Manimate - 24h films to the tune of Trickery!

After having such a blast last year animating a short film for Ashlyn's awesomely run Manimate - make a film in 24 hours, I had to participate once again! This time dragging my good friend Brittany LeClerc into the mix we created a quirky little creepy film...

Turn off the lights and put on your headphones and immerse yourself into Bedroom Boy!

  This is essentially the rough pass, we are already working on cleaning up and colouring the animation, as well as the bgs and are set to record our own sfx in the comings weeks. Be sure to stay tuned. As always, thanks to Ashlyn for hosting an amazing event! (Follow the link at the top to view last years films as well!) For the lazy, I will include my last year film here as well! Peanut Out!

It's a fish.

A little test I did awhile ago, figured I would upload it. It's a sunfish. (:

Peanut out!

Happy Birthday Feb babies

Ya, Happy Birthday you kids.

It was my dad's birthday this week too, but I didn't think he would like to be in a video like this.

Peanut out!

Cupcake Starrunner

Animated in Flash, stars in Photoshop, comped in AE.

A fun runcycle in Flash.

Peanut out.

Grinner Gif

I am going to make so many gifs, with the powers that are Flash.

Peanut out!

Attempting to Learn Me Some Flash

It's coming along.  The first puppet I tried to make was just a simple remake of Yaga's cabin, but I really messed up that file while trying to figure out flash.  Tried these guys out for size, made some more mistakes, learned some more, got some great help and I'm well on my way to being comfortable with flash.

Right now I'm working on another character puppet and a lipsync to go along with it, so I just keep working away. (:

Peanut out!

Flip Boom Doodle

Toonboom is giving away their kids animation program right now, for free, till the end of Jan and I thought I would give it a quick whirl.

Go here: http://www.toonboom.com/doodle/ to grab it!

Obviously it's not a very advanced tool but fun to play with.

Peanut out.

When working on big project fails...

Make a gif.

Back from China! Here's some old stuff!

Wow! What a whirlwind trip!!! O: I have lots of stuff to post from the trip, I want to include pics from the places I went, the people I went with and the work that I did there. (: Worked hardcore from 18 days solid... 10 hour days, 16 hour days... 23 hour days.... @.@ Sometimes longer near the end. My hand was craaaaaaaaaaaamped!

So I have a lot.. (understatement, A LOT) of files to go through before I can get into uploading recent stuff, and then I realized.. well, I have a ton of old stuff I haven't thrown up! So here it comes:

My first semester of third year action analysis. All drawn and coloured and composited and what-not all done by moi! I think clean up killed this, and I was in the process of redrawing/reanimating things from it. Of course, new projects popped up.. like films =.= Soooo here it is:

You may see some changes if you remember me posting the first leica from *cough* October.... But regardless, hope you enjoyed!

Going to include just the 5 second clip from the reel that was animated and coloured. (:

That's all for now! Sorta... we shall see!! O:

Going to see Despicable Me tonight, I've got some movies to catch up on! (Inception was fab!)

Peanut out.

Pong

Had my first Stop Motion class yesterday and I had a blast! I had never done stop motion before, although I've been a very long time admirer of the art, what with The Nightmare Before Christmas being my favourite movie and all. (: It was just a play around class but Aminder and I had some fun...



If you noticed the bump in the video, it's because I moved the box D': I bumped it while reaching over to move a pong paddle. Just another instance where I wish I was taller. I might have to start wearing platforms to that class.

Walkity walk.

Layers created in Photoshop and composited in ToonBoom if I recall correctly. A walk cycle exercise from first year.

BEAKED.

Rough beak animation times!



1 more week of school left and not much work left to do at all. While the majority of my peers seem to be running around trying to catch up on assignments 10 weeks late I had very little trouble handling and getting everything in on time.

More work coming soon!

Needs more animation.

Last two animation projects. Both have a significant amount of problems.

Human lipsync



Muzzle sync



I plan on doing more work on the muzzle when I insert the beak character.... hopefully..