Homework Hydra

Homework Hydra, May 2009. My Sheridan BAA Animation 4th year thesis film. Hand-drawn in Flash with a tablet and Cintiq (for cleanup). Music by Brendan McElroy.

Now that there are no more potential public screenings for it, I thought I'd post it online. Hope you like it.

I also realized that I never linked to the complete short film we did in 3rd year. Here it is. Enjoy!

Flipbook Page/Postcard

Could be better but I'm pretty happy with this one. Besides, spent too much time on it to hide it away and it's already in the flipbook. :) Thanks Chalky, BK, Loben, Gman, AA, Chechik, and everyone else for their feedback and making this better.

some older stuff

Back in my teens, Spidey was my favourite hero. My brother and I used to collect all the Spidey titles until the storylines got ridiculous with the clones and too hard to follow without buying all the crossovers.

Some people on the train last December.
A partly painted lifedrawing from long ago - just to see how much anatomy I remembered without looking anything up.

More Monsters

Two from the life drawing "sketches" pages. Fixed them up a bit based on Bobby's review at the end of the term. The feedback was really helpful.

Last Lifedrawing Portfolio

hmm... the top three look a lot more yellow than I thought (using a different monitor now than when I originally scanned)

Royal Winter Fair Animals 2008

3 pages from the Royal Winter Fair, November 12, 2008. Used the second page for my portfolio.

Monster Tourist

i think these are the brightest colours i've ever used in my life. what do you think? does it work?

Robot Overkill

Scene 72 from our group film. It was fun to make. And much quicker to do than the wolf animation (~2 days to rough, clean, color, and comp).

Wolfman and Frank get a beat down

Our 3rd year Group Film "Monster Bash" turned out better than expected, and the team came together really well in the end. Hard work, but fun. The other 3rd year films turned out really well too. Good job everyone!



These are scenes 51-64. This film has consumed most of my waking hours these past four months (and stolen many sleeping hours too). I've got a few other scenes I may post later but these are the bulk of it.

It's mainly my work (animation, layout, design) but I had a some great help from Trevor (character closing and coloring), Garrett (BG painting, robot painting), Martin (Compositing and lighting), Alvin (Compositing and lighting) and Alex G (design). The Sheridan faculty gave a lot of good feedback and advice too (Natalie, DQ, Komza, and Tony). The 3rd Yr group film experience often gets a bad rap but I've learned a lot this year, and despite the stress and frustrations, it was a really good experience. It's what you make of it.

And no, the bike isn't 3d. It's just drawn in Flash. Actually most of this is hand-drawn full animation (on 2's) with selected use of symbols for efficiency (though most folks won't notice unless going frame by frame).

Watercolour Costume Life Drawin

Been pretty busy with the film but it's been too long since I posted and since I had these scanned already, here's some costume life drawings from my final portfolio.

Some short poses (2-3 min)


Some longer poses (5-15min)





I like short poses more because the models tend to take more dynamic poses. Watercolour was a fun new thing to try. I hope to do more once I finish the rest of my schoolwork.

Inconceivable!

Muzzle and Beak Synch Clean Up. I posted an earlier version of just the muzzle promising a completed version with the beak later, so here it is.

Experimental Life Drawing

Two figure tonal gesture, total 5 min.



Drapery and tonal experiments, 20 min each.

Gestures that didn't make it

These gestures didn't make it into the portfolio for various reasons, but I still like their overall feeling.

Yr 2 Sem 2 Life Drawing Portfolio II

10 minute drapery, and then three 5 minute tonals. Last one on some very rough paper. I included the first three in the Dreamworks portfolio.

Yr 2 Sem 2 Life Drawing Portfolio

Gestures & some drapery for the final Yr 2 portfolio. Got better grades than I expected so I decided to include the first and third here in the Dreamworks scholarship portfolio.