Beautiful Ruins

I'm more than lucky that I get to work on videos for such great books, but I'm especially excited about this latest commercial I made for Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.


The commercial has been airing on W Network across Canada this week but will also be part of a block of movie programming starting today at 12:30, so you still have time to try to catch it on air. I had a lot of fun playing with the Film Damage After Effects tool from Felt Tips for this ad, it's so awesome, definitely recommend it!

Game Artwork

I recently worked on the artwork and animation for the just released mobile game Mongoose Loves Mangoes from 84 North Studios.

This is the first time I've worked on art or animation for a game but I think it turned out pretty good! I might post some of the images and animation here later.

Right now it's only downloadable for Windows 7 phones but will hopefully be available for other devices soon.

Click here to download the app and see more screenshots.

And remember: AVOID FALLING WRENCHES!

The Thoughtfuls - Page Three

It's Twy - er, I mean... Wz-wyt- uh, well... however you spell it. Straight from the Infinite Cosmic Parallels it's page three of The Thoughtfuls in "Interview" for your Monday morning viewing pleasure! Click to view bigger

I found this page particularly difficult to colour, mainly the backgrounds and everything about Ytwztz. To be honest, I'm not entirely happy with it but I'm really really looking forward to finishing the next page which is my favourite of this story. I think I might try to upload the next two pages at the same time to wrap everything up so it will probably take a little longer than my usual one a week schedule.

The Thoughtfuls - Page Two

People exploding into puffs of smoke to odd sound effects?! Whoa, indeed! Here is page two of "Interview" starring THE THOUGHTFULS! While the first page is kind of straightforward, hopefully this one hints at more strange events to come. Hope you like it! (Click the image to view larger, also click here to read page one if you haven't already.)

The Thoughtfuls - Page One

Here is the first page of five of a little comic I am working on about the greatest band to ever exist: The Thoughtfuls. Click on the image to view the full size.



Dramatic! Anyway, this comic is really kind of strange and came to me almost fully formed one night so I tried to work on it as quickly as I could. I hope to have the other pages up soon, hope you enjoy part one...

Progress

An almost completed page from the comic I'm working on. Some crazy stuff going on here, hope to have this finished soon!

Insurgent Cineplex ad

This 30 second commercial that I produced will be running during the pre-show before The Hunger Games in Cineplex theaters across the country this week! Hopefully I'll get to see it on the big screen.

Roughs

I'm working in a short 5 page comic which I hope to finish soon! It's about a band and is pretty strange. Here are sketches from the first two pages to show that it actually does exist:

The Grave Robber's Apprentice

Check out the trailer I produced for Allan Stratton's middle grade novel "The Grave Robber's Apprentice" created in After Effects and sound mixed in Final Cut.

Motion Graphics Showreel

Put together a reel featuring some of my motion graphics work. Made primarily with After Effects, edited with Final Cut. Also available to watch in the Video section of my website.

RICK BLAINE

Head over to evolutionofmoviecool.com to check out the new addition to the site: Cynical expatriate nightclub owner RICK BLAINE from the cinematic classic CASABLANCA.

Rare Indiana Jones Nutella Commercial

Indiana Jones and Nutella: two of my favourite things in the world are together at last. Happy World Nutella Day everyone

25films

This year I issued myself a challenge: watch more movies. Not too tough, I know, but specifically I mean movies I otherwise might not choose to see or movies that I have always meant to watch but never have.

25 of my friends graciously agreed to each choose one film for me to watch and came up with a great list of titles that I'll be viewing throughout the year.

You can follow my progress and read the list of the selections at 25films.tumblr.com

The Book of Better

Watch the video trailer for The Book of Better, a book about managing diabetes. Animated entirely in After Effects and sound mixed in Final Cut Pro.

THIS DARK ENDEAVOUR

Check out the short trailer I animated for Kenneth Oppel's new novel.

TORONTO STAR ARTICLE

Recently the Toronto Star covered book trailers and featured a few of my videos as well as screenshots from Before I Go To Sleep, ROOM, and The Book of Negroes. Click to read the article online or view the pdf.

COMIC UPDATE

While I continue to update this site, contribute to evolutionofmoviecool and continuously try to develop my portfolio, I'm currently about 1/3 done working on my first currently untitled graphic novel!

Although I've still got quite a while to go before it's finished, I'll probably start posting a few images from the finished pages soon.

REDESIGN IN PROGRESS

Redesigning and updating this site to contain my portfolio and information about upcoming projects. Stay tuned.

Christmas Cards 2010

This is a bit late but here are all of the Christmas card designs I made this year. After inking I painted them with an inexpensive watercolour set. Original physical cards are done on white watercolour paper but I passed each through Photoshop to give them some more colour and texture.

Update

Haven't written anything here for a while so here's an update of a few things.

First off, the trailer for ROOM has been pretty successful, getting around 20,000 views online since launching late August. Even more exciting was that it also aired in it's entirety on television on W Network this past holiday season! Here it is again:

Secondly, The Literates #4 was recently printed. Based on Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series of historical novels about Genghis Khan, I'm very proud of how this issue turned out. Has some (hopefully) pretty funny parts, tried some cool art and colouring stuff that worked out well, and has less text and more action. Click the image to read the whole thing:

We're also running a contest for this issue. Here's the details, click to enter:

Anyway, I hope to update more often in the New Year and get my site looking a little better. It's probably the only resolution I made this year, aside from resolving not to make any resolutions.