Liptacular!

A selection of lips that I've been using for a recent project, as I hadn't been collecting them together initially I ended up with a few almost-duplicates, but thought it was a fun image and reminded me of the drawers of mouth shapes you see Aardman using for their films & tv shows. 

And, since you've been patient with me, here's a preview of two more Batvent characters,

Ra's Al Ghul and Scarface the ventriloquist dummy.

Flight of the Conchords

Here are a few little drawings I did of the FOTC guys the other night while watching a couple of episodes, turns out I'd not seen them all (or my memory had dropped a few to make room for other things) but I couldn't forget their fantastic Daft Punk homage robot costumes!

The humans are dead.

Canada's Technology Triangle

I animated this information film about Canada's Technology Triangle and the Waterloo Region last year, all of it was hand drawn by me in Flash except for the factoid circles which were added after in After Effects.

Hourly Comic Day

Today was Hourly Comic Day and I tried to do something for each hour of the day, also I attempted to have a more interesting time of it than sitting at the computer the whole day.

Wild Lomography

Like Lomography? Like animals? 

You'll love their new range of animal print cameras 

and my animation to tie in with them all!

This was projected all night at the Lomography Toronto Store

on January 26th as part of their launch party for the new range of cameras.

Toast

Toast is this guy, and yes he's not wearing any pants.

If you want to find out more about him and a multitude of his other strange office co-workers then check out Jamie Smart's fantastic Corporate Skull comic at http://www.corporateskull.com/ - but be warned it's not one for kids, (this particular image was from Issue 4-5).

Made because… who doesn't want to give animating 'willy-wobble' a go?

Batvent - Day 15

Here's a gift for you all since you've been so patient while I sauntered off and went skiing.

I also moved to Toronto at the start of the month and have started to finish off the remaining days of Batvent, I've got a few ideas for what to do with them all once I'm finished, maybe this year I'll come up with an advent idea before December!

Batvent (paused)

Sadly I will not be able to continue on with Batvent for this year (at least until after the 28th December) as I have returned to the UK and tomorrow leave for France to go skiing for a week, I have animated only one more Batvent piece in advance but I'll save that for now, the only reason for not getting ahead of myself is that they take a surprising amount of time, not just to animate but to design as well (I'm not used to lineless art as used here apart from my Twenty Five for 25 project in February this year).

I hope that you've enjoyed what you've seen here and if you follow me on Twitter then you'll know I'd love for you to submit your own Batvent images, animated or not, of Batman characters enjoying some time in a winter scene, if you want to send them to me I'll post them up when I'm back, (have a look on my website if you don't already know my email.)

Thanks + Merry Christmas!

Batvent - Day 14

Riddler enjoys leaving question marks everywhere,

even the snow won't stop him doing that!

Batvent - Day 13

Bane might be super-strong but that doesn't

mean he can't enjoy a ride on a sledge!