rhino & dino dinner

downtime at the studio... doodle

coloring book

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

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

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

mytoons

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

just one of those type of days for our hero

tiburon film festival 2008

rockin! the bear makes its US premiere this weekend!

animex festival 2008

'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

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

he's a cutie

for hugh

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

ideas gotta start somewhere...

bunnies & cupcakes

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

ho ho ho

merry christmas everybody!!

trick 17

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

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