Bison Baby

An image I created for the latest Once Human magazine. The B&W drawing just looked the best, though I did some color versions, one of which that ain't bad. It's just not great, z'all. I wish it could have been better. I really do. I am sorry for wasting your time. I am sad to play a crucial role in this Internet dead end you are experiencing. If only there was a way to make it up to you. Is there? No, no. I'd only mess that up, too. It's best to just move on. Let's be friends. Just friends. And then, who knows!? Maybe we'll find something better elsewhere. Right on! Good talk.

Be Smart...High Resolution

The film Julia and I finished this summer is now up on the net as a high-res version. Observe here.

Malcolm Stickers

Look! Design in action:

Be Smart . . . Don't Choke

As it is with all animation projects, it's a relief to actually finish. This one was no different, and a special kind of relief was felt when I pressed "render" for the final time, as this film was meant to be done almost two months ago. Our client is an Audo-Laryngologist (throat and ears specialist) and is using this film to promote choking awareness in schools. Past attempts at choking education have had no affect on the number of children who choke each year (nor the number of fatalities).

So, Julia and I got to work on this project from the ground-up, designing all characters, storyboards, all the way down to the audio mix. The only thing we didn't do was the voices or the music. Our friend Sarah is a closet composer, so we got her the gig (her first!). The voices were performed by the doctor's 12-year old son and a surgeon colleague of his who normally sounds like he does in the film. Julia did all the backgrounds and a bunch of the prop building and character design. I did a majority of the work since she was busy growing a baby...

Overall, it was very fun, and despite a constant barrage of pickiness on the doctor's part (thus extending this project far longer than it should have been) we still got to work from home, have a lot of creative control and work on our first start-to-finish film since Film School. Plus the doctor is our neighbor and even helped my ears out at one point. We have a great rapport with him and his family, and will be barbecuing with them again before this summer is over. The website won't be up for another month or two...

View Hi-Res Version

More Art for Malcolm

I was completely swamped with work this past month working on a film for the BC Children's Hospital, but I squeaked out a couple designs for Malcolm Rollick's recent campaign (check the news post from June 22) to become an "established" musical entity. Very exciting and nerve-racking for her. The first is the design she chose to create stickers with. The second design I did for a tee shirt, but it won't be used, as it's not quite her style. I still like it.

Perfectland

Over a year ago I worked with my friend Ben on his original animated shorts known as "Perfectland." MTV paid for it and then sat on these beautiful cartoons for a year, doing nothing with them. We were ready to believe that no one would ever see them. What was MTV doing? For the last year, none of us who worked on the cartoons were allowed to even SPEAK of them. Now, here they are, all of a sudden, released on Earth Day on an MTV website. If you live in Canada, however, you CAN'T view this website. Lame. But there is another site where they exist, and in low resolution (lower resolution = environmentally friendly? We don't know why). Anyways, here they are for the Canadians, finally; a strange, bittersweet sigh of relief can be heard.

Malcolm Rollick Website

I did this drawing and redid all the artwork and layout for Malcolm Rollick's website. She is a stripped down indie folk singer and a long time friend. The site is très simple, and I learned a few more tricks in the HTML department. Be sure to listen to at least one of her songs. She is absolutely genuine and loves telling stories through song.

A couple drawings

Did a bunch of life drawing last week. Now I draw a lot more. Here's a few results, one being the logo for Small Animal Sounds, my friend Jim's recording business. The other is an 'old aunt' version of my musician friend Malcolm Rollick, whose website I am currently redesigning.
As you can see, it currently is bland and needs help.

Once Human Website & Issue 3

I have created a website for the inspiring art and writings publication Once Human, which I also created. Many friends and some new people I've never met contribute to it. The website was launched a week ago featuring the newest issue "Travel," which is technically issue 3.

It's actually quite nice, this one. "Travel" had to be an online release, as opposed to printed, because I can't afford a pressing this time. Since it is a digital format, I was able to put in a film I created, documenting my life-changing summer of 2007. Plenty to absorb and enjoy.


Once Human


Freedom Tour 2007 : the documentary I made.

Christmas Portraits

Now a tradition, you're not really part of my family until I've rendered you as other types of well-dressed primates. My obsession with animals in suits or clothes continues.

Here we have my grandparents in their traditional Floridian getups.

And here are my aunt and uncle with their newest addition. A baby. He's my cousin, and we had many splendid times sounding like primates this Christmas together.