more boards

Directing a performance (play?) in the day, complete with creating / organizing all the technical bits (sound, lighting, video). At night, getting into this other film and working boards, different animation techniques n stuff. These are some very intense days, where it feels like my brain alone must be burning tremendous amounts of calories.

I sure hope so, cuz I've been eating a lot of chocolate bars!

birdfly

Some frames of the bird flying animation.

Creepy Doorknob

Creepy Doorknob - sample animation thing for film proposal gig I'm doin' on the side.

bird coming

Another shot almost done for my film. Just need to add the bird then animate the lights. The bird in this shot is my favorite hand-drawn animation that I've done yet. Hand-drawn (classical) animation feels sooo good. It's amazing how much easier it is to describe motion by using the motion of your own body - an arc of the fingers, holding a pencil - as opposed to the mechanical click-click of a mouse on f-curves.

Mebbe I'll post the final shot when I finish it tomorrow.

Workspace II

I guess I have an infatuation with my workspace, because seem to post photos of it fairly regularly. I guess it's a good representation of how my work is going. I also enjoy it because the space seems to change a lot - things get rearranged constantly, and I'm often working in different cities / towns these days.

I'm looking forward to working in a larger space again. Once I get back to Vancouver, we're going to rearrange everything so there's more art space. You need space to paint, and I don't have that at home right now.

I also think it's nice to have a permanent art base where you can stockpile supplies and equipment, but maybe not. I seem to be getting better at packing my studio into a laptop bag and a big plastic tote bin.

more damned boards

Same project, different scene. Doing a bit of animation for this bit. Also trying to paint and work on my animation at the same time, and helping direct a play.

Ichi-Wawa!



(See what the Ewok is actually doing... here!)

Big 'un tree

A big'un tree I'm painting on the side. Not much to see yet, but a little more every day..