The Art of Dan Elder

I dunno.

2012-01-26T12:11:00.001-05:00

something odd.

Of violence and stick men.

2011-11-23T23:15:00.002-05:00

Sneak peak

2011-09-22T13:49:00.002-04:00

wanted to post something, a sneak peak of a digital painting I'm doing. knowing me though I wont finish it.

On a none caveman related note heres this!

2011-07-27T17:17:00.001-04:00

A, bg

2011-07-21T15:52:00.002-04:00

A taste of caveman

2011-07-19T09:55:00.003-04:00

Just a little something I'm working on, accepting name suggestions in comments, HA!

Remeber when blogs use to be cool?

2010-11-19T17:50:00.008-05:00

I feel like I talk to myself on this thing most of the time. There was a day when blogs where da sh*t and now they feel like the new myspace. At least this can server as a archive of my artistic contributions to the world wide web, so when sky net becomes self aware maybe I will spared due to my awesomeness.

I was a busy beaver today... im very proud of finishing that mech thingy below so I dont want to bury it in posts oh so fast, but it has come to my attention that I need to start building a archive of my professional achievments to show my versatility in case I need to apply to a new job someday.

here are some fire drawings, cant wait to clean these suckers up and slap on some sloppy glows.

second Mech

2010-11-17T15:57:00.004-05:00

Finally finished. I chinsed out on the gun blast and just made it a glow but I had a lot of fun doing this during my downtime at work.

Hmmm what next?

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2010-11-15T12:38:00.005-05:00

failed attempts and the art graveyard..

2010-11-15T08:54:00.003-05:00

So many headstones...

This re-animated corpse was a painting I started half a year ago. this is the final product as I no longer have the original file.

Splish splash

2010-11-08T16:20:00.002-05:00

I was takin a bath

2010-11-04T16:15:00.001-04:00

Here is a teleportation FX.. it is strictly line work, no blurs or glows or stuff and the such. I feel it will look sweet after having the former mentioned applied.

Art show

2010-10-22T22:38:00.003-04:00

A friend of mine held a art show here in Ottawa for the animation film festival at the Oz cafe. Here was my contribution

Paper rip 2

2010-10-20T21:32:00.003-04:00

Well sky poof 2 got roughly 400% more comments then sky poof 1, so lets see if we can duplicate the result for this post... I present paper rip 2. I know the first paper rip was epic in its floaty rippy action but I figured it just wasn't enough. I didnt get into animation for the fame or the girls or the partys, I got into it to blow and melt minds with amazing paper related FX. this new post includes the original paper rip and the extended version with over 200 frames of hand altered paper/cloth ripped goodness. Be warned; people that have viewed this have been known to be 80% more awesome after viewing this file... it is intense. so it is now with great pleasure I present to you... PAPER RIP 2.....

I wish people actually followed my blog so they could see how witty and hilarious I am. I really am... no srsly I am.

Sky poof 2

2010-10-14T21:36:00.004-04:00

Well I know my blog doesn't get a lot of traffic but my last post received zero comments. I think its its cause of the lake of fireworks. You people dont understand how tedious these animations are to make. think about how many little specs of light their is in a single firework explosion.... now I present the blogger gods with not 2 but 3 fireworks in hopes that someone will stumble across my blog and give me work.

Enjoy

Edit: So on a look at the post the specs of light dont really show up... everything in there is just line work there have been no glows applied to these... I will have to do so me thinks

sky poof

2010-10-01T21:49:00.001-04:00

YUP!

Get busy rippin, or get busy dying

2010-09-23T22:17:00.001-04:00

Sad but true.. POST 100!

2010-09-21T19:11:00.003-04:00

Fooling around in PS trying to figure out colour.

Head

2010-09-10T09:58:00.003-04:00

Tried painting this... it was a disaster... even the line art im not super happy with.

YAR!: work in progress

2010-09-06T01:06:00.002-04:00

downtime between work

2010-08-26T15:58:00.002-04:00

no interest in working any further on this.

Jungle boy man

2010-08-04T14:08:00.002-04:00

2010-06-28T14:26:00.000-04:00

Don't ask, I won't tell

2010-06-24T16:34:00.003-04:00

A blind Buddhist manatee, riding a purple armoured panda bear....Why? if you don't know you're not nerd enough... go get on that!

Nerd time

2010-06-13T21:58:00.002-04:00

I am a nerd. and one of the stipulations to being able to keep my nerd card is that I must partake in nerdy endevours. That being said, I enjoy vids! I appreciate the time and effort it takes to make a videogame and also the huge amount of conceptual art that it takes for said concept come to life. When I was younger I always wanted to be a part of that conceptual process and although currently I am involved in a differnt artistic industry in a different dept of that industry that doesnt have to do with design I must reside myself to drawing my own stuff on my own time, which is alright by me.

So lately I have been playing this RTS called "League of Legends" (if you check the game out and DL it use my email as a reference Danarchy101@gmail.com) Its free to play and really cool. One of the gimics of the game is that it is being constantly updated wth new characters. I have written a lot now to come to this point. I have a tremendous amount of envy for the people that hold those concept design poitions at the company that makes the game and in true nerdy fashion I wanted to do some fan art in regards to the game... here is my attempt... line work right now, wil post some colour later.

Cheers
-DAN-

Boom on 1's

2010-06-10T23:36:00.002-04:00

Something I did for a gig. took out the recognizable characters so I could post my work. this was a insane amount of work, when anything is done on ones it is time consuming and the pay off compared to 2's is negligable. Infact most of the time in my opinoin it is detrimental. but I digress. I dunno how well this shows up...I hope it works.

We do the way, the way we do, the things we do

2010-03-18T00:52:00.001-04:00

Something I did for a super secret project of awesomness. These were all drawn and painted in flash.

We all start out with a vision.

2009-11-28T14:55:00.003-05:00

I usually have something in mind when I start drawing and part of becoming a better artist is the ability of knowing whats in your head and how accurately you can transfer that vision onto paper.

I have known / struggled with this, as I'm sure all artists do, for a long time. Whats new to me is the painting process, I don't know what I'm doing, I just fool around and go by feeling. how does the light feel on the character considering where its source should be, so on and so forth. Whats crazy is how much can get lost in translation, if you will, between the line drawing and coloring something. Sometime it works out awesome sometimes it doesn't work out at all. I think this is a good example how not knowing what you're doing + overwokring something can in the end weaken the piece despite tripling the amount of hours you work on it.

So here is a girl line drawing, to base colors, to finish. In the past I painted in PS and have recently started painting a lot more stuff in Flash. this is not by choice. I have a tablet and PS at home, and a syntic and flash at work.. the syntic beats tablet all the time.

Random

2009-11-18T23:59:00.003-05:00

Just something I did at work during some downtime. Beenr elly busy lately doing some design work on the side for a super secret awesome project. I cant speak about it for fear of death from robot, monkey. pirate, ninja, samurai's its a scary fate I know.

Effin FX

2009-09-27T21:25:00.002-04:00

Been awhile...

Fire block

2009-08-18T22:11:00.002-04:00

Frisbe

2009-08-16T09:56:00.003-04:00

Blanka Redux

2009-08-09T23:20:00.002-04:00

redrew this picture about 5 times, ended up with random thing I liked from different versions, so I "frankenstiend" it in photoshop. It still lacks energy, the angle at of the picture is pretty bland, I wanted a more of a up shot, but couldn't pull it off. I will paint this, add in some electricity FX maybe.

Amp up the cute

2009-08-06T22:56:00.003-04:00

I tried ,as the title of the post says, to amp up the cute on the bee lady. I am happy with the way it turned out. improved the pose a bit and anything with a big forhead is usually cute, I dont know why that is. I like this version much better, it is too bad the friend I did this for wont get a chance to see it. I think she would have really liked it.

It can be funny where inspiration will strike, thats about all I have to say about the second drawering.

Old people make me LOL

2009-08-04T23:55:00.003-04:00

Sometimes you just see things, and if you like art sometimes you wish you could captures those things or people. But you don't want to capture just a picture you want to capture it in a way that can hold all the character that you see within these people or places that a photograph might not always get.

The old Woman I ran into while I was jogging, I am not sure what had happened before I turned the corner, all I know is she was stalking something in her front yard from bush to bush. and man she was on a mission. In her floppy sandals clutching that broom to her breast ready to lay down a death strike on whatever poor little creature that set her off.

The second was actually kind of sad. While driving home I saw a old man in his rascal booting down the street. The rediculousness for me comes from the umbrella he was holding. It looked like he had just stole it from a clown and was trying to make a get away with it. He was soaked except for a little patch on the back of his shirt that the umbrella actually covered.

Funny things in my mind.

The honiest of bee's

2009-07-29T16:24:00.003-04:00

This was done for a friend, and turned out not bad. There is a cuteness within the drawing that I think is present but not completely shining through. The whole thing turned out a little too anthropomorphic. I would like to do a second pass and maybe even paint it. I am not a fan of the redundancy of the word honey being on the jar/bucket I will definitely be removing that and just trying harder in general to really try and get the cute thing across.

Street fighter

2009-07-13T23:29:00.002-04:00

I thought about a lot of different things to say here, then I realized its all trivial. Here is some more street fighter, maybe I'll paint em, maybe I wont. I will probably do a second pass on both of them.

Flash x_x

2009-04-26T16:40:00.005-04:00

UPDATE 2: Finished building the character for this test scn, he can be seen here. Next step, Animation

UPDATE: Here is the same piece taken through PS. I didn't change any of the colors, just added a shit load of lighting filters and textures

My love for flash is far outweighed by my hatred for it.

Old favorites, and a new project

2009-04-20T11:58:00.004-04:00

I loved Mortal Kombat as a kid and always enjoyed drawing the characters. Kabal and scorpion where my favorite. I drew thes two years ago and just recently did a pass over on them, I think Kabal will be my next painting project I see a lot of opportunity for cool lighting with that eye blast thing.

Bare knuckle Boxer

2009-04-15T17:44:00.004-04:00

Wow I think I learned like a million things while doing this color is so fascinating. I was taught about light, shade, and highlights back in my Life drawing class, but when you are working in pencil rendering a drawing comes down to contrast and saturation of the tonal range of whatever pencil(s) it is you are using. Add color and suddenly the your options explode palette, saturation tones within in the color, all these things give you a endless amount of optional paths to choose from when painting, however, even with all these things there is still a right and wrong way of painting. When it all comes back to the way the light and color acts around the object you are painting there still must be a level of reality (with a realism approach) to the painting. I am in incredible disbelief right now, and to think the range of visible light the human eye can see is actually only a sliver of the entire light range, imagine if we could paint in infrared or the ultraviolet wave lengths. A work of art not only representing space, and light, but temperature as well. It would be cool to see a painting of a dessert and as your looking at it you beign to actually feel the heat eminating from it. Or maybe I'm just being a dreamer.

Anyways, if you feel you have some painting skillz that are better then mine, please gvie me some photoshop painting crits, I want to improve!!

A step

2009-04-15T00:26:00.001-04:00

MOAR!!!

2009-04-14T17:05:00.003-04:00

Whats better then zombies? how about zombies fighting a werewolf? I like the pose of the werewolf I had a much more grand vision for this drawing and couldn't get the angle I wanted. drawing convincingly, and consistently on something foreshortened is a very difficult skill to even begin to grasp let alone master.

The Zombie on the center bottom makes me laugh every time I look at him, if you have a sense of humor like mine then you understand why.

Gurl with Guns

2009-04-05T23:40:00.003-04:00

UPDATE: So i have came to the end with this I think. To work with color requires being bold and confident with your strokes, I think I got too wrapped up in details and lost sight of the bigger picture, I painted for 15 hours or so on this and it feels like im jsut spinning my artistic tires on it now, and half way through I changed the direction of my light source.. BIG NO NO i found out. One of these is a step in my process where I lay down the highlights and shade as block of color, the nitty gritty is trying to blend them, in which case I lost momentum. Well onto other things now.

Next UP! Gurl w/ Guns. This is another drawing I did that I liked and thought it had some really nice elements to it. however like everything else I draw it desperately needed a second pass. Her balance was off, The persepctive on the guns were off / I didnt like the designs, and some of her facial features seemed placed wrong. Don't get me wrong I could easily give any drawing a 3/4/5 pass over to tweak and tighten, but I wanted to get to painting her. Plus the longer I work on something the less chance their is of me finishing it.

Round 2 Dhalsim

2009-04-05T12:46:00.004-04:00

EDIT: And 7 Hours later here is the finished, at least its as far as I'm taking it, I would really like to see some cool glow effects on the fire ball, but meh!

I really liked the Dhalsim pic I did a week ago but there were areas I thought didn't read so well, and some areas where the anatomy was off. So I redrew it, touched it up and plan on painting it. for now here is the line version.

A progress in work

2009-04-05T01:18:00.002-04:00

Girls, Orc, and Gradients

2009-04-01T15:19:00.001-04:00

The devils in the details.

2009-03-27T18:16:00.002-04:00

I have been working in a sorta cartoony style the last couple of months trying to develope some thing that would suit the animation medium. But as of late I have been doing these more detailed drawings, a little more comic book style I think. Paying a lot of attention to anatomy and perspective, although proportion is off in many cases especially in the leg area. Either way I had fun doing these which I think makes a big difference, design has never been my strong suit and trying to draw in a more animated fashion doesn't come naturally to me. Basically it all comes down to experience, just need to draw more. I'm trying to inprove all aspects of my game, I started coloring the skull thing above in PS, its a lot of fun, but makes me realize that I would learn faster with some direction of someone more experienced in PS rather then me just stumbling my way through it. Something to consider.

Cheers
-DAN-

Space girls and Blah

2009-03-23T22:56:00.002-04:00

I'm searching for something that I think my drawings lack.. and I'm going to call that thing personality. These are some attempts at some ladies. Their are some things going on that I like, but over all they all came out sorta generic. I have started posting again, its been so long this feels like I'm typing this post to myself haha. Their must be something about this that is theraputic. I spent 3 hours today trying to stumble my way through PS painting one of these, it's as much fun as it is frustrating.

Mobster, lip syncs and landmines.

2009-03-20T18:38:00.002-04:00

Here is a old design I had done years ago for a classical lip sync. It didn't pan out back then but like a tommy gun totting pheonix it rises from the ashes reborn in flash.

I still have some tones and highlights to put on him, and then I need to break the character down to a flash build so I can animate him. But at least it's something.

The background matches the color of the shirt which is a BIG no no haha. but I enjoyed doing this. I will update with a finished version later.

-DAN-

Painting in a digital manner.

2008-09-25T21:35:00.004-04:00

Update: I decided to add the original to make this sorta a progression type of thing. I did another pass on everything today. im not sure if I took any step backwards, but color is both fascinating and incredibly difficult. If I was smart I would research some coloring tutorials. maybe after im done. I think I wont update again till im finished. we will see.

I borrowed a buddies WACOM tablet. something that actually works. and I started fooling around in photoshop. I really enjoyed myself, this is of course a work in progress, but when I started doing the background and messing around with different brushes and stuff I really started enjoying myself. Making a attempt at the character is step number two. I have no clue what im doing, but i am loving it. I hope th is image is big enough. anyway...........

A monster, some color. and equipment Woes

2008-09-13T20:28:00.004-04:00

Color YAY!!!!!!. I went out and bought some water colors last weekend, been looking forward to experimenting. I feel like the artistic equivilant of a 21 year old college girl on spring break.

The castle thing was my very first attempt, trying to do some gradient cloud stuff. it failed. but thats ok. The monochromatic monster guy I like. I think Im going to fill the rest of the watercolor book with weird creations like this guy.

The heavy grays in the two pics is casue my scanner isnt a flatbed, so the raised lip causes those greys. I swear sometimes the world seems to be trying to beat me down. I do have the worse luck with technology. Someday I will get my shit straight but untill then it painting and aniamting the old school way.

Dan-OUT!

Dear Tooya I HATE YOU!

2008-09-09T22:20:00.002-04:00

So after 3 weeks of playing email tag with Tech support people from around the world from China to Canada I got a asnwer from the Tooya people about my tablet. They have no clue whats wrong with it, and wont return my money. I dont know what else to do the feeling of being blantely ripped off and receiving no support from the Tooya people pisses me off to no ends. In hopes of not having this post turn into a all out bitch fest I will say one last thing here.

Tooya you got my 250 dollars, but to anyone that reads this post know that this is a poor company with a poor product and even worse tech support, they dont care about what they sell or who buys it as long as they get your money. if you are in the market for a tablet buy anything else other then Tooya.

with that said, who wants a 250 dollar paper weight?

Sticky note mania.

2008-09-09T21:35:00.003-04:00

Some monster type thingies, and a drawering of that little guy running scared.... probably from the monsters YIKES!

More character?

2008-08-26T16:14:00.003-04:00

Character Design for myself is really a love hate relationship. It takes me a long time to get something I enjoy and even then I never feel like I have pegged a character. It usually end up with me giving up and accepting the point I have come to with the drawing I have done. I am still looking for a character here, and I think this is better then my previous attempts. Animating the run Below was fun, but I don't feel like the character is there yet, so I continue drawing until I find something that works for me.

Sticky note drawings galore I will keep trying to post . I need to start fooling around with color.

/ Wrists

2008-08-26T16:05:00.003-04:00

Sometimes when I dont feel like drawing cartoons, I try to do some figure drawing using the anatomy I have in my memory. I know some referance would sure come in handy but when im drawing on sticky notes at my desk while Harmony is in the middle of one of its freeze ups, I am not aloud that luxury.

Derek Hess is a big inspiration to me. His sketchs are so alive, and the lines he uses in them are very bold and confident. I do not yet have grasp of what it takes to put lines like that down on paper, so I find myself over drawing a lot of the time. Its still fun and I love drawing in regular bic pen since it forces you to work light and delicate and really build up a drawing like your scuplting in a 2D world. It also means no going back, I cant tell you how many sticky ntoes a day I throw away. Anyway here are some Emo drawings I have done in the last little bit.

2008-08-24T02:16:00.002-04:00

Ahhh Classical animation. This is culmination of Sat, I did this on my animation disc without back lighting, and only shot it once in the wee hours of the morning. I get so lost in the details and structure I miss out on the big picture sometimes, the over all action of things and of course the timing. I was going to do this on my computer roughing it out in flash, which of course is much easier seeing as hour you get to scrub through your work as soon as your draw it. However, the 200 dollars I spent on a "Tooya pro" brand tablet has been ill spent. The pen has a insane amount of lag when I am using it, so much so it makes drawing a decent line near impossible. I have tried all diffirent types of solutions from changing the bettery in the pen, to deleting and reinstalling drivers and programs I even hooke up my friends Wacom tablet, and that works like a dream. So I think i'm going to send the tablet back saying its defective and if I get another one that is the same way then I will have wasted 200 bucks on nothing. But untill then I reserve my judgments for the products of Tooya. But so far not so good. This all brings me back to the reason why I ended up animating a run cycle classically today. I think Tomorrow I may attempt a Take or something with the same character. The run needs timing changes all over the palce im not so sure I want to make all those changes. Anyway my rant is over All in all I am happy with the way it turned out considering the circumstances.

-DAN-

Some large looms on the horizon

2008-08-23T09:36:00.002-04:00

Well I have been through a lot in the last couple of months, but I think I finally have my head on straight again. I am feeling the need to create, and this time its not for any other reason then the process itself. These are some quick sketchs for a character thats in progress. This little guy has evolved a far way from the first couple I did (wich arn't posted). Still trying to find more pleasing shapes as im not the best character designer it takes me longer then some to get something down I enjoy. The idea is that this little guy will be leading to something bigger, soon maybe a couple pencil tests and then later a film. The goal is to have it submitted to the Ottawa Film Fest of 09 but we will see. I remain cautious as I have a bad track record for finishing things. but I do feel this time will be different. I'm about to sit down and start a pencil test, I will post that later, but since it has been so long since I posted on a regular basis, I would assume my blog has lost all traffic. Which is ok, creation for its own sake is what makes it worth wild. Untill next post.

PS. if there anyone that is reading this that can give me some advice on how to spiffy up my blog page I would really appreciate that. Email me. or add my contact on MSN

Bracken wood inspiration.

2008-06-11T20:52:00.003-04:00

One of my favorite film makers has to be Adam Phillips. His short films are rich in story and use flash animation in a very cool way. My favorite work of his is called "Brackenwood" which centers around a main character named "Bitey" and his journeys through everyday life in the world of "Brackenwood".

I would have to say the most stunning part of his short films are the FX, and if i'm not mistaken during his time at Disney that was the department he worked in. The link is to the first film in the "Brackenwood" series and in comparison to the later instalments is a little unpolished. But in its own right the film is still amazing and I watch it often when looking for inspiration.

I havent posted anything new in a while, and this post will be a exception. Because I think for anyone out there that is into indy animated films these are definatly some of the best out there. So watch, and I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

http://www.biteycastle.com/biteyWindow.htm

Detail Pass

2007-11-22T21:43:00.000-05:00

More work on the run. I added most of the details and have been gearing up to finihs this sucker. I wouldnt have posted this but since my last post turned out to be barley visable I wanted to show it udner better conditions. There are a lot of teeks I have amde not of to fix before I toss on a pencil line over the Colerase. Lookin forward to seeing this thing colored. Woot

Shooting it on 2's looked slow but ones seem a little to fast I think I will add two more frames to the top of his arc. slow that out a bit and it should look good. I dunno why I cant figure out how to post decent video on this damn thing. I think it has to do with my scanner.

(c 0_o)

Rough Redone

2007-11-21T00:06:00.001-05:00

Ok After some good advice. I completly Redid all the keys and B-Downs to this Beotch. I think it has 100% more life better arcs, and strong lines of action. For this being my first return to Classical in, well over a year since i have been able to shoot anything, I am super happy with the way this is tunring out, Stoked one might even say. cant wait to toss on the details. I dig this character and am doing a turn around of him as well. So I figure I will probably clean this up and color it. That should be done over the weekend. then its back to the sculpture.

I have added a bunch of detail to him, and figured out some good techniques for textures.. and alos some bad ones. but I didnt feel like scrapping 5 hours of work. So I will leave the bad detail in, and jsut keep pushing forward. Art, im starting to realize, never turns out the way you want it to. And being able to adjust from what i see in my minds eye to whats being translated onto the paper is a very important lesson. And I suppose the goal is to be able to train your mind and fine tune it, to get that image or message out as clearly as possible for others to see and enjoy.

TESTING!!!

2007-11-18T20:24:00.000-05:00

Ok well this is a test, I finally got this printer scanner thing wroking. had to go through a lot of trouble to get it to work. and this is the first time I have ever posted VIDEO on my blog. It is a rouch run cycle, I scteched out over half a year ago, its only half of the run adn then looped, but since I have means of shooting it now, I will work on it some more. This was a test post more then anything.

(c 0_o)

Sculpting Update

2007-11-14T19:01:00.001-05:00

Ok So, I have done more work on this beast. gone through many hours of usless work to try and get my groove back. But I found a new hero to worship when it comes to sculpting his name is Peter Kong and some of his wrok can be found on ConceptArt.org The level of detail he achieves is truley inspiring, It gave me some mojo to try harder then ever on this thing. so this is where its at now. Getting closer to being finished. Sometimes I go over board on some of the details and they blurred in with other details instead of standing out as they should. but thats part of the learning curve I guess.

On a side Note, The scanner I was going to get fell through. I am still scannerless and cannot post any new art as of yet. But I have been getting back a lot of motivation to animate something classically... Im leaning towards something to do with earthworm Jim, since He rules. I also have a run cycle I plan on getting posted somehow...

Take cares guys and any crits or suggestions on how to better myself in anyway please feel free to leave them, as long as there contructive.

(c 0_o)

Been A while

2007-08-26T19:20:00.001-04:00

So I haven't had access to a scanner in a long time, and im sure anyone who use to check this blog has given up on me updating. which is ok. I'll start it again and I get a scanner on Wed, so i will start posting again and try to get my links wroking once again.

This is a sculpture I have been wroking on. Its hard to tell what it is from this angle. but it was the only picture I could get onto my comp without it crashing. I will try to uplaod more later. and hopfully get a good trun around of it when im done.

(c 0_o) Im back~I think

Aliens

2007-01-27T21:28:00.000-05:00

Something I did for art jumble. some sketchs during work.

Lets get Wonka'd

2007-01-06T17:59:00.000-05:00

Some drawings I diddled for artjumble.blogspot.com with the theme of wonka. wow look at me posting up a storm. more to come.

(c 0_o)-dan-

Liquid ladies

2007-01-03T18:29:00.000-05:00

Ok so these were acouple sketchs I did while at work before christmas. im strapped for time here so enjoy please leave a comment or a crit I love hearing them and enjoy.

(c 0_o)-DAN-

Ready! Steady! FOLIO

2006-12-20T20:29:00.000-05:00

HEY HEY! so this is the first time I have brought a character sheet to this level of polish.. and I gotta say I LIKE IT. this is a contender for my folio thee character is not as developed as I would like... jsut small inconsitancies and what not. but I do like the posing, I have been drawing alot mroe latley and will be getting a bunch more drawing up shortly i hope. I hope you all have a greta holiday no matter what your belief. Im off to sask tomorrow to drown my myself in eggnog and rum.. good times

PS im sorry to my anyone who was a link on my blog I will be getting them back soon. I know my blog isn;t huge on the traffic, but regardless I consider this sorta a respect thing.

(c 0_o)-DAN-

Concept shon-cept

2006-12-13T21:01:00.000-05:00

Ok so here I am once again. been drawing alot the last couple of days, working on some folio peices. don't have one. thought maybe its time. so first task on the agneda... good ol character design.. whith a second hiddne purpose. its like a kinder suprise excpet wiht no shitty toy... or chocolate for that matter.they character design though lead into a little sotry board assignment im doing.. been thumbnailing all night. should be good..anyway I have lots of plans and very little time to accomplish none of them. so crack me another beer I have some drawing to do.

(c 0_o)-DAN-

why

2006-12-10T21:31:00.000-05:00

Well the last 3 or 4 days my blog has been down for unknown reasons. I had to delete my links and change my template and email blogger but its back up and running, I hope I didn't lsoe anyone tothsi shitty circumstance. I will be replacing the links soon and posting in a bit. thansk to anyone who checks or links my blog I really appreciate it...

(c 0_o)-dan-

Weird Years

2006-12-06T18:45:00.000-05:00

So here I am, in ottawa. its a nice city, im right downtown. I wanna throw out some props to my buddy Marshall for giving me a place to crash, if u don't know im here to tell you, check out his blog in my links, hes a super talented guy.

So im wokring on a show right now called "weird Years" airs on YTV, not sure where else, for the new studio im at "Mercury Filmworks". Its a high quality show and demands some close attention to detail to get animation stuff approved on. I was worried at first, but I managed to do over quota my first week on the job, and it looks like this week will be the same. the biggest waves start wiht the smallest ripples.

anyway these are acouple doodles I did at work waiting for things to composite. man oh man art is the exact opposite from riding a bike, sure you may remember how to hold a pencil but without daily practise your skills will go no where. Bobby chui is a good guy to listen to, I found some of his tutorials wich aren't so much "how to do's" but more "watch me talk a philosiphies about the artist way". Great advice. But yeah three weeks out of it and im back.

im kicking around a story board idea. whith a "Indiana Jones" vibe to it, set in a more of Inca style time period, inspired by a "Tool" song lol. But since i am the worst person in the world for finishing stuff maybe I'll just stick to trying to draw everyday. anyway I have rambled for much to long, here is some art and I plan to be posting mroe often now that im slightly more settled.

(c 0_o)-DAN-

Off to Ottawa

2006-11-09T13:30:00.000-05:00

here is a quick doodle I did at wokr.. ti will be my last post I will make in New brunswick.. the next time I post i shall be in ottawa, Canada. i hoe anyone who checks my blog regularly will come abck after a month or so absence that I will be taking from here. btu in either case I will push on. im excited for a new city and a new job things are super busy the next month ro so,, but a good busy.. change is good. I just need to be drawing more.a always more... anyway enjoy ppl see you in a month

(c 0_o)-DAN-

Glowkid

2006-10-29T16:55:00.000-05:00

UPDATE: so this is my very first attempt at using Photoshop. I really liked this picture and wanted to amp it up, since the kid is suppose to be glowing i wanted to try and make him like like he is... once again I failed.. but I did some cool things with the picture. I lvoe the swirlies coming out of the back of the bike and I made the rocks look like rocks Lol. anyway it was lots of fun adn I'll be coloring in photoshop again VERY soon.

This is a peice done for www.artjumble.blogspot.com its like a weekly drawing jam thingy. super cool.

Bowser!

2006-10-24T21:38:00.000-04:00

So here is the best thing i have ever colored. I do not fancy myself a color guy in anyway but this turned out awesome I think. Bowser was the first drawing I did for this little nintendo montage but the last one I colored. and he easily turned out lookin the best. Enjoy and please leave a comment or crit.

Thanks
(c 0_o)-DAN-

Jammin

2006-10-22T17:25:00.000-04:00

So work has started doing its weekly drawing jam thanks to the initative of Dan helle. hes in my links check him out. Redesign nintendo character so I went with the classic mario luigi, but tried to make them a bit more adult. and its one of the first times I completed a picture in color and sorta brought it more to a final finished state. i also drew a bowser which im going to try and color tonight but for now I'll update with this

(c 0_o)-DAN- Enjoy!!!

in the army...

2006-10-16T13:48:00.000-04:00

K fuck it here are the colors I did. no point in hidind.. any constructive crits ppl might have are most definatly welcome

My ticket is booked. NOV 28th im in Ottawa. untill them I will be floating around fatkat helpin out here and there. I jsut got back from vacation and I hope to get back to drawing now that the overtime projects are done and HTF is done. and here is a little doodle I did today waiting for work... ahh i wish I was good with color. I had a version that had some greens laid in, but as ushual I overworked the peice and it ended up looksing sloppy and confusing.. so you guys only get the black and white sorry...maybe i'll woork mroe on it later

Enjoy

(c 0_o)-DAN-

Life Altering Change

2006-10-03T22:44:00.000-04:00

So my contract draws (no pun intended) to a end and so ends another chapter all be it a quick one in my life, but not without its merit. I have landed myself a job at mercury sudios in Ottowa. I go over there at the end of november to start work on a show called "gerald Mc boing boing" a kids show based off a Dr. Seus story. Should be fun, the move means more money and in a bigger studio then the one im at right now. looks like my career as a budding animator is starting to take off. I Loved my time at "fatkat" here in Miramichi, it being my first industry experiance, I got the chance to work with many talented ppl on a show I absolutly adore.. for any of you who don't know its called "Happy Tree Friends" airs every monday night at 12 am on g4tech tv. Fatkat is a studio with big dreams and is ran by a guy that I believe will change the industry someday. I think he really cares for animators and does his best to keep the fatkat experiance unuiqe and wonderfull. Gene buddy keep on rockin, I would recomend wokring at Fatkat to anyone. Im really excited and can't wait to see what the nations Capitol has to offer me. I also asked my asked Girlfriend to come with me, fingers crossed on that one. she has awhile to decide. but as of right now LIFE IS GOOD... I never want to make a post on this blog that doesn't involve a drawing of some sort so this tinman is something I did acouple days ago. Enjoy

(c 0_o)---DAN

Somthing looms large on the horizon

2006-09-30T10:18:00.000-04:00

Been crazy busy... comin to the end of my contract and helping my boss out with a piloet for a inhouse tv show hes trying to pitch to Cartoon network. go check it out if you wanna.. www.myadventureswithcloe.blogspot.com I don't think that link wil work so copy paste it. Happy Tree Friends is coming to a end and the crunch is on.. i'll be happy when I get to dump this loaf. and I also jsut moved.. so what im getting at is that im super busy. Wich is ok, its better then being bored. During my breaks at work I manage to get a little wacom action in and doodle this up. ENJOY!! C&C welcome

Quick Post#2

2006-09-22T11:12:00.000-04:00

Much better I think.. thank god.. I really liked the head and torso but the rest was gross looking.. this feels much better

still working on the lip sync. almost done keying and breaking down... Shit is crazy right now... just wnated to post something so you guys that check my blog more then once in a lifetime know that im still alive... taking the weekend off.. be abck???i dunno when SOON i hope

Quick post

2006-09-12T21:41:00.000-04:00

Just acouple scetchs I did in the last couple of days..Lip Sync is going well.

(c 0_o)---DAN---

Do you know what Nemisis means?

2006-09-10T22:35:00.000-04:00

Wanted to update, but didn't have access to a scanner tonight. I took a week break from the pencil cause the Girlfriend was down for the week,(good times, I miss you Baby). but im back at it now and have been rocking out keys and break downs fot the lip sync im doing... its about 187 frames and I had it all keyed out and half way broke down.. but with some adivce from acouple friends I think i can improve the last half of it. so I scrapped a bunch of drawings and am back to keying out. but the first half is lookin really good. since I wasn't able to scan tonight I thought I would share some Keys. try to keep my blog fresh instead of letting it get moldy. try to keep the little group of ppl who actually check my blog regularly comin back and leaving those crits and comments that I love so much...WOOT... i'll post the video when the whole sync is keyd and broken down till then ENJOY!!

(c 0_o)---DAN---

Big Bad Blod Update Part2

2006-09-01T19:19:00.000-04:00

Ok so the second part of this Big Bad Blog Update consist of my own spare time workings.. I have been trying to come up with a character sorta of a mob boss type for a lip sync im doing. it from the Moive "Snatch" and is the character Brick top asking someone if they know what the word nemisis means... greta stuff. anyway I punched out the keys for it which im about to shoot into flip book to tweak timing and what not.. I wanted to share some of the early designs with you and I will be posting the animation as soon as its to the point where I feel like sharing it. The skeleton is a character Im going to tinker with he needs further designing but the character itself looks like fun to animate. I will be tossing around that idea soon. so this post is all aniamted related. Latley I have been breath art. which is good if im not aniamting at work the im drawing and if im not drawing at work then im animating or drawing at home... I hope there is a day in wich I am comparible to some of my Idols in the industry. but I feel that there needs to be some animation on ym blog. so im trying to get back into the classical side of my training. ENJOY

(c 0_o)---DAN---

Big Bad Blog Update Part1

2006-09-01T19:06:00.000-04:00

First off I wanna plug my work as a animator. The Very first "Happy Tree Friends" short was released onto I-Tunes this last week. A show called "from Hero till Eternity" its the one of the first shows I wroked on, on the new lot of Happy Tree Friends shows. There will be a new short released at the end of every month till November... and the actual 22 minutes show premiers on G4TECH TV on Otober 2nd at midnight. Please go and download it, tell your friends, and ENJOY. Alright so I have still been drawing alot not really finishing antyhing jsut drawig at work and stuff. so I Love constructive Crits please leave them. anyone can feel free to link if the wish. im just another artist trying to get recognized.

PS. thansk to all who left comments you all push me, and drive me to be a better artist thanks you all.

(c 0_o)---DAN--_

A temporary change

2006-08-16T17:37:00.000-04:00

So I have some new drawsin to show you guys.. im curently trying to color some more stuff. these are doodles I did a bit ago. I changed my blog template so I can bost a banner, when I finish it that is.. and I'll be laying down a new tile for my blog ina bit as well. so in either case crit away these pics, or jsut enjoy them

(c 0_0)-DAN-

Last bit of Kombat and another Mech

2006-08-15T20:19:00.000-04:00

Alright. SO ppl liked the direction I was taking scorpion. But like I mentioned in my previous post and ppl reconfirmed the pose was weird and there were many things that where wrong with it. SO attempt number two was today and its much better, im happy with it, and I think its a good note to end my Mortla Kombat kick on... I did however just get a new extension for flash so I think im going to try coloring the Mortal Kombat Characters I have been drawing. I feel like im trying to swim across the ocean with only a pair of water wings and a sandwich, but whatever I'll dive in anyway.

The Second peice is a sketch and the color of a mech I have been working on I would really appreciate Crits on this peice to try and help me with my color theory.

Till next time enjoy

(c O_0) -DAN-

More Kombat

2006-08-14T17:37:00.000-04:00

Ok so I did some more fan art of Mortal Kombat, My little bro wnated to see Kabal, who is also one of my more favorite characters in the game I think I did him not bad justice..its a little rough on the rendering but I really like the way the pose tunred out. So there you go Josh Enjoy bro. I tried going a little diffirent with Scorpion, making him more of a undead character then anything, I like what I have going but I know the pose could be stronger so I don't think im taking this peice any further then it already is. I am a big fan of constructive Crits so if you have some let me hear them. other then that I have been drawing like mad latley and I have alot more to post I will give these pics acouple days before I dump again.

Tell then, ENJOY!

(c 0_o) -DAN-

KABAL Update: trying to push the light and darks on him.

Mortal Kombat

2006-08-10T18:58:00.000-04:00

I was sitting at work thinking about video game si use to love as a kid and naturally Mortal Kombat came up. When ever I see Mortal Kombat characters they are always eithe Scorpion and Sub Zero so I decided to do Reptile conjuring up one of his green force balls. I wish I could color but I have my hands full just trying to become a better designer and animator. either way. I think im going to maybe do more of these detailed peices anyone have a characer they wanna see??? make a suggestion please

till next psot ENJOY

-DAN-

Dump a Lump

2006-08-08T22:35:00.000-04:00

OK so another week, another post. I tried drawing a minotaur yet again but this time putting more of a buffalo spin on things it tunred out meh, The old man with the crappy lettering is going to be my banner, im leanring how to alter my blog to customize it better. The old man is cool but the lettering needs work im going to color it in flash since thats the only program I know really well and see if I can get some cool glow effects on the lettering. The reast is jsut what I did last night nothing much but at least its something..

-DAN-

Mused

2006-08-03T19:52:00.000-04:00

So I took a little trip last weekend to and came back to work with a new vitality for drawing. I have been drawing every night and finished my whole weeks quota in 2 days so I draw during down time at work... its crazy I feel like I have been reborn with art.
sincee I don't have any more sketch books, i gotta go out and buy a new one I have been drawing pretty much only in bic pen on computer paper and I am loving it... still trying to push the posing. I really like the poses for the legless monster and the weird trurtle man on wheels was inspired by that creepy fucking movie "Return to Oz" if you have never seen it, but like things morbid and macabre I suggest watching it..
Anyway I want more visitor at my blog and I have been trying to get ppl to stop by so Plz if you would be so kind as to leave a comment I would love to hear anything from anyone.. even if its just a "hi". thanks for reading and looking

-DAN-

Danimator Update

2006-07-31T17:30:00.000-04:00

I came back from a little trip this weekend feeling refreshed and a new vigr for drawing I drew up a storm the last couple of days. I do not yet have a scanner but I have friend that is nice enough to let me use his for the time being. I have been getting the animation bug again to do some classical stuff I have some ideas brewing and I want to spruce up the old Folio a bit soon as well. I also think my blog need a little bit of a overhaul wich I say I will always do but never seem to get around to.... one of these days.. and I am trying my hand at coloring a little something wich I will post as soon as I get it done... untill then plz leaves constructive crits for any of my work or just a comment is great thansk for visiting...

-DAN-

Update cont

2006-07-31T17:29:00.000-04:00

Update Cont..

2006-07-31T17:22:00.000-04:00

Ode 2 Star Trek #1

2006-07-26T19:39:00.000-04:00

Alright this post is dedicated to a buddy of mine that just had a kid and is a HUGE Star Trek fan. I like caricturizing ppl even though I can't spell it. I posted the individual pics below but as of late the image wuality has been poor since my lack of a scanner. Ryan this ones for you buddy Enjoy!!!!

-DAN-

Just something

2006-07-18T19:20:00.000-04:00

Saw "nacho libre" laughed a bit and was sorta inspired by Blacks character to draw then I started drawing and lost all motivation... and the other thing is just random. The drawing Jam with the sins is done... but i still want to finihs my idea. I made a attempt at Pride/Wrath, it didn't turn out so good. I will give it a second go untill then enjoy these.

Sloth and Glutony

2006-07-10T23:38:00.000-04:00

Ok so im involved in this drawing jam adn the theme is the 7 deadly sins. I didn't want to do 7 pictures so im thinking im going to go the route of embodyment and what the sins would look like if they could take on a form... ofcourse they would be vary scary and monster-ish... and instead of doing the 7 I though I would do 3 and combine 2 of the 6 of them, since some of the sins seem to compliment eachother.... so im going to go with Sloth/glutony wich is this post I thought Wrath/Pride would be a cool combo and then Lust/Envy would be the thrid... but given my traqck record for finishing projects I woulnd't be suprised if I didn't do any more on this theme anyway Enjoy till next time

-DAN-

Pushin till Something Gives

2006-06-26T21:58:00.000-04:00

Another post still trying to focus on posing.. really get into whats going through the charcters head at that certain point in time... I can't not draw with anatomy.. I need it so its a habit I don't care if I beak i'll just keep trying to push posing untill something gives and I all of a suddden get it... hopefuly lol

Enjoy
-DAN-

Tiki Madness

2006-06-23T18:12:00.000-04:00

Ok SO i had a reall lengthy discussion with a friend about my posing and how its pretty bland I tried thinking a bit more about the charcter and what I was trying to say with the pose... Im still a far cry off from getting anything I would call amzing but I definatly think this is a step in the right direction... plz leave comments and or crits as long as there constructive I love hearin them...

I hate Cyclops

2006-06-19T23:22:00.000-04:00

I can never remember the order those pictures go... anyway acouple dudes at the studio got together and got this drawing jam going, redesign a x-man of your choosing.. well I didn't quit take that to heart I just drew cyclops and tried to make him cool cause normally and especially since the movie came out... I hate that character.. anyway the other are a swash buckelr type of guy and girl I tried to draw from memory from a blog I stumbled across. Wish I could remmber the name of it the guy was a amazing painter anyway.. i have been doing pretty good with updating the blog latley.. PLZ oh dear lord please leave comments and Crits... its the only way i get better thanks to all who stumble across my Blog and leave a comment...

-DAN-

the flow of imagination

2006-06-13T23:36:00.000-04:00

2 posts in one day I have said before one of the more enjoyable things about drawing for me is just letting go, and seeing were your drawing will come out of.. a simple shape or idea can snowball into something pretty amazing sometimes... been watching alot of sci-fi latley nad just let loose with and this weird sorta thingy came out of it... hope to post more soon...

same bat time same bat channel

-DAN-

Sketchin out of a hole

2006-06-13T23:32:00.000-04:00

As of late I have really been struggling with the idea of my career and where I want to take things... I have been losing motivation and am considering options outside the feild of animation... but I push on and I still enjoy sketching so here is a little update... hope you enjoy leave a comment if you would, I love reading em and seeing who has seen my stuff

Penny Tree

2006-06-04T22:09:00.000-04:00

So, I think art can come in many diffirent forms and styles and latey during down time at work I need things to amuse myself with. I always toss my pennies into a corner at work casue pennies have to be the most usless coin out there.. one Saturday afternoon while at work I took a break and start stacking these pennies, a friend saw and showed me some picture off the net of ppl who build litte bridges and shit out of pennies. there is some sorta physics there for where all the weight goes and stuff like that, but I like it for amazment you can get out of ppl that you can stack pennies in a gravity defying way.. anyway here is acoupole pictures. One of a penny bridge I built, and a penny tower me and a friend worked on during breaks..... maybe I should take that time to sketch or something? NAH LOL

-Dan-