Paul Lalo's blog

Hey I have moved!

2011-06-28T15:37:00.003+10:00

Hey! I haven't updated in ages! Times have been super busy, Moved house and I have got a new website and a fresh new BLOG to go with it, so please check it out as this one will no longer be running! Hope you've all been well!

Paul

Floods

2011-02-27T08:55:00.003+10:00

A drawing by mum with her impression during the Brisbane floods.

Back home!

2011-02-02T11:05:00.001+10:00

Heya Blog,

After 2 months of travelling, working and visiting in Europe I am now back in Brisbane who has been through quite an ordeal with the floods and now with cyclone Yasi hitting the north of the state.

I hope you are all well despite all of that and I wish you all the best for this New Year.

Bonne Année!!

2011-01-09T20:14:00.005+10:00

Wow! 2011 already!!

New year resolution #1:

-UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!!!

Yep it's been a while I know... Alot has happened since my last entry (Singapore, Finland, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm...). Alot of travelling which is essential I think to satisfy one's curiosity and sketchbook!

I had to take work with me so I've been travelling with my laptop in one hand and Wacom in the other but working on the road is grand (except when you are in a Macdonald Restaurant desperately trying to find an internet connection...) :)

Hope you are all well and let those good resolutions come out!

volta do mundo intro animation

2010-10-22T16:09:00.001+10:00

A short animation made for the logo of a production company: http://voltadomundoproducoes.com/

Poles Apart Full version

2010-10-03T11:36:00.005+10:00

Hi Blog!I know I have been missing in action lately, alot has been keeping me busy but first here's our graduation film Poles Apart (2007) which after a great run in festivals is now streaming on the web!:

Ludivine et Mika

2010-07-19T11:18:00.002+10:00

Next door neighbour Ludivine and her cat Mika.

Zappa Poster

2010-07-01T16:13:00.005+10:00

A quick drawing made for a poster, advertising an interpretation of Frank Zappa's music by a 19 piece Jazz ensemble led by Clint Allen.

(Poster Design and Layout by Clint Allen)

Monday night Life Drawing

2010-06-22T08:30:00.002+10:00

We had a great session last night with life model Brett Ryan, who brought a Samourai sword and an authentic Japanese Kimono. Was alot of fun!

If you're in town, Brett will be posing with a LIVE PYTHON SNAKE! on the 14th of July @ Kurilpa Hall in West End:

Monday night Life Drawing

2010-06-07T22:01:00.001+10:00

6B Woodless pencil

Monday night Life Drawing

2010-05-31T23:01:00.002+10:00

2-5mins 6B

Capoeira sketch

2010-05-30T21:13:00.002+10:00

Capoeira doodle in Painter X.

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-05-17T22:03:00.002+10:00

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-05-10T19:59:00.002+10:00

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-04-26T21:28:00.004+10:00

I wasn't drawing well (at all) tonight.. So I decided to experiment abit with charcoal:

baby

2010-04-24T21:51:00.007+10:00

Was at friends place today, they have the cutest baby!

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-04-19T23:06:00.006+10:00

We had Brett tonight, I'm not sure why but he's great to draw. I find life drawing to be almost therapeutic these days..

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-04-12T23:40:00.001+10:00

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-03-22T20:42:00.006+10:00

Was abit difficult tonight because I had to use a smaller sketchbook, but a good exercise in trying to fit the whole pose on the page.

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-03-17T07:56:00.002+10:00

This is from monday's session where I tried to play around with quick gestural drawings and their arrangement on the page. (Oh yeah.. and I need a bigger scanner!)

Monday Night Life Drawing

2010-03-01T23:23:00.010+10:00

Life drawing is back!!

2010-02-22T22:02:00.006+10:00

Hey Blog!

I've been itching to get back to life drawing!! Felt really good to use the good old paper and pencil again... A few old classmates from our year for this 1st week too (Steve, Liam, Andreas) and also some of the Lalo siblings joined in as well. Here are some specimens from tonight's session:

Sympatico DVD cover

2010-01-28T08:14:00.004+10:00

I was recently approached by 'trumpet extraordinaire' (Clint Allen) to create a little DVD cover for an experimental group called 'Sympatico' (trumpet, piano, percussion, laptop). Keep an hear out for them!

Fundamentalism and Capoeira

2010-01-22T17:46:00.011+10:00

Here is a little drawing I made for my Capoeira teacher's blog '4Capoeira thoughts'. In a series of 3 post he talks about Fundamentalism as a modern worldwide phenomenon and how it affects the practice of the different styles of Capoeira and inter-group cooperation. Very interesting blog even if you are not entirely into Capoeira.
Peace!

OZanimate 2010 Launch!!

2010-01-06T22:30:00.008+10:00

Hey everyone!! Happy New Year!! I hope you had a great time in 09 and I wish you all plenty of creativity and personal growth in all your artistic adventures of 2010!

I have been busy and working on a little project during the last few weeks that I wanted to share with you for this new year: 'Ozanimate'!!

Ozanimate is a community based website aimed at anyone who is interested in animation in general and in Australian animation in particular.

One of goals of this non-profit website is to be a source of news and entertainment focusing on TV series, short films, feature films and showcasing all types of animated content coming from ‘down under’.

Ozanimate also aims to provide a number of resources like a list of schools, studios and Animation festivals in Australia to help both animation student and professionals.

So come have abrowse and join the site to share ideas, comment on videos, give feedback or even become a contributor by writing posts! The goal is to have this place for everyone and by everyone to help our industry grow by showcasing our local talent!

Big Hugs!!

Paul,

Merry Christmas everyone!

2009-12-21T18:24:00.004+10:00

I was walking in the city mall on Friday and was amazed at the complete Christmas shopping madness. So in these times of mass consumerism I think we should think of the persons who cannot afford a roof over the heads...
Merry Christmas & Joyeux Noel!

Happy Hannukah everyone!

2009-12-17T10:08:00.003+10:00

Griffith Graduates Screening 2009

2009-11-25T13:41:00.009+10:00

Bonjour blogue!

Just thought I'd share some pictures from yesterday's screening! It was a really good one this year and the fresh graduates have definitely raised the bar! Congrats to all of you guys for producing such wonderful work! It gives me great hope for the future of the industry in Australia and in Brisbane in particular!
Amongst my favourites of the night were: 'Knightmouse' (by Josh Huf, Max Cowen and Josh Anguix) 'Defective Detective' (by Andy Copeland, John Grist, Luke Mathers and Francis Stanton) and my pick of the bunch was Samuel Lewis stop-motion jewel: 'Here be Treasure' (exactly the type of short-film that festivals dig!).

sweet escape

2009-11-16T21:40:00.000+10:00

Yann Tiersen- Le matin

2009-11-16T20:51:00.002+10:00

Yann Tiersen - Le Matin.mp3

It's late but I wanted to animate :)

2009-11-12T00:09:00.002+10:00

Can you guess who's the influence?

Mum's drawing on Painter

2009-11-10T23:50:00.001+10:00

My mum has been learning how to use Corel Painter lately, and she's been doing some awesome stuff!! Here is her latest (quite topical) piece.
Keep going mama!

Capoeira workshop

2009-11-08T22:27:00.004+10:00

A quick design for an upcoming capoeira workshop:

Cool Song

2009-11-02T08:12:00.003+10:00

My song of the moment :)

102 - Anya Marina - Vertigo.mp3

Monday night life drawing

2009-10-19T20:45:00.002+10:00

Had a pirate lady tonight Arrrrrrr!! (Do pirates really make that sound?)

Capoeira flyer design

2009-10-09T23:23:00.004+10:00

Hey friends,

Here is the final look for the advertising campaign I worked on for the Capoeira group led by Contra Mestre Eurico in Brisbane and Coolangatta. It took abit of refining but thanks to Eurico's feedback we are pretty happy with the end result. The idea was to show the diversity capoeira as to offer as an art form: Capoeira is a mix of Dance, Music, martial arts, and acrobatics.
The blending off all these aspects and off all the different people from various backgrounds, gender and races who practice capoeira all over the world is also reflected in each illustration and within the look of the title.

Muito Axé câmaras, e muito obrigado!

Monday night life drawing

2009-10-05T20:28:00.005+10:00

Marvel Motion comic

2009-10-04T12:19:00.010+10:00

Ola Blog!
Been playing abit with After effects lately and thought that this Aniboom contest would be a good exercise. The idea was to create a moving comic from a number of static pages supplied by Marvel.
I'm actually not really into American comics (more of a European connaisseur) but this was quite fun. Too bad there wasn't enough spare time to do abit more on this...

Hulllkkkkk!!

Monday night life drawing

2009-09-21T21:05:00.003+10:00

Had an interesting session tonight with a clothed model wearing a 1920's dress and a clown/ballerina costume during the second half.

Birthday Flash e-card

2009-09-20T09:01:00.004+10:00

A birthday e-greeting card done entirely in Flash.
It took less than a week to make.
The idea is to have the end text dynamic so that you can type in your loved one's name.
Hope you like and stay tune for more cards!

Capoeira Flyer designs

2009-09-09T09:21:00.004+10:00

G'day!
Been working on some graphic design for our Capoeira group.
Here are some concepts (work in progress):

Monday night life drawing

2009-09-07T22:37:00.007+10:00

Had a fun session tonight, a couple of friends showed up and my sister came to sketch too:)
After class this guy came up to me and handed me this drawing! I was so focused on that last pose of the night that I didn't notice he was drawing me! Great drawing and such a nice gesture too!!

Jeanne Ramel-Cals 'Mana'

2009-09-06T08:25:00.011+10:00

Hey Bloggers!

I thought I'd finish my journey into the past with my Great Great Great Grandmother (wow! that's alot of great!): Jeanne Ramel-Cals or Jeanne Gibert by her maiden name, she was also known by her nickname 'Mana'.

Mana was a famous Writer/Poet/Journalist and Illustrator, her illustrations which I'm particularly fond of remind me of my favourite artist: Sempé. Having discovered her work only recently I'm very happy to share it with you! Here's her Mana's Bio if you are curious (in French sorry).

Monday night life drawing

2009-09-01T10:44:00.002+10:00

Chump vs Champ Intro

2009-08-28T19:01:00.010+10:00

A quick little Intro done in After Effects for a friend. He's working on a Kiwi TV pilot concept called 'Chump vs Champ'. for more info visit www.chumpvschamp.com
A little violent and not my style but this is was my mate was after :)
Peace!

Monday night life drawing

2009-08-26T09:14:00.002+10:00

Concept doodles

2009-08-19T21:39:00.001+10:00

More family art

2009-08-18T22:16:00.004+10:00

Hey!

Still going up the family tree, here are some watercolours from my great-uncle (Francois Beaudouin) and paintings from his mother Josephine (my great grandmother). She is known for her detailed paintings and her unusual choice of format: she painted on marble stones!
Both have achieved a great deal of control in their techniques...

Dad's oldies

2009-08-13T17:59:00.005+10:00

Now going one generation up! Theses are some of my dad's (Laurent Lalo) old sketches. The annoying thing is that he wasn't even trying to make nice drawings! he was just looking for the right ink/colour/paper combination. An endless quest for the right technique that eventually led him to the computer. He's one of the few first Illustrators to use Painter the Wacom and digital techniques professionally.
A shame that most of these sketches had to go to the local recycling center:( I'm glad I managed to save a few on camera.

Old Art!

2009-08-11T11:24:00.007+10:00

Well if you can call it Art??

These are some of my ancient ancient work dating back to highschool where I majored in Fine arts and Photography. Keep in mind that some of this stuff is like 8 years old!! So please be nice ;)
Rediscovering that stuff after 7-8 years was quite a shock! some of it I was quite surprised with, others reassured me that it seems like I learned a few things since :)

I remember it was alot of fun trying all kind of techniques (gouache, etching, charcoal (where I got abit expressive with the monsters series) and my first ever wacom/digital drawing based on a frame of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira).

Back Home!

2009-08-07T21:46:00.005+10:00

Hi Guys!! I've arrived this morning back in Brissie!!
The trip was amazing and very important for me on all kind of levels.
Seeing Europe and my family and friends again was awesome!!
I would of gladly stayed longer but like they say: it's time to get back to reality..

One cool discovery I made was during a family house cleanup, where I came across old photos, books and drawings from me to my father, grandmother and great great grandmother! I will share with you a number of these in the posts to come. But for now here's a picture which I dug out, lets call it: Young Paul with a chameleon on his head.

So now you see where the inspiration for my Blog/Website Mascot comes from:) For some reasons I've always liked chameleons and picking this animal over another is not completely random:
Since I can remember: I've always had to blend in into different countries, cultures and social situations. Much like the chameleon I had to morph and adapt myself to my environment until it became second nature.

Anyhoo I hope you like!

Peace!

Paul

Business Card

2009-07-30T22:59:00.001+10:00

L'ile noire

2009-07-12T18:35:00.003+10:00

During my cousin's wedding in Frejus (South of France) we came across this island that looked vaguely familiar... after confirmation from the locals, it turned out to be the very same island Hergé used as inspiration for his album ' Tintin et L'ile noire'! Pretty cool I thought!
Hergé is known for his thorough research.
Here is a sketch from the beach+ a photo and Hergé's album.

Annecy 2009 + Trip update

2009-06-27T23:44:00.002+10:00

Hi everyone,

It's been hard but I finally found an internet cafe in Paris. Beleive me it wasn't easy...

Well heaps has happenned since my last post... Annecy was amazing on all levels, enlightning conferences, amazing short films and the most beautiful city to have an Animation festival in. The other cool thing about Annecy, was to see in flesh all of the industry top people, studios, VIPS...

It's is definetely the place to be and everyone was super friendly and accesible!!

the rest of the trip is going well beside a back injury that prevented some of my plans (lucky I took a good insurance policy). I am now getting better and able to walk again! YAY!

More news very soon!

Korea!!

2009-06-06T09:15:00.005+10:00

Ola!!

Little update on the trip while waiting to board the plane to Paris.

Alex Ben and I are now in Incheon (Korea), about an hour drive from Seoul. The first part of the flight went by pretty quickly and we stayed the night at a very nice hotel (probably the best I ever stayed in! Even my name was on the phone!! it was like my own private office in the room!haha I'm not sure the accomodation wil get better than this from now on:D)

The airport looks amazing and very futuristic (like one of those star-trek spacheships!)

Okay the plane leaves soon, I better go :)

Paul

Website Revamp!

2009-06-03T10:44:00.003+10:00

Hey!
It took a while, but I finally got around to redesigning my website.
I'm having issues trying to make it fit everyone's window sizes (I initally wanted it to fit the screen with no margin and no scrollbars), I want to add more images to the portfolio section too.... But anyway this will have to do for now :/ Any feedback you have, bugs, comments,suggestions will be great!!
Here's the link: www.paullalo.com

QLD 2009 iAward!

2009-05-28T16:44:00.004+10:00

Hey blog! just got word that:

Ekidnaworld.com is the Queensland 2009 iAward winner in the Media & Entertainment category. This is in recognition of ekidnaworld’s unique safety feature and technological innovation: Mate Safety™

The iAward is the ICT industry’s most prestigious and only truly international award. In 16 different categories it honours innovative use of technology and the importance of these technology innovations to Australia’s international competitiveness.

Congrats to the eKidna team!

Quick concept sketch

2009-05-24T23:25:00.004+10:00

Meet Jacques :)
Done in Corel Painter 11

Schonell Screening postponed

2009-05-20T19:21:00.002+10:00

G'day, just forwarding this message regarding friday's screening:

Unfortunately the preview screening of 'Heaven In A Wild Flower' scheduled for Friday 22 May has been postponed due to minor licensing issues with music.

My sincerest apologies if this has caused any inconvenience. The production team of 'Heaven' are organising with the Schonell possible dates for a screening in the near future.

I hope you are able to join us on this later date!

Kind regards,

Gabs

Poles Apart screening

2009-05-18T09:30:00.005+10:00

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that Poles Apart is showing on friday the 22nd of May as part of the cast and crew screening of "Heaven in a Wild Flower"(An honours Film&TV short).
Screening is at 7PM @ the Schonell Theatre (5$ ticket).
This will probably be the last Cinema screening of Poles Apart as we are about to release it on the Web after a great run in festivals!
Drop me a line if you'd like to see pang-pang on the big screen.
Hope to see you there!

(Here's a little poster for the occasion)

After Effects Intro

2009-05-13T17:47:00.002+10:00

This was done for a job I've just completed, most of the work was in the final design element which shows much better on a black bgd, but since the green bgd was part of the client's branding,the green colour had to stay throughout the intro.

After Effects Job

2009-05-13T17:43:00.004+10:00

An animation test render of the branding element.

Anzac Day sketches

2009-04-25T13:12:00.003+10:00

A gold mine!!

2009-04-24T13:21:00.006+10:00

Hello Bloggers,

I feel compel to share with you this blog I just came across with: Mark Kennedy is a storyboard artist and has a great talent in expressing stuff we think of, we suspect and we had no idea of...
A real GOLD mine!
Here is a sketch of Glen Keane talking about story that I found on this marvelous blog.

Happy Birthday

2009-04-08T11:27:00.002+10:00

Little sketch for a friend and her twin sister's birthday today :)

Blog New Look

2009-04-03T11:38:00.002+10:00

Hey guys!

If you haven't noticed already my blog is getting a makeover, a few more changes are on the way so keep tuning in:) Also if you find the music irritating I'll take it off :) (it's just a little gadget I'm trying).

Poisson d'Avril

2009-04-01T09:47:00.001+10:00

Mum Takes on Disney

2009-03-29T11:07:00.002+10:00

Mum takes on Disney

eKidna World takes off!

2009-03-29T09:31:00.005+10:00

Hey Guys!
Just a little update on ekidnaworld:
Things are exploding at the moment with 14,000 visits to the website!! and little avatars running around in the world. With Radio an TV interviews on channel 9 and 10 attracting alot of people to the world!!
Here are some screenshots and a video from channel nine:

2009-03-11T15:47:00.000+10:00

Photoshop Brushes

2009-03-10T18:10:00.002+10:00

A little go with Photoshop, After barely touching the surface in Corel Painter, it feels good to try a new tool.

Ekidna World BETA Launch today!!

2009-02-11T22:57:00.003+10:00

Hi All!

How you all doin?

Just wanted to announce that ekidnaworld beta was finally launched today!

For those of you who don't know: Ekidna World is an online world (all done in FLASH!) for kids that Steven Smith, myself and a small team of developpers have been working on for quite a while now (A year for Steve and I joined the effort 6 months ago).

Please feel free to test the world and give feedback or any bugs you find as this is still a beta version.

Also please be nice to other members as this is a safe environment for kids.

To play just register an account and jump in!
See you in Ekidna World!!
Cheers,

Paul,

Art Gallery sketches

2008-12-31T10:19:00.003+10:00

G'day!

Went with Ben, Xin and Rahul the other day to the Art Gallery to do some sketching! so here's a couple. (It's been a while since we've done that, so feels good to use pencil and paper after so long at the wacom :D)
Tata and Happy New Year everyone!

Boymongoose Music Video release

2008-12-17T07:39:00.005+10:00

Hey Guys,

Sorry I haven't been posted much recently, been really busy and exciting news are coming really soon!!
In the meantime here is the long awaited new music video from the Boymongoose band.
Jarrod Elvin, James Lee and myself animated this clip sometime last year, and now that it is Christmas time the video has been released via Youtube and Revver and is doing very well.

(I was responsible for the leadsinger lipsynch and did some of the wicked dance moves (check out that moonwalk!) and also did Paula Abdul and some of the crazy groupies in the crowd)

Back From China!!

2008-11-22T09:31:00.004+10:00

Hey Guys or should I say Niao!

A little update on our Beijing Trip, We had the BEST time ever!! A truly unforgettable experience:
We got to meet talented filmmakers from around the world. Sightseeing (Included the Great wall, Forbidden city, summer Palace, Pandas at the Beijing zoo...) and experiencing the Chinese culture, food and people was awesome.
We got a rockstar treatment with an awesome staff taking care of us, and we'd like to thank everyone of them for such a great experience.
Poles Apart got a great response from both the audience and other filmmakers and raised interesting issues and questions during a Q&A that followed our screening.
Our schoolmate Benjamin Zaugg picked an audience award for his film "The Room", Congrats to him, he really deserved it!
The best of all was seeing so much enthusiasm during the festival from the local audience, who filled up the cinema for each and every screening!!
Stay tune for heaps of photos and a video summary of our Trip!!

Cheers (Xie Xie)!

Poles Apart Directors,

BIAF 2008!!

2008-10-25T08:52:00.004+10:00

Hey Animation Enthusiasts!
BIAF 2008 is coming up next week!! screening in 3 venues this year.
So Gold coast people you should be able to see some of it at Surfer's!
Poles Apart is in competition along with Emily's ("All you crazies"), James Lee's "Tarboy" and a film from Adele which I'm not sure of the title :)
Also the French and Brazilian Film Showcase sounds good to me!!

week04-05-06

2008-10-03T08:25:00.002+10:00

Hey guys,

Haven't had time to update my progress for my internship for a couple of weeks, so here goes:

The last 3 weeks have been pretty busy and lately time has been flying at superspeed. I am actually almost at the end of the internship and am really happy to have been offered a position to continue to work there as a casual . The project we've been mainly working on is due at the end of the year so I'm really glad to be able to continue working on that.

The atmosphere and working environment in the studio is very pleasant and it's good to look forward to work. I'm also enjoying the other parts of it, taking the train every morning with Steve and observing so many different kinds of people, sometime sketching a few standouts too:)
It's also fun to go out for lunch in the valley, because of the cheap food and variety of places to eat too.

As far as work goes, it's been great to work on illustrations that need abit of time to refine, and also working with Steve and trying to emulate his style is quite challenging, but I found that asking for his feedback helps for the readjustments and will hopefully keep everything consistent. And I need to work on my colours too as I'm not completely satisfied with them yet.
I also need to write a small essay to summarize my intern experience, so I'll probably post that here too!

I will keep on updating you further eventhough my intenrship is coming to an end:)

Peace out,

Paul,

Old lady with PC

2008-09-18T17:36:00.005+10:00

Poles Apart accepted into BIAF & IAD 2008‏!!

2008-09-18T17:36:00.003+10:00

I am pleased to announce that Poles Apart has been officially selected for the7th Brisbane International Animation Festival to be held at the State Library of Queensland and the Globe Theatre in the city of Brisbane, Australia from 28 - 30 October 2008

Poles apart will be competiting in the following categories:

Jury Award

Student Award

Queensland Animation Award

People's Choice Award

Poles Apart will also be included in the Brisbane International Animation Festival's International Animation Day compilation of Australian animated short films which will be screened in major international centres as part of the International Animation Day celebrations held on the 28 October 2008 (which is on the same day as my birthday!! cooolll).

Also in related news Poles apart has been chosen for a possible nomination at the IF awards.

Voting is now closed but for the results you can check their website on the 1st of October:

http://www.ifawards.com

Can't wait for it, and hope to see you guys there!!

Internship Placement/ Week02&03

2008-09-10T07:58:00.003+10:00

Hey guys,

Just a little update regarding my internship, It is going really well and I am very fortunate to work on such interesting projects. I spoke to one of the Flash programmers that mentioned how much fun it is to work on something you like doing. The last two weeks went really well and I have been working on a couple of projects. One of them is the 2nd version of a game called Jumporama: http://www.horseridingcoach.com/jumporama/
I have been working on the graphics for the new game; so new bgds and new jumps for a more cross country version this time... will let you know when it goes live:)
The other project is still top secret but involved surfing so needless to say, I like it:D

Was also introduced to the SVN files which is basically a way of sharing the files you are working on with colleagues, so that you can access eachother's updated files.

I also learned about designing/animating for games which means using alot more Movieclips in Flash and making sure they loop properly.
It is a different way to approach your animation, because you need to think not only what looks/feels good but how is it gonna work with the game and in harmony with the user's gameplay.

Okay until next week!
Ciao,

Bgd + Character test

2008-09-05T22:01:00.003+10:00

bgd test02

2008-09-04T12:42:00.001+10:00

bgd watercolour test

2008-09-04T12:24:00.001+10:00

Valentino watercolour test

2008-09-03T21:46:00.002+10:00

Internship Placement/ Week01

2008-08-27T19:49:00.004+10:00

Hello Bloggers,

Here is my first weekly report of my internship (it's a course requirement to give a weekly 200 words, but hopefully I'll make it interesting and insightful for you guys :)

This 1st week was actually really great; fun and interesting! I'm doing my internship over at QMG (Queensland Media Group) Check out their website: http://www.qmg.com.au/

This a nice little studio based in the valley and is a great opportunity for me to have a look and a better understanding of a well functioning studio within the industry. So far I'll be going there on Mondays and Tuesdays which works pretty well with my busy schedule of teaching flash classes at Uni, Working on my Honours film and finishing up my thesis :)

1st day of Internship I got introduced to the staff: So my mate Steve works there and I'll be helping him with his work, He's working on an interesting project which I won't be talking about too much in detail because I have signed a confidentiality agreement :)

The rest of the staff @ QMG is the 3 directors: so Dave, Greg and Chris who started the company. Other staff is the Webdesigner Kas and Peter who both are working on some crazy coding thing that I can't begin to understand but would be interesting to ask them in the long run how it works...

Anyway there are more people working on Flash scripting and Php that I have yet to meet so probably 5 to 8 people in the studio on a regular basis.

1st and 2nd day I got into work, Got introduced to the Management System of the files and the calendars system to get everyone on schedule to sort of make it easy to manage your individual workload.

Excellent, looking forward to week 02 so keep tuned!

Character Designs

2008-08-27T19:45:00.005+10:00

Getting there with the designs :)

Pre-Production update for "Le Baiser d'adieu"

2008-07-20T13:40:00.005+10:00

Hey y'all!

Sorry I haven't updated for a while, my Internet connection here in New-Caledonia is pretty "relaxed" I would say! :)

Anyway here are some concepts for the main characters of my film: The lovely Isabella and her lover Valentino!

Hope you like! Le Baiser d'adieu aka "The goodbye/last kiss" coming soon!!

El Capitano research

2008-06-09T21:04:00.003+10:00

Character concept for "Le baiser d'adieu"

Melbourne train station sketch

2008-05-27T18:39:00.002+10:00

A quick sketch of Flinders st station during our Melbourne trip:)

Anzac Day sketches

2008-04-26T15:11:00.003+10:00

Went to the Anzac Parade with Ben on Friday, it

was a great opportunity for interesting sketches!

Jumpin Lamp

2008-04-15T09:26:00.000+10:00

Chicken

2008-04-06T23:01:00.000+10:00

Punk Guitarist

2008-03-21T12:20:00.002+10:00

Napoleon

2008-03-03T19:50:00.003+10:00

Napoleon!! very french of me... this time trying oils in Painter X

Shootoooooooooo!!

2008-02-25T21:37:00.003+10:00

Hehe! I've been playing lots of shooto (Pro Evolution Soccer) with my brother Jo during the Holiday on the PS2!

Moho/Anime Studio Walk cycle

2008-01-30T14:23:00.000+10:00

Here is a little test of a walk cycle Done in Moho (Now called Anime Studio)
This Character was broken apart into 21 layers, so alot of layers but only ONE Drawing!
Another Fun Experiment! By using the same rig I can now try other type of walk cycles!!

** This Character design was heavily inspired from Albert Uderzo's Asterix comics, It is only for learning purposes and non-commercial use whatsoever...**

Seinfeld Lip-Synch (Rough Animation)

2008-01-27T13:06:00.000+10:00

Rough lipsynch Animation I made of an audio sample from Seinfeld's episode "The conversion".
Just for fun and a great little excercise to do... hopefully I can finish an colour this one. Before trying a new track...

Greatest book for anyone interested in a career in Animation!!

2008-01-07T22:12:00.000+10:00

I came across this great book by David Levy at the QCA library recently; I strongly recommend it, it's a goldmine of information and especially years of experience shared by industry professionals!
The do and dont's of the bussiness and stuff that would probably take you decades to figure out are shared and explained in one chapter...

5 stars!

Happy New Year

2008-01-02T14:03:00.000+10:00

Here is the view I had from the new place... May you all have a great year, filled with Joy and Creativity!

New Short film project

2007-12-30T17:02:00.001+10:00

Sen, Steve and me had an idea for a short film we would like to do for fun, here is kind of a concept for the title. I can tell you so far that it involves a zoo, animals and music:)