Timelapse Toons

Seems fitting to really start making more short films based off my drawings, this is how a digital caricature commission takes shape, the music is the classic "Tarantella" song which has, for better or worse become the stereotype soundtrack of Naples Italy.

Thirsty Work: My triumphant return to animation

 It's been roughly 9 years since I've done anything in the world of animation on anything beyond a hobbyist level scale, while I briefly returned to the world of being an animation student back in 2012 but to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "Life... gets in the way" 

So my career in animation partially stalled, but now... appears to be slowly reviving

Almost as if it just got a new lease on life 

Rain bombs and Long walks on the Beach

 It hasn't rained like this in ages, one of those once in a 100 years events I guess. Anyway since I've decided to dedicate Sundays to Social medias I figured it'd be good to post some new stuff.

Down by the Beach: Lord of the Rings in Cronulla

 

Mostly people from Sydney would get this reference...

The work train is full steam ahead and that small window of uncertainty that was 2020 is now a fading memory, commissions are officially closed for March.

First Convention of 2021: Back to the old Drawing Board

It was a decent hiatus, but it's even better to be back. My bookings are all ready to go and I'm going to be drawing live again for events at upcoming dates and locations around the country.

 

Space Jam: Resurrecting Way-Back-Wednesday

 One of my all time favourite sports movies is Space Jam. The Looney Tunes were everywhere back during the 90's, some weird and some downright bizarre, yet valiant efforts, were made to make these characters cool. 

Michael Jordan was coming to the end of his career as a baseball player (a sport which though he was passionate about did not excel), and subsequently signed up to play the real life "straight man" alongside Bugs Bunny to herald his triumphant return to professional basketball...

the 90's era sports movie to end all 90's era sports movies...

I was still in high school when this came out, and while I never liked basketball... I did like this

These guys went through something of a Renaissance during the 1990's

...and some not so memorable experimentations...

...to wind up back to basics (with some caveats to appease modern audiences)

Get your Ox off

 I prefer to base my New Year's Resolution around the Chinese Lunar Calendar, the Gregorian New Year is really no time to be making grandiose announcements regarding dramatic and/or inconsequential lifestyle changes... besides everyone is recovering from hangovers and the holidays are in full swing.

Since it's the Year of the Ox and me fortunate enough to live in Australia (yes it really is the actual lucky country) I figured it'd be perfect timing for me to post a new year's selfie.

  

Spotify Live 2020

 

Getting a corporate commission is nothing new for me, but getting a corporate commission from an app I use to stream play music and the occasional podcast from the U.S. itself was a completely new experience, rewarding, fun, a little daunting at times when it came to figuring out the tax code, but I got there in the end and I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Domino's Best: A Fan Art

 Domino from X-Men, I still am not entirely sure what her powers are, but her costume is pretty cool, drew this one back in 2019 before the lock-down.

Greeting cards, Books and Merchandise

 

How to Trump your Dragon: The 2020 U.S. Election

 

In 2016 the phenomenon that is the Donald Trump presidential campaign came into existence, bright amazing reality, berated in the mainstream media (to this day) but something unique, something amazing and something truly historical... is happening again...

Stay tuned

Long time no see, guess I've been a tad busy...First Post of 2016

So, what have I been up to all this time? Mostly just riding a wave of incoming work much like opening up a wardrobe full of ping pong balls, an analogy I've probably used before as an excuse but honestly since I haven't updated this blog since September 2015 I can't account for it... While it'd be awesome to have it something like this...

It's more like this

 So it's an election year, the worlds most powerful country is picking it's leader and it's every but as crazy as it's ever been, so what better than to begin this year's posting cycle with a digital caricature, as drawn lovingly on my new(ish) iPad pro (will be doing a video about it soon)  But the main comparison I drew was Donald J. Trump and Dragon Ball Z, both are:

• Hilarious and exciting to watch and have been around way longer than most people realise/would care to admit.
• Just when you think the bad guy has won the "David vs Goliath protocol" switch is thrown and the story ends with an insane fireworks display.
• Both seem to have massive fan bases despite an overall lack of substance.
•  It's all about machismo, yelling and psychotic hair.

  

Sydney Oz Comic Con 2015

I don't post often, but when I do it's because I'm announcing a weekend trip.

Once again it's convention time will be at the artist alley drawing and having a jolly good time, if you're in Brisbane and heading to Oz Comic Con drop in an say hi.

August catch up...

Well it has been a while since I posted anything here, this year has for the most part been busy and it's been job after job. I guess busy is as busy does:
So as a personal challenge and a studio job had popped up I decided to do an exercise in drawing something other than caricatures and give digital painting

Vicki Curlz the Hipster Girl

The Lighning Wyrm, a concept piece I came up with based loosely on a pet axolotl I have.

Aladdin fan art... R.I.P Robin Williams 

Stylised realistic tiger, I ran out of time so I threw the "cut out" filter over the top and called it a day. 

Supanova Gold Coast 2015

The next convention for 2015 is here will be drawing live this weekend at Supanova Gold Coast. Should be pretty sweet.

The Convention Circuit Tour 2015

Yep the time has come once again to do the conventions will be heading to Melbourne for the first Supanova of the year.

Pokemon-th - A fan art retrospective by Ed Dyer -

Like many who grew up in the 80's and 90's we had pretty much an open buffet of pop culture to enjoy, for us it was a time when the internet was only just becoming available as the first dial up modems we're making their way into our homes, mobile phones (if any of us had them) could at best, play a grainy Gameboy display version of "snake".

 So television was king, not just for TV shows (which I'll get to down the track) but video games. In particular Pokemon burst onto the scene into the cultural zeitgeist and has been with us ever since.

So without further ado here's Pokemon-th counting backwards from #151 from the first version of Pokemon I played as a kid here's Mew and Mewtwo!

#151

Wearing pink is so 2005...

My brother was more into the game than I was, but I do remember Mew. Mysterious, bizarre and, like the majority of the smaller characters, pushing on the kawaii scale (a word I learnt when I attended the 2013 ISCA convention) 

Mew seemed to get top billing as the ultimate, but I still think Mewtwo is cooler.

#150

Mewtwo to me at least, felt like a cross between Frieza from DBZ and...

Hippety Hop from Looney Tunes.

Well that's it for today's Pokemon-th, tune in tomorrow for #149 and beyond...   

Void Berg

I got to playing Hearthstone late last year, and it's a fun little game which combines the competitive card game dynamics of 'Magic the Gathering' with the inevitable grind and frustration of the multiplayer losing streak. All without having to go out to the store and getting the physical cards.

When I first heard the Voidwalker's voice I was instantly reminded of Dr. Zoidberg from the show Futurama, which not only lives on in the form of internet memes, but strangely keeps getting better with age. 

Why? We may never know...

I can totally drive now

My key has a Loki key chain...