The Great WIP

Is that video embedded? I have no idea. Anyways.... since I have holiday time, what better opportunity to remind myself how long animation takes? Video is a work in progress obviously. Kinda fun to relive what life was like before motion tweens. Like going camping! And in addition here's some doodles. Many attributed to the new drawing topic "mer-people." Oh yeah and I'm getting closer to the kid companion for my magician character. My goodness do I ever actually finish anything? Not this week! I'm going to Las Vegas! See Y'all later!

More interesting post later this week.

If all goes according to plan. What plan? THE plan. Oh and apparently I have developed a "Butterscotch Problem"

Bond Villain

In this case she's the Hired Muscle. Olga Trakhtenberg used to wrestle professionally until it was discovered that she was female at which point she found more lucrative employment as a thug-for-hire.

MAN did I ever do a lot of drawing attempts at this bond-villain thing. So hard to find something that wasn't generic but still fit. Even now this is a little bit outlandish but... well hell Oddjob's flying hat was pretty damn weird. Anyways, more drawings later.

Injection of life into neglected blog

blah blah excuses blah blah busy. Anyways.... here's some new drawings. The beast-thing is my contribution to Sloth's Wolfman challenge. I wanted to do something that vaguely referenced the old Chaney werewolf but wasn't just a hairy guy. Also I didn't want it to be too wolfy because wolves have something of an elegant face. So the only remaining references to Chaney are the underbite and the straight nose ending in a black doggie nostrils. Life drawing is thrown up here to prove to the universe that I'm still going when time permits and the goat? Is that a goat? Well is used to be a goat. Another Sloth challenge. We added armour to "something" and decided on goat. So I drew a goat and then tacked armour on but it looked like crap so I redrew it without really caring whether it was a goat. So it's kind of a muppetty schnauzer goat being ridden by a dwarf. Coming up on some spare time. There shall be drawings!

Muuuuuummies Alive!

I'm on an Egypt thing now... and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a GOOD horror movie about a mummy. Though the Stephen Sommers Mummy isn't bad in sort of a goofy fun way. I've been trying to get ahold of the Hammer Christopher Lee mummy films but they're elusive. I think the best Mummy I've seen is the one from Monster Squad. Oh and the sketches are Gnarwick heads I did at work while waiting for revisions. he's fun to draw.

The New Pitch

This is the idea for a new thing I'm pitching to Studio B. I was surprised they showed any interest in it since it's geared to a Teletoon late night audience. Well we'll see how far the idea gets. Go, Daniel Rook, Go!

Hurray! I'm not dead!

Wow... busy February. I put my lack of posting down to working two jobs which has obliterated my time for doing personal work and then a week ago I went in for minor surgery which more or less laid me out for a week. But I did manage to get some personal stuff done and will hopefully post it as I get it more finished. But in the meantime... I got the thumbs up for posting some of the concept art that I've been doing. Pirate Ships! Whoo!

**EDIT

I forgot that i meant to add this island thing. It's actually a screenshot of our stock sky BG that I sketched some islands on top of as a test. I rendered out the main one and thought it was kinda cool. So here it is. Arr.