Behind Closed Eyelids

A couple of days late but its still within the week, just barely, so dont hate on me.

Its been a pretty busy week between TAFE and work. Spent most of this week giving presentations and doing pitches at TAFE while working from home later in the night.

I pitched a short film on Monday that I need to have the first draft of the script ready for by the Monday after next. I have never really written a script before with most of my previous animated cartoons being done after jumping strait into the storyboarding process. The film itself will be done with stills and is about working in the advertising industry. It will be dialogue heavy which is certainly something new for me and I have the visual style sorted out in my head, whether or not I can achieve that is another thing entirely. I will be talking more about that film tho once it starts moving forward.

I also pitched a second short film for another class which has to be edited in camera using tape. Its not going to be easy but im sort of looking forward to the challenge of that project as well.

In animation news I managed to get a loop done for this months loopdeloop. They have received an absolute crap load of entries this month, I dont think I have ever seen so many. I think its because they are doing it in conjunction with Liquid Television of MTV fame, the theme of course, was liquid. You can see my loop below which I have affectionately called "The Ultimate Bromance". It was made in around 5 hours on Friday, although I had done the animatic at work the day before in around 40 minutes. Im pretty happy with how it came out, especially considering the quick turn around.


Ive only really had the chance to sit down and do one drawing this week. There he is below, the Pokemon "Cubone"

I also recently went on a trip with my partner to the Great Ocean Road, which is a winding road along the southern end of Victoria. There was some great scenery down there, so naturally many photos were taken.

I also took a lot of video so I will be putting some sort of video together at a later date as well, probably once I finally get my Melbourne Aquarium finished.

And thats about it for this week. Catch you next time.

Orange Crush

A couple of days late again, tho I do have an excuse, Friday was a big day for me. Yup, thats what it was. Also I went to the Melbourne Aquarium yesterday, so it didn't seem to make sense to make a post until I could talk about that.

First things first, ALL the episodes of Bricks Are Fun are now up on Youtube, you can find the four remaining episodes below.









So im glad I have that out of the way. Im not going to be putting anymore older cartoons up until at least Gerkinman Returns is finished, altho all I really have left that I want to put up is a short called "King Dodongo" and the 5 episode series I worked on called "The Martian Saga" which im planning to cut down a bit and put into one film.

I also managed to find the time to do 3 quick illustrations, only spending around 10 minutes on each.

It felt good doing a little bit of drawing again, even if they were only quick doodles. Hopefully I will find the time to do more of this sort of stuff.

It was a busy week last week, working at two different advertising agencies, and next week is looking much the same, if not busier.

As mentioned above, me and my partner went to the Melbourne Aquarium yesterday, and it was quite a bit of fun. While it had many of the same displays as other aquariums, they had a few animals I hadn't seen before, at least not in captivity.

Naturally the first things we saw were the Penguins. They were smaller then I expected, and also pooped more, I mean I expected them to poop plenty, but you never see any stains on the ice in documentaries...

They also had a neat fresh water display with things like fresh water sting rays and fresh water sharks in it, part of the display also had a fake plane crashed into a tree over the water which was a nice touch. One of the most interesting things we found in the fresh water spot was a fish called "The Glass Catfish" which has completely transparent flesh.

Much like Underwater World they also had a Japanese Spider Crab, but I never get tired of seeing those things, despite the fact that this one was quite small compared to others I have seen.

Something that this place had in spades that other aquariums i've been too haven't were Jelly Fish, they mainly had moon jellies, but they also had these cute little ones. I was too mesmerised by there movement to even look at what they were called.

Lastly, they had not one, but two living Nautilus, which was very exciting. I had seen them in videos and my mum was lucky enough to stumble upon a shell once, but I had never seen a living one close up before.

Of course thats just a small amount of what we saw on our visit, I took my camera along so hopefully when I get some free time I will be able to do something fun with all the video. 

And thats really it for this week. With next week looking the way it is I dont know if I will get much if any animation work done, I guess we will just have to see what happens. So until next time...

Skyrim Atmospheres

Wow, im sorry, 2 weeks without an update, I was going to update last Friday but ended up having a massive day freelancing from home and then seeing Happy Feet 2...

ANYWAY, It has been a big couple of weeks, let me tell you about them.

Since this is a creative blog, ill only be talking about the creative stuff, that said, I spent a week up on the Northern Rivers, back on my home turf some might say. While I was there I took quite a lot of time lapse and surf footage. I shot quite a lot of time lapse footage at my parents home over the span of two days and spent another full day at Lennox Head filming, I was even lucky enough to catch a storm going by in the distance. The surf footage I took was also from Lennox Head, and while I wasn't doing anything too dangerous most of the time aside from wearing a silly hat...

But when I wasn't standing safely up on nice green grass I was in stupid places like this hoping that a big wave wouldn't come along and bowl me over...

To give you an idea how big that wave was in this photo, im standing on top of a storm water drain that came up at least a meter and a half out of the water. The end result tho, I like to think was worth it, I put together a lot of the footage I took to the song Il Fiore by Trash80.


But thats not all I have done, while I was away I also managed to finish tweaking all 8 of the original 2005 series of Bricks are Fun. So far I have been uploading one a day, and as of today I have 4 more to go.  Im happier with some more then others, but obviously since some are funnier then others thats to be expected.




Now that these are finished and out of the way I can get back to focusing on Gerkinman Returns and this months loop.

And thats pretty much it for this week, I leave you now with the track Skyrim Atmospheres which is what im currently listening too, and is 42 minutes of peaceful ambience. For those who have been wondering as well, the title of my blog is always whatever song is playing on my playlist at the time. True story.


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