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Drawing is fun. I wish school allowed me a guilt-free life to do more of it.

Popeye Animation ID

Hey folks, nothing new to post right now however, CartoonBrew pointed me towards a potentially awesome blog: Popeye Animation ID, by Bob Jaques! Check it out, Popeye lovers!

More Gribbit!

I was looking through some doodles I did at work this summer, and was reminded of this unfinished drawing. I remember one day, while reworking some issues and cleaning it up a bit, all of the power down town died! Not too many alterations were lost, but the drawing wasn't picked up since then.

Gribbit!

Lots of summer and lots of work have kept me from drawing (outside of work, that is). Here's another of Gribbit and his fly buddy, Zubzub (Thanks Mel! =). Did this one this morning. I want to maybe give it different rendering and colour treatments. Stay tooned.

B A C K !

By popular demand!

..... alright, so, I'll keep drawing cartoons for now......

Even though art is self-indulgent and it doesn't really help anyone. Building houses or supporting fair trade helps people far more... but I'll keep making cartoons until something makes me want to drop it and retreat to Brazil for a while.

Until then, here's two characters I've been doodling for a bit. I need to seriously come up with designs for them, because I want to use them in an upcoming project (starting in the fall! Yea!).

They're a Time Travelling duo named Gribbit and Giblin! (Giblin's name is highly tentatvie). The images are bad photos because I don't have a scanner right now.


I tried 'im lanky.



Buuuttt I like 'im pudgy and small.


Maybe he's cool with muscles?

I didn't know what to do with his wings... so he has four wings in this drawing. Maybe he'll just not have wings anymore.


BONUS PRIZE!:
Hey kidos! Print out this sexy lass and paste her above your bed!



Ugh.

T-Shirt Design

There was a t-shirt design contest for the animation program here at Sheridan. This design of mine made the top ten, but it didn't win. Some of the faculty almost picked up after, but that didn't happen either. Too bad -- it would have been funny to see the BAA staff with drunken animals on their shirts!

I still like the design. After a few drawing adjustments I might put it on a shirt for myself. Enjoy! =)

OFFICIAL POPEYE DVD!!!!

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

Shipwrecked -or- The Marooned Maroon

We had to do a storyboard in class based on a provided 'script'... then in digital tools class, we had to make an animatic with Adobe Premiere.

I saw some fourth-year people doing some cool effects and animation with Adobe After Effects, so this animatic was an experiment to see if I could animate in Premiere. Yup, you can keyframe things pretty nicely in that ol' program. Anyway, enough chit-chat! That's the animatic I did with the storyboard panels.


(PS: Google Video totally washed out the grays, so this thing is mostly white. Sheesh.)

Nuttin' Special to Say Taday!

So here's some drawrings to look at instead:









And this too:


Enjoy.

Animatic - First 12 seconds

Here's a rough animatic of the first 12 seconds of my film. There's actually more to this sequence which will make more sense of things. No critiques yet, please. Not until I get the rest finished, then you can rip it apart! (There's bad sound right now -- final voices aren't done) Enjoy!

"GASP! Those are endangered! You're hurting the environment, man!"

<3

A quickie. I hope all of your Valentine's Day quckies are better than mine... know what I'm sayin'?

Mega Post

This post may not actually be very big, but it has Megaman, so it's certainly a MEGA POST!

I guess you could call these first few images 'concept work'. I have an idea in my noggin' about a silly stupid small short film I want to make. The story is pretty lame, but I want to do it anyway to prove to myself that I can actually complete a film! Maybe I should go for it. Wuddya think? Bah, I don't need your filthy answers! I can make up my own friggin' mind!

Anyway, after the few pieces of 'concept art', there's a slew of doodles I collected while doing a nice clean of my room. You get to see them before I store or throw them away. Enjoy this stuff!

(I don't know why there's a chick on this drawing... but it's a chick, so whynot?)

I scratched these down during first semester when Enzo used to make us caricature the tardy students. Even though they're terrible drawings, they still oddly look like the people, so it's fun to put 'em up:


One cartoon night my buddy Amir was trying to describe some kid for some reason... I doodled what came to my mind, which was apparently very far from what the dude actually looked like:

Pffttt.... ?



I remember doodling this guy while doing the inkings you'll find below. I hated this drawing at the time, but now I absolutely love it. Look at his ear! This drawing is awesome. I want every drawing I ever do to make me laugh like this one does:


My old roommate thought it'd be funny to say that my last girlfriend was pregnant. I thought it would be funny to act like she actually was. He didn't think that part was too funny.:
I doodled this baby in character design class around the begining of the year. I don't like it now at all, but I liked it at the time, so here she is!:


Ugh..... ???



Here's some inkings I did when I first bought my fantastic brush pen a few months ago. Although I was still getting used to handling the thing, I rather like how the lines came out on some of them. Sorta raw, sorta refined.

So long, Cape Breton!

WELL, it's that time of year again when I leave my home and venture to that smoggy little town of Oakville. School is a-callin' my name, so I'm posting these past pictures of my wonderful homeland before I leave it. Enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them! =)