Freedom from paid work

Well as of December I finished my contract with Blue Rocket on the series 'Pixel Pinky'. It was great to work with such a friendly bunch of people. I had a blast.

Here's my Animator's Survival Kit book that I got signed by pretty much everyone who worked on Pixel Pinky. I'll hopefully add Tim's signature when we pass through Adelaide on the way home. Here's what Tim looks like and some nice street art that could possibly been done by a Tim, you may notice he is a little scarred that could have possibly been done by a Tim as well :P


I'm still waiting on my watermarked footage to show some shots I animated but until then here's a look into my work notepad. Hopefully Jamie (who sat next to me) will put up some of his drawings, they be hilarious!


(the above is a little in-jokey to the series)
(some early Dash Dashing)




Oh write a comment if you want me to expand on what's going on in the image or just make sense of my scribbly writing. I created 'Dash Dashing' in this pad and another character by the name of "THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMP". That character cracked me up so much that I had to leave the room because I couldn't stop laughing. Good times, good times.

DOGSTAR ON TV

Channel 9 finally annouced when Dogstar will be screening.


It begins on Tuesday November 27 at 4pm. It will screen daily from Tuesday through to Friday each week after that. Our first episode Rose and I worked on will be Wednesday the 28th and then every 3rd episode after that (there were 3 animation teams working on dogstar, Big kids and Square I doing the other eps).

So to celebrate it finally reaching television I've done a fan picture (to avoid any copywrite as that all belongs to MediaWorld/Animation Works)

A relaxing sunday

Well I mentioned a secret short a while back. I had to put that on hold as Porcelain started to drop behind schedule (thanks to the worst flu that I've ever had) Anyway when Porcelain is back on track I'll knock this film out in a day or two.



Speaking of Porcelain. At the moment I'm working on the end sequence. There's still a some other sequences to animate and we are putting in a few extra hours to bring it back on schedule but we are still managing to keep the quality pretty high.



Roseline and I may be producing a new film in the next few weeks. It's a pretty simple idea and it will involve the use of my new digital camera. I hope we can find time to get this done but Porcelain is priority.

Roseline going to work



I just bought myself a small digital camera. I've always loved these things but I dont care too much about high end photography. I like just shooting wastefully and then seeing what turns up rather than spending ages focusing and compositing a shot and then it not turning out what I want it to look like.

Some cool clips

I'm working on Porcelain at the moment (as well as a new secret short) that I'm going to do some biggish posts on. I just want to finish a bit more before I do.

In the mean time I came across these shorts commisioned by the Japanese television company NHK. They basically gave some top animators a chance to make a 1 minute animation about whatever. My favourite one is the guy sitting at his desk.







here's a behind the scenes promo

GAH it's me!


Sorry about blurtopia. But here I am downstairs reading some new Ashley Wood comicness. It's him doing Tank girl (you know that comic originally done by that Gorrilaz designer guy). It's muchos awesome.

And here's me wearing a dorky hat. I think it suits the retro house and I can wear it quite comfortably in the house but as soon as it leaves the house it becomes very dorky. I realised this when I went to bring in the washing and I heard people laughing at me. heh

Oh check out fellow BlueRocket employee Richard (the Tooner-Fish) blog. He's got some more photo's of the Mt Wellington climb.

Some brilliantly written and animated fims you must check out.

Paprika

Girl Who lept through time

First Post from Tasmania

Hey everybody! Well I got my computer hooked up to the internet here in "oh so freaking cold" Tasmania and now I can post stuff again.


I haven't bought a scanner yet so there is still a bit more of a delay on the Vicious and Faust comic. Hopefully soon

Off to Tasmania!

Okay this may be my last post for a few weeks as Roseline and I are moving to Tasmania to work on an animated series. Employed animators again we'll be.

I really wanted to have a Vicious and Faust comic done before I left expecially since there are only 3 issues left to do. Oh well hopefully I'll get on to it as soon as I'm settled.
Also I've been doing a bit of work with these two characters. The amazing Porcelain film is needing to be completed so they are high priority at the moment.

Well so long for now,

Tim

Paper Chain

Hey y'all. This is an image for a project Justin (I did that 'Jeff Strong' clip with him) is doing called Paper Chain.

The picture is based on a Katsuhiro Ôtomo drawing style of Bruce Lee.
Ok here's the final image. He's got some battle damage now and some spooky eyeballless eyes. Also that logo has been fixed. The finishing touches were done by someone else which is fine because it was only a first design by me. I dont know if it is available yet to buy as a tshirt but check the Paper Chain myspace.