East Side Culture Crawl Paintings!!

These were my side projects over the last two months. Fun times as I had never made anything on a canvas for display before. I'm looking forward to my upcoming move to Australia, and continuing to paint. I intend to take what I learned making these into bigger pieces that will hopefully be a lot more visually clear. Good times!

Rick Hansen Commercial

Here's a live action board I did last year, (July 2011).  It involved Rick Hansen.

Super last minute,  I did it in a couple hours one night while in Calgary. Photoshop!

VFX/ Live Action Commercial Storyboard

Here is a live action / vfx integration commercial storyboard I did last minute for a client. About 8 hrs over a couple days.  Live action always asks for different things in their boards than in animation,  less posing, but it was a fun idea so I made it a bit animation-ey.  The designs (phallic sea monster) were done by some one else.   I didn't post the dialogue either, but basically, when the coloured bugs land on the characters, they get to grant a wish. Just like real life.  Good times!!

punk

Drawn in Flash.

Nervous gangsta!

Drawn in Flash.

Sample Illustration

A sample illustration for a prospective client.

2008 Stop Motion Short made in 50 hrs?

Oh my gyad, forgot about this.  This was done with my friends for the Trick 17 Stop Motion competition in 2008!! Me and my team got 50 hrs, a direction, music and a medium to make a stop motion film. Looking back this was a great learning experience. Please forgive the lame (AWESOME!!) sense of humor in it. It was sponsored by Redbull, (obviously). Oh good times.

The Pen is Mightier

The Explorasaurs

Here is a short "thing" I made in my spare time last July (2011). It was made at Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary. Hand drawn in Flash, a friend of mine was kind enough to throw some music on, thanks Matt!

UBC EOS Illustrations

Last November, I did some preliminary exploration for a really cool professor in the Earth and Ocean Sciences Program at UBC. They didn't turn into anything after this but it was a fun little gig and I got to learn a lot about geological processes and ecology theory which was totally rad!!!

Sketches

Some random sketches from the pile!

Back from the States!

Well..... I recently got back from an amazing trip to the south of the USA. New Orleans and Austin TX. It was amazing to say the least. Anyhoo, feeling really inspired artistically, the idea of painting has caught me and hopefully I can get going soon on some pieces. Been drawing and planning some weird images that would look good on a large scale I think. Here's a couple doodles for fun.

Peace!

Here's a 30sec spot I did at Barbershop Films here in Vancouver. It was hand drawn in Flash by myself and the compositing wizard took it from there. Good times!

Creatures!!

Here're two sketches I made while working at VFS. Probably from last year too. Just started going through this years' work/sketches today. Some interesting experiments, more to come!!

Scene Suggestions

I did a lot of these for the BBC adds. Here are a few. Just brainstorming random scenes to get going. It was fun, people blurting out content and me throwing it into a square on the page haha! Fast and messy!

Thumbnails/Boards

Here are some thumbnails done for a minute of flash animation I did this May. Tight budget, deadlines, and a small team prevented these from becoming proper boards. And yes there was a planned push in (or something) during the acting, he didn't just grow suddenly : P

BBC Kids_Story Boards

Busy times. Here are some story boards I did back in April(?) for Motionsoup Studio here in Vancouver http://www.motionsoup.com/.

There were two spots for BBC Kids done in a sketch book cut-out, motion graphic style. The deadline was tight and I didn't get to pose much out for the animators, so the boards were really rough and vauge. Fun times brainstorming.

You can view the finished pieces here:

http://vimeo.com/25219141

http://vimeo.com/25219191

Sketch Book

Been busy working the last couple months. Finally ,,,, FREE TIME TO DRAW!! woo hoo. here's a couple of experiments done in sketchbook pro. More to come!

Character Animation in Flash

I did the character animation on this info-mercial for FortisBC a couple months back. Construction worker bacterias! It was around minute of animation in total and done in Flash.

Layout Drawing!

I'm in between contracts at the mo, and have found myself in Calgary. I'm animating a short hand drawn bit for Quickdraw Animation Studio. Should be done in 3 weeks! Here's a layout drawing !

Pre production illustrations

Here are some pre production illustrations I did for a commercial in March. Been busy doing boards and drawing the last few months! Cooler posts to come I hope!

Some guy

Been busy doing storyboards for the last couple months. Here's a random character!

Trout Lake

Went out for a quick sketching sesh at Trout Lake today. This fellow was getting ready for summer.....stick fighting season!