By the Beard of Moose!!

This blog was becoming so stale from the lack of updates it was starting to smell like unwashed socks. Soooo.. here's some freshly laundered animated goodness for all to enjoy!






These are 4 bumpers that I worked on with the 1337 animation crew also known as By the Beard of Moose , a ragtag bunch of vfs classical animation alumni (and one instructor!) who got together for the trick17 stop motion competition in November and have since been joining forces to take over the world, one frame at a time. This time, we stormed the Mytoons front for the Mytoons Bumper Blastoff in the hope of attaining eternal glory In the Name of His Mighty Beard (and maybe some cash too :D).

Kudos to (in no particular order): Tzanko, Michelle, Ian, Tammy, Jim, Jared and Temris for awesome work on this project.

Seabus Sketchery

I take the seabus everyday to work and it's by far my favourite part of the morning. It's also the most ideal mode of public transportation to draw on (in my experience). It doesn't make frequent stops or sudden turns, no one gets on or off for 15 minutes and at the time I take it, there's always plenty of room so I can draw without the constant scrutiny of my fellow commuters. Also, most people are so busy enjoying the view they don't notice me staring while I scribble their likenesses :)

Northwest Film Forum

Here's a little collage I made to commemorate my trip down to Seattle this past weekend to attend the Children's Film Festival organised by the good folks at the Northwest Film Forum. "Bobble & Sqweek" was showing on Saturday so I got free passes to see the whole show which was about an hour in total.

After the show, Liz Shepherd (one of the organisers) asked me and Aniwa Marisawa (who also had a film in the show) to do a little Q&A for the audience. One of the questions I was asked was where I got my ideas from. If I had been completely honest, I probably would have said "I watch a lot of TV and drink a lot of coffee" but I didn't think the parents would appreciate their kids hearing that. Some of the parents said they liked my film because it didn't make their kids cry... which is always a good thing I guess lol :)

So here's a special thanks to the Vancouver Film School for submitting my film to the festival & to the Northwest Film Forum for picking it!

You Ire What You Eat

This image was in my head this morning as I spent 2 hours between hitting the snooze button and struggling to figure out if I was awake yet or not. Apparently my subconscious finds reprimand from anthropomorphic lettuce amusing...

Only this and nothing more.

"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December..."

Merry Christmas!

Season's Greetings from me and my squeaky friends. Hope everyone has a good one!

Men in Pen II

The men are back!

....and a random doodle of Morpheus.

I've also (finally) updated my list of friends and to-be friends. All of them super talented and cool, so check em out if you have time.