Dancer's Project for NFB.

I recently had the opportunity to work on a project for the NFB at Wapos Bay Productions. Here are some stills from that project.

Another Bouncing Ball WIP

Here is another work in progress from Maya. I'm starting to get the hang of this program and it's scary graph editor, but I know it will only get more complex with fully rigged characters. Oh well...have start somewhere. I'm just glad I started off simple with the ball.

Pixar in Canada?

So I read this morning that Pixar is scouting for some real estate in Vancouver to house a new studio. This could go either way...I see one avenue being a great studio that grows and brings with it some real animated feature attention to Canada, unfortunately the other avenue I see is this being just another service studio to crank out work. I don't expect a company like Pixar to do such a thing, but who knows. I'll definitely be following this story.

In other 3D news Chris Wieme and I have started teaching ourselves 3D. Started off with the basics. Here is a simple ball bounce. Everytime I make something new I'll post it. Maybe Chris will do the same thing.

Wapos Bay Heads

These are some heads that I drew at the studio one day while animating. These designs do not represent the actual look of the puppet that has been sculpted but I thought I'd try and more "designed for 2D animation" type of look.

-Andrew

Work doodles

I have some stopmotion projects on the go at the moment so I don't have a lot of drawings to share at this time, but here's a little guy I drew at work. Once I get the stopmotion projects closer to the finished product I'll post a ton of artwork from them including concept sketches, build process, screen grabs, and then after it's out the door I'll post it on here as well. Until the next time.....

-Andrew

YAR! I BE BLARGGIN'!

So ya....kinda posted a lot today....going to see if I can keep it up. This is just a rough that I drew up for an assignment for my first year class. I haven't tried to color anything in such a long time so obviously this is a complete fail, but I'm getting back into the groove of things so we'll see what I can crank out next.

Thanks for stopping by and *nudge nudge*, leave commment, *nudge nudge*

-Andrew

What's a Layout?

Some noodliedoodlie's

It's a Penguin!

Yup....that's it.

I was watching a Winnie the Pooh and as always I watch the credits to see if I come across any familiar names. Here is a screenshot from the end credits. James taught me animation in college, but I don't recall him ever saying he worked on a Pooh movie.

Really?

So I checked out my site meter today and saw that this visitor arrived at my blog by doing a google search for this. Can't imagine why they'd be doing a google search for that or what would come up in the search results for that matter....but apparently my blog is one of them. haha.

Until next time.
-Andrew