Spidey Girl

Just a redhead....dressed like Spidey. Not necessarily MJ, just some girl. Spidey Girl.

Cyco Club2: Frozen

More Cyco Club. It was a fight, but I squeezed some FX into this one. More to come.

Cyco Club1: Mermaid

New side adventure happening over at Cycoclub.com. Group of me and mine all coming together to do some art, animation and illustration both, based on some varying themes.

Its only starting up, but Im liking the creative juices its seems to encourage. Here is week 1: mermaids.

check it out! and enjoy.

Well ya know

Well ya know - ruff from Adrian Brisland on Vimeo.

Ruff anim on a 'FX' character lipsync  (voice of Eric Goldberg)

Splash

quick flash test

Slug

Slow day at work...

Jester tattoo colour

First things first, don't look at me for this one...I didn't do it. From the pencil design of my Jester tattoo posted below, I handed it off to a good pal of mine to do the colouring. And oh baby hes good, as you can see. Give his blog a look:

Fabian Cuevas

Designs...?

Aight, so heres something that just fell into my lap, bit of tattoo ideas commissioned from ....Holland?? Designing specifically not something I generally focus on, but these were good times. Im liking the flame thing

One more design-y thing. Gamer tag icon for my brother. "DeathbyDrumstick"  yea yea

Laser?

Not sure what I was doing, definitely a gun blast of some sort. Some kinda watery effect going around it. I guess that would make it an alien thing.

Im only posting it cause Im gonna try and animate something similar. best of luck Me.

X men....in colour

Ive never really tried colouring something before. Never really had interest to after the linework. But this was for a sketch theme blog, so I thought it needed some extra spice.

Mud Man v2

More Mud. I think hes moving along alright

Mud Man v1

Beginning stages of a side project. Inspired by Fern Gully's 'Hexxus'

Foreshadowing

Work sketch made 2min at a time

A few bits and pieces

Couple of things Ive done at work.

Leaf burst and a sand burst

Old man Merlin.

Couple sketches. The kid was done right after I saw How to Train your Dragon. Really nice film

More SUPER muscles. I remember thinking this was cool and having fun drawing it, then showed it to a friend and he just looked at me and said, 'Dude... thats f***ing weird.'

Filler

Alright so, just some stuff to fill the space till I have something to really show...

Couple weeks ago I started my first gig in the animation industry as an effects animator. So far, pretty sweet. Work is done digitally on cintiqs, theres alot of knowledge and experience around along with a very cool dynamic going on. Really lucky to be there.

And this is a short video of the test I did to get the job. The box and bucket were given and I drew the rest. I had ~5 hrs to pull it off and it was the first time I was approaching almost all of those elements so Im happy it turned out like it did.

a later tightened up version

One of the first tattoo designs Ive done. A friend wanted the chinese symbols he already had on his arm framed by a monk who looked to be guarding them. Did it in brush pen, which was kinda tough.



Another up and coming tattoo. Another buddy of mine is into yo-yos. thought this would be cool.

Gilland Book Signings

A few weeks ago, Joseph Gilland, author of Elemental Magic, came down to Ottawa and gave a lecture on classical effects animation and the challenges it faces in today's industry.

He has been travelling the world giving this seminar and although he compressed his usual three day talk in just one for us, it was passionate, informative and inspiring all the same.

Many people bought his book and he sat down for over an hour signing and drawing a little sketch in each one. I stood behind his shoulder and video tapped as many of his drawings as my legs would let me. It was tiring but worth it!

Here are a few with good video quality/favorite of mine. Feel free to cut the audio.




rock explosion 1


rock explosion 2


explosion1


plasma shots


Fire 1


Fire 2


Fire 3


Smoke


Water 1


Water 2


Water 3


Water 4


Water 5


Water 6


Water 7


Wave

Match Maker

My first voyage into effects, this is the standard beginner assignment as recommended to me by Kathleen Quaife (whos torch cycle Ive studied below).

I asked her a little about how she thought one should begin to learn this stuff and she graciously told me the best way was to strike out on my own and try to understand and express myself through analyzing a "simple" little match.

so here goes....



final


rough


and a couple of my thumbnail studies for good measure.

Fire

Another fire cycle that Ive copied in order to study effects animation. This one is straight out of Joseph Gilland's Elemental Magic.

In the spirit of experimentation, Ive tried a different approach on a few frames here and there. My favorite bit was how Gilland has rolled his inner bits of fire off the central ball.

© Joseph Gilland.

effects animation!

wow, its been almost 3 months....who knew.


I recently came across Elemantal Magic, the art of effects animation by Joseph Gilland. And it is AMAZING and I am hooked.

and so, while searching for more to fuel my curiosity in this side of animation I never realized I didnt know...I came across the great blog of Kathleen Quaife whose effects animation blew me away again.

she posted a page on fire animation and I couldnt resist drawing over it and filming it for myself:

2 more

Couple sketch book grabs. They may not seem like much, but I gave these two a little more time then I usually do nowadays. Had some fun with drapery and extra costume pieces etc