doodles

Hey all. Just thought I'd throw up some morning and lunch doodles. All were done in Flash.

Randoms

Here's a few more random ones. I still wanna use that ninja for something sometime.

Here's another lineup we didn't use. Dan Yu did the rough sketches for these and I tightened them up. Just some subtle variation going on.

Morphs.

More of the creature type concepts. Definitely inspired at the time by Kung Fu Panda and also I think I was scope'n that old Disney cartoon Gargoyles. More of that silhouetty business as well.

concepts

Just more variations of the same. I was toying with using a little more texture on these guys.

In the lineup on the top, the idea was just to focus entirely on silhouette and then build the detail up from there. The game characters were going to be "skinable" so I started doing some variations on the creature character.

Hey everyone! A while back I had the chance to do some concept work for a game we were trying to reboot. Things didn't work out and the game was never finished but I did have a lot of fun working on it. I'll be posting some design work as well as some of the animation in the next little while. Later.

Bond, James

The monthly topic at Planet-Pulp is 007, so I figured I'd go for something kinda classic. Hope you guys like it.

Sketch time

Yo! Scanned the sketchbook a little. I don't know what it is but it seems like the more work I have to do the more random sketching happens. Guess it's nice to just do stuff for no reason. Hope you enjoy Thor's crotch shot. And yes Wolverine's kite got stuck. Later.

Shank 2

Yo! So... been posting some Shank 2 stuff lately. Figured maybe some poses of Shank would be cool!  These were done in Sketchbook Pro before I switched to doing all my posing in Flash. You can see here how we often indicate re-use for the builders. Have a good one!

Shank 2 boss poses

A little more Razor posing. This stuff was post-storyboard for the cinematics. Chowder.

Shank 2 boss poses

Hey guys.  Here's another pose breakdown from Shank 2. This is the Doctor boss, I sadly didn't get to animate him but still had a lot of fun posing him out. All these poses were drawn in Flash and you can see that the cleanup isn't super tight but that's because we have the build stage (converting the poses to symbols) which brings the drawings to full cleanup with a vector line.  More to come! Later.

Shank 2

Hey everyone. So, Shank 2 dropped a little while back and I've got some groovy stuff to show from the production and promo side of things. I thought I'd start with Jeff's title splash. The 2nd image is a variant cover I did for the Shank comic (which I'll post here asap). I was allowed to do whatever I wanted so that's what came out. The model sheet below shows some of the poses for the boss Razor. In terms of work flow I would basically rough animate a good portion of the boss by hand in Flash and then take a variety of those poses to clean up so we could build off them. We would then go back over the rough animation with Flash symbols and finish the character off. I've been planning to make a process video for this for quite some time, hopefully one day I'll actually post it! Hope you all dig, more to come soon.

This piece is for the Planet Pulp monthly topic once again. The Indiana show was pretty sweet go check it out. Later.

Robber

Just a sketch from some stuff I'm working on, thought you guys might like to see. Later.

Page 8

The last page of Mr. comic. Hope you guys like. Later.

Fisherman

Doing some new stuff. Not super stolked on this but thought I'd show you guys anyway. Later.

Turtle Time

Another quick lunch sketch. Might need to animate these guys. Later.

Page 7

Pg 6

Another page gang!

Pg5

Hey guys. This is page five of The Wall. Sorry it took a bit. The remainder will soon follow. Later.

Planet Pulp sketches

I figured I'd throw some of my Planet Pulp entries down to break up all the comic posts. More of those to come shortly! Gravy.

Pg5

Pg 4

The fourth page of our Cloudscape contribution!

Pg3

The Wall

Friends! Here's the second page of the comic. Kevin originally wrote the story as a 2 page stand alone. Then we decided to add a couple more 2 page chapters that we would disperse throughout the book...Eventually it just became an 8 page piece, but if it feels like it's coming in distinct 2 page sections it is. Hope you guys like.

The Wall

This is the first page of the new 8 page comic I'm contributing to Cloudscape this time around. I'll post all 8 pages as they come in, lettered, from Kevin. Again Kevin wrote this one and so far I think it be our best stuff. I hope you guys enjoy. The book is black and white, hence no color. That's not to say there won't be eventually though... we'll see. I'll be sure to keep everyone up to date on when the book comes out and where ya can get it! Later.

Quick lunch doodle. I know it's been sparse but don't worry, things'll pick up real soon! Later friends.

MIGS Animation Award

Here ya go mom! Haha. This is the first photo I've found from MIGS that shows some award winning action. Good times! They did official photos off to the side after the award but I've been unable to find those. Later.

Chromazone

Hey guys. This is a mock screen cap from the game pitch I put together last year. Just found it looking for other stuff so I figured I'd throw it up. I never did make a demo but that ship hasn't sailed yet so we'll see.  Take care.

Captain America

Hey friends! This is the piece for Planet-Pulp this month. The theme was time travel an despite the number of awesome options I chose to do a frozen Cap. Never drew him before so this seemed like a good chance. I've been told being frozen in an iceberg for 40 years an then thawing out can seem like time travel.

doodle

Just drawing for kicks! Got a few more of these to come. Later.

Memory sketch

Saw this guy on the way home today!

Canadian Game Developmet Talent Awards

Hey everybody! So I was in Montreal the past week taking in MIGS (Montreal International Game Summit) and the Talent Awards where I received an award for Animator of the year. I will scrounge a photo of the event if possible real soon here. I've included a list of the winners in the other catagories as well. Congrats to all the nominees! Anyway it's great that individual achievement is being honored in Games and everyone involved should be very proud!

The 2011 winners are: 

Animator of the Year  Aaron Bouthillier (Shank)  Designer of the Year  Kris Piotrowski (Sword & Sworcery EP)  Programmer of the Year  Frédéric Blais (Michael Jackson The Experience)  Emerging Talent Richard Flanagan (Fract)

Audio Professional of the Year  Simon Ashby (Wwise)  Producer of the Year  Casey Hudson (Mass Effect 2)  Visual Artist of the Year  Craig Adams (Sword & Sworcery EP)

Wizard

One of the designs for the new comic I'm working on for Cloudscape!

man and dog

A memory sketch from the ride home after work! Just realized I haven't done any creepy halloween stuff. There's still time though...

Thug

Just a thug sketch! Later.

Just a quick sketch. Damn my lame marker skills. Anyway, keep truck'n friends!

Terminator

Allo! This is a piece I did for the Planet Pulp Blog. Figured I'd throw a little process compilation together. It was a good time doing a little light table, ink, marker action! Oh ya this was done to celebrate Stan Winston's Career. What an amazing guy. One of these days I'll get the chance to see his creations fa real! Later.

Quick lunch sketch. More on the horizon I swear:) Later.

Shank 2

Shank 2 has been announced! Tell your friends! This piece was done by Creative Director here at Klei, Jeff Agala. I will be posting a promo video shortly. And some game animation poses and what not.