Demo to date

Wow I really dont have an awful lot. I didn't put in the stuff I dont like obviously.
Let me know what you think, and thanks for watching =)



I'll be adding more to this really soon.

for the sake of posting

something quick I threw together tonight, I realize that effects can use a nice bg to be showcased on... so if anyone wants to throw me a bg ;) that would be mighty cool. thanks =D

caveboy vs butterfly

Just a little animation test, nothing special. Tried to do a little character interaction in flash. feel free to comment.

sad news

Tis a grim day indeed.
My beloved olypmus sp-350 has kicked the bucket. It was 3 years 11 months and 12 days old. It shall be missed.

*sweat drop*

Guh, finished moving, for the second time in a month.
I can totally say, Expect some damn work from me soon.

Digital girl.

This was originally a quick sketch that turned into a little bit of a present for steen. But it has taken so long to complete (due to sheer inattentiveness.) that I've just finished it to get it out of the way lol. This is also my 1st digital piece i guess... just getting re-acquainted with photoshop and my tablet, its been far too long.

@work

Since this has turned into a more personal blog than anything, thought I would spill some beans.

Here is a list of projects I have started;

"fish for me" (working title) A short film about a man and a fish from the sea.
"fallen Angel" A Music video for Colin Bullock.

And numerous fx and animation tests.

I haven't been doing anything latley, due to moving/unpacking. But soon I will be neck deep in animation.

ARGH its hot in here

If you've been to my place, you know its a freakin sauna in my little office space. Its hardcore lame, trust me 32.5 degrees c is no state to be animating in. (90F for all you imperialists)

So What I've done with "Bob" I'm scrapping, It just looks horrible.

Clock start now.

FX

I really have to get back into my effects. I haven't been being true to my artistic needs. so after I get "Bob" out of the way, expect some fx out of me, you know, some goo, some lightning, some splashes, explosions... all the good stuff.

Here is a frame from my film that I quite like Enjoy.


Love this stuff.

Training?

I had a taste of the animaton world on friday. I have to say I'm so excited to one day work in a stable studio enviroment.

I've finished my training at Big Bad Boo. I can now animate in Toon Boom Harmony! WOO!!! I love that program, more geared towards animation, the good ol' hotkeys. good stuff.

Now to work on my portfolio again, time to crank out some quality animation.

Oh and a "Bob" update: havent had alot of time, but I plan on having him done later this week for sure. This project has been running on for much too long. Aiming for thusday afternoon. After I meet up with a good friend of mine, Colin Bullock, for a music video discussion. Check out his myspace

Bob

here is a build I've finished. took about 2 hours of solid work.
He's going to be a weight lifter. When I get a chance to animate him. I'm Kinda in the middle of packing and fixxing up the apartment to move.



Expect this in the next week. For realz.

New and improved

I completed a walk cycle, I haven't been animating in flash much so this is kind of a reorientation to flash.

I have another day off from my non animation job, so I'll work on another project. perhaps a bug. yes.. a more traditional bug.

well here is my bug.. thing..

Moose Monday

You've seen a moose, now, imagine a moose...

Dragon wasp

Here is a fin"ISH"ed sketch of a dragon-wasp monster concept.

Life drawings

This was taking up too much space, Take a look at the sketches tab on my portfolio site to see my life drawings.

Something new

Here is a Clean-up I did yesterday.



turns out I can do faces! Just never tried.

OH I almost forgot fred!

The guys over at frederator have showcased my short in one of they're fancy webcasts! I was stunned when my classmate (and fellow showcased artist) Pedro Eboli (link to the right) told me I had received a slot. I gotta thank my classmates and of course channel frederator. Debbie's "gulu gulu" and pedro's "a pugs life" were a couple of my favorites from the class so I'm very glad they got in too! Such a strange class, but I couldn't have asked for a better group.



So a round of thanks to my classmates and of course channelfrederator.com

Added: VFS also covered this story here http://www.vfs.com/blog/2008/05/20/frederator-trifecta/

New film

I cant say anything about it right now, I'm still thumbnailing. But yes, I'm working on a new film. Lets see how long it takes. I'll post character designs and builds as I go.

a little diddy of a demo (reel)

so I threw this together. im gunna try to add some more stuff tomorrow and monday. just putting it out there for all to see and critique.



comments?

a rather stern looking girl

just a quickie. original on paper had to tweak it a bit.. and yeahhh i did it at a really low res. so what you see is what i did. really rough. I went for a really dull colour palette, i like it.

my home made semi-automatic pencil sharpener

Sooo not being at school and having no money, I've come up with a solution to save my wrist when I need my pencils sharpened. and being a guy... lol this is what I came up with. and it works quite well.

Lil update

So just to prove that yes, I am still working on something. before heading out for bubble tea tonight I doodled a girl... shes climbing... something. use your imagination.. but whatever its a doodle lol.




yes she has long arms, all the better to climb with, duh.

1st flash walk cycle

Yeah so here is my 1st offical walk cycle done in flash. the character build took a day and the cycle probably took too long, but its on 1's.... yeah... im gunna do a better one haha.
feel free to laugh, its only a 1st attempt.






note the bandage on his right knee. it explains some of the movement.

the original story was going to be he gets hit in the leg playing dodge ball, then he walks to the nurse, but grabs an ice cream on the hence the prop. no its not his tongue. anyways.

so.

I'm officially out of money. I need to find a job asap or else I'm pretty much screwed.

ass fires, COMMENCE SCORCHING!

My films

This is my classical



and my flash

wow

We graduated... thats amazing... Thank you CA67 for an amazing year. I'll never forget any of you.


WOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAAAHH!!!! dude that was awesome!!....

i dunno im kinda beside myself. still cant believe its over already... ........

wow..

i dont even know.

grats guys.

FINALLY

done. ill post it up later.

Something cool from zune

One of the coolest things I've encountered on the web lately. and its made by MS... go figure. though they made my Zune, which is awesome. go MS go.

zunejourney

ARGH!!

Its due tomorrow... I've lost time having to back track... lets see if i can pull off another 10 seconds... I know its not a film... its more of an effects test. But still i want it to look good, and have some length. 31:22 remain.

3:34am

Can't sleep, mind as well produce.

ugh

This project is crawling... i messed up the last 10 keys... I was zoomed in so of course i lost my volumes... GAH. who knew slingshotting goo with personality in perspective was going pose such a challange.

my course of action is as follows:
-eat
-fix the 10 keys
-do 100 frames the right way.
-eat
-do more frames
-then some more
-and more yet
-maybe add a few here and there

Then i can go to sleep and try it all over again tomorrow.
we have till thurday at 10... Gotta get this done...

lol

Kasper sleeping in the warmth of my computer.

grahhh

2 days... lots of work to do. This is gunna be tight... but then again, when has it not.

meanwhile, on the sidetrack

the adventures of duck dog.

WHAAAAAT

its monday, everybody back to work.

flash update

I just finished 150 frames of goo. in a day... ugh my arm hurts. time for sleep.

tomorrow 250! this will get done... *5 days 17 hours 7 minutes till deadline*

this file isnt going anywhere. i have backups of my backups, and they'er children are geneticly engineered to produce back ups. a back up for every 2 hours... a back up of life its self!!!!!!

oookkaay time for sleep.

OLD 4 legged walk cycle

This is old, I completly forgot about it:

lightning

Oh and to show i can accually do something.
this is some lightning I did for my classical film, just a short snippet. I did a bunch of stuff to it in compositing, but I prefer the linetest.

Oh yeah!

Pedro Eboli, an awesome character designer, and my classmate at VFS--created this great character after me for the class poster. probably took him 2 minutes >_>. See my links for more his stuff

Woo, Go ca67. .