You stop and then move it and they call it Stop Motion

Hey everybody. This is my Puppet Smash animation from my stop motion class, which I find very fun. I'm pretty sure if my grandpa saw this, he'd either like it or tell me my form is off. If the title to this post is weird, it is because after a long day my brain has final shut down and stopped trying. Enjoy.

Bigby the Box Turtle

An animation project to keep me busy while the school work started to pile up. Also, it exported really small so here's a link to a bigger version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6qjaN3p2-Q

Prospective Students are Funny Lookin'

Tuesday I had to attend the Metro College Fair in Toronto for the school (because I work there). Had to be to the school at 6:30 to take the bus there, in short, not a happy Johnny. But after two cups of coffee and a few questions about my program I decided there was one too many funny headshapes not to be drawing the masses around me....while working of course. These are the results. Also, Curry's didn't have blue pencils so I've been working in purple and it just carried over to Photoshop.

Johnny's Doing a Group Film....and Drawing Bearded Men

So, like I mentioned in the kitchen post, I am spending my third year at Sheridan College working on a group film with 11 of my fellow students. How does that work? Well for anyone who reads this who isn't doing (or has done) a film, I'll explain. My class (2011) is and has been split into 5 classes and what the teachers did was have us put down what we think our strongest point is. Personally, I put animation and layout (which may or may not be true) and then everyone decides what they do best. This way each group theoretically has an equal amount of enthusiastic people for each area of animation. So in the end, each class has two groups with ten groups total for my year. Pretty nifty right? And my group has decided to do a film about chefs and refinding their passion for their craft. The ideas are pretty cool. This is my pass at the story (in rough thumbnail form), an interior study, and a man with a sweet beard.

I'll have a Blue Kitchen without You.

A kitchen I drew and painted for my groups film. Its cool, drab, and grungy feeling is supposed to contrast the bright, happy feel we want to develop later on. The story obviously involves chefs in a kitchen who rediscover their passion for cooking by getting into a beat/rhythm and sticking it to their overbearing manager. I suggested an Old Man Spoon-Playing Spirit, but nobody went for it. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

Sketchbook Dump Part 1

Sorry blogsters, I haven't been around to post lately with school starting and all. So I'm posting a bunch of stuff from late summer and early school story and animation stuff. Also, note the new blog topper.

later

Sketchbook Dump Part 2