Monthly Music Video #2

Elton John - Someday out of the Blue

This was the main song for the Dreamworks animated film "The Road to El Dorado". I love that film. I love this song and the music video. It's a great collaboration of 2D animation and live action and morphing within actual sequences within the film.

Work in Progress

I got kind of inspired from reading a few of my art books (which is a pretty decent collection just looking at it). So I've decided to clean up my style a little further and try an make drawing a little faster and more detailed to work with.

 Since I'm a bit of an old school Capcom fan, I want to do a massive piece with all of my favourite and most used Capcom characters. I've drawn up Morrigan (Darkstalkers), MegaMan and Kyosuke (Rival Schools) but i still have a bunch more to draw up. Akuma's head has been drawn, i just didn't scan it since i need to draw his body...and i'm picky with what get's put up.

  I've started toning this one already and drawing up a BG to go with it (not in this scan), but this is part of a scan of a prize won by one of my DeviantArt watchers (she's a gem ^_^). And that's supposed to be Sadako from the Japanese version of The Ring in that pic...she's a bit of a fan of her :P

Now this is actually a continuation of another piece I completed a little while ago. REALLY proud of this one, just as much as its predecessor, as violent as this one is.

Cereal:Geek Art?

Alright, I didn't actually do the inked lines for the characters, but I did the colouring for everything else in these pictures. These were supposed to be for a Magazine in the UK called Cereal:Geek that my bro got me to help him out with (since he was writing articles for them at the time). I don't have a clue as to what's going on with these being published, but it's been over 2 years. Old stuff I can finally post...probably my most detailed toning work too.

Creepy much?

I found some old sketches that I worked on over my uni years (past 4 years) and some of the ideas I had were....well....put it this way, I can see why lectures drive some of us "bananas".  But during some of the classes (when I probably should have been listening at the time) I had some different yet currently usable designs for monsters and characters. The character on the left is a rendition of the "Boogie-woman". I thought, "man, I really didn't give her much in the bust department" (then again, that happens with realistic pics) so I redrew her in toon form...honestly, toon version doesn't have enough cracks and stuff coming from her eyes.

Phil the Tour Guide now....Lounge Swinger?

 

Phil the Tour Guide was an illustration I did back in 2007. It got some really positive feedback back in the day and still some today. Only recently, I remembered him...doing a Michael Buble musical number. When I redrew him in this mind-set I could just see him doing those sorta jazz songs. Any who, sketches revisited and revised.

Sketch time: DISNEY

So I saw the latest Tinkerbell movies a little while ago... now I realise that sounds kinda weird since I'm 22 n' all but hear me out. Yes, they are intend for the younger female audience (like Cinderella etc) but they really weren't as bad and corny as I thought they'd be. Sure the 1st film was corny as all buggery but they managed to tell a decent and fitting origin story to one of Disneys symbolic characters. The second film has alot of personality in it and the cg animation is quite watchable. For something produced by Disneys "other" company, this one turned out quite well (still not as great as A Goofy Movie or The Ducktales Movie but still good nonetheless).
And for those of you have seen Avatar: The Last Airbender series, Tinkerbell has Katara's voice and it's suited just fine.
So, from those movies I decided to doodle a little (Flounder I drew later on but on the same page).

Then and Now: Me and Animation

 

For years, I've had a thing for the traditional animation industry, but I never really knew much about the technology behind it (aside from the whole "draw one frame and then another and then another and then another" routine). It wasn't until 2004 that I was introduced to digital animation....in it's most horrid format possible. I didn't get introduced to animation through Flash, no that would've been a benefit. Instead, we were taught PowerPoint, frame by frame animation. 

 If I could travel back in time, I would punch my media teacher in the kidneys. That said, it's not like the ideas weren't there. Me in Year 11, I wasn't necessarily the most inspired child but there were some....'ideas' floating about. The illustration that you see before you in all its shapey glory is the first incarnation of "Jimbob the Time Bum". 

You have to admit, you didn't see that one coming. Essentially, Jimbob accidentally comes across a rip in our dimension and decides to have a closer inspection of it and essentially ends up in the prehistoric era, gets chased by a T-Rex, outsmarts it and gets back to his own time where his brain can't comprehend what has happened and so his head explodes into little pieces. That it in a nutshell. It wasn't until recently that I was trying to come up with some character ideas that I remembered about some that i did in my early years and decided to revamp them. Jimbob 2004, meet Jimbob 2010. 

Differences? Instead of coming across a rip in the fabric of time, scientists in some random lab accidentally lose their latest invention (a time traveling remote) and Jimbob finds it in the dumpster just outside the building/lab. And so Jimbob's adventures through time begins.

This is one project that I would love to plan out, but having the assistance on it and the time frame with work n' all, I'll see how I go.