Still no pic....

...but there is one coming soon. I am working on a caricature that I wanted to do for a long time. Years, in fact! I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I will be posting the roughs soon. Until then, here is a link to FEED- animation_vfx_design blog. There is a nice post about the Ottawa Animation Festival. Look for the post dated Monday, October 2, 2006, called ONLINE OTTAWA X2. My propaganda parody films are mentioned.

WHAT?! No pic?!

No pic in this post, just a link to an article in BROADCASTER MAGAZINE. There is an article on the OTTAWA ANIMATION FESTIVAL, and my propaganda shorts are mentioned. I like their description of the Z-FILES, "zombie-filled, outrageously comical twist on 1950's nuclear propaganda films."

GOD VARIATIONS

These are the options for the GOD design. In the final design he had slippers, not Jesus sandals.

GOD

This is GOD. I did a bunch of variations of his beard. I went with this one because my girlfriend liked it best.

more pilot screen shots

This scene is a flash back of KARZINKI, the garbage truck driver, as a little boy. That's his Papa in the wife beater.

BACK FROM THE OTTAWA ANIMATION FESTIVAL

I just got back from the OTTAWA ANIMATION FESTIVAL. I had a blast! I met some amazing people. Everyone was super nice. Now I have one week left to finish this pilot. I could have used those 5 days I spent at the festival working on this, but it was an opportunity I could not afford to miss out on. I want to thank everyone involved in putting the festival together and everyone attending the festival too. Thank you very much. It was my first time at the Ottawa Festival and I will definitely be going back every year from now on. I added some new links, to the right, to some of the great people I met at the festival.
The guy in the bath robe and slippers, above, is God. I really like how this pilot episode is turning out. The working title of the show is PETE & BOB. The animation is very South Parkish. So I should be able to finish it in a week. There are several other posts in this blog about this project. If you go through the archives of the past 3 or so months, you'll see other screen shots, some of which were just tests and experiments. The screen shots above are not tests. That is the final look of the pilot.

PAINTER experiment #2

Still playing with PAINTER. I love this program. This is only my second pic using painter. I am discovering new techniques already. And I accidently found the rotate canvas function, very handy function indeed.

FOOD AND FALLOUT rough sketches

My personal favorite of the 4 episodes of the Z-FILES, is the 4th one. I am really hoping to get started on some new episodes in the new year.

WIND DIRECTION rough sketches

Episode 3 of THE Z-FILES was the most complex. It had the most cuts, the most scenes, the most BG's, and the most characters.

WONDERFUL SIGHT rough sketches

Yep, this is all the sketches for episode 2 of my animated shorts. All I needed was this to go ahead and start animating. The whole episode is one single medium shot, with very understated animation and lip sync.

Awful Gas rough sketches

It is less than a couple of weeks away from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. My web cartoon series, THE Z-FILES, will be screening at the festival. Here are the scribbles that I did for the first episode, AWFUL GAS. On the bottom right, you can see that my original idea was to have the lady mutate into a plant like creature, it was my tribute to LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. I ended up not going with the plant and instead had her mutate into a multiple eyed octopus type creature.

FRANKENSTEIN'S GIRLFRIEND

Trying something different with colors and my first time using Painter.

ARGHH!!

This was a special request by my girlfriend. This is how I draw her. She is fun to draw. I think I did a pretty good job of capturing her rage.

the school grows

School of fish, that is. Well...actually, Mermaids. But mermaids are fish!

Another Boxer