Rough layout - it’s in a greenhouse.

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Fingers crossed I actually complete this and have a half-decent showreel piece. It’s quite a complicated, subtle-ish acting piece, which is new to me…but the most difficult scene I’ve ever done to date is still in “Rats” with everyone doing slightly different things. Yep. Don’t put seven moving characters in a scene.

Animatic/blocking version 2.0: I’m still working on refining the timing and the actions on the Mrs Crawley character.

In between job-hunting, some of the stuff I’ve been doing:

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And there’s even more work at http://liebestrauma.deviantart.com/

Short exercise, following a Jason Ryan tutorial, trying my hand at animating speech for the first time. Unfortunately, the sound quality is as good as it gets…I even reassembled it in After Effects because Flash does even weirder things to sound.

First half-decent drawing since submitting my student film. Pastel pencil on bond paper. It felt good to get my hands dirty after spending 2 months drawing with a slick plastic nib on a slick plastic surface (even with a piece of paper taped to the Wacom). I need to get my drawing mojo back….

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One year ago tomorrow, I met Glen Keane, very briefly, at a book signing. He asked if I was involved in animation (I had a sketchbook in hand), and I said I would love to be. So here I am, the day after the end of year screening, with a film under my belt….and the GlenArt award for character animation.

More later, when I’m a little more coherent.

(caught in a cafe)

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Sitting in a cafe with a friend, both of us procrastinating. I made a tiny ink sketch (roughly 3 by 2 inches), came home, chucked it in Photoshop and noodled it half to death.

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Just saw this tonight, as part of a triple bill. Drawing fanart past midnight, hopped up on coffee and unearthly beauty.

Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, music “Spiegel im spiegel” by Arvo Part, dancers Robyn Hendricks and Robert Curran of the Australian Ballet (although my drawing doesn’t resemble them in the slightest!).

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