Korik Jones

Time flies

2011-02-20T19:15:00.001-08:00

Wow, I can't believe its been so long since I've updated my blogger!

I am over at my new site more so than this so please check it out!

This is my first real work since the new year, and now that I'm down to a normal 40 hour work week I can finally get down to some serious art business!

Ill keep you posted! Dont forget to check out my twitter and my website!

Later!

update! sketch dump

2010-10-09T23:02:00.000-07:00

Here are a few girls I had laying around. Thought its about time for a little sketch dump, its been a while. I still have some but I'm being lazy!

Also, I haven't been posting much on here, I've mostly been posting on my new blog, it's a more personal format, thoughts rants and opinions, the usual.

And remember my new portfolio site Korikjones.com

Follow me on twitter too!

Website update

2010-07-25T00:40:00.000-07:00

I've updated my website, come check it out! http://korikjones.com !!

As of recently I have decided I will start making websites for people.
Feel free to contact me for a free consult for the next little while. Also if anyone needs a website done who is an animator friend, I will charge a flat rate!

Comment, or drop me a line at: Korik.jones@gmail.com

Thanks guys!

Update time

2010-07-13T12:07:00.000-07:00

While I've been searching endlessly for employment, I've had some time to do some stuff here and there.

Deep purple pearl
5"x7" Water colour

My wonderful girlfriend is always teaching me things about colour and digipainting is a fast way to play with that colour.

Speedpaint

I start work again on Saturday, at starbucks. Huray employment.

Watercolour fun!

2010-07-03T13:17:00.000-07:00

Busted out the watercolour last night, took some new brushes for a spin. I'm pretty happy to be doing some watercolour again it's fuuuuum :D

Here you go!

Red Moon
5"x7" Watercolour

More bristol fun

2010-07-01T23:55:00.001-07:00

Haven't been drawing or doing much while I've been looking for work. But here are a couple I have done. :D

"Blue shift"
5"x7" micron + speedball black ink + pitt pen on bristol

"Life Glow"
5"x7" hb, b and micron on bristol

Bristol time

2010-06-22T03:02:00.001-07:00

I went to opus while they had a sale and I bought my broke ass some bristol board! So I've been playing around. I definitely need more art supplies!

I'll keep you posted :D

5"x7" Diamonds and Pearls
micron + bristol

5"x7" Swirl Fairys
micron + pitt artist pen + bristol

Summer time!

2010-06-14T02:24:00.000-07:00

Hey its summer girls, bust out the bikinis...
Haven't seen any out this year yet, though, it is vancouver.

So I'll make it up myself! heres a few doodles from tonight. :D

Also here is a little creature walk cycle I did last night.

Lines

2010-06-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

Taking advantage of the spare time I've recently acquired. Going to be working on some exciting projects soon. I'll keep you guys posted. :D

Sketch time

2010-06-02T01:02:00.000-07:00

Oh man, I want to pump out more of these. I've been working at the studio animating a whole lot. these 12 hour days are crazy but probably helping my skills! Anyways here is a sketch I quickly painted from last week. I've been trying to do a sketch a night, but that hasnt been so silky smooth. heh.

Anywho, enjoy :D

Bassgirl

2010-05-16T20:48:00.001-07:00

Gotta do more work! gawdamn!

expect more soon, have this for now:

:D

Another speed paint

2010-04-12T21:30:00.000-07:00

Just playing around again, nothing special :) just trying to keep this up to date!

Hear that?

2010-03-23T20:19:00.000-07:00

It's the sound of me posting on my blog! Hurah!!!

I have had this sitting on my desktop for far too long, rather than going in and working on something that I havent touched in a month, I'm just going to post it :)

Long time no see blog.

2010-03-23T02:26:00.000-07:00

It's really been quite a while. I've just been working at my "normal jobs" hopefully get onto a show sometime soon!

I've got a few things brewing, drawing up some storyboards and always thinking up ideas for other shorts i want to do. Luckily I have Justine pulles to do my backgrounds :D So I'm sure they will turn out crazy good.

But for now here's a little sketch, a succubus. I'm sure everyone has had one of these in their lives at some point.

Keep up the good work everyone :)

Website down [Temp]

2010-01-18T11:21:00.001-08:00

Anyone looking for my website Korikjones.com, will be confused at the moment. Billing didnt go through, hopefully this will be resolved in the next day.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston Via John Lasseter

2010-01-12T00:28:00.000-08:00

Found this great little link today on Drawn.ca, If you don't check it religiously like I do, I suggest a change in your routine. I am constantly finding great articles and inspiration on this site, Keep it up guys.

Now enough about Drawn.ca onto this article. WOW, I mean damn, look at all these great notes! I especially love #11 "don't be careless" I think we all sometimes fall victim to the, "good enough" when animating (we just wanna get it done sometimes!), truth is amazing animation comes from giving a shit about every line as if it has meaning. I don't know about you guys but I'm going to print this out right now and tape it to my desk.

All in all a great resource for a little bit of inspiration while getting down and dirty at your animation desk. Keep up all the great work everyone. Hope to see some amazing work out of all of you very soon!

Corset gal

2010-01-04T19:03:00.001-08:00

Sigh, It's been a while since I've posted anything. I know, shame on me v_v... I've been working two jobs tryin to make ends meet, and concequently not getting any creative work done! It's awful! But here is something that has been on my desktop for a while and I finally have a day off to finish it. So here it is!

Troubled - "speedpaint"?

2009-11-23T15:11:00.000-08:00

Here is another one of these, This one took a little over 2.5 hours with breaks and what not. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a speed paint or not... probably not.

but here it is =D

Gotta do some more.

Golden dress "speedpaint"

2009-11-03T17:14:00.000-08:00

I'm going to try to do one of these speedpaints per night, they only take about 2 hours give or take(not sure how speedy that is really...) I'm trying for a more rough "concepty" style using textures etc. Going to try to have a collection to put up within the next week.

Jack Monologue

2009-10-29T01:57:00.001-07:00

This is a scene I put together to play with acting and lip sync. I don't really know how long it took.

Jack Monologue from korik jones on Vimeo.

Portrait

2009-09-17T04:17:00.000-07:00

Yes! Finally got around to doing something outside of work.

Here is a "speed painting" of my fabulous girlfriend Justine.

This is my 1st digital portrait.

Rough paint dump?

2009-07-27T19:52:00.000-07:00

Some sketches I uploaded to twitter after applying a burst of colour.

Nature

2009-07-24T22:36:00.000-07:00

Workin the water colour angle.

Its been a while

2009-07-14T23:41:00.000-07:00

Did this for fun today, went for a scene instead of a girl this time around. =D

Updated demo reel

2009-06-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

I took out alot of the junk i didnt like. Slimed it down by about 30 sec.. no more life drawing poses and what not...
so here it is!

jack pose test

2009-06-17T03:51:00.000-07:00

a clip from "what happens in vegas"
just a rough pose test.

Pin-up Malificent

2009-06-03T01:45:00.001-07:00

Been slacking with my post-per-day. (I know I know, bad korik, bad!) But in the meantime I decided to finish up a little procrastination piece.

After browsing the internet for pin-up art and seeing the same old stuff pop up I thought I would try something out my "box". I wanted to make Malificent appear a bit softer, younger... more, supple hehe =D

now back to the animating. =D

sketch dump... again

2009-05-19T22:45:00.001-07:00

another sketch dump, mainly to make up for the lack of posts over the last few days.

now hopefully onto some animation next time around =D

Water colour experiment!

2009-05-19T21:37:00.000-07:00

Just playing around with my new water colour kit. I want to do some more of these girls in this medium. Could be cool. I have to learn how to use these things better. =D

finished:

Scanned rough colour:

Keeping up

2009-05-13T07:44:00.000-07:00

Posting a sketch a day to keep the rustiness away =D

Going to post some more digital stuff soon as well as a sketch dump or two.

Happy "real" girl on the toilet?

2009-05-12T06:04:00.000-07:00

Hahaha, thanks goes to steen for pointing that one out. Going to keep up with my blog a bit better, a post a day. I know I'll have to go through them a bit later and weed out the not so great ones. But hey its a start =D

quick sketch before bed

2009-05-03T06:20:00.000-07:00

Thought i would go for more of a "real" look this time around.

arrows

2009-04-23T03:36:00.001-07:00

This is my 1st attempt at a acrylic painting since high school. (its alot more purple in person.)

Girls and guns guns and girls

2009-03-25T19:09:00.000-07:00

I'm Between jobs and sick right now, so I have some time to play around =D

Finally, March 29th!

2009-03-13T10:34:00.000-07:00

Cortoons international short film festival has finally updated their site with the upcoming festival schedule. Although.... they managed to spell my name incorrectly on the site.. Karik? strange... haha, the whole site is in Italian so that could be why, but its a name... Oh well at least my real name is in my credits. I'm just stoked to have my film being played in Rome =D!! If you get the chance to take a look my name is on the last day of the program march the 29th.

Once again thank you Cortoons, and Vfs!

Sketch dump - Girls

2009-02-27T19:58:00.000-08:00

Went through the ol' sketchbook, put this together.

at the window.

2009-02-25T22:57:00.000-08:00

Another water colour one, I'm enjoying the completion factor of these. Went a little extreme with it in some ways but here it is.

wind swept girl

2009-02-23T20:14:00.001-08:00

Decided last night to throw my water colours in my bag. Got to work this morning, dead as it usually is, I decided to play around. Eventually comming up with this.

I like the crows =D

ps: I finally got a decent scanner!

Design Projects

2009-02-23T20:06:00.000-08:00

I forgot to include a couple graphic design projects I've completed as of recently.

This is a commisioned design I did for a local group of artists playing at Raw Canvas in yaletown comming up. My good friend Colin Bullock is preforming.

And this one I did as an art trade for my Friend Nathan sandland He also did the sound for my film. He's using this as his next album cover.

another creature design

2009-01-27T03:09:00.001-08:00

A fox creature that showed up in my sketchbook one day. Decided to clean him up in flash, just messing around with diffrent techniques. =D hope you like.

ps: anyone who wants to buy me a scanner is more than welcome. It would save me alot of time =D haha

Cortoons international short film festival

2009-01-16T11:39:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Naomi in the marketing department over at VFS, my student film has been submitted to Cortoons international short film festival in Rome, Italy this march. Its been submitted along with some other of the VFS Alumni's films.
Needless to say I'm excited to see the official program =D

Strange how this kind of stuff tends to sneak up on you. I'm definitely not complaining.

Mi is treating me well, I could not have asked for a greater reception

Thank you Cortoons, and you too VFS.

Location:

View Larger Map

another cycle

2009-01-16T00:34:00.000-08:00

another cycle, a run this time. did it in an hour or so.

hope you like =D

omg it MOVES!!!!

2009-01-15T02:50:00.000-08:00

Another walk cycle, trying to flex my puney animation muscles of DOOM!

enjoy.

Lava aracnigoo!

2009-01-08T04:13:00.000-08:00

The lava aracnigoo! Trying to get back into my creature designs.

here it is! Hope you like.

Happy 2009

2009-01-06T04:44:00.000-08:00

Its a new year! Huraaah!

Little bit of news here, I've managed to fix my camera (olympus sp-350) BACK FROM THE GRAVE
Took the little bugger apart then fiddled with it a bit, replaced a couple things. Put it all back together and wazzzzaam! insta-fix.

So i've got a good start to this 2009 so far, Gotta keep it up.

Going to redo my website, since its been down for the last little while, thought i would give it a facelift and add some content.

Anywho Happy 2009 once again and I hope its a good year for all.

Demo to date

2008-12-01T01:25:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-27T05:10:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-26T02:47:00.000-08:00

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

sad news

2008-11-12T18:09:00.000-08:00

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

2008-10-07T16:22:00.001-07:00

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

Digital girl.

2008-09-28T15:23:00.001-07:00

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

2008-09-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-12T23:44:00.001-07:00

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?

2008-08-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-30T19:27:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-27T15:00:00.001-07:00

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

2008-07-07T01:46:00.001-07:00

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

Dragon wasp

2008-06-25T01:24:00.000-07:00

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

Life drawings

2008-05-27T14:37:00.001-07:00

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

2008-05-25T15:46:00.001-07:00

Here is a Clean-up I did yesterday.

turns out I can do faces! Just never tried.

OH I almost forgot fred!

2008-05-23T10:26:00.001-07:00

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

2008-05-23T05:22:00.000-07:00

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)

2008-05-18T03:24:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-16T01:08:00.001-07:00

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

2008-05-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-15T00:26:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-09T17:38:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-05-07T15:21:00.001-07:00

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

2008-04-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

This is my classical

and my flash

wow

2008-04-25T23:41:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-18T00:10:00.000-07:00

done. ill post it up later.

Something cool from zune

2008-04-16T16:46:00.000-07:00

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!!

2008-04-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-16T03:33:00.000-07:00

Can't sleep, mind as well produce.

ugh

2008-04-15T18:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-15T17:04:00.000-07:00

Kasper sleeping in the warmth of my computer.

grahhh

2008-04-15T02:49:00.000-07:00

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

meanwhile, on the sidetrack

2008-04-14T14:14:00.000-07:00

the adventures of duck dog.

WHAAAAAT

2008-04-14T13:44:00.001-07:00

its monday, everybody back to work.

flash update

2008-04-13T04:16:00.001-07:00

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

2008-04-12T15:14:00.000-07:00

This is old, I completly forgot about it:

lightning

2008-04-12T15:07:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-04-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

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. .