Animated book

Here is the animated version.

Here is a painting I was asked to do. It was some time ago and the final result was animated in Toon Boom by me as well. When I find that I will post it too.

A few I Spy pages

Here is some work I was thrilled to do before the project was shut down and we all lost our jobs. It was illustrated by Pascal Campion.  It was the last children's book I was animating before the plug got pulled and I was allowed, for the first time, to go 'nuts' and animate to the extreme... that is to say that the regular limitations and constraints put on digital book media was not there so I could actually animate freely (perhaps that was a sign that things were ending). These were flat pages of jpeg format, which our photoshop person broke apart and then I broke apart further to animate (as well as old fashioned had drawn animation). This was a really well designed book and it screamed "ANIMATE ME!!!!". A high note to end that job on. Animation wise these pages are still somewhat unfinished, but give the direction I was heading in with the illustrations.

Starborn

Here is a simple cycle I  did for a digital book company. Due to the nature of the limitations the fx had to be limited. If I remember correctly it had to be less then 6 frames on 2's. This was originally a flat jpeg and I had to break layers and fill in the BG to match what was there. The result is not bad. It was a rush job and had to be done in essentially a day or two from flat Jpeg to this. I really like the desigh style of the characters and 'feel' of the original artwork.

Background colour test

Here is a befor and after of a background test I did for a show called Jake and the Neverland Pirates by a little studio called Disney. I am still waiting for feedback as I did the test yesterday. It would be fun to colour for a while. I found it creative in a way.

Here is my flash work. It is all Cat in the Hat and was done while I was at PIP studios. I really enjoyed working with the people at PIP, they are all fun and I had some great discussions there. In this show  I found that working with the Things was the most fun, and Nic and Sally were the least. I found that the 2 kids had the least character development, in fact their personaliries seemed interchangeable and bland. The Cat and Fish had the most character, but because the cat was all cell swap I found that when I was animating him I got caught up in technical thinking and that tended to keep me from getting 'into' him. But here is what resulted...

Character Animation-Ruby Gloom

Here is a sample of my character animation. As you can see it is all from Ruby Gloom. That is because I really enjoyed working on that project, and I really enjoyed working at Nelvana. All of the character animation here is done in Toon Boom Harmony. This is the show I was working on before I got the call to go to Pipeline Studios to be an FX animator. Of all the characters in this show (and they are all great) I think my favorite to animate were Frank and Len (the 2 headed guitarist) and Misery. most of the crew didn't like working with her as her silhouette was really hard to work with for posing, but I loved her deadpanness, and the fact that she seemed to always have a story of her own going on that you never quite are privy to. I will be posting some of my more recent Flash work soon...