A couple of things

I've been working on a show for Copernicus studios as a key animator for the last 8 months, so I have been busy adjusting to working life. I thought I would pop in and share just a couple of things I  have made lately!
I was working on this digital painting tonight, to play around with using colour in photoshop. I thought maybe I could do a self portrait each month of this year to help me learn to paint in photoshop, and as a kind of artistic progress marker.

Some older stuff I made and didnt post anywhere: This roman archer I wanted to clean up in Manga Studio 5 (havent done that yet) and an unfinished run cycle I was using to try to learn Flash. We have been using Toonboom Harmony at work so my Flash knowledge is more limited than most animators in the biz right now. I really need to remember that tutorials are my friend... lots of things to learn haha. 

Thats all! Hope you are all well. 

Err-

whaaaaat.

Tuesday

oh wow, tuesday already? hum.

Friday

exam tomorrow. gonna fill out those "bubble" sheets like they made us do from time to time in highschool. woo.

watts and power watts and power watts and power, golf, tango, oscar. charlie! PNP! BNC connector, Cathode-Grid-Anode/Plate. Section 6. 300 million. pico nano kilo mega farad henry AF amp.

bwaaaa. I'll probably update tomorrow on whether I pass or fail.

EDIT: I passed!!! hurrah! I did better than the minimum 70%, I got 80 which means I've got a few more privileges than normal. mostly just being able to use higher frequencies. I should totally celebrate with a cake. mm.

Wednesday

what do you mean that's not what spacemen do? EVERYONE knows you do funky space ballet in "Zero G" when you go to space. duh.

monday will be my 200th post. wooooo.

Tuesday

hey who remembers the stairs in the hostel/inn in Amsterdam? like holy moley. we have it easy here in the Americas. I swear we climbed up there like 200 times during our stay.

Friday

I feel detached. can't connect.

Thursday

what? over there? dang guys I still don't see it. you're just pulling my leg.

friday

rrrrr

Wednesday

maaaaaann.

no real significance to this, it's just late and I'd like to get to bed.

Monday

rsrhg.j;.kl'jn ljgsujysghn

Friday

I drew two things for you today. I felt guilty that the first one was so grumpy. I guess I'm just having trouble relaxing. looks like next week I'll only have two shifts at work, so I'll have time to practice relaxing. guuuuhhhh. anyway. have a good weekend, gaiz.

Thursday

not quite recovered yet.

urrrrgggg.

Wednesday, of course

woo, good hair day!

Thursday

So I drew one frame and tried to trace the other two. it's pretty crazy how hard it is to make the same drawing more than once. also I am super cold right now.

I can't remember if I mentioned on the blog yet, but I got a job. my first real shift starts on monday. pretty cool, eh? I was getting really low in funds there for a while. yikes.

There's an animation event happening this weekend. anybody round these parts (Halifax!) should check it out. :) http://films.nfb.ca/get-animated/halifax.php I am going to the one on monday! also maybe the other one.

and lastly, the H1N1 flu shots are going to be approved soon. I think most of us will have access to them in the first few days of November. I'm calling my doc tomorrow to get me a tentative appointment. please consider doing the same, you guys. I care about youuuuuu.

I think that's all for tonight. toodles!

Wednesday

I get real nostalgic for Final Fantasy 8. I was playing it a lot and really fell in love with the characters right around when I was 13-14, just as I was moving across the province and graduating to highschool and all that. maybe I'll tell y'all more about it sometime.

feel free to show me some chocobo love down in the comments. or maybe a video game or song from a game that you find especially nostalgic? for me it's definitely this particular song.

Wednesday

So I was working on this and yeah. it ended up looking not real great! it's got 14 frames, and I didnt put it all together till the very end. however, I spent a bunch of time on it so I'm going to post it today anyway!

SHE IS SURPRISED BY SOMETHING UP AND TO HER LEFT.

I hope to do a few more days like this with .gif animations. consider it testing the waters. I really ought to think back to the short workshop that I did in highschool. there was lots I was told and shown that I should put to use now.

also, I guess I should learn more about using Flash for animation? any leads on a cheap way to do this? I can't remember what my brother Nathan used to use to put his together.I think he may have paid for a program. I know very little about any of this. D:

hope everyone is doing well! I'm doing pretty good overall. :)

Monday

I didnt really like the schedual thing last week, so I'm doing my regular update thing this week again. wheeee.

I wasn't sure what to draw. if you could see the original psd file you'd notice a bunch of other layers with stuff drawn on them that I just made invisible. oh well! someday I should dump a bunch of old drawings and stuff that you guys haven't seen yet.

hope you guys had a good thanksgiving. :)

Thursday

headache. uurrrggggg.

Friday

I love stuff Kate Beaton does, can you tell?

those seagulls will RUE THE DAY. RUUUUEEE THE DAAAYYY.

oh, also: I think I'll start updating on sunday nights instead of friday. you guys probably don't see the image until the following day anyway, so I might as well put stuff in the scheduler and have it show up at the proper time. right? right! also then I could not have to worry about drawing on friday nights, should I ever have somewhere to go out to.

okay, done.