(91) Jetpack Jack: The Take Off

My flash Montage!

(90) Summer Trek!

My animatic!

89 - A 3D Office

In 3D class we had to design an office for a kid. I got a little carried away, so, we'll say it's for a very mature kid, or a groovy teen.
I threw in lots of extra stuff. There's even a picture of my brother dressed up as a beer bottle.

(Dec. 7/2010)
Here's a day and night render with lighting.

There we have it.

88 - Rough Pitch

Rough pitch animation. Basically it's keys and a little inbetweens. It's a start.

87 - Rough Flash 11 Second Club

A rough pose and head-comp setup.

I believe the audio clip is from Wrath of Kahn.
I based the old guy off Andy Rooney.
To me he kind of looks like a mix between Rooney and Dan Rather.

Don't mind the hyper-blinky kid. Just a quick symbol insert.

86 - Rough Pre-Flash

So, there's a rough layout, and a character design. We're doing a montage in Flash. I'm using it as a chance to flush out my Jetpack Jack character a bit, and do some actual animation with him. Should be fun.
I hope.

I have a little script done up, and some rough storyboards, which will be treated to a little graphite, then be turned into an animatic, and -then- comes the flashin'.

85 - More Lipsync, and some Life Drawing stuff

We've got some hands, a 2minute Life Drawing pose I kinda liked, and my lipsync.
Still in progress, but it's coming along.
Sha-zam.

84- Portrait and Montage Script

We had to do a portrait in Life Drawing. I chose a picture of Jim Carrey. He had a good expression, and I thought that his open jaw would be a nice challenge.

Might be one of my best portrait drawings so far. I'm improving.

Also, here's a link to a script I did up for our montage project. I opted to use my Jet Pack Jack character. It'll later be animated in Flash, and it'll be a good chance to hash out some character details.

83. A couple rough animations

 

Here's a couple rough animations. Above is my rough Leap.

Below is a lipsync. He's supposed to be saying "Meow". A basic exercise just to work on mouth movements and such.

It's a start.

Post 82. Life Drawing Stuff.

Some gestures and a figure sketch from Life Drawing class. Most gestures were done from 30 second-1 minute poses.

I know there's some issues, but hey, I'm getting better.

81 - Knight and Chicken Monster

Thought I'd share some concept character sketches I did up for class. Our theme is Knights of The Round Table (quite similar to our Renaissance theme, I've noticed).

We have to design a Knight, and also a monster for him to fight. We also need to do a Pitch 'n Swing Animation.
If allowed, I'll have the knight hopping off of a moving draw-bridge, startling an egg out of the monstrous chicken, and hitting the egg with the sword.

We're also permitted to create a 3rd Incidental character, whom I'm thinking of making a narrator, and having the whole thing be themed around a medieval commercial for a sword company.
I think I'll have fun with the script writing aspect.

 I did this little doodle up during a break in Life Drawing. Also, I've made major changes to the Knight character, and added a Squire character as well.

And another Update. I've basically had to revise everything. Script has been re-written, characters re-designed, and everything re-boarded.

So, here's my castle Location Design. But. We aren't using the locations we designed for our own scripts. Instead we voted on 5 others that classmates did, and are changing those to fit our scripts.

And here's the new script.

http://theidiot-class101.deviantart.com/#/d2zxeur

(80) The Rocketeer in watercolour

I broke out some canvas and splashed some watercolour around the other day.

It's not done yet, I've still got quite a ways to go, but so far, I'm liking my progress.

Also, considering changing the name of my Rocket Boy idea to Jetpack Jack. It's percolating in my mind as I think up ideas for another script on the subject.

That's all for now!

(79) Rocket Boy Update

Here's a second version of my Rocketboy idea. I spent a bit more time on this, this time.
The first Rocketboy script I wrote is here.

I've enlisted the help of a character designer, Chris Boyd ( [link] ) who was very interested and very helpful.

He seems quite enthusiastic about my little project, and was generous enough to whip up a concept for his take on Rocketboy.

At the Jalloo ( http://jalloo.net/ ) animation festival, here in Miramichi, last week, we had a nice woman come in to talk to us from Teletoon.

She discussed their pitching guidelines and criteria, and I'm seriously considering submitting a Rocketboy pitch.
The odds of it getting picked aren't super, but, it's worth a shot.

We'll see how it goes.

-Update-
Just letting it be known, I've submitted a Rocket Boy pitch sheet to Teletoon.

(78) 25 Expressions of Travis

A little side project for one of our classes was to create a little character to go with this expression sheet.

I should've had a character in mind, or at least thought of a definitive look, but I ended up doing a...garbled..version of myself.
Did them up rather quickly with a blue pencil, then worked 'em over with a black pen to make 'em pop.

(77) Subway Warp Pan

For our final Staging project, we had to create a warped pan.
So I did.

I coloured it up with a blue animation pencil, then tweaked it in photoshop CS5.

Click it for a big version!

That's all for now.

(76) Double Whammy. A layout and an audio clip!

Here's a layout set in an idol room in ancient Japan.



This is a voice-over project I helped some friends out with. I wrote the script, play the voice of the announcer, and also made the music.
My friend Brad Lamey did the Shaun of The Dead drawing, and also contributed his voice, as did my other pal, John Landry.

Enjoy, that is all for now.

(75) A couple quickies

 

Above is a recent Drawing Jam subject. The topic was Film Noir in Tex Avery style. The style I neglected, but I had fun with it anyway. The reference picture was one of good ol' Humphrey Bogart.

And, above here we have some quick sketchy doodles I did of myself.
Just for kicks.

That's all, folks.

(74) A couple sketches from the zoo

Finally got around to putting up some drawings from the zoo trip. I chose those I thought to be good, and that weren't ruined by the rain we had that day.
What you see is primarily gesture drawings.

An otter

 A bear, an Emu, and a Duck.
(No, They weren't all in the same enclosure, you silly person)

That is all!

(73) Doorway Layout

In staging class we had to do a location design for a room, wherein there's an Idol, a door, and a window, set in old timey Japan.
The two characters who would be involved in the animation for this are a Ninja and a Samurai.
Here's an early view of the door.

Once I get revisions and such, I'll probably upload another version.
I just did a quick colour-up in Photoshop.

That's all for now, folks.

(72) Sculpture

For a Friday afternoon workshop, our teacher Tara offered a sculpture class.
I jumped on the oppurtunity and made a little sculpture based off of this sketch I did up before.

This sculpture I wanted to do right, so I screwed down wire to a wooden base, used twine to bulk it up a bit, then I covered the twine in masking tape (to A- help the fibres from the twine to be easily controlled, and B- to hold its shape easier) This also made the clay easier to work with once it was applied to the armature.

I baked it for three 5 minute intervals (the clay isn't on very thick), and then I primed it with a couple coats of white, and applied some acrylic to it.

I used a black pen to put on the eyes. And I'm probably going to do another coat on the wonky looking hands.


Also, I'm starting a little (18" by 12") painting of The Goon, using oils (for the first time) and acrylics.
This is a very very rough, early state.

I still have quite a ways to go.
That's all.

2010 Moncton Zoo Trip

The Animation students from NBCC Miramichi took off on their annual trip to the Moncton zoo to do some animal drawing. Amidst rain and heat and the smell of animal poopies, we endured.