The Post-Grad Life and the Mars Landing

Phew, this blogs has been dead for awhile. Since school ended I've been mostly working on some personal projects (none of which are finished... yet).

The last few months I've had the pleasure of working as a freelance graphic artist and modeler for Star Acer Academy Inc. with Luke Gustafson where we are in the midst of putting together a educational space exploration tool for elementary grades. I have been helping rendering comics, assignment pages, and making a CG model of the StarAcer HQ (the BZT). If you would like to see all this and more, visit their site at: http://www.staracers.com/
It's really shaping up to be something great!

On a related note last night the Mars Rover Curiosity successfully landed on the surface of Mars. We developed a short comic to commemorate the complex landing, which was layed out by Luke Gustafson and illustrated by myself. I hope you enjoy!

I'll be trying to keep this blog alive from now on with random artworks once I have some down time.
Stay tuned!

Here comes 4th year!!!

Alrighty, everything I've learned so far has been leading up to this! It's been the first week of fourth year at Sheridan already, and everybody is getting started on their thesis film process, myself included. For the next several months, I will (try) to keep updating my progress through production. It will undoubtedly be hectic around production time, so I post what I can, and try to avoid spoilers. For the time being, I have some previous work for over and before the summer months. I had recently finished my work at Smiley Guy Studios, which was an amazing experience, but I was pretty lax on the extra artwork over the summer, but what I do have is my rejected film idea developed over last semester. I avoided posting any of it due to the fact that I might have been making it for fourth year, but I have since started developing a new idea, so here is some of the concept work for an idea I developed last year, titled "Precious."

Rough Leica Reel


Promo Poster

Concept Art



Location Designs


Story Overview


Also, a friend from school initiated a "Fan Art Week" near the end of August, where we just make some fan art based on a daily theme. In was fun, so I participated when I could. Here are a few of my submissions (that are not 'totally' embarrassing...)

Hajime Saitō (Rurouni Kenshin) - Theme: Anime

Unreferenced Tarzan Train Sketch - Theme: Disney

"The Dark Knight Pummels" - Theme: Comics

Here's Comes The Bulk

WOAH! It has been quite a while since I last updated! The group film has kept me extremely busy. But now it's done. And done well, if I do say so myself. A shout out goes to our team for a job well done! Now that that's over, I have piles of work that I have yet to post. So this is going to be stretched out over a few posts. I think I'll start off with some of the life drawings that have accumulated over the past semester. So here ya go:














Getting better? I guess...

These following are drawings from this year's Autoshow in Toronto:


And to round this post off, here's a short lieca I did from my elective music history class. Simple task: make a short lieca and time it to music. Mine is, not so subtlety, about my cat. :) Hope it entertains!

Happy Holidays!... Is it summer time yet?

I miss the warmth...

A Bunch More Stuff!

So here's the second major update I promised, most of it is life drawing work which is unusual for me. First is this years work from our annual Royal Winter Fair Trip. Definitely my best year there so far (possibly because we were encouraged a more interpretive caricature approach... lets face it, I'm terrible at drawing animals realistically).


Second is a couple of painting studies from class. We have been taking a break from traditional conté for more mixed media application. I'll post some pen work later, but for now I have gouache and pen on watercolour paper. They're not great, but better than I normally do, and they were fun.




Finally, a series écorché studies for legs. The assignment was to take drawing we already have and focus a muscle based study on a part we could improve. I dunno if this helped me improve drawing legs with conté or not, but I know I can draw pretty well on paper. I guess I just work well with pencils.










This last drawing is a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Muscles of Lower Extremity II; one of the drawings was to be an overlay of muscles on a copy from a master.

This is all fro now. I should have some more bulk work to post soon before the end of semester goes into overdrive. WORK WORK WORK!

A Bunch O'Stuff

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been putting this off for some time now, and because of that I have a multitude of stuff to post, which I will divide up over a few different posts.

For now, I have my newest development work for my action analysis assignment. Only a few weeks are left to work on this, and of course besides animating the character in full, the FX animation, cleaning it up, and adding the final layout, I also intend to make the story boards much neater and more presentable. I got a lot of work ahead of me... Here's the newest pass on the lieca with character pose test.



And for your convenience, here is just the pose test section.


I also did some additional character poses to explore my designs over the reading week. This was mainly just for fun.

And here is a nicer scan of my rough pan layout. I still have yet to clean it up, but soon enough I will have that done along with some colour concepts.

For the rest of this first bit of artwork, I have some 3D work. The first is a turnaround of the Alien model I have been working on since the summer. The rig is nearly complete with only some technical bugs to work out. It's close to being animatable now! The other is a walk cycle project for my 3D animation class.



I hope you enjoyed my work so far. I still have a lot more on the way. They should be posted by the end of this weekend. Stay tuned!

3rd Year Production Thus Far

Sorry for the lack of updates so far this year. We've been busy with early production art for the semesters two primary projects: the action analysis assignment (AAA) and individual idea pitches for the 3rd year film story (pitching is on the go, the groups will vote their story choice within the next couple weeks).

The following is some of the preliminary concept work and leica reel for my action analysis. The action analysis I chose involves 'pulling a prop' and a bit of dialogue, which the scene will be fully animated, cleaned up and coloured by the end of the semester. As well, we need a camera movement and final layout, which in my case is separate from my actual action. Hope you enjoy the process art.

AAA Leica - First Version (yes, that's my voice over... silly ain't it?)


AAA Leica - Revised

*I'll likely add sound effects to this soon


Preliminary Colour Scheme



Scene 1 Workbook & Shot test



Scene 3 / Action Analysis Workbook

This next bit is work I've done for my 3rd year idea pitch. Under usual circumstances I would be unable to post work from the film due to group effort and secrecy. However, this year the process is different than previous years in that each student comes up with their own idea to present before the group chooses one for the film. So therefore, what I have to offer at the moment is my own original work for my film idea.

The premise is about a monk who is bothered by noise. I think an interesting art design could certainly come out of this if it were to develop further.




With the pitch over at this point, story revisions are in the works. I'm trying to complete some colour keys to help reinforce the revisions and the existing story to help sell it once again come voting time. I'll post the colour keys over the next couple weeks, provided my film idea is not the one picked.

Other projects are in the works as well. More to post soon.