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 :)

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)