sense?

its 3 am, I drank coffee too late.

poses

Not much drawing yesterday - just some pose sketches for a children's drawing of a crying sasquatch.

drawing table

Thar's me trusty olde drawing tableau.

Its latest wound is the big square cut out of it. I sliced a hole in it to make a rotoscoping table, but it didn't work (shoulda tested it first!), so I patched the cut-out piece back in. This table is a survivor!

word up

Two 3D characters, created and textured using a Handy Dandy Patented Secret Process that I worked out this week.

pee-om

gag me with a movie

I am watching a terrible movie and it is called Star Trek.

Top five terrible things about this movie:

You know what, I'm not even going to get into it. I feel kind of alone when I hear so many people say a movie is amazing, then I watch it and there is not a single redeeming feature in the film. This is a really really terrible movie, in absolutely every respect. From writing to directing to dialogue, acting, shot selection, it looks like it was made by a bunch of students with too much money.

There are some really horrible movies being created nowadays. Indiana Jones IV, Quantum of Solace, and those Star Wars sequels come to mind. I don't watch a lot of Hollywood movies, but the vast majority them are bad enoguh to concern me about the state of the human race. We direct more money than ever before in history to create entertainent, and this is what we create? And hundreds of millions of dollars more are spent by audiences who flock to watch this? Sometimes more than once? And I'm sure the sequel(s) will be wildly popular as well.

I pray to the gods that children these days still read books.

last few days

All the art I've done since the weekend has been intense 3D computer stuff. I'm trying hard to finish this film I'm working on before I leave for Christmas, so it's tight tight tight!

This is a conglomeration of animation notes / "to do" lists over the last 48 hours.

the mall

Two other animators and myself spent 3-4 hours at a mall on Saturday, taking a tonne of photos for pixilation (stop-motion), and drawing. This is from the food court.

We made a bunch of superquick animation from the footage today. 30 minutes per person per piece of footage, then you had to pass it on for the next person to add to it. Very fun and freeing doing stuff in such a short amount of time. I may post a bit of that footage tomorrow, when I'm less burnt out.

Saturday

I bin drawin' lots but
No time for postin'

Tomorrow (Sunday) night fer surely.

rogers

"Tell me something I should draw!"

"...hmmm..."

"Just anything! C'mon!"

"...uuhmmm... A Rogers cellphone ad."

multiple octopull

See that '127' in the corner of this drawing? That's the frame number of this classically animated / rotoscoped bit. I'm drawing every second frame. So thats like 64 drawings I've done of this lady so far. Fortunately I've reached a point where the camera is no longer moving, so I can use cheats and shortcuts to do the next 150 frames.

securibot

I've had this story in my head for years now, and part of it involves a bunch of giant security robots that can sit still and be pretty much immovable and indestructable. I'm trying to design a way that they can sit solid and compact, but open up into more mobile robots. I'm not sure if this is going to turn into a graphic novel or an animation or what, but it's been stewing long enough and I think it's time I spent more time on it to see if I can make the story work.

so many places

Spent a fantastic hour in a coffeeshop yesterday - drawing and imagining stuff, like I used to do all the time.

what is it?

Is it 3d animation? 2d animation? A child's drawing?

All of the above!

The Lady Outlined in Coffee

The lady outlined in coffee is a waifish coffeeshop worker with a healthy round pregnant belly. Sat behind the counter every chance she got, stretching her overworked lower back.

from friday

I'm really into riding the Canada Line these days. Watching tired workers drag their asses out of downtown, back south through the tunnel to Richmond. Texting and staring at nothing.

roto box

I was devising some devices today. This is the device I will create. Old laptop + wood = Rotoscope Machine, Mk I. Part of the wood is coming from a dollar store chess set, so maybe I'll name it "chessy" or "chesty" or something. Chesty Mk I.

pieces of feces

that's all i got to say.

chilluns

My favorite part of a painting I did today for this documentary. I'll base the animation off the painting (and maybe even use parts of the painting as well). I don't want to show the whole thing and give it all away!

tea and homey

On the "Canada Line" skytrain, en route to the airport.

remember the war on brown (popcorn)

From this weekend.

der weekend

I will be drawing but not posting this weekend. Catch up time on Sunday..

see if this works

This is a teeny weenie quicktime, but it's still big fer the innernet. I'm no good at this innernet-sized stuff. Maybe this will take too long for people to load. Very small, cropped section of this shot.

teats

throughthetrees

He's all ready to animate now, and it looks like the effect will work. I haven't tweaked it yet, just did enough to make sure it's a go. Tommorrow I make him lumber through the bush!

Good times

Quickie sketches and blocked in model for the same project. This character is seen from the rear, and only in one shot. I want to make him look like a hand-drawn painting on watercolour - it should blend right into the painting seamlessly. I can see it in my head, not sure how I'm going to do it yet. We'll find out tomorra!

painted

Here's the painted Devil's Club. It's supposed to look like sunlight is shining through the leaves. I'm not sure how it's going to match with the lighting in the background painting. I may have to adjust the colour in photoshop a bit to make it match.

Now settling down for a long night of photoshop..

DCFTFG

Devil's Club for the foreground. I gotta add way more prickles after I paint it.

Started deconstructing the big background painting today, it's Photoshop Hell over here. I think I'll just do 1/3rd of it to test and see if I can get the effect I'm looking for.

One down

This one's done. I tried scanning the whole thing by laying the scanner upside-down over it, but you can see the wrinkles of the paper. I'm gonna have to rescan it again the -right- way, so the paper is pressed nicely, and patch it together again.

On to the foreground elements...

Havin' a beer before bed.

This watercolour paper is taped onto my drawing table, so I just put the laid the scanner upside-down on the painting to scan this. Making progress, still lots to do on this painting (this scan is about 1/6th of the whole painting). Not sure if I'm going to ink it yet. Then I have to paint a tonne of foreground elements on seperate sheets - Devil's Club and Salal.

pencils talk

About 1/12th of a big watercolour painting of a rainforest I've just started tonight. It'll be the far background to a shot I'm working on. Just pencils now. Tomorrow I paint!

withdrawal

i need some wilderness pretty bad.

napkinster

Collage of drawings-on-napkins and drawing-on-flyer from a restaurant dinner tonight. The game was "draw the animal upside down, and guess what animal it is using a british accent."

cinematheque

Saw an amazing collection of animated short films at a theatre tonight. I saw the future.

dude

This is one of my favorite characters. I can't tell you what he's all about, because one day I'll use him in a comic / film, and you can see his full awesomenosity then.

welcome to the terrordome

Yesterday's 'drawing'.

I didn't post anything yesterday because the only page I drew was terrible. Today I sucked it up and cropped the crap out of the page, flipped the image upside-down and added a pretty purple border to try to make something out of it.

Welcome to the terrordome!

No' much

Today I created an animatic for an animated sequence I'm doing for a documentary. It might seem slow, but there will be narrration over top, so it should work well.

red faces

Tell yourself this every morning and you will go somewhere, child:

I want to continue to learn and grow as a real-estate developer.

hands

I like this guy's hands.

I is wonderbear

Lots of laughs coming up with creepy hallowe'en costumes tonight.