11-sec Club – Leftover Thursdays
[Update: I placed 18th out of 202 entries] Fresh out of VFS and I was anxious to keep working! It's like an addiction! I was talking to my classmates that we should start a support group for recent graduates, ha! You get so accustomed to going to school every day and...
Dorito’s Crash the Super Bowl
I'm at it again with another contest video and this is the sixth year Doritos has ran this competition and it is the most well-known and competitive contest all year! Why? Because 1 million dollars and Super Bowl-level exposure is at stake! In addition, this year they...
Blog | My Student Film Update
Over the last 8 months I've learned and been exposed to a vast amount of information at VFS. I've taken classes on classical animation, character design, visual storytelling, history of animation, 3D animation, editing, composition, sculpture, team building, creative...
Video | Walk, React, Run
Term 4 has come to an end at Vancouver Film School and I wanted to post an animation we have been working on during this last term. The goal was to have a character walk on screen, react to something, and then run off. My take on it was a guy trying to catch a...
Video | Sock Love and Hang Gliding
Voting for my newest competition film ends this Wednesday, so please take a moment to go vote! You can vote by going to the contest's YouTube page HERE. Then click the "Vote" tab, and look for my video in the "Vote for these Videos" window to the right of the current...
Video | 3rd Place and Animation Assignments
After reading Graham Taylor's keynote speech from LA's Film Fest, this is me taking the time to blog, which I should be doing more. The biggest news from me recently is I placed 3rd and won $3,800 in the Brisk Tea animation contest. I created this animation concurrent...
Video | Contests . . .
I've taken quite a long hiatus from entering video contests after not making the finals, or placing, in about one dozen contests last year. The whole crowdsourcing and contest-entering thing can get pretty old pretty quick. It's great practice but I definitely needed...
Blog | Term 2 Completed VFS
The second, of 6 terms, at VFS are complete and you can see some of the major assignments I completed in the video on this page. Some of the assignments not included in the video are: - life drawing: I might post individual drawings later, but once a week we had a 3...
VFS Term 2 update
Since I'm over the hump of Term 2 I thought I'd take a second and show some screen captures on some of the work I've done and/or am still doing for this term which ends in another couple of weeks at which point I'll have another video to show of all the work done over...
Video | Term 1 at VFS
The last two months have been legend . . . ary and I've really enjoyed my time at Vancouver Film School so far. Our second term, of six, begins Monday. The video below shows some of my work from the last two months. We've spent a lot of time drawing and in Maya. I've...