mermaids are really mean

During a long weekend last week I went home for a bit and saw Peter Pan the play in Stratford with my family. This little gem was said by a young girl during intermission:Drawn in ink, painted in photoshop CS4.

random things

went to the niagara aquarium with my roomate Diana. It's tiny but there were still lots of interesting critters..

Marty McFly:Went to See Toy Story 3 with my coworkers. It was definitely worth the wait. and even more doggy sketches

doodle dump

last week I biked down the road to this little service centre on the corner. I'm co-oping in the little town of East Aurora, which looks like something right out of the 60s.

this pretty much sums up third year.

also been doing tons of dog studies and drawings, trying to come up with an appealing guy for fourth year.

vector art

playing with the pen tool... (despite what some ppl asked this isn't me, its based off a charicature I did of someone a while back)

fourth year film pitch package

this was my fourth year film pitch package. I may actually go with this story, it still needs tweaking (and definitely some condensing) but I like that it's sort of an acting piece, with a chance to throw in some good backgrounds and such too.

Suggestions: if you have any let me know, I've gotten some good ones so far and I'm not so stuck on this story that I'm not willing to make changes or completely turn it around if need be. Also gonna come up with some better designs over the break.

life drawing

some animations

(from Apollo's Mission) so this is why I disappeared for two months. did everything in these shots. (except the very end of the car scene, young apollo/guy with the fro is Aminder's) drawn in graphite coloured in flipbook composited in after effects.

I am not dead.

so third year is complete and a few weeks ago we finally emerged from our studio tired, unkempt, hungry, and with basic hygeine and sleep as only a distant memory. However we did manage to scrap together some wonderful films and if we were lucky, learned a thing or two. Not to sound like an old record (or whatever the saying is nowadays) but I thought it was a pretty good experience. Anyways my blog's been dead for the last two months however I've got two months of artistic backwash to dump on the internet. (so be warned.)

so just to get the ball rolling here's some layouts and paintings from the film.. only posting the stuff i did everything for, except the colour script, which sandra worked on too.

music leica reel

a leica reel based on the song "aquarium" by Camille Saint-Saëns.

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.