Underground
Another day, another tube ride. If I’m luck I can wedge myself against the back wall and do some drawing. Read More
Underground
I had a resolution this year to do a drawing every day on the underground on my way to work. Unfortunately it turns out that in order to draw I have to be able to move my arms, which isn’t possible on the Jubilee line at 8:30am. Fortunately a late evening at work lets me keep my hand in.. click on the image to see larger. Read More
Indulge me
Some sketches of my babe obsessing over his work.. isn’t he adorable? Read More
Masked Theater and Animation
I’ve been in Denmark at the sooper-cool Animation Workshop these last few weeks teaching a crash course in transitioning to CG from hand-drawn animation. Everyone who has worked with me in CG can now be reduced to hysterical laughter at the thought of me trying to teach someone how to do constraints, cope with breaking rigs, etc. etc… On the last day of the course just for a change I talked a bit about animation as a stylized theater– before I studied animation... Read More
City Farm
I’ve been meaning to draw at the local mini-farm for ages. There was one rooster with a hideous but useful disease which revealed some of his featherless anatomy in a kind of cross-section. Read More
Dailies
Not much time to draw these days, but there’s always dailies: We’re all getting kind of tired.. Read More
Opera Boring/Not Boring
You put up with a lot living in London– basically, things in general not working at all (transport, weather, infrastructure, household mold, etc.). On the other hand, I can personally emerge from work any day of the week and randomly decide to walk to the opera. Read More Read More
Dailies drawing
Tarted-up sketch of our dailies ringmeister Jan. Read More
Hey, I Resemble That Remark
“Typically animators drank heavily, both to relieve their tension and loosen their inhibitions; alcoholism was practicaly an occupational hazard, though it may also have something to do with the fact that the kind of men who were attracted to animation were likely to be emotionally stunted and loners, lost in their own heads.” Walt Disney: The Biography, Neal Gabler I picked up the new biography of Walt Disney, and naturally (as one does), the first thing I did was... Read More
Chameleons
Some little chameleon studies for the film I’m working on at the moment. Cute little dudes, chameleons, but the colour-changing thing doesn’t live up to the hype. It’s sloooooow and mainly goes from ‘brownish’ to ‘brownish-green’. According to National Geographic, they can change colour in about 20 seconds, which they seem to think is impressive. Pah! Now an octopus, that’s impressive… Read More Read More
