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Reading Jim Woodring

2011-10-13T16:34:00.000+11:00

Tower Bawher by Theodore Ushev

2011-09-22T11:02:00.000+10:00

Atsushi Wada

2011-07-14T12:09:00.006+10:00

The Mechanism of Spring

Playing in Melbourne International Film Festival

Ord

2011-05-09T18:00:00.001+10:00

Mandy Ord

Comic book to be launched soon by my buddy Mandy. Keep your eyes peeled.

Looking at...

2011-03-21T21:26:00.005+11:00

MIT Media Lab Identity from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

and this

RatTales-Sydney from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

Chugnuts

2011-03-12T14:08:00.009+11:00

I have just finished a Chugnuts tumblr site.
Well... it's a work in progress. (Looks great on iPhone though)

The aim was to create a quick-browse-able-showcase-portal representing comics artists I'd mentioned in a recent interview with Helena Turinski, editor of Illustrators Australia's Outline magazine.

The focus of the article is the Sketchbook Project and the interview asked me about my contribution to a collaborative Melbourne (mostly) comics artists sketchbook for the project.

The moniker "Chugnuts" has been coined to describe the loose and expanding group of comics artists (see links). I thought it would be good to have a one-click link to the fellow comickers whom I'd mentioned in the interview. I'm hoping the site will expand to include all Chugnuts folk as and when I have time.

For now the link through from Chugnuts tumblr to the Chugnuts blogsite, which lists links to other chugnutter artists, should satisfy anyone interested in investigating the Chugnut 'thread'

The interview is due to be published in the Illustrators Australia's March issue of Outline magazine (an IA members only resource).

sketches

2011-02-25T15:20:00.000+11:00

Loops

2011-01-19T22:03:00.001+11:00

Marks - etchings on copper. Printed, scanned, composited

Loops - Flash animation

Galloping - E Muybridge rotoscope + hand-painted animation

A working project

Music needs to be replaced

Loose Guy

2011-01-18T16:12:00.005+11:00

Dinner on a Friday night.

2011-01-08T14:27:00.001+11:00

Animating Jukurrpa

2011-01-05T12:00:00.011+11:00

Animating Jukurrpa animation from PAW Media and Communications

Last year in February and June I worked for PAW Media in Yuendumu, NT. I did some After Effects work on Willowra Wardilyka animation. Also some captioning on a couple of other animations in the Animating Jukurrpa project working with Adrian 'Simba' Jupurrurla Nelson.

Jason Japaljarri Woods was another PAW media worker I had the privilege to work with. We did some Flash animation, some PhotoShop work, some stopmotion (sand and paper cutout), and I gave him some support on the projects composited in After Effects (+ I was given some support in After Effects by PAW's David Slovo!).

Jason recently completed his final animation in the Animating Jukurrpa collection. Wangarla jukurrpa It is wonderful. His animation skills are impressive. His drawings come to life through patience, careful observation and analysis (a true animator).

Wangarla jukurrpa
Story by Neville “Cobra” Japangardi Poulson

Created and Animated by Jason Japaljarri Woods

Jason, David and myself went out and recorded Neville “Cobra” Japangardi Poulson telling the Wangarla jukurrpa. Jason then went to work on designing the animation. Painting backgrounds and props, scanning and PhotoShopping these elements, and practicing drawing crows - then animating them in Flash. I was only there for four weeks so I have only just seen the final animation. It is beautiful and well worth a look, and while you're there have a look at the other Jukurrpa story animations.

Thanks to Susan, Trevor, Simba, Simon, Jason, David, Gabrielle, and everybody at PAW Media for this opportunity.

Sketchbook Project

2010-12-30T21:34:00.003+11:00

I have just posted off my contribution to the Sketchbook Project. "It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks."
Ours is a collaborative sketchbook, mostly Melbourne comics artists. Draw and post it on is our method. I contributed a page to the little moleskin sketchbook. See pic

Atsushi Wada Trailer

2010-12-26T16:35:00.004+11:00

Beautiful, mysterious, the imagination of Atsushi Wada.

This can be bought as a DVD from calf

ACMI

2010-12-17T10:12:00.007+11:00

These two blokes are currently exhibited at ACMI as a part of the ACMI Screenworlds exhibition

They are stills from an one of three animations I created last year

cats

2010-12-15T13:45:00.003+11:00

These two little NZ blokes are coming to stay with us.

Dogs and SWD

2010-12-13T12:42:00.005+11:00

Can't stop drawing dogs.

Swervedriver reform and come to Aus next year.

Swervedriver

Duress - timeless.

wet

2010-12-10T16:55:00.001+11:00

Cars

2010-12-09T13:25:00.011+11:00

I have just put up my cars design as a postcard or as cards to purchase here in either colour or red tones.

Close ups

Dog

2010-12-09T12:57:00.001+11:00

To wander when I day dream

2010-12-07T22:35:00.008+11:00

Here is a picture of me prancing down the street in Edinburgh. I am pictured just outside the hostel I lived in for about 8 months. Ah those were the days...
I think one of my favourite things to do is to realise memories of places and people through drawings, and particularly so in comics. I really don't do it enough. It is like having many places to wander to when I day dream. To have time to day dream is quite important to me, and to my comic-ing.

This is a picture from the same time (and indeed the same comic that I did about September 11). It is me chatting to a Belfastian named Rick Brown. I have tea, he has coffee.

This is Victoria Street which heads from George IV Bridge to the Grass Market. I worked in a little shop here. It is a beautiful cobbled street. My only regret in this drawing is that I ran out of time to draw in the cobbles. Imagine it is cobbled...

(Why have these pictures suddenly popped up? Just trying to organise my folders of images... its a little crazy in there)

Cars n jumps

2010-12-03T15:16:00.003+11:00

Working on a project in AE today, though I have been a little side tracked with this little experiment. The cars are from "How Live TV is Made", an animation I did for display in the ACMI Screenworlds exhibition. The jumping man is from a demonstration I did for the kids up in Jabiru, and the image on the left edge is an etching (with a blending mode applied).
So just playing with a few things in After Effects. Mostly I have been playing with the sound. Just a little experiment, though it may go further.

Incidently, I have the cars featured in a card/postcard here

Petr Herel

2010-11-03T14:57:00.004+11:00

Metonymy,
Drawings, Paintings, Artist Books
An exhibition by Petr Herel

Australian Works on Paper Gallery
until 21st November
Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

Need new glasses

2010-10-17T22:13:00.009+11:00

Drew this guy. He looks like Anthony Woodward. Sort of.

little dog

2010-10-17T10:58:00.000+11:00

blue rabbit

2010-10-17T00:06:00.000+11:00

Sufjan Stevens

2010-10-01T15:08:00.003+10:00

My sister once gave me some Sufjan Stevens before an 8 hour drive home. Made for a pleasant drive.

Pop Cigar

2010-09-30T14:07:00.006+10:00

a very good thing
I love it
If that link doesn't suit you then you can have a little preview here

Here is a snippet of the comic I put into Tiny Peeks

These are little Yuendumu dogs.
This is Yuendumu

The idea for the exhibition/tiny limited edition book was to do a 'tiny peek' into your day to day, limited to one page. I was in Jabiru when given the brief. I couldn't think of an appropriate scenario that I felt captured this theme as my "day to day" has been all over the place this year. So I decided to whip up a day in the year comic...if that makes sense...

Good Things in Melbourne

2010-09-29T17:18:00.008+10:00

Tiny Peeks Group Show and Book Launch Opens tonight

Check out the Fikaris activity. It's pretty hot.

Paper Theatre
Bernard Caleo does Kamishibai Next few Tuesdays in North Melbourne

The Bret Braddock adventures, Comic Launch 6pm tonight.

Preview of the work here
David's blog

Other good things in Melbourne
Nicki's Hamlet is here

I missed a recent show by Ord and Dillon Naylor. Check out their blogs.

Sinna Man Excerpt

2010-09-29T16:48:00.003+10:00

Here is an excerpt for Sinna Man

I just realised this was the winner of the MIFF animation shorts. I did miss one of the screenings this year. What a shame. I hope it will be in MIAF 2011

Anita Killi animation Sinna Man

2010-09-24T13:58:00.009+10:00

I have been looking at Sinna Man making of on the Trollfilm AS site. It is animator Anita Killi's most recent animation. Sinna Man is a book by author GRO DAHLE and illustrator: SVEIN NYHUS. It looks absolutely magnificent. I would really like to see it in it's original language (prefer the voice acting). It is also called Angry Man in English.

This is the sort of wirey dog I would like. Isn't he beautiful. The whole production looks beautiful, very inspiring.

What is nice about the Trollfilm AS site is the documentation of the process. Paper cutout. It is really interesting to see.

Other things:
I'm listening to Boy and the Echo Choir, their album And Night Arrives in One Gigantic Step is worth a peruse. Piano-ey, and very nice.

Bai Rong Wang - Lao shu jia nü (The Mouse Marries, 1983)

2010-09-17T12:41:00.003+10:00

I've been looking for good examples of paper cut out animation lately. Michel Ocelot being the obvious one to look at, but it is nice to find something like this little animation. It is wonderful for so many reasons.

Hmm, I'm not sure about 1983? It suggests 60's to me. I'll have to do some research.

Gecko

2010-09-02T23:02:00.000+10:00

in Jabiru

Spike

2010-08-11T17:30:00.007+10:00

Have a look at this interesting article (blog) on Spike, the Meanjin blog, by Jessica Au.

Au gives a review and discussion of the Short Films at MIFF, and discusses the shifting accessibility and experience of the short film.

Au's article also shows this strangely alluring short puppet-animation Johannes Nyholm’s Dreams from the Woods (Features the music by Little Dragon which adds for a particularly mesmerising cinema experience.)

Dreams from the Woods was last in the MIFF Animation Shorts 1 screening, which contained a really refreshing selection of animations, including Atsushi Wada's In a Pig’s Eye (mentioned in previous blog-post)

Something about it is a little Phil Mulloy, though not nearly as challenging as his work.

Atsushi Wada

2010-08-11T14:47:00.003+10:00

Atsushi Wada's animation In A Pig's Eye screened at this year's MIFF and it was fantastic. A real cracker. Information on it is available here (link to nice Zagreb Animafest festival site)

I've been looking at Mirai Mizue also

New Strindberg and Helium!

2010-08-01T22:00:00.001+10:00

Winter days / Fuyu no hi [1]

2010-07-29T11:52:00.003+10:00

"Winter Days (冬の日 Fuyu no Hi) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based upon the renga of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō."
This is part one animated by Yuri Norstein

This is a project I blogged about in 2004 and I am so excited that many of the animations are now available to view online!

Koji Yamamura is number 35

Co Hoederman is number 32

Isao Takahata is 28

Mark Baker is 21

The Hill Farm
Example of Mark Baker's work

Aleksandr Petrov is number 12

Old Man and the Sea
Example of Aleksandr Petrov's work

Hanae Seida

2010-07-12T16:07:00.003+10:00

Olney Clark- "Josefin the Writer" from Hanaé Seida on Vimeo.

Pencilly nice animation by Tokyo artist Hanae Seida. She worked as a digital artist on Sylvain Chomet’s feature “L’illusionniste (The Illusionist, 2010)”. This is screening in the Melbourne International Film Festival
Friday 23rd and Saturday 31st

Also in MIFF in the animation shorts is an animation by Atsushi Wada Beautiful and strange, and indeed pencilly.

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2010-07-09T14:15:00.001+10:00

Animating Jukurrpa

2010-07-08T21:44:00.003+10:00

In February and June this year I have been working in Yuendumu NT at PAW Media as an animation trainer. Here is a link to some of the projects made ANIMATING JUKURRPA
Keep an eye on the Animations listed - there are still a couple to come I believe.
Kinky Kinky is a bit of a treat if you've only got time for one.

Here is a picture of some dogs waiting outside the Nguru Walaja (or Walalja) shop.

At the moment I am trying to animate one thing but being distracted by another. That is, trying to redo this (see pictured) old 2002 animation called Clickity Clix. It was originally done as an animated comic for SBS site Cornerfold (now offline). I like it. It involves a bit of Bingo, some monsters, and Ferret Face.

Michel Ocelot & Shiriagari Kotobuki

2010-06-29T17:01:00.004+10:00

Lovely, Michel Ocelot's early animation is on the tube now.

Some info:
A 1-minute sample of the 13-minute short film by Michel Ocelot, completed in 1979. The complete film, in a much clearer, more recent transfer and with English subtitles, is available on the French DVD 'Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot,' which is region 2 and PAL and can be imported from online shops such as Fnac or the French Amazon. This sample was found at the production company's page http://www.aaaproduction.fr/aaa_filmC...

Head to the clip on YouTube for more links and information on this little animated film.

I've been in NT for the last four weeks working in Yuendumu. Animation work that will be launched online in late July I believe. I'll keep you posted.

Being there meant that I missed 99% of the Melbourne International Animation Festival, though we did catch Best of the Fest on Sunday night, a bunch of intriguing and inspiring films. A curious collection that really made me wish that I'd caught the rest of the fest! Oh well. I've been having fun drawing lots of dogs, namely two: Ginger and Bruce. Some selected pics to come.

Consequently I've been having an animation fest of my own this afternoon.
Actually I've been having a Shiriagari Kotobuki festival.

Nude Man STICKERS!!

2010-05-17T18:24:00.004+10:00

And Ferret Face STICKERS!!

Hip hip hooray! Stickers!
Well I am most excited.
So far only Ferret Face and Nude Man. That'll do.
I'm buying 6. They are about $1.20 each but you get a 50% discount if you purchase 6 or more.

Here is a link
http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/18985478

You have to go to T-shirts then click on purchase to preview the stickers.

as is my wont

2010-05-14T16:25:00.003+10:00

An excerpt from "Ferret Face and the Glass Slipper Saga" comic that was in the NZ comic anthology "My Soiled Sample" edited by Tim Danko.

Trying to tidy up and thought I'd slip up an oldie... as is my wont.

crumbly lunch animation

2010-05-10T13:46:00.003+10:00

This was a lunchtime project (yesterday). Essentially this guy has no reason to exist other than I just wanted to doodle a bit during lunch.

funny man

2010-05-10T13:37:00.002+10:00

Probably the worst drawing I've ever done. He's a deleted inbetween. He made me laugh so I thought I'd bring him back to life here.

Actually this one is pretty bad too!

Aqua

2010-05-07T13:09:00.001+10:00

Solidarités International: Water talks from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.

Procrastinatey

2010-05-03T15:18:00.009+10:00

I just slipped this guy up on the bubble I really am procrastinating. I might revisit him tomorrow because I don't like the tulip's semi-opacity-neck revealing properties. Back to work.

Blister

2010-05-03T10:44:00.002+10:00

Here is my small roughy for Chugnut last week, theme being blister.

Lots to write but busy as a blue-arsed-fly.

Nudeman - NEW TSHIRT

2010-04-19T15:53:00.003+10:00

I've just popped up a new T-shirt design
You can have a look here

I am aiming to make him look a little newspapery in texture and tone. It's a bit of an ask for a t-shirt print, but my other t-shirt design with Ferret Face looks okay. Nudeman looks good on yellow, but this example may be a more appealing t-shirt colour.
As linked to in my previous post, you can see his whole story here.

If I sell one I make approximately $1.25! If I sell a Ferret Face one I don't make anything, but I am happy he is out there, skipping away, on people's chests.

I received a great little care package today from a fellow Chugnut Mel Rowsell, containing some of the Gocco prints made at comics camp a few weeks back.

Camp comic

2010-04-16T20:54:00.007+10:00

This is a comic for the Chugnut Collective site.
The Chugnut Collective spawned from our recent comics camp. You can see the Chugnut blog here.
Starting this week, Chugnut have a weekly challenge to draw a small comic on a theme. This week's theme was "Camp". I've managed to just scrape in for this weeks challenge with my four panel comic "Camp things"

Comics that I am doing, but should be doing other things...
Nudeman is searching through old records here. Looking for some of his favourite bands. Nudeman came about when I did round 07 of Comic Artist Rehab.

Drawing some monkeys

2010-03-29T17:33:00.001+11:00

Loosey Friday

2010-03-26T09:41:00.003+11:00

tax comic draft

Comic camp was last weekend. I've had a little flu this week, and I'm inspired. Both by comic camp and having had some chats with Day.day about some story issues with my 'problem' comic.

'problem comic'

I've been testing some new ink and may pop up a pic later. Taking a drawing to the RMIT Gallery today. Will link to the show next week.

lazy evening drawing

2010-03-04T21:56:00.003+11:00

checkered shorts

Animator of the week

2010-02-27T22:46:00.004+11:00

Animator of the week: Evert de Beijer from Holland
Have a look at AFW's excerpt of his beautifully drawn animation, the characters

I have blogged a little about him previously here

Just got back from this place:

There's an animator of the week in there somewhere I'm sure of it.

Marks

2010-02-04T11:39:00.004+11:00

An excerpt from a hand drawn (etched/printed) animation titled Marks.

Just popped this up.

Marks is a 5 minute looping animation completed in 2007 as part of a residency at Megalo Print Studio. The brief was to create an animation using etchings, and to keep the over all look true to the etched mark (rather than treated with digital effects). The animation is intended for a gallery space rather than a tv/movie screen.

I did blog about the whole process in 2006, and I uploaded a small mov in 2007 - this one is a little less compressed.
I have just created a sound piece for this, though I may mix it down a little better and upload it a little down the track.

Smoking

2010-02-03T14:43:00.020+11:00

Colour panels from Smoking.
A comic recently published in
Tango Love and War anthology.

A close up of the very little people in the background.

Page 3. The final overall look

Revisiting colourful project

2010-02-01T17:11:00.003+11:00

"Worr'wurr ga nyiknyik" sans subtitles and credits.

Story and Illustration by Dundiwuy Wunungmurra.
Animation by Kirrily Schell.
Please go here to see full credits

Have been in Yirrkala for the last four weeks. Working on some new animation. All of it is in pre-production, one of them erring into production mode. However these projects are on hold for a couple of months due to other projects. Back to the juggle in a couple of months.
The pictured animation I've posted before (see link above). I really love Nyalung's paintings so I'm putting it up again. This is the raw version, no sound effects, no title, subtitles, or credits. The subtitles really need to be moved to a more 'fashionable' subtitle spot - rather than where they currently sit in the final version.

Beach drawing

2010-01-22T23:46:00.002+11:00

Djaludjalu

Ferret Face and Hot Chick

2009-12-21T21:51:00.002+11:00

Environment Victoria

2009-12-19T14:16:00.000+11:00

Tango Launch was fantastic!

2009-12-14T19:47:00.004+11:00

Still from my Tango 9 Love and War comic.
Set in Edinburgh 2001
Title: Smoking

La Cinémathèque Française

2009-12-10T14:37:00.006+11:00

Petr told me about an exhibition Lanterne Magique at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.
Within the website there is a section called The Optical Theatre of
Emile Reynaud.

Who is Emile Reynaud.

Before Christmas

2009-12-08T16:12:00.004+11:00

It's like running up a big hill isn't it.
Or running down a hill, headed towards Christmas...

Trying to get all my work done before Christmas.

Pic from sketches for some of that work. I like this one. Oh my gosh, what has he seen?

Clickity Clix

2009-12-07T14:24:00.013+11:00

A still from a 2002 comic
Clickity Clix
This was one of my comics that was animated by Seamus Ashly.

You can also view Clickity Clix from the Cornerfold site (you may need to allow pop-ups). It is likely I linked to this one some years ago, I couldn't link to the site for quite a while, but I've now found the link again (that works). Enjoy.

Music composed for Clickity Clix was by Ben O'loghlin who also did the music for Ponce in 2003

This is Ponce.

I have finally uploaded the Child Neglect TVC to my YouTube channel.

Tango 9 - Love and War

2009-11-22T12:40:00.002+11:00

A little sketch for my latest Tango submission, a 3 page comic titled Smoking.

"On December 10th - 2009, Allen and Unwin will release 'The Tango Collection' (a 264 page omnibus of stories selected from the first 8 issues of 'Tango'), and Cardigan Comics will release 'Tango9: Love and War'.
At Dante's on Gertrude St." quote from Cardigan Comics 22/11/2009
Bernard Caleo

Peppermint

2009-10-05T17:22:00.000+11:00

Little Cars

2009-09-07T16:45:00.001+10:00

Not much time to think, but trying to think about these little cars. They are part of an animation, but I'd like them to drive elsewhere.

Sunday Render

2009-08-31T00:30:00.002+10:00

Rendering second animation in this set. (Image not from current render)

2001 Sketchbook picture

2009-08-24T20:17:00.000+10:00

Had just got back from England and was doing some nice inky sketches.

Ferret Face T-Shirt promotion

2009-08-24T14:47:00.005+10:00

Ferret Face T-Shirts
On sale $28.95

Do you want one? I'm getting a blue one.
Think of it as fund raising for ink.
I shall coax Rhys to give me a snapshot of the shirt in action.

While I am rendering (again)

2009-08-23T21:04:00.004+10:00

Sample lady - currently she is rendering.

Page from 2001 England travel diary.
This image on the left is of a guy I went to the Museum with. He was French. We also went with a Canadian fellow - he may be the yellow one? It was a very interesting dynamic between the three of us. The French guy was 18, though seemed much older, he was quite arrogant actually, but we had some good arguments (One of them about littering). The Canadian guy was quiet and thoughtful. I didn't see either of them again after that.

The guy who went wrong.

2009-08-20T23:10:00.003+10:00

This guy went wrong.
I thought I'd best save his life and screen-grab him.

worr'wurr ga nyiknyik & Wandjuk and the Pilot

2009-08-20T10:50:00.011+10:00

Still of worr'wurr
from worr'wurr ga nyiknyik

worr'wurr ga nyiknyik
Story and Illustration by Dundiwuy Wunungmurra.
Animation by Kirrily Schell.

Wandjuk and the Pilot.
Animation and Direction by Bunbuyngu Marika
Story by Wandjuk Marika
Narration by Banduk Marika
Animation training by Kirrily Schell

Here are the two projects I worked on in Yirrkala for two weeks of October 2008.
See movie credits for further detail.

so close

2009-08-16T20:28:00.006+10:00

A still from the oh-so-close-to-finished anim-current-project..

just quickly

2009-08-14T14:45:00.001+10:00

5 minute break

tick tock

2009-08-13T16:40:00.000+10:00

this guy is about to get some hair.

mint

2009-08-10T16:10:00.001+10:00

lock it in

2009-08-08T15:31:00.004+10:00

exporting exporting importing importing
(could be a kraftwerk song)
Fellow comickers are drawing (just down the road) for Tango and I'm locked to the computer exporting the final timelock anims. ...nearly done

fig 1. Little bloke with stool.

I still haven't been to the Len Lye exhibition. Apparently it is very good. I can't wait. It is always great to see an artist's multifarious mediums on display, to see how their ideas are realised in different forms.

Looks like the Chris Ware animation has come back. Fantastic.
(See post before last if you're interested in comic artist Chris Ware.)

2 updates are better than 1

2009-08-01T19:26:00.003+10:00

Well in this case they are.

Who: Jonathan Nix
What: Animation (in the making)
What, again: The Missing Key

Where: see trailers here The Missing Key

Or here
Most exciting!!!

This is also pretty lovely: Lost Buildings
On a bit of a C. Ware roll

Chris Ware animating for This American Life

2009-08-01T19:03:00.003+10:00

This Chris Ware animation I tried to embed a few weeks ago. I believe it is from season 2, episode 5. I'll have to update later - if I'm incorrect. Below is another one. If you trawl around This American Life I'm sure there'll be more

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

It is most exciting. I'll have to find out the specs. Fikaris posted Quimby on FB.

Pencil Lady

2009-07-31T10:20:00.001+10:00

vector vector all I feel like today is pencil

timing

2009-07-27T17:34:00.004+10:00

This is a creative chap, coming up with ideas.
animation is a complex process

procrastination fella

2009-07-20T16:32:00.004+10:00

On the busy side..
..still there's time to sneak in a little procrastination fella.

fig 1: procrastination fella

Animation Currants

2009-07-08T20:38:00.004+10:00

Today's work consisted of frantic goings on.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B.

This evening's work consists of finishing off some animation for Nyalung (and other splendid folk.)

Exhibit C.

orange flower stalker

2009-07-01T22:12:00.001+10:00

I drew this picture whilst thinking "Summer, now wouldn't that be nice."

thinky chops

2009-07-01T17:25:00.001+10:00

Wintery short days.

2009-06-09T17:38:00.003+10:00

Still from burning houses Flash animation.

Just bought my MIAF pass

Just finished my Marsden project animations.

2009-06-06T19:08:00.003+10:00

An old comic I did in 1996 - I think?
Just changed it's colour to blue for fun.

It's an animation in waiting really.

i was built for paper

2009-05-22T16:21:00.003+10:00

Everything going on all at once. My animated flame chugs due to OTT alpha-ing.

I'm built for paper and film. (picture: Me, in a tizz)

God's Machine (Moving Elephants)

2009-05-21T18:12:00.006+10:00

Title of animation God's Machine
"an animation about god and his machine.
animated by azusa nakagawa
designed and illustrated by laura bird, rose blake, and azusa nakagawa "
I found this animation on a blog called Moving Elephants. A very delightful blog (what I've perused within the last 3 minutes) about illustrators animating. Go there and have a look, it's got a particularly delicious selection of little lovely illustrator animated movies.

I've just emailed off some draft anims.
Some trees. Not very exciting compared to Moving Elephants :(

rendering..... ho hum

2009-05-21T14:44:00.007+10:00

Here we have a little procrastination man.
All part of concept development you knowow (typo, but I like it, makes it sound like a pop song). Are there any popo songs about animators?

Into this green background at the moment.
Render has finished. Back to work.

Teethy McGee

2009-05-20T16:38:00.000+10:00

things .......
things are a little glum today

izzy wizzy

2009-05-18T15:20:00.007+10:00

Busy busy busy!
Drew this chap a while back.
Imagine, a new fancy hat that functions as an extra hand.
Great! Could type on computer and draw with my hat-hand.
..Slight problem in the design is that you need to move your head to the required area for extra dexterous activity to function efficiently. ..Better go to yoga this week.

izzy wizzy lets get bizzy
(spoken in a kiwi accent heightens the impact)

Charlie's head

2009-05-17T21:41:00.008+10:00

This fellow has great eyebrows.

This is how the Bernard calendar picture turned out.

Little bit of Chris Ware

2009-05-13T21:39:00.003+10:00

Chris Ware was commissioned to create an animated section for one of the shows This American Life .
I don't know much about it. I've just come across this link.

Suddenly I am busy with a lot of work-work and a little concerned about my own projects getting done.

back to the drawing board

2009-05-11T16:33:00.006+10:00

Trying so hard to resolve a story issue at the moment - just created this little snow-movie (with a glitch!).

God Is

2009-05-08T11:15:00.004+10:00

God Is is out!
I've not seen it yet - but it is in shops, I've been told.

Granny Sea Sick

2009-05-07T09:00:00.001+10:00

I gave a lecture on animation this week (heaven on a stick), and was rifling through all of my seemingly-organised-but-not-really files, and found some pix from the NYWF talk (last year with Mandy). For the talk I'd scanned previously unscanned drawings from my childhood. There are a selection of "Granny Races". So for your entertainment, here is one of the Grannies featured.

freedom

2009-04-27T15:48:00.006+10:00

The SMoACfyc Calendar was launched on Saturday. Was fantastic. Bernard's speech was marvelous.
My fever managed to subside for an hour with the aid of aspro.

A small bird was trapped in my fireplace this morning. Scratching and occasionally tweeting. I managed to wrench open the fireplace door (which probably hasn't been opened since 1896) and within a few minutes the poor little thing had clambered out. A little Indian Minor bird. Skipped around the room a couple of times (the bird that is) and then stepped up to the window sill and flew away.

I did this little animation last year for a friend's birthday. I don't think I've put it up anywhere. I will be missing Secret Handshake tomorrow night which is a disappointment - I thought I might have a little animation ready for them - but alas. So this is a little gesture towards the Secret Handshakers - a little, gentle animation made in an evening.

2009-04-24T16:18:00.003+10:00

dental joy

fall

2009-04-16T10:09:00.007+10:00

Title: Moo Wish.

He is sleeping..