Zap! *EDIT* Now with 200% more KAPOW

It's weird. I don't really like sci fi. I like some sci fi. As a kid I used to like sci fi. But I'm finding it hard to rediscover what triggers the interest. I watched my new iron man dvd and this painting happened during the movie. Not a huge fan but it's very different from what I normally try and do (look! Not a skull in sight!) so I figured I'd throw it up there. Anybody out there into this kinda stuff feel free to fire advice my way!

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Had some more stuff I wanted to post and didn't feel like it deserved it's own entry. So I'm tacking it on to the space battle experiment thing. The Pig Person of the Padulang is from the avalanche blog topic. I like drawing pig people so... you know any excuse I can get. Also the sketches! the more scenic ones were going to be paintings but my robot whim has expired and that old man in the study thing is suspiciously like an image of Deckard Cain from the DiabloIII website so... no dice.

Mephistopheles, Canterville Ghost and randoms

Wow... yeah work is pretty nuts. Funny though how when I'm really pressed for time at work, I do twice the amount of drawings in my spare time at home. Not sure why that is exactly. It also helps that I'm working on a big lovely cintiq. So I took some playtime with it on Friday. Really happy with the flash drawings. I have no idea why my flash stuff is so much more guestural than my pencil stuff which is stiffer generally. Maybe if I make-believe that my sketchbook is a vector-based drawing program...

2009

Allright! First post of '09. Hopefully I'll get more traditional animation done this year. I'm also on a new show called Badly Drawn Roy doing honest to goodness keyframe animation! Which I'm very VERY excited and honoured to be doing since it means I'm going to be working with some of the best animators in Vancouver! I just hope the schedule allows me to glean some of their mad skillz in the midst of what looks like a 2 month work crunch =)

Cheers to everybody and all the best in 2009!

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Well here I am blogging on Christmas Eve. First time I've been at a computer in some time and I'm having difficulty responding to and sending email so if you've mailed me in the last week it'll be a bit getting back =)

Anyways if I may be permitted a little nostalgic moment I'd like to share something with y'all that means a lot to me. Back when I was a kid Eaton's department stores in Winnipeg used to host a wonderful little Dickensian village set with with fairy tale displays in the windows. I haven't seen these things in years since Eaton's department stores were closed and in the later years the figures and sets had fallen into disrepair. But this year I learned that the Manitoba Children's Museum had erected the old set and it had been repaired. Looking into those old windows that used to be so much taller than I used to be was a real treat. All these figures and sets were hand made by people who apparently used to work for Eaton's. They're slightly crude, but look at them! All hand made little wonderful things! Here's a picture or two from Winnipeg and from the old village sets. Bring a tear to me old eye they do.

Everybody have a Merry Christmas, a wonderful holiday and a fabulous New Year!

-Sean

December! Whoop!

A couple friends of mine were in a burlesque performance and then I had another day of Burlesque Life Drawing which for the record is WAY more fun than regular life drawing although it's kinda dark in there so my hand shadow was over my sketchbook half the time. Still super fun. And Janis and Felicia and I went to the aquarium last Wednesday so I got to draw the turtle again and there were few enough people for me to have an actual sit down in front of the croc tank!

Oh yeah! There's a little short there as well... I almost forgot! Long story short that little guy in the scarf a couple posts down was a drawing that was done when i was really bored in the morning and then I started animating him a little. The whole thing is drawn entirely in flash and every frame is coloured by hand. Which for the record takes a long time. Hope y'all like it!

Kids, girls, fish and monsters.

Bunch of stuff. More exciting things probably next week.

So... coalition government, eh? I can't decide if that's going to be stupider and less productive than a conservative minority. Probably. Making a deal with the Bloc never turns out well for anybody. The NDP on the other hand... Well it'll be an exciting new year in politics

November "holiday"

Hey everybody! I'm still here! I'm unemployed for the moment (new contract starting in December) so I decided to take November as something of a vacation. And three days into that I got bored and started a bunch of new projects. So here's some drawings from the costume lifedrawing, some library people drawings and other assorted doodles. The kid walking through the snow was a quickie that kind of expanded into sort of a new big-ish project. More on that in future posts. But for the record that's where it started at 5:00 in the morning a couple weeks ago.
The coloured thing is my rendition of Ulmo from The Silmarillion. I meant it to be a companion piece to the Morgoth illustration I did... heck I guess a year and a half ago now. Not sure if I like it as much as Morgoth but oh well. It's better than my first attempt. I'm having a real problem making ulmo look.... watery... like there's a sense of depth to the body of water. That's a hard thing to abstract as it turns out. I guess I should have tried some little colour studies before I launched into the full thing. Live and learn I suppose.