Leigh

Leigh, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Let me start by saying that I've been having a helluvva past couple of months with brutal animation deadlines, and work pressure out the waazzoo.. Artistically, I'm so completely burned out that I was starting to think I COULDN'T draw anything for myself even though I really wanted to, but didn't have the drive, nor the energy.

I was browsing the recent entries for the folks I'm watching, when I came across a recent post by Babyfox on deviantArt.. I really thought it was a cute design.. I really wanted to draw this.. So I did..

Thanks for getting me out of my art block ! -- Hope you like it..

Based off of her cute design:
HERE.

** HB Pencil, standard crap photocopier paper, with some Photoshop CS4 colour/FX/BG

Autobot Mashup

I realized this morning that I had these sketches in my sketchbook from ages ago, and I've never uploaded them. So here they are... :D  

They're born from frustration over the crap designs from the Michael Bay Transformers movies. I LOATHED the Transformer designs in the film, and knew whole-heartedly that I could design something FAR more appealing in my sleep. So over a few months my sketchbook pages started to fill with drawings like these.. 

Yes.. You see a transformer redesign on a Dr. Who Dalek in there. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!!! ^_^

More Crayon Doodlin'

I'm actually amazed that I got this drawing made at all, considering how many times said 3-year-old took the crayon away from me. I had to crop this scan tight to stave-off the intruding pre-schooler. (He insisted that I was drawing it wrong, and "I show you how") -- I'm told in broken sentences that I don't know how to draw bunny rabbits, and when he scribbles on the page I was drawing on that he's made it a robot out of it.

Crayon on brown construction paper..

Werner III - Clip

Werner III - Clip, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Waaaaay back in 1999 I was doing freelance animation for Hahn Films. I finally managed to find a copy of this film and a few others I had worked on, out of Germany. Man, this was a LOOOONG time ago, and it's kinda weird to see these days of my career again. Here's a clip.

Traditional 2D paper & pencil animation.