Rough Pyramid Thing

Did this as a test for a casino studio.

AXE FX!!!111!!?? Happiness :)

Got my hands on an Axe fx Ultra! Got it about 2 weeks ago but was too lazy to grab a camera.

Now these are extremely rare in South Africa, so I had to jump on the chance to own an Axe Fx in what ever form I could get my hands on.

I'm extremely happy with it so far, got a lot to learn though. At first I was worried that it was an out-dated piece of gear given that people are all about the Axe 2, but my fears completely dissipated as soon as I started messing with the thing. I'm sure the axe 2 sounds better as it's an updated piece of hardware, but to my ears this sounds VERY nice and will tide me over for a good while.

I also bought a Mackie Thump 12a after demoing a few speakers at a local store. I actually went in looking to test the Alto ts115a as loads of people were raving about it. I tested that, the ts112a, some piece of shit Hybrid brand I believe it was called, and then plugged this thing in. At least to my ears it blew the others away AND was on special.

So yeah I'm pretty happy. PICS!

New Guitar Day!

Finally a post! But it's not art related... at least not directly.

Okay so I ordered this back in May as a birthday present for myself, and it finally arrived a few days ago! It's a Jackson DKA7.

Great guitar, plays like butter after I set it up, the Dimarzio D-Activators are great in the alder body. The neck is a lovely unfinished maple, which when combined with the Alder body and DActivators has a really nice aggressive "snap" to it. Which amounts to great articulation and note definition, even on my dropped G# 7th string.

Anyway the "artistic" side of things come in the form of me learning to use my "new" camera which hasn't been that active since purchase. Anyway I think they came out all right, especially since investing in a tripod. Tripods are the 3 legged gods of stable photography...I worship them.

Hope to do a video soon too. On to the pics!

Gift Card Millionaire

I recently did a small animation through Mind's Eye Creative called Gift Card Millionaire. Now that it's live I can share some of the pre prod work as well as the animation itself. Fun little story and I always love doing traditional animation.

The Animation itself:

Character Design and stuff:

Noah Bradley Part 2!

Okay since work really got in the way of the my last attempt at the Noah Bradley Art Course that recently finished, I'm attempting to redo it with a friend of mine. However this time around, we are customizing it to our schedule, basically all the assignments are the same, but we are making 2 week deadlines instead of 1 week. Hopefully this will allow for work and learning!

Anyway, so since this is week 1, here are 41 value studies. Tomorrow will be focus on a full master studies, then next week will be colour studies and another master study. Learning is great! I also found that these went very quickly the second time around, owed in part to this brush, which is my go to brush now.

A run cycle

Also a quick run cycle that you cant see in the main animation. :)

Finally Finished my Animation Clip!

So after quite a bit of animating in between work, being sick, as well as neglecting my sketching/ painting I've finally "finished" animating my little email signature. It's not 100% there (nothing I do ever is) but it's all the time I can afford to put towards it right now as work is getting to be quite a handful. I might come back and revise it a bit later when I have the time. :)

Anyway please see below, I've made it a gif :)