Griz of Oz Gangnam Style

I was animating some loops whilst listening to PSY's song on repeat... and this is what happens. 

I blame it on a lack of sleep, hahaha! :D

Anyway, yeah, all animation is mine... all will be featured in my BFA short film coming out in November :)

I am very excited and nervous!

Sketchie sketchie

So everything is starting to crunch- BFA thesis is coming up quick, and I have not been puttg enough time into AM. Please wake me up when November ends :D
But, for some reason, little side projects help me stay sane. That and seeing real life people occasionally :D

So here is the poster pic for my BFA Animation Thesis this November:

I'm so excited, and so very nervous and scared of failure- not getting it finished in time.
Please goodness I hope I'll have it done.

So without further ado, I'll upload some more recent sanity-keeping sketches and get back to it, hahaa!

Tao Shu Tsin- don't think he'll get finished anytime soon, or even look the same. I wanna change his lower half to more snakey-dragon than anthropomorphic.

And change that stupid hand >(

Who can resist dapper porpoise? Noone, that's who.

IT'S FANCYPANTS FRIDAY, ee ee ee ee!

Ka'ev is Hebrew for 'hurt'. Had a bawwww day recently apparently.

So there's that :D

I have more piccies, some ink and pencil shenanigans, but I'll upload them at a later date.

Until then, remain sane my friends. ;)

How To Draw A Dream in 4 Easy Steps!!

So I had this crazy lucid dream a couple of weeks back from my way back from AM BBQ (which was AWESOME btw)

I dreamt I was drawing the drawing below- every detail, so I could remember it all. It was nuts- I've had dreams like it before, but I usually completely forget what I dreamed up by the time I wake up :O

So it was crazy to be able to wake up and still remember exactly what I had sketched out.

So I woke up on the plane... went OMG... and got it down on my laptop before I could forget any major details!

So that was the initial drawing- just a concept sketchy sketch of what I could remember. 

Next I worked on getting details worked out- fixed some anatomy mistakes also. (jellyarms!)

Bam! Final Lineart Foo!!

A white background is fine too :D

Base coat, then lock layer's transparent pixels (so I can't draw outside lines)

Started background too.

Colour base finished with details.

BAM! STRIPES!

Almost finished....

Yeayyy!! Finished image!

The Thai writing says "Fierce as a tiger/ Crafty as a fox"

No, I did not dream in Thai... I just remember that being the saying in my dream. :D

And that it was written in very elegant and curly writing- when I saw Thai, I aha'd.

So to recap,
Step 1: Have Dream.
Step 2: Wake the Heck Up.
Step 3: Scribble Down the Dream.
Step 4: Draw it More Until it Looks Good.

Hahahaa!

A Sadface Tiger

You know when you have a lot of feelings, and you just HAVE to draw something-
whether it be happy/sad/excited/frightened- I swear it's like an artist psychosis :D
And when I say artist, I include muscians, writers, etc...
Do you get that too? You get inspired- you get the mad desire to make something- it's so crazy.

I think the only intense mood that retards my drawing would have to be the self-doubt times- where you  feel like a hack and you mope around and want to lay on the floor and lament for some reason :D
Ahh, those times. Where anything you try to draw turns into SADTIMES, hahaha.

Vertis

Vertis the feathered spiny Oviraptor.
Technically I guess her tail should be out rigidly straight, to counter the weight of her head and forequarters.
Ah well.

I had so much fun! I worked in a buttload of different layers, just keeping the base blue layer's pixels selected so I didn't draw outside the lines.

So: lineart on top layer, then light blue layer, white-yellow tummy layer, texture layer (the pinks and purples), stripe layer, then several other layers for background, aurora, stars, border and text.

Calvin and Hobbes Stu Mods and Anatomy Sketches.

I was drawing some anatomy for a friend of mine, just some rough sketchies-

Comparative anatomy, wot wot?

As always, dinosaurs. What else would expect from me? :D

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So I have started Class 3, and I have decided to do 3 shots on a theme...

Can you guess what that theme is?

I'll give you a hint...

Look below ;)

After lots of broken rig heartache, NURBS-polygon frustrations and everything else, here are some shots of my newest Stu mods :D

The amazingly talented riggers at AM provide the Stu rig, and I mess with them >. >

Still to come, a better house and door ;)

Animation Mentor Class 2 Progress Reel

I finally got my Class 2 reel uploaded :D Please enjoy!