Royal Winter fair 2011

 So this year I find myself living right by Toronto's Exhibition Place, so when the Royal Winter fair came around I had no excuse not to come by and draw some critters.

Conte, marker, ink, pencil, and gouache, some toning was done digitally.

Digital doodles

Coming soon: Royal winter Fair stuff. Until then here's some digital doodles:

Painted in the summertime in photoshop cs5 using http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/animalanatomy.php

Profile pic

I made an updated profile pic today, actual avatar is pretty small so here's a closer look:

Drawn/painted in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

Holland

So in September I spent a week in Holland with my mom, here's some drawings and paintings from my trip.

people at the airport

Some various birds from my tante Maria's farm.

waiting for dinner at a bistro. -ink

added some colour with photoshop

there was a hobo playing the accordian, he made my day. -Marker

doodle from the planeride home, cleaned up in photoshop

on the Go train

I love riding the train, simply because its an excuse to sit around and draw people..

and also a doggie sketch I added colour to this morning..

24 hour film

So this was a 24 hour film, done as part of MANIMATE- A 24 hour film fest. Thanks to Ashlyn Anstee for hosting this event. The theme of this fest was "coveted"



The character, gun and table were all found online. The animation, effects and background were all done by me. Animated in Maya, background painted in Adobe Photoshop CS5, composited in after effects.

Sound effects courtesy of soundbible.com
Manimate website: http://www.ashlyna.com/manimate/

Flash GIFs

So these guys were created for the kids page of a mold and bacteria laboratory. You can see all the bugs under "kids corner" here Each of these represents a type of mold, bacteria or virus.

Designed, built and animated by me using Adobe flash CS5.

sketchbook dump

So this week I did a bit of scanning, these are some sketches from school this year, mostly doodles and charicatures from class.

Flipbook!

(Regarding the old lady and dog)
"Was this an original concept piece for your film?"
"No, that was from Mythology class yesterday."

wow this feels like so long ago.. Anyways these were my pages for this year's flipbook at Sheridan.




Somehow I still squeezed in time for some life drawing.. A closer look since I like this fella..

Blind Luck

Well its been a pretty long 8 months, but here's the final product, my fourth year film at Sheridan. Enjoy!

Blind Luck from diane aarts on Vimeo.

rough animation

So here's the rough animation reel of my fourth year film, blind luck. Pencil tests may be a bit light...

life drawing

winter 2010 life drawing portfolio...
conte, pastel, ink and gouache

blind luck layout reel

Well winter break is upon us, only one semester left.. so here's the latest version of my layout reel




oh, and also a colour script!

Royal Winter fair '10

some very overdue sketches from the fair this year..

Design pack

very excited to be beginning production! Anyways here's some pages from the design pack..

(I should add for the colour I will probably be doing something warmer/more colourful. )

leica- revised

so after the screening last week I made some revisions, mostly just an alternative ending and some timing things. I'm curious as to what people think about the new ending.

leica!

So, its been a while and many many revisions but here is the current version of my leica. The only part I remain iffy about is the ending, which I'm revising asap. Also plan to go through and push the staging and expressions overall just to see what can be made funnier. If you have any suggestions the comments page is a wonderful thing, I'd love to hear your thoughts/ideas. :)