Triumphant Campaigns and the South Beach International Animation Festival

If you happen to be in the South Beach, Florida area, this Saturday March 28th, go take in a screening of Triumphant Campaigns of Captain Cudney at the South Beach International Animation Festival!

Jimmy Two Shoes on Teletoon Saturday 21st!

One more plug for Jimmy Two Shoes before it premiere's here in Canada on Teletoon this Saturday at 7am!....so, maybe go to bed now, so you can rest up real good for the 7am Saturday mourning viewing.  We had a talented crew directed by Jeff Barker (who also boarded one of the best episodes 'Masked Jackhammer') and Sean Scott, with designs by Josh Gay, Darren Ward, Dave Merritt, Dave Boudreau, Steve Harris and boards by Phil Lafrance, Jamie Leclaire, Helder Mendonca, Nick Cross, Riccardo Durante, Simon Paquette, Steve Stefanelli, Jose Pou, Jordan Voth, Mike Smukavic, Steve Whitehouse, Blayne Burnside, Ted Collyer and many more...........and animated by one of the best animation teams this side of the 49th!

As shows are aired I'll start posting designs, and as a few have already aired on Disney XD, here be a few of them I did over a year ago now for the first couple episodes.

cheers...

more to come...

Tokyo International Anime Fair

If you happen to be hanging out in the Tokyo area this week, drop by the Canadian Embassy booth at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, and watch a screening of Triumphant Campaigns....as well as many other great Canadian shorts.

Two Shoes in March!

A few days ago the 'Jimmy Two Shoes' Teletoon site launched. I believe it premiere's March 21st at 7am......I thought we were going head to head against CSI, but maybe they are moving to the 7am saturday spot?? 

I worked as the Lead Character Designer....and was also able to do one of the boards, and about 40 of the title cards. Along with the rest of the crew, I poured a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this here project, and am pretty damn proud of it......so don't go dancing, or shuffleboarding, or whatever you do on regular Friday nights, cause your getting up real early Saturday mourn, of the 21st! Sean Scott' created another dandy..

Here is the site over at Teletoon......and if you have an extra minute go checkout 'clip 4'......( i did the board for the clip)

Jimmy Two Shoes 

couple more

Before I move on, I found a few more concepts I had done for this show. At first we had talked about doing the flat style, which seems to be all the rage with kiddies these days (..and that I also love drawing)....but, when we had abandoned that idea, I wanted to try something a bit more original and a style I have been working on lately....thus, you have my last post and the 2 colored designs on this post.....more to come shortly!

scraps again

Just finished moving apt's and will now start posting a little more regular...these failed concept designs are some of my favorite work of late!

quick one

More Scraps

A few more from a different project.

The Ringmaster

Finally have some time to start posting again, and to kick it off, a few scrapped concept designs from development work at the studio.

Trailer

Finally have a short trailer up for the film. 

The music was written by the amazingly talented Amanda Downing!

Captain Cudney and the OIAF!

I'm happy to announce, Captain Cudney's festival campaigns will be kicking off at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September. So if you happen to be attending the festival this year, drop by and say hi, and make sure to check out "Triumphant Campaigns of Captain Cudney"

Ottawa 08 International Animation Festival - Home

I'm hoping to have a trailer done soon....time hasn't been my friend lately.

DONE!!!!

After 18 months of picking away, the film is now completed! Clocks in at 4:14 min, which seems so short for how long I have spent on the damn thing, but when all you have are evenings and weekends, there just isn't a whole lot more I could do...a guy needs to have a beer every once in awhile to.

 Feels great to finally have this film finished, and I hope it will be hitting a festival near you over the next couple years, and hopefully by the end of its tours i will have another 4 minute film finished!

I will have a small portion of the film up for viewing shortly, but in the meantime, here are a few screen captures.

More from Jimmy

A few more concepts for Jimmy that lead to the final design.

Barbers

I figure I can be showing some of my character work on Jimmy 2 Shoes that never made the final cut. Here are a few attempts at a barber for one of the episodes. I'll start posting some more duds soon.

I haven't been drawing for fun much lately.

mournin' sketch

Triumphant Campaigns of Captain Cudney

The character animation for my film is now complete, and while the music is being made by the talented Amanda Downing, I will be finishing a few FX and touching up some of the backgrounds I have grown to hate. All in all I figure the entire film will be completed mid May.....this has been a long haul for 4 and half minutes of animation!!! 

Here is one of the completed scenes.

Weird Years

Last year I had worked as an animator on this here show "Weird Years". This was me getting my feet wet in the animation program Harmony, and the flash experience I had already, sure made the transition to the new program much easier. I worked on the show for about 8 months before jumping over to design on Gerald Mcboing Boing season 2.

Jimmy Two Shoes

  ( Image by Sean Scott)

Been awhile...........so anyhow, I think its now safe to announce my first bit of big news of the new year! Over the last few months I have been working as the character designer on the best new show to be coming your way, Jimmy Two Shoes. This is a hilarious conception of Sean Scott's (Doodlez, Ollie's Adventures), and an absolute dream to work on......a hellova lot of work as I am the only character designer for the show, but it has given me the opportunity to really push myself and I think this will be my best work to date. I have had the chance already to learn so much as we have a crazy talented crew on board!

As the production has only been in full swing for a few months now, I probably won't be able to show much of my work for about a year..... so enjoy this little caption from the old layouts and designs.

Hope to have my Gerald Mcboing Boing season 2 designs up soon.....

And more big news to come!