Gener8

 Recently I have been Rotomating at Gener8 where we make 2D to 3D stereo conversions for theatrical films, which awesome and while working at Gener8 I met some awesome Artists there. Part of what I love to do besides the animation part is meeting great and talented artists, So here are some of them. I have yet to finish the rest the people I've met. 

Brian Nguy

Cory Soo

Jared Bonin

Susan Gao

Joe the cat Cartoons!

Because I am a big fan of the Roosterteeth podcast's I thought it would be cool if I made animated adventures of  Joe the cat, who is a cat that lived in the Roosterteeth building but now lives with Burnie, These cartoons are just the stories that Joe the cat "had" while living in the building along side with Gus Sorola and the rest of the Roosterteeth crew. I tried to make these cartoons more like a Tom and Jerry cartoon, but with limited animation. These episodes are for the Fans and Crew at Roosterteeth but still make it entertaining enough for the people that don't know these characters. You can check out the episodes by clicking on the titles 

Enjoy.

Pilot -The Adventures of Joe the Cat (EP.1) 

      Delicious Confetti -The Adventures of Joe the Cat (EP.2) 

   It Wasn't Me -The Adventures of Joe the Cat (EP.3) 

Also During The time of making these cartoons I didn't have the proper tools for adding audio but later episodes I definitely will.

Animation teachers at AI

Here are some cool animation teachers at the Arts Institute of Vancouver.

Sarah Hill

Taylor Potts

Rav Grewal

Bert Dennison

I have a couple more people to draw. I will update.

Animators from AI 02

Hey, Happy New Year everyone! Last year was pretty hectic but very fun. A couple weeks after my last post I did end up getting a job at Flow Media, which is very cool. So to start off this year on my blog I wanted to draw some of the really talented animators I have met at AI and hopefully get the chance to work with them one day.

Jordan Alaeddine

Charles Icay

Allan Phan

 

Mike

Wreck-it Ralph

  I am super excited to finally see this movie. After hearing review lately there is a lot of heart to this movie and they don't pay too much attention to the real video game characters which I glad to hear, but some people aren't happy that a real video game character didn't have a main role. So far everyone that had seen it find it to be the best animated movie this year!  I also cant wait for Rise of the Guardians, both films from the trailers look great to me.

  I was watching an interview with Rich Moore and he said that there are going to be a stories after the movie, and there will be a actual video game with the characters from wreck it Ralph and you will be able to play as the characters from the movie.definitely pick that up!

Gaining Weight..

  After working hard for 2 years  at the Arts institute and having  really no life but eat, sleep and animate, I have gained a few pounds i don't know what the exact scale is but it feels....not healthy. 

  Its hard for me to go out in pubic with it hanging out. 

  Time to start working out :P

Halloween Costumes

   Oh boy! Halloween is coming up this month, time to decide what costume to wear this year. Yay!

    I have had several cool costumes in the past and they all slowly started look cheaper.

when I was younger I think, grade 1 I had a Picachu costume. Then grade 2 I had a Hercules costume not the Disney Hercules but the live action one. It came with muscles which was pretty cool except the suit was white because Hercules is a white guy and I am brown. The skin tone didn't match but I was happy. I don't remember what other costumes I had, I think I was a kung-fu guy for several years.

    I stopped wearing costumes for a while until grad 7. I found those glasses with the fake nose and mustache and wore that out for Halloween. I got laughs at school, but when I went out to trick or treat no body would give me any candy. But I think I know the reason why, it was just me my buddy Ed walking from door to door asking for candy with no costumes and I was the one with fake glasses and nose. But we were kids someone should have gave us candy. Anyway once high school hit going out for trick or treating was lame and no body did anything the older kids did it but as a kid in 8 grade it wasn't "cool" plus I didn't know what to wear I didn't have any good ideas.

   A couple years past and then I watched Michael Bay's Transformers and my mind was blown and then I had an idea "that's what I was going to be! Optimus Prime"

but I didn't want to buy a Optimus Prime costume I wanted to make one and I wanted to design the costume so when I scrunch myself like a ball on the ground it would transform in to a truck. (there are videos on you tube of people that have made it, it is really cool.) Also it was the generation 1 transformers Optimus just because there was no way I could figure out out to build the live action movie one. I was doing pretty well I made the chest and the shoulders,arms,legs of it all out of cardboard. but it was not done. I needed a helmet  that's when I went to Toys R Us and bought myself the voice changer Optimus Prime helmet. Which is a really cool toy. I then realized that if I was to wear this to school it was be a disaster! I would have to change all the time and sitting in my desk would be a pain. For some reason I also imagined kids kicking me, or me falling over and having a hard time getting up. So on the day of Halloween I wore a red top shirt, blue jeans with my transformers helmet and went to school like that. I was the only Optimus Prime there and all the students wanted to try the helmet including the teachers.That was fun.

   The next year I graduated from high school and during that October I was started to go to the Arts Institute already. My parents were out of town at the time so I stayed at my niece and nephews place. On Halloween I went out trick or treating with the kids and I didn't notice this but from the clothes I was already wearing I looked like Justin Beiber so I just went with that and called myself Brown Beiber. 

  The next year during summer time, the music video for Bruno mars Lazy song played and in the background there were the monkeys in the checkered shirts i the video and I said to my friends lets be those guys for Halloween and everyone one was on board until we went to to costume shop and the monkey masks were 35 or 40 bucks and everyone bailed out, it was a expensive mask and when are we going to use it again? also in the store there were white mask just like the Jabbawockeez mask and they were 10 bucks. Cool so now were going to be the Jabbawockeez but none of us knew how to dance...We went out to downtown Vancouver and people were taking pictures with us. it was a pretty fun night.

2012 this year I'm thinking should I stay cheap or go all out. My friends and I thought it would be funny to dress as Morpheus, Josh Burton's animation rig  but I have no clue as to how we are going to build this costume with the controls. But if that dose not work, I'm thinking of dressing as a cowboy because I have most of the clothing already. except for the mustache I might have to grow it or if I can't then buy one.If that dose not work out then maybe I'll be Abed from community. There is a certain way Danny Pudi acts when hes Abed I feel like I can do that. OR I can be evil Abed that would be pretty funny! Or Abed as batman? hmm