Keeping Things Updated

Haven't seen the sun in a couple of days. That just means I'm being productive tho, right?

In any case, here's a clip from the film I'm working on! I don't think I've actually done this much animating since the end of third year. Not exactly a model animation student, see.

More stuff...soon.

At Monaghans Redux

The film`s getting there, I think. Meanwhile, I`m giving tumblr a shot. Except for the bizarre image color restrictions, it seems to be a lot... easier to use. 

That`s the new bouncer at Monaghan`s. He looked a lot like an old buddy of mine, except he literally isn`t slavic enough. 

One of those 1920's Slappers

That's what they're called, right?

Color Test... and a Post

You know, it's nice to have color calibration software. Problem with that though, is that true colors look like true puke. Kind of a juggling match, color adjusting.

It's also nice to take a break from antelopes for a little bit, but that's coming back on real real soon. This is technically a life drawing.

Really have to update this blog more.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Doodled this in our very first class. Fourth year starts now, and it's pants-shittingly scary!

By Osgoode

Dailies...Woke Up Like This

Bloodshot eyes, stuffed sinuses, feeling like hammered diarrhea.

Allergy season, joy...

Whoops, Missed a Bunch of Days

Was playing Guacamelee. Totally worth it. 

This guy was picking through the garbage near Port Credit. Dumpster dived for a good 5 minutes. It was crazy. 

Dailies...Technically On Time

He started off on a motorcycle.

Dailies...probably

A caricature based purely on hearsay. 

I think I might still have PTSD style dreams about the group film.

Dailies...maybe

Really have to stop using that rim light thing. 

IT'S OVER

I may have just seen Paperman again...

Helloooooooo Summer!

Freakin' Out Man

I still added the typewriter!

Clarity of form? 

For whom does the bell toll,

but for the poor,

 poor,

huddling masses of animation students,

 with the shadow of portfolios at their throats?

This isn't the Spanish Civil War, but it's Almost As Bad (maybe). Like some kind of strange purgatory where work constantly rains from the sky and can never be finished. 

Forever.

Sketch on the ground

I don't even know man.

Well, I Don't See Nibiru, Do You?

As she appears in the film.

Either that was the most disappointing rapture in history, or nothing happened on Doomsday. Not even centuries old eschatological prophecies can save us from our portfolio preparations, as the mighty hand of Animation stays even the trumpets of the apocalypse.

Also found some old character designs as I was going through my folders. They're not the best designs, but get this: "It's Hard Out There For a Pimp...In Asgard". 

Did Someone Say Sleep?

Or maybe I'm just hearing things. 

Here's those pesky old Royal Winter Fair Drawings. This year's probably notable for the fact that I didn't get a single good study. 

Not a one. 

The sketches I did manage to jot down were so rough that small children passing by would have to forcibly restrain themselves from offering me drawing advice.

It was... quite the sobering experience.

Goat that looked like it's done a few tours in Hyboria.

My subject hates this caricature. 

She had a crazy hairdo.

Only roughly sprited at this point. The pigeons at the fair were out of this world. Will finish eventually

 Tonight, we saw one of the most impressive moonbows I've ever had the pleasure to witness. Every star and every cloud in sight was ringed by this radiant, ghostly yellow halo. It was fantastic.

Dinosawrs

Group B1! From left to right... eh, you can figure it out yourself. 

Note that Izzy and Maria were drawn by the wonderful Maureine Good, who also helped with the coloring. A real credit to the team she is.

And our group logo, designed in 5 minutes on short notice. We are technically the only religious organization to have ever produced a film at Sheridan. I think it's funny, but I'm sure the cabal of lawyers staring at me through my window don't think so. They need to maybe prosecute a chill pill.

Some drawings from the dinosaur show. Funny bit about that, we didn't even draw any of the dinosaurs from the show we payed money for. These are from the permanent collection. The idea is that we'll piss away our money now, while we aren't starving between ramen packets.

Clickety*Clackety

Once More Unto the Breach

Welp.

 There goes the summer.

A squid headed goddess of death

"

An avian god of art

A richly adorned, fox headed god of thieves

I made a bunch of pastel sketches based on a random text generator a while back. My final project for the summer was to develop them. Beyond redesigning them, the point of these was to wean myself off of an over-reliance on digital tools.

 The digital painting in this lineup is the thing that frustrated me enough to drop the digital angle. It is decidedly unfinished.

I also have some lore-like snippets written up for these characters. Those I'll have to proofread a little more. There's  A LOT of made up words.

Clouds by my window

This is basically the only study I did all summer. Since I had my laptop reanimated, I haven't been able to get the color settings right, so these could look like... anything, really.

5 min

15 min

10 min

 Last life drawings for the summer. 

This is the same model as the one from the first session of the summer. 

Heh.

Stuff from the zoo.

 I caved and bought a membership on impulse, so now I have to go to the zoo more, if I ever want to recoup my losses. I'm always sort of hesitant to go to the zoo, since people there treat art students about the same as the animals.

I can't really read it either

Finally, this blasphemy of penmanship. I've been waking up at 3 in the morning and writing whatever comes to my head on this piece of newsprint the entire summer. Between this, a .txt file on my desktop and a few pages of Iphone notes are about 10 to 20 different ideas for the group film. Of these, only about 5 are worth anything, and of those five, only 3 have coherent plot beats. 

Still.