More-zilla

A few more Godzilla type concepty doodles...

Tews Day Du Dle

More Tuesday nonsense of the slack jawed cowboy variety....

Godizillarrr!!

A couple of deisgns for a very short somethin somethin I'm working on at the moment. (Yes I'm also aware that it's Wednesday, but we still haven't got internet connected in the new place). Cheers

Late Tuesday Doodle

So it's Wednesday morning, not technically Tuesday, but I finished moving house yesterday, so that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it. I've also been pretty busy over the weekend, so now for your viewing pleasure I present a "classic" doddle I did a while back for a project about a kid who wants to be Elvis....

Toosday Doodlay

Nosferatu-y evilly doodle....

Doodleday....

No fancy wordy nonsense this week - ust scribbley doodly nonsense - normal service has been resumed...

The Tuesday... notes?

Last night I had the opportunity to see the new Pixar movie (Cars 2) and a Q&A with the wonderful John Lasseter, thanks to IFTA. So no doodle this week, instead here are a few notes I took on what Mr Pixar said.... Enjoy


John Lasseter Q & A Notes

On Storytelling

3 things for a great film
1) A compelling & unpredictable story
2) with memorable characters
3) in their own believable world

Trust the original idea & trust the process
- when boarding a sequence again and again – think of it like live action
“coverage” (shooting different angles)
- it's the only way to find out what works

Everything we do at Pixar serves the story

What is the 'emotion core' of the story

In sequels, never just tell the same story – always make it different

“Every Pixar film, at one point, looked like the worst movie ever made”


On the Business of Animation

Quality is the best business plan

A studio/company makes withdrawals and deposits with your audience – good movies
are deposits; bad movies are withdrawals – always have money in the bank


On Animation

What is the character thinking?
- 'Aiming' – character always anticipates by looking first then doing

In computer animation, you must respect the integrity of the material – you can
get away with more squash and stretch in 2D animation.

Photo copyright IFTA 2011

Wizardly doodle

Tuesday liney wizardy doodle....

Weekly doooodle

Don't ask....

It's Tuesday....

A lazy gentleman's contraption - with apologies to Heath Robinson

Tuesday DoodleS (!)

A monumental TWO doodles this week as I missed last. Sketches with some questionable photoshop nonsense on top! Enjoy...

Tuesday Sketch

This weeks doodle after a travelling gap of a few weeks - this guy is a megadude!

One from the Road

Doodling on the train from Quebec to Montreal...The Devil (in disguise)

Tuesday Dune-dle

Watching Dune and doodling - this be the result....



Also, I would like to state, for the record, that it IS still Tuesday here (Pacific Time), no matter what date blogspot decides to put on this post!

Tuesdee Doodlee

eh, slightly evil beardy man...?

Tuesday Doddlé

What happens when you watch Mad Men and doodle at the same time...

Do you feel lucky...

First attempt at some photoshop painting....

Death Star Doodle

Death star doodlin'

Brush Pen Bandito

Playing about with some grey toned brush pens....

You must be jokin....

Playing about with some photoshop brushes. Fun!

Happy New Year

Sorry this is a bit late, but hope everyone had a happy chrismtas and a great 2011.

Halloweeners

A few late halloween sketches - Drac, his butler, scary monster lady and, of course, zombie Abe Lincoln...

The Gentleman's Guide to Villainy

So I've been working on a short little film for the past few months (inbetween doodling and moving the ponies around), and I've finally finished it - so here it is, for you're viewing pleasure. Featuring suitably villainous music by Mr. Kevin MacLeod...

Food court quickie...

Another quick sketch of a random unsuspecting Vancouverite having lunch. Quite like this little one...

More Aul fellas...

Another couple of old man drawings. It appears that I have a problem. I guess it's interesting to draw all the wrinkles n stuff...

I don't know....

Random old man?.....

Cafe Drawing

As I've mentioned before I do like to spend an afternoon or lunch time doing some observational drawing in cafes and restaurants. Here are some more recent efforts most done in a food court in downtown Vancouver.

Monsters!

Here are a few monsters I did for the Art Show at Studio B this year.

Elvis Project

Here are a few panels from a short film idea I'm working on at the moment. "Karma" has been put on the back burner due to story issues - I'm not quie happy with it yet. In the meantime I'm working on this little short about a kid who wants to be Elvis and goes to an Elvis Impersonator Contest....

Hmmm...pencilly

He's a pencilly little villain.

more Karma

Here's a quick cast of characters - now finally in FLash for the short I'm working on. See older posts for more concept designs.

Belated...

Belated Happy Christmas, Happy New Year and while I'm at Happy Easter, Summer and Halloween. Seen as I haven;t already, I thought I'd post 2009 Christmas card. Here ya go...

Immediate Drawing Club

A few of us at the studio had our first "drawing lunch" on Friday. I was slightly self-concious as we were all drawing random passers-by together, but this it was a very pleasnat experience and hey, any excuse to do a bit of drawing.

My results were mixed - but I got one or two presentable sketches (presented here) out of it. Thanks to James, as the driving force behind the newly formed "Immediate Drawing Club"!

Gettin to grips with the z axis

After year's of chatter about it, I'm finally taking a Maya course. Here is my first test, it's fairly rough and took me ages, but it's a step in the right direction.

Mariscal

Here a couple of phots I took on a recent trip to the Design Museum in London. They're of the Mariscal exhibit.

Mariscal is a famous Spanish furniture/magazine cover/font/everything designer - he's most high profile stuff is probably the logo guy for Barcelona Olympics 92 -he's also recently done some logo stuff for Framestore in London.

His mantra, that adorned the exhibit was "Don't think, do things!" Can't argue with that!

New Reel

Must be finishing a job soon - i appear to have put a new reel together.....

Secret of Kells

Finally got my hands on a DVD copy of the brilliant Cartoon Saloon's 2D drawn feature The Secret of Kells. It's an excellent piece of work - with particularly outstanding art direction, design on, of course, animation. Well done to Tomm and everyone involved!

New Life Drawin

Over the summer, one of the lovely animators at ABD organised a six life drawing sessions for us off her own back (thanks Karen). They proved to be lots of fun and I even managed to get one or two decent drawings out of them! We did plenty of one and two minute poses. Here are a couple examples (most of these are short poses)

Vampire

Another topic, I've always been keen on is vampires and the Dracula story. I've had some Dracula story/film ideas knockin about my brain for a long time. They may see the light of day (or night) sometime...

Quick Cowboy

I've always liked drawing wild western nonsense - here's a quick one...