Secondary Action vs. Secondary Motion

Another link, this time about Secondary action

http://www.synchrolux.com/?p=273

Spacing

link about Spacing

http://www.synchrolux.com/?p=37

Character Animation
Sweet short documentary about character animation

This is one cool and sweet animation with good story line.

Paperman - Full Animated Short Film

This is an amazig animated short film. I love it! It was shown prior to the film Wreck-It-Ralph (which I still have not seen, but I hear is great.) Personally, I think this short film is more appealing for me.

Glen Keane Talks about drawing Pocahontas

Scenes from TMNT I animated which has already been aired

Here is the other video of compiled shots I did for the project.  This episode has already aired and you can probably catch it at Nickelodeon's website, or maybe even youtube.

I'll be trying to make a new demo reel real soon!

Scenes from TMNT I worked on which has been aired.

These are just some of the scenes I worked on.  The scenes are short so when I exported it, the screen ratio was not the same as the other ones I exported, that is why I decided to separate this one on it's own, so it apparent difference is not jarring.

I did this christmas card last year. Can't believe a month just past is considered a year past already.... Anyway, thought I should put it in here. I used sketchbook pro to make this card.

How to Break Into Animation Steve Hickner Dreamworks Director from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.

Andy Gaskill Art Director Sony Image Works from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.

my demo reel is finally done!

My demo reel is finally finished. what a relief. check it out!

An Amazing experience

I just had an amazing experience this afternoon at English Bay.  I was eating my chicken Shawarma on there and the pigeons as always started hanging around waiting for some food scrap.  I gave them some, and just for the heck of it, took a small piece of the pita bread and reached out my hand to one of them, the pigeon came up and ate the pita out of my hand.  I was so excited about it, THEN, it decided to fly up to my arm! to get more food.  I decided the heck with it, took a bite out the pita and leaned toward the pigeon and it took the food right out of my mouth!!!  I couldn't believe it.  Then they all started to fly up to my arm to try and get to my food, it was crazy, too bad I didn't have my camera with me.  But it was quite an experience.

stuff

Hey.   I just put my sketches in here under my portfolio.  The Animal sketches where suppose to be there too but I made a mistake and posted it instead, although I decided to still put it in under portfolio afterward.  Check them out, my animation will be coming up soon, if I can figure out how to put it on here without having google add other videos in here.

Animal sketches

grouse grind

Last Saturday I went up the Grouse Grind. The last time I did it, was back in 1998, over 10 years ago. I didn't find it as hard before as I did last Saturday, either the grind trail got more difficult or I am just getting older....or both! But I had a good time still, it's always a great feeling to know you finished the hike. I finished it in an 1 hour 35 minutes. Sure, there were a lot of other people who came after me that finished way before I did, but it doesn't matter, as long as I finished it as well.

the bird's nest

The other day, I ran into my neighbor in the laundry room, and we got to talking. She mentioned that a crow had built a nest on a tree that was right outside her bedroom window. And the crow had maybe 6 baby birds! She was complaining about how noisy they are and how sometimes she wanted to take a BB gun and shoot them. I was shocked. How can you not love to see nature working. I have never seen a bird in her nest, let alone 6! She showed them to me and the crows, even though they were only a few weeks old, are huge! And they are beautiful!

catching up with family

So! I am still pretty new at this bloggign thing, so I haven't been posting much yet. My apologise.

Anyway. I recently went on a trip to San Francisco and Las Vegas to meet up with my sister, my brother and his family, all of whom I haven't seen in more than 4 years. When I last saw them, my nephew was only 9 and my neice, 2. Now they are goin on 14 and 7 respectively. I love them to death! My neice was a bit shy when I met her, but she eventually cameo ut of her shell after a day.

I first flew to San Fran to meet my sister, the next day, we drove to LA to pick up my brother and his family (they were on a US trip.) We stayed the night in LA, the next mornign, drove to Las Vegas. The road trip was fun, my neice kept asking along the way if we are at Death Valley yet. I didn't even know where that is.

My nephew never likes to walk or do anything, these generations of computer games and toys, they stay indoors and sit and play nintendos and PSPs all day. Really sad what we are doing to kids. But he is adorable, I love and dote on him. We went on a shopping trip for a few hours while mom and dad where out and about. He broke his little pouch bag that he uses to hold his PSP so we went hunting for a replacement.

Friday, my sister and I saw Bette Midler's concert for free. She was terrific, funny and a great singer. I was hollering with laughter at the jokes she cracked. If you are ever in Vegas, you guys must go see it! Saturday was Cirque Du Soleil. We saw Mystere, I wanted to go to O, but I heard from a lot of people that is was boring. So we opted for Mystere, I think I wouldn't have found it boring, but I was seeing it with the kids and my sister-in-law, so thought mayeb the ones with a few giant creatures woudl be more entertaining for them.

Oh, I also went hunting for Hurley board shorts, the phantom 60 icon series, it was like looking for needles in a hay stack! I could not find it anywhere, the one place I did see it, at the outlet mall in charsleton, they didn't have my size. I was disappointed to say the least. But that didn't stop me from buying other phantom series board shorts, they were after all on sale and to top it off, it was buy one get the second for 75 % off! I could not pass that up.

On sunday, we drove back to LA to drop my brother and family off at their hotel, and drove straight to San Fran where I was to catch my flight the next day. I still went hunting for the hurley phantom 60icon series, but no such luck, I guess I will just have to buy it here in Vancouver.

So there you have it, my trip last week. Loved every minute of it, enjoyed every time I spent with my family.

Hola!!!

Wow! I finally have a blog, what to put on it though????? My resume, bio, demo reel! All of these will be coming soon!! Watch out for me!