About Damn Time.

Well I'm back. People keep asking me if this years OIAF was better than last year. I honestly can't say. On the one hand I have this years great new friends, contacts, opportunities, playing with a Coraline puppet's hair, and a very entertaining drawing from Eric Goldberg. But on the other hand I met Richard Williams last year...

I'm gunna say equal.

Other then Ottawa, this post is about me finally putting my demo reel on the you tubes.

OH GOD IT'S OIAF.

Heeeet guyyyyyys. I've been incredibly busy keeping up with school, student government, and prepping for the Ottawa International Animation Festival. And part of that prepping is a new (properly done this time around) portfolio!
Also, I noticed I've never posted any figure work here, so I'm posting the figure pages of my Mini-Ottawa-Portfolios. Enjoy!

Glorious Tights.

I used to have stirrup pants like these. I was So. Damn. Cool.
Anyways, just playing around with Flash, lineless, characters I haven't hung out with in a while, and noses that aren't noses. Enjoy!

Business and Birds

Hey I never posted these! Before Noel Night last year, I took some *gLaMoUr sHoTs* of the worry birds:




Now-a-days they've all flown the coop to live with the wonderful people who bought them. The only ones still with me are Prototype and Oswald II Who-Has-No-Legs.

In other news, new business card. This is the backside

I < 3 Music.

You hear it all the time, but music really is incredibly inspiring sometimes. Sufjan Steven's Greetings from Michigan is one of my favorite albums right now. The songs just FEEL like Michigan, and as a resident of this state for 13 years, the familiarity is a wonderful muse. The song Romulus is definitely my favorite. It's a hauntingly sad and simple story about a poor mother and her children. I got completely stuck on it, put it on repeat, and happily doodled this piece. It was nice to do something and not give a damn about it's final quality.

And now for something completely different.

I've been posting a lot! of animation work, so here's something from a different vein. I did this tattoo a) for a character reference and b) because in a perfect world I'd alter the composition to fit my back and get it! It's from 2007. Man, that seems so long ago!


It's based on traditional irezumi designs. The dragon, curling around the eddy of water, surrounded by the koi fish, tells the legend that if a carp swims all the way up the Longmen Falls, it turns into a dragon. It represents struggle, perseverance and then successes in all aspects of life.

I lied. Here's some art.

Here's the layout to scene 3: