The Lonely Man by Young Maverick

 Well, it's finally completed. After all this time and agonizing hours, it's finished. for those of you wondering where the hell I have been and where the hell is all my drawing work, well it was because of this project that caused my lack of other work.

So it is finally done, Lonely man is the product of the painstakingly slow process of stop-animation, and individual cell by cell animation that myself, Steve Sheldon and Tristan Jones (my brother) have put together, featuring the musical talents of Young Maverick.

But after many many hours, and three sever cases of carpal tunnel syndrome (borderline), here we are with the finished product.

Enjoy!

2D aniamtion at its most fantastic

Thought of You from Ryan Woodward on Vimeo.

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward
The song is The World Spins on Madly by The Weedies.

I seriously didn't know what to think when I first saw this. My jaw dropped and I couldn't take my eyes of the screen.If anybody asked me about "what is art?" I'd play this to them. I'm still boggled by the thought of this clip. Just so freaking beautiful!

Monthly Music Video #7

Yeah...It's been a while and I'm very VERY sorry for it, but back on topic, tis the month of November and in the blog comes a new music video.
The clip is "HEY" by Eatliz. I just randomly came across it. Really nice visuals and animation for cg...kinda disturbing in parts though. Love the styling for it  and I want that massive ridable frog!

At the movies...

Atlee seeing her first ever Disney movie. Inspired after reading a few Power Girl comics.

Drawings for July

Alright, since I haven't posted anything all month, I may as well put up what I have drawn and am happy with. Going from the top corner these are my character pieces that I want to work on.
1. Aya - Onechanbara (proudest one)
2. Liara - Mass Effect
3. Ulala - Space Channel 5 (need to rework the thighs)
4. Kara Zor-L - Super Girl
5. Toph - Avatar: The Last Airbender
6. Jess and Sol - OC's from my animated short

The Lonely Man - Solo (animation)

Well, since it's done and I'm happy with it, I've now decided to post it up on my blog. Essentially, this is guitar solo for the Young Maverick's song, "The Lonely Man". About 7 layers of animation here, all of which are individually animated, NOT TWEENED! All drawn in Flash CS5.

The animation has been applied to the actual music video footage....well, put it this way, it needs to be re-thought out.

Happy Engagement Bill & Ash

Friend of mine from High School recently got engaged and I had no idea on how to give them a memorable present. So I drew up a sketch for them (along with money for their wedding). This is probably the first of a few to come. I was happy with how this came out (simply because of how quickly and cleanly I did it) and so were they (apparently so much so they're getting it framed).

Monthly Music Video #6

It's early but I don't care, I figured in the anniversary of Michael Jackson's death I'd do a tribute (and also he died on my birthday last year...talk about enthusiasm from people last year, sheesh). So this will technically be July's video



Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson.
Say what you want about the man, but damn was he a hell of a musician/performer/dancer. I still remeber seeing this on "Moonwalker" when it came out on VHS.

Monthly Music Video #5

Man, I had so many freaking wicked music videos and songs in my early teen years, thank god for 90's rock. Tool is quite renowned for their music videos as well as their music, but their stop motion videos are just....haunting. "Sober" was one of the first few that I was exposed to by accident one late night on TV. It still sticks with me visually and mentally.

The Lonely Man - Young Mavericks production

For a little while now, I've been working a Steve Sheldon and my brother (Tristan) on animating a music video called "The Lonely Man" by the Young Mavericks. There have been meetings for this and it has only been recently that we've completed an animatic for it. In most cases, it's probably one of the more "flowing" animatics that I have produced in my time. Essentially some parts have been animated to a degree and others have been composited in with the video footage. Now it's the finalised animation stage and i want to get this done within this month. I keep on mentioning that I'm working on a music video to people and they're never sure what to say, well here's some snapshots from the video of how it's looking:

Energy drinks make tattoos do this? GIMME ONE!

I was just looking around to what the heck a mate of mine was on about since he wanted me to (and I quote):

"Draw the chick from wicked energy drink ad in her awesomely hot black bikini". 


So I investigated this on Youtube to discover awesomeness. I think I have an idea as to what my next little piece may be ;)

Monthly Music Video #4

This was a High School song for me. Catchy as hell and ... well... it's Gorillaz. Enough said.
Interestingly animated and nice visuals in my opinion.

Haha, DC-bewbs

This isn't mine, nor do I own it, but I'd sure as hell want the original. This was a commission that comic book artist, Amanda Conner (JSA All Stars, Power Girl) did at one of the cons in the US. I started picking up the Power Girl comic series she and Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray are working on and it's REALLY good. Like, Robert Kirkman's Irredeemable Ant Man good. That said, I found one of her sketchbooks from the SDCC 2006 on ebay and just ordered it. I was sold by the cover ^_^.

Henshin A-HEY WHAT THE F###?!?

I know it's been out for a while now, but I just got my hands on a copy of Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble on ze Gamecube. I was psyched because of how long it had been since I played 1 and 2 and I love my Capcom//Fighting games. This however made me realise how unforgiving the Viewtiful Joe series really was (I refuse to play easy mode in games). Red Hot Rumble is hell when it wants to be, but is still good wholesome fun in my books. In saying that, I decided to add Joe to the "Clash" sketch I'm working on earlier than planned.

Happy Birthday Kt

I figured I'd be nice and do a continuation of a pic she requested a little while ago http://ecj.deviantart.com/art/Commission-KT-feat-Buffy-152865153
(For the record: BtVS so totally pwns Twilight, many MANY times over)

Capcom: Clash of Heroes

I've always wanted to do a CAPCOM group piece, but I've never been able to decide who i want in it, nor did i have the artistic ability to pull it off in the past. Now I'm feeling confident and I genuinely believe I can pull this off now.
At the moment I have drawn up:

- Akuma

- Dante

- Morrigan

- Maximo

- Megaman

Hoping to put in:

- Captain Commando

- Frank West

- Viewtiful Joe

- Leon S. Kennedy

- Cody 

- Phoenix Wright 

- Amaterasu

- Strider

 Other Games I'm wanting to add in:

- Demon's Crest

- Other Street Fighter

- Rival Schools

- Other Darkstalkers

- Red Earth

- Killer 7

- Onimusha

More will hopefully pop into mind but I can't really be bothered right now. Point is, this is going to be one of my biggest pieces. Any ideas, shoot us a line.

Pin Ups

Ah, my Pin-Up series, each done in a night. Only 3 at the moment but I'm still proud of them and more will be on the way, even if they are kinda revealing.

Monthly Music Video #3

I loved this film when i came out....noting I was about 8/9 when it did hit the cinemas. But the music video always stuck with me. It also happened to be my introduction to U2. I thought they were some sorta insane alternative band....then later on I discovered who they were really and I was kinda disappointed. Still, "Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me" by U2 is still a strong animated music clip in my mind.

Get out of my dreams...and into my CAR(s)

Car illustrations for Music Networx, Germany, latest illustration job = completed

Minus Florida, Plus Cintiq21UX

Alright, as some of you have been notified already, I have decided NOT to go to Florida to work in Disney World in the hospitality biz. Why? Because I believe it is not sustainable living when you work for $7.25 an hour within a NON-TIPPABLE service. I don't care if I'd get 45+ hours a week working, that is slave labour for a person my age. So I'm sad to say, no Florida experience for me yet. However, I have decided to bump things up a notch professionally though. A while ago, I was investigating into a product called a Cintiq21UX  2nd Gen monitor. It works like a Wacom Graphics Tablet but you draw right on the monitor and it's awesome. They were priced at $4000AUD when I first checked them out. But now they have dropped to the awesome price of $2750AUD. So the money I have saved up will be going towards this....and a trip away somewhere else.

...WANT!...