tammy dubinsky

time to shine

2009-12-07T19:25:00.000-08:00

once again, the holiday season is upon us. hope everyone has a merry christmas and a very happy new year!!

animation block party

2009-10-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

the bear found himself in the big apple earlier in the summer. as a part of the 2009 animation block party.

fred

2009-06-30T13:55:00.000-07:00

here is fred's chicken jam film. fred used the voice talent of Ian Fults.

chicken jam

2009-06-27T18:21:00.001-07:00

meet fred. he is the star of my short film i submitted for the 2009 TAIS chicken jam that was screened at the 2009 TAIS Animation Showcase.

hot pink shorts

2009-06-27T17:27:00.000-07:00

here is the sign off piece i did for 'hot pink shorts' on OutTV. yes, the shorts fold themselves, chalk that one up to budget.

bear in cleveland

2009-06-23T17:36:00.000-07:00

the bear still gets some love & attention. back in march he was screened in Cleveland, USA!!

i'd rather be...

2009-06-23T17:06:00.001-07:00

a mighty pen on frederator

2009-06-21T20:31:00.000-07:00

a little while back, the beards had a pretty feature interview with channel frederator regarding our last stop motion piece. "thepenismightier" took the 'best editing' award at the 2008 Trick17 stop motion competition here in Vancouver. we like prizes. here is the link to the interview.

happy bunnie day

2009-04-18T08:25:00.000-07:00

a little bit of a spin on the ole' easter egg hunt idea. i was volunteered to make the poster for the social committee at work. here is the artwork all by its lonesome.
slap some copy on it and wahlaa! (yes, i shamefully applied a glorious gradient onto the title header, and i would do it again if given the chance!!) the poster turned out to be a surprise hit with the committee, who in turn, decided to take the black & white version and make a colouring contest for the employee's kiddies.

seasons greetings on the fly

2008-12-26T01:51:00.000-08:00

whistler film festival

2008-12-26T00:44:00.000-08:00

going into december, the bear hit the slopes!! i heart whistler!

conan contest

2008-12-25T21:40:00.000-08:00

the beards crew busted off a quick (very quick) contest entry for the conan show during the summer. swing and a miss but got some good practice in. here is the actual entry by everyone and the boards i scrambled together from the contest.

festival summer

2008-12-25T21:07:00.000-08:00

the little hotdog scamp saw a lot of ground this summer; due to his festival appearances. popular fella it seems.

especially with the frequent flying during the Air Canada Enroute Festival, he became a mile high club member of sorts, not bad for a polar bear i reckon.

rhino & dino dinner

2008-05-01T13:55:00.000-07:00

downtime at the studio... doodle

coloring book

2008-04-27T14:44:00.000-07:00

finally found something useful for my sketchbook drawings... here is the cover from the coloring book i made for my wee little cousins

san francisco women's festival

2008-04-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

my bear was in good company and joined choom & temris to represent the ladies at the 2008 San Francisco women's film festival back at the beginning in april. of course chicks rock!

rough mytoons

2008-03-28T23:42:00.001-07:00

here are some of the rough thumbsnails for characters i animated for the mytoons bumpers (and i do mean rough)

mytoons

2008-03-28T22:59:00.000-07:00

the 'beards' crew participated in the mytoons bumper contest earlier this month... didn't win but we made a nifty series of bumpers. i personally designed and animated the last two characters in this version of our entry. to see all of em, check out Choom's blog.

march in the bag

2008-03-23T01:06:00.001-07:00

just one of those type of days for our hero

tiburon film festival 2008

2008-03-17T01:09:00.001-07:00

rockin! the bear makes its US premiere this weekend!

animex festival 2008

2008-02-05T23:01:00.001-08:00

'hold the mustard' makes it's animation festival debut!!
it is playing at the animex international festival of animation and computer games. the festival runs all week at the university of teesside in middlesbrough. due to some sweet glory and dumb luck... the bear is up for the 2d animation award! ...oh if only...

a lucky elephant

2008-02-05T22:53:00.001-08:00

yeppers, it is an elephant blowing bubbles... how else do you make a tonal study assignment fun?? answer me that?

he's a cutie

2008-02-02T00:47:00.001-08:00

for hugh

2008-02-01T16:27:00.000-08:00

this piece was put together as a submission for the richmond winter festival. it had to be related to winter and olympic games... hence bobsledding polar bears. hugh is a not a polar bear... but he is a friend currently sledding for Canada and i am very proud of him.

putting boards

2008-01-14T22:46:00.001-08:00

ideas gotta start somewhere...

bunnies & cupcakes

2008-01-11T09:52:00.000-08:00

careful what you wish for... you just might get stuck with it...
for matt and maury

ho ho ho

2008-01-09T13:36:00.000-08:00

merry christmas everybody!!

trick 17

2008-01-09T12:52:00.001-08:00

along with a group of vfs alumni and one hi-jacked d.i.p. instructor, we participated in the 2007 trick 17 stop motion competition. so after 50 odd hours, a case of red bull and one exploited moose photocopy... you have our masterpiece 'can't stop the hip hop'

oh by the way, we won best picture in the competition too!! (toot toot!!) here is the whole team with our big sweet prize!

this is a shot from one of the sets i help build for the film.

jack a lopen

2008-01-09T12:50:00.001-08:00

here is jacques... in b&w!!

happy anniversary dwayne & rita

2008-01-09T12:47:00.001-08:00

happy 25th anniversary dwayne & rita!!

hold the mustard

2008-01-09T12:15:00.000-08:00

here is my bear! starring in 'hold the mustard', the short film i directed and animated during my time at vfs. the whole film was animated the good ole classical way, all hand drawn!

thanks are in order for the Royal Crown Revue who allowed me to use their song 'hey pachuco' www.rcr.com

so wallaaa! here is my baby 'hold the mustard'!

putting along

2008-01-09T11:52:00.000-08:00

'putting along' was the second short film i directed and animated at vfs. it was built with macromedia flash 8 and my buddy photoshop.

i would like to thank luke mathers for doing the sound recording and jason mcnamar for providing me the voice talent for the short.

jasonmcnamar.com

so here she is in all her glory... 'putting along' the movie...

animation poses

2008-01-09T11:46:00.001-08:00

these are some animation keys taken from the big projects made at vfs.

hold the mustard storyboards

2008-01-09T11:43:00.001-08:00

a sample of the storyboards that were developed for 'hold the mustard'

some stills

2008-01-09T11:29:00.001-08:00

here are a few stills from 'hold the mustard'

mort & ted

2008-01-09T10:45:00.001-08:00

storyboard samples from the vfs assignment about mort & ted.

the bear!

2008-01-09T10:37:00.001-08:00

'hold the mustard' character turn arounds

red & billy

2008-01-09T10:24:00.002-08:00

dipping in the vault, i found some old favorites of mine. these children book illustrations were created while attending acad.

various character designs

2008-01-09T10:18:00.001-08:00

these characters were developed while attending vfs.

putting along character builds

2008-01-09T10:02:00.001-08:00

character builds and props from my flash short, 'putting along'

multi-plane layout

2008-01-09T09:49:00.001-08:00

this is a multi-plane layout assignment from vfs.

these are the individual levels for my multi-plane layout assignment.

hold the mustard backgrounds

2008-01-09T09:28:00.001-08:00

this is a collection of the backgrounds from my film, 'hold the mustard'. they were created using pencils, watercolor and my good friend photoshop!

putting along backgrounds

2008-01-09T09:24:00.001-08:00

background designs from my flash short film 'putting along'.

background assignments

2008-01-09T08:52:00.001-08:00

here are a few background assignments from vfs.

life drawing for adam

2008-01-09T08:22:00.001-08:00

here is a collection of life drawings while attending vfs.