Animated Signature for email

I've been toying lately with the idea of having a gif as an animated signature for my gmail address. So I made up a character and did storyboards yesterday, and today I finished the keys. I'm posting the keys gif so that I can test it on my email address so far.

Been having a lot of fun doing it, and it gives me a chance to do traditional again, which has been a lost love of mine lately.

Something Phishy Reel Updated

Just updated Kelly and my Something Phishy Showreel with a few shots we did recently.

All animation belongs to Popcorn Training.
Music: Overland Blues - The Yoshida Brothers
(We do not own or hold rights to the Animation or Music)

More Photo Studies

I got briefly addicted to Monster Hunter on my 3ds, which caused me to stray a bit from my drawing/ painting initiative. But I have stopped playing and done a few photo studies and have since learned I need to work on painting portraits. I have trouble with the values within the face, so I might do some value studies from photos/ masters.

The paintings of the girls didn't come out as nicely as I wanted, but any experience is good
experience!

 

Lacey & Seymour

Since learning how to use Toon Boom Harmony's Deformation tools, I just had to make a character to really test it with. So here are Lacey and her panda hat Seymour.

I've only managed to have the time to do 3 views so far, and I haven't started rigging just yet. More on that as it develops. :)

Imaginefx Sketch Competition

Just saw this competition today, and decided to do a quick entry for it. I hope posting this doesn't clash with the rules...

After staring at it now I'm not really happy with it, proportions are a bit wonky and I'd like to go back to this at a later date and fix up the face and stuff, but hell, these days as long as I'm drawing I'm happy. :) So I count this as a win either way.

NEED TO WORK ON FIGURE DRAWING!

A quick test using Toon Boom Harmony

Not my usual style of animation. This is more motion graphics in my opinion, but it was still fun to do none the less. I can't yet mention what this is for, however it is just a rough test and the final product would obviously be more polished. :)

Sketch of the Day

Doing some random Imagination sketches for the sake of getting the juices flowing.

Guitar Design Competition

I recently submitted some designs for a guitar contest in SUSTAIN Magazine.

It was recently published in their magazine, to my great excitement :) Check them out if you are into luthiery @ http://www.fellowluthiers.com/

The contest basically goes, if you design it, and you win, they MAKE IT FOR YOU! So how could I resist.