Posing Exercise #1

I wanted to practice conveying weight in this pose because I hate seeing poses that lack any sense of gravity and balance and I want to make damn sure that they aren't creeping into my work. This is the Sergio character from Strut Your Reel, I just made some small adjustments somewhere along the way but all copyrights to their respective owners.

I hadn't touched this character in some time but a friend of mine was asking me some questions about the rig which forced me to open it up and poke around. I think I'm going to animate something with this character because I remember really enjoying the rig in the past. But that's going to have to come at another time as I have some other, more pressing fish to fry at the present moment. I have some action analysis notes to post, as well as the current Work In Progress that the aforementioned action analysis has spawned. Not to mention the ongoing search for work. Hoo-ray.

~Chris

LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS

My fiance has been in Japan sice last April. I was there for six weeks which really helped to break up her away time into a couple more managable chunks. This last stretch has been about two months so far, with one month still to go. I don't know how people managed in long distance relationships before there was all this crazy communication technology. Emails, video chat, you name it. It's like she's just in another room until the chat ends and I'm forced to face the bitter reality of a lonely existence with no one to share all of life's little pleasures with. Only one more month to go. I can do this.

~Chris

GETTING CAUGHT UP

I've got lots of new drawings in my sketchbook to post so I'm slowly going to get caught up.

~Chris

ILLUSTRATION GIG

When I was working in India I started illustrating this children's book. I moved back to Canada in the middle of the book's production and continued illustrating it from my Mom's kitchen table and then from my buddy's place in Vancouver while I looked for my own apartment. Once I had my apartment the illustrations were finished there. So this was really a multi-continental experience. It took up most of my waking hours for several, several months and I'm pleased to see that it's now on its way to bookshelves around the World.

~Chris

NINJAS ARE WAY COOL

There's a really awesome rig floating around in different animation circles affectionately known as Norman. For my money, Norman is the shizznit.

I've retro-fitted Norman a few times for some 11 Second Club submissions in the past but none of those retro-fittings even come close to this latest one. I put a lot of work into it and I learned a heck of a lot of technical stuff that I wasn't aware of before.

I also got to model a Katana which turned out great! Well, to be honest it's not a true Katana. It's kind of a mix between a Katana and a Ninja-to. Oh man , I've been geeking out over this retro-fitting for like two weeks.

Now that he's all finished I'm going to animate some scenarios because I seriously want to see this guy in action!

~Chris

OBSERVATION TIME: SEA WALL

Who recognizes this spot?

~Chris

Facebook Doodling

I just realized that you can embed the saved brush strokes in the form of a movie when you draw something with Facebook's Graffiti application. I drew this little Godzilla-like thing when I was in Japan. Kind of fitting.

~Chris