Yo Yo! + Rayguns.

Hey folks,

Here is what my workspace looked like a few weeks ago.

• Reference book (Elemental Magic by Joseph Gilland)
  
• Notes (Scribbled and scrawled from brain to page... via hand)
  
• My Model sheets
• Sketchbook (trying to crack a character I've been creating for a while now)
  
• Some drawings ... (Notably a bathtub :P ) From a sequence that got abandoned.

Today the same space is pretty empty. I'm taking a pre-summer holiday til Sunday, so take care.
A lot to do when I get back though and I promise you a wee Showreel before years end.


Here are a few random and recent shots from my phone.

A rundown of the images above...

• The infamous Dr Grordborts Rayguns and Trophy heads on show at the Weta stand at Armageddon this weekend. Very cool when up close and personal. From what I've heard, this is the same display that went over to San Diego for Comic-Con recently.

• The main stage at Armageddon. Seth Green and Michael Winslow are on stage with various costumed Star Wars characters and the creators of Robot Chicken... Not that you can tell by looking at the picture.
  

• A doodle... 1:30 am at work, waiting to go home... Ugh

Once again, Take care folks.

Haha Flower bullet points, Classic.
If I wasn't going on holiday and my car wasn't at the mechanics, I would have bought a Righteous Bison Raygun! I guess it's good then.

Superhero Linetests

Superhero Linetests from Jeff Cook on Vimeo.

Traditional animation pencil tests I created for a short film. See the previous post for some coloured images from the animation.

Captured with a webcam, timed in Monkey Jam.

Next time I'll post some sketches developing these characters.

Frames from Superhero Segments.

These are some images from two 10 - 15 second animation clips I have just finished working on. I made these for a friends film project, but I really had a lot of freedom to do whatever I wanted in the clips. This is the first time I've sat down and animated in a long time and it's great to get into it again.

Before the end of the year I'll be sure to post the finished clips and linetests, some information about the project and how I put these together.

Now I just need to get my head around a few more short clips for another friend of mine.

Cheers!

P.S - Flipbook II tonight! I didn't have a short film to submit this time around, but like many others, hopefully I will for Flipbook III.

Workin' on it

Here's a snap of some projects I'm working on at the moment.
There's some concept art for an animated sequence at the top and there are some animation drawings from a sequence I'm working on for a friends short film.

Good fun!

Just In!

Anyone who's been following my posts or even skimmed through the last post, may have noticed that I am a big fan of King Kong. Especially Peter Jackson's 2005 Kong. Escapist cinema at its best!

Anyhoo, these little guys arrived in the post today, although they're not that little and they're certainly not lightweights. Yep they are very weighty babies.


They are Weta collectibles that I got from TradeMe and they are truly fantastic collectibles. There is a problem in the fact that I'm short on space for these guys, especially for the 'Kong and Ann' bust which is just a tad too tall (and probably too heavy) for my designated shelf. The bookends can fit snuggly just about anywhere.

This lack of space is a bit annoying as there is one more Kong collectible that I want to get* as well as 'The Righteous Bison - Indivisible Particle Smasher'.

"Ah well, If you got no room, Make Room!"

Best of all they were signed by none other than Richard Taylor, Big Cheese at Weta! Marvellous!

* There is another Kong collectible I'm after, It's Kong and the Bi-Planes. There is one on TradeMe going 'Cheap as Chips' AND it's signed by Peter Jackson himself! So if you want to get that, go for it! I think I should hold off the collectible buying for awhile... Maybe.

Slight photo dump.

Spot the Gorillas...

The windowsill of Tiny toys.

Too big for the windowsill.

Sleep tight...

An update here and an update there.

A few months ago I posted some drawings and a digital clean up of my 'Kiwi Kong' character. Here is my paper layout and digital line art for a poster I plan to get printed sometime. So I drew this up with coloured pencils, darkened the lines and then traced over it in the computer. I use Gimp as my photo shop and Pencil as my vector based tracing software. When I get around to colouring this it will either be done in Inkscape or Gimp.

(Links to software are on the left)

Anyhoo,

I 'm working on a few projects at the moment, Two of which are short animations for friends who are making their own short films. Also I need to colour this poster and another image which close friend's of mine have been waiting for. As for my short film, further work is on hiatus until the end of September, once I get some of these other pieces of work completed.

♠

Character Design

Hi all,

Here are some design concepts of a character I was going to use in an animation for a friend.

A friend of mine is working on a short film and I am creating some animated segments during the end credits, however the story has changed and this character has been retired to the shelf (or drawer in this case). Maybe he'll see the light of day again in another incarnation of mine.

As for the end credit sequences, I'm working on something in a different style that will fit in better with the imagery in the film.

More on this as it happens.

'Kiwi Kong' cleaned up... Digitally.

Digital Line art traced in vector program 'Pencil'.
A work in progress. Next step, Colour.

Poster/Postcard Collages

We just had the May rain and a cold snap which only means colder and rainier times ahead for the next few months. So I put together some collages so that the blue walls of my room don't come across so cold.

Old movie posters and collected postcards together at last!