D04: Naga

D03: Slime

Cleaning up after yourself bites at times. But it could always be worst.

D02: Centaur

30 Day Monster Boy/Girl Challenge - D01: HARPY

Believe it or not, this is actually something suggested at work! Although I know it won't be possible to complete it in full due to a week and half vacation later this month...going to still try!

-Day 1: Harpy -

Something different, and its Thanksgiving this weekend! Fits the definition as turkeys can be damn vicious little (smelly) buggers!

Art dump soon...

I'm sorry blog, I have not forgotten about you...
Will eventually post something about the film since that is the current major focus XD but for now...

We all got our lousy days...

Dev Art - Milly

Ridiculously sick. Its not a happy moment. People who say it is awesome to get sick so they can stay home and be lazy obviously don't get sick enough to feel its pain. How frustrating! Although I WAS getting better, I took a nice 180 degree turn on Friday. My fault, but it was soooo worth it! My Cintiq arrived! Had it sent to a friend's place which is a 20 min walk (ish) away. It was warm and cold (yeah..somewhere jumped a lot) and super windy, but I made the trek for it. So I am sick, but got a new toy to play with.

Gave me the chance to finish this piece I started almost a year ago!


One of the last WoW fanarts I'll do in a while (as I have no interest, or the money to play the game). Also a good send off piece...from what I hear, if I rejoin WoW, soul harvesting will be removed from the game...

So here is my piece in dedication to the weird evil soul draining things warlocks did.

More digging...

I was going through some more stuff, and found some sketches I did in the summer using MS Paint. Wow that program in Windows 7 has come such a long way. Considering my computer is still running Windows XP and Co, I spent a considerable amount of my break time playing in Paint with a Cintiq. Rough Sketches (apologies I seem to have located only fanart...)






While I'm at it, here's some fanart work from over the summer. Wanted to focus on learning Digital line art.

Summer's almost over!

I really do suck as updates but stuff is coming up! Spent most of my summer cooping at Big Jump Production, an Ottawa based studio who just completed S4 of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear, airing this fall! Its been awesome here, so great that they've granted me an extension here into August!

I don't have too much to show, since Flash is still so new to me. Practiced a few storyboards from the Ben Bear scripts, which makes it so much less scary. Also created and rigged a character in flash for animation:

It is surprisingly scary how long it took to rig her up, and even then not all parts could've been used for animation. Good thing though: Clean up is done~!

I have also uploaded a portfolio website to http://www.chanimated.com/


I'm not too happy with the layout at the moment but fixing it isn't a priority. Currently focusing on creating a proper demo reel and media player, or I might just cheat and use Vimeo/Youtube (which do you suggest?)

So much still to update on, and will try to do so over the next few weeks! As for those who are still waiting on Oddysea being uploaded, I'm procrastinating and you can kick me if you wish.

Oddysea - Colour Script

Work in progress, version 1 for Oddysea colour script

These were completed with minimal shading as we were testing out base colours before applying textures on top (to hopefully make it more children's book style). That's next round...

Although completely accidental, I noticed that the first panel in the last row could be improved...

yeah...I need sleep...

To a New Years! (Concept to Flash)

So I've been away from the net for a week, being in Ottawa is wonderful as always! Wanted to post this sooner, but oh well...

Many thanks goes to Nick Hendriks for providing me an awesome layout to paint for the Flash in the last post! Told him the concept of it last minute and got this awesome sketch done asap!




Rendered to:


Some more girl work...

24 Hour film!

So for the first time, going to participate in the 24 hour film, which sadly isn't 24 hour straight this time...

Since a friend of mine is also learning flash, we're totally going to tackle it with that program, and hope it can all be done ontime!

....and its about Canada...yay!

Speaking of Canada, will upload this: Reinterpretation of Hansel and Gretel from the old lady's point of view....


It was strange seeing the parallel since Canada launched various commercials relating to Elder Abuse. Elder abuse is in so many forms, such as traumatic (HER HOUSE IS BEING EATEN BY STRANGERS), or financial loss/abuse (the house is her asset), or...not sure what its called, but younger generations pressure elders to die off so that they can inherit (Kids not only kill her, they STEAL her chest of jewels)...

Yes, an amusing project!

WIP- I hate pens....

Been staring at this wayyy too long. Advice on how to fix this up for portfolio super welcomed at this time...before i kill something XD On the advice from some one on DA, they suggested a bush in the lower corner. Which is why there are 3 versions.

Background paintings

Amusing how shitty last year's old west painting turned out. I'm surprised Michael didn't fail be outright for it.

Old:

New:

These are the other backgrounds for portfolio...if you do see this post, please critique em :( Screw the ego, tell me why they suck :D

Updated Post - Includes process work...

Sorry but....fanart for wow...my paladin in T6, although I can't really claim her anymore since I quit the game.

Anyways, this started out as being only a sketch and was to remain as such. While at work, I noticed on Pete Emslie's blog a post about using a certain type of photoshop brush to paint and given that I had no scanner during the summer...this was one of the only piece scanned well enough to paint....thus became the summer project. Hope to have something soon that isnt WoW to try it on..>.>


Do click to enlarge, otherwise details are all lost....:(
Debating on submitting it to Blizzard fanart at the moment...

Making of it broken down:

Scanned....very unproportional...with that massive arm...



Started to color it based on the generic model viewer colors...very bright!

The pride and joy of this project was the shoulder pads...massive metal glowing reflective shoulderpads...really fun to do with this new technique...



After getting about this far...well...notice the hips are massive! At least for this race...

so they got resized....shoulder pads look weird too but the understructure works....blar silly...
Also realised her ...boob buttons? were looking weird. Actually, I'm not even sure why they are there! They serve no purpose and look silly on a male model.


Also fixed up the colors so that
Point the other way on mighty buttons!



Final Version without the background :)

BOO! after Civic Holiday....

Lack of photoshop means attempt to funkisize art in paint shop pro to depict this story...still not used to the radical brush properties...anyways....

Tuesday, came into work and started to type in my password when lo and behold! THERE IS SOMETHING CRAWLING IN THE KEYBOARD!....after a while it was possible to determine that it was a female ear wig... So i go and beg a can of compressed air from my manager and begin to wage war against the earwig. Doesn't help that our garden got this massive infestation this summer (open the front door, see many crawlies or open the garage door and several fall down onto the car..) ...So the air doesnt work based on the lip in the keyboard but enough aggravation caused her to crawl out and drop to the floor.....i made sure the death was quick...:(

Also discovered that the spider i left alive in my office caught 2 more earwigs in its web this weekend...what in the world? was it a parade? oO they've never had issues before so I hope they weren't brough from home...

Laundry!

So i am at work, with very lil to do ...hail slow days! Fooled around on paint shop pro a bit, but its hard without a tablet....blar...

Here's something that was sketched out ages ago, but never colored. Probably will redo in photo shop..bwahahahaha comparisons!

Sometimes...even lovey dovey things need a wash to freshen it up... or you could just Febreze it...

For Markboy...

These were supposed to be a set of postcard sized prints done for our 3 yrs anni back in April...sadly the transfer between illustrator and photoshop was done incorrectly....so everything for too muddy for print...oh well...will fix is up one day! Many thanks to Dani help and for the letter Z's bimbo bot...cause i couldnt think of one to save my life (and make the deadline..that i still missed :o)