fourth year film sketches and stuff

so these are some pics from my fourth year film presentation. The working title is Max until I can come up with something cleverer. At this point everything is still flexible, especially the plot and characters.
Here's the basic plot: guide dog hates his job/wants attention from his owner, dog tries to fetch a ball dragging owner across city, dog loses owner/finds him in the middle of an intersection, dog rescues owner/gets rewarded.
I'm flipflopping between having him chase the ball cuz he hates his job or wants to be rewarded by his owner.
oh, and I also want to escalade the gags during the chase scene.. I don't think this will be complete until something explodes.
enough blabbering. here's some sketches.


this was a sketch I did way back in september... things have changed a bit since then..

got a ton of awesome videos and pics and sketches from the lions guide dogs of canada in oakville. The people there were awesome, I was lucky enough to sit in on a class where the dogs were being trained, which made for excellent reference.

gloria walk cycle

test animation for our group film...

dancing puppet

who says wire and apoxee can't be sexy?

done for fun in extra stop mo workshop @ sheridan college. thanks to everyone that organised it, this was great fun to make.

song from "Dance: 10 Looks: 3"

experimenting with painting backgrounds.. flat tones vs something more painterly...

s'cuse me, miss....

just for fun.

demo reel

flamingo painting

something I did very quickly for my sisters room.. carpet was pink....

sketch dump

some sketches I did this week.. a sparrow reporter character, a flamingo for something I worked up for my sister and some sketches from watching the Peoples choice awards...

the kite- work reel

story reel with action analysis...
action analysis painted in flipbook and composited in after effects.

thinking character

created in maya, last 3d assignment of the semester

Puppet walk

final stop motion assignment of the year.. kept getting technical difficulties, but I think it turned out ok nonetheless...

action analysis WIP

layout, painting, and test composition for action analysis...

3d walk cycle

my first shot at a 3d walk, finished this a few weeks ago but figured it was still worth posting...

created in maya

desert layouts

some rough desert layouts done for group film fun pack

Puppet smash

action analysis for stop motion. Nothing special, but I think it gets the job done. Shot in frametheif.

royal winter fair

some sketches from the fair, having fun with pens markers pencil and guache

life drawing paintings

some 5/10 minute paintings from class, we're having some fun wih different mediums..

france layout

I notice I never get any layout stuff up... anyways this is a very quick rough layout done for the rough fun pack for our third year film.. a rather tasty looking shot of paris.

24 hour manimation festival

so did a 24 hour film, which was both fun and very draining at the same time. The theme was "revenge".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbY9vrIIbGg

I'm still not sure what to think of the final product, but considering the tiny amount of time I think it turned out okay. Collaberated with Matt kramer and Laurel Dalgleish, who are awesome.

Oh, and Happy Halloween. :)

pitch package stuff

some stuff I did last week for our pitch package, all drawn in graphite and painted in photoshop.
to see the complete pitch package, go to http://group-hugs.blogspot.com/2009/10/pitch-package.html

this was a beat board for our pitch..

this one was a rough colour script for people painting beat boards to use as a guide..

and also having fun with lightning...