Tower update

New stuff coming weekly now, since Anna and I have designated wednesday as "Tower Day". We work while watching each others' desktops via Skype and Manycam. It's easy as pie and encourages productivity and participation. I highly recommend it.

Tower update

Yeup. It's still coming.
Just some model updates and colour tests. Somehow, it all looks a lot better in a group like this...maybe because it means progress?

Sketch Dump: Wasteland

I was listening to norse metal the other day, and--long story short--my Wasteland has temporarily come back to life again. It might not live as long as last time, but at least it's fun to draw the characters with their new uber-improved designs.

The Tower characters

Aforementioned [rough] designs, in order of appearance.
Feedback is pre-emptively appreciated.

Synopsis: A tower is built overnight in the middle of a diverse, secluded village. One by one, its citizens come out of their houses and gaze at the tower, each person developing their own idea about its purpose. Of course, it ends up being something entirely different.

The Other Pagemaster

Since submissions for the annual Sheridan Animation "Flipbook" are due today, I might as well drop mine off here as well.

Getting Into Character

In my second year of animation at Sheridan, we had a couple individual short film projects that were entirely pre-production work. The first was entirely our choice, provided we pitched the idea to our classes. Mine was "Dion's Bar", a little gag-driven comedy that took place in a world half-way between modern reality and greek mythology. It's quite the existential story, now that I think about it. The name comes from the greek god of wine, Dionysus.

The three characters were Jakob Satyre, a sex-starved satyr, Bill O'Taur, a minotaur whose wife wants a divorce because of his alcoholism, and Andrea Griffith, a griffiness who likes to flaunt her stuff. It's clearly not a children's story. I wanted to try something that was a little more mature and a little less mature at the same time.




















The following are some other various model sheets for characters I've designed the past few years. The first two characters are from an animation class assignment. I ended up elaborating on the story when I designed the characters, and I'll definately want to use them again in the future, maybe even for my fourth year film, which third year animation students will begin thinking about this upcoming term. The title for the short would be "Mum's First Word".

Davius lives in his mother's basement...