One intense year of study has come to a close as I have graduated Vancouver Film School and completed my animated short film ‘Growing Up!’ I hope the message of the short film is clear and that it resonates with some people. I could not have completed this project without the help of my classmates, [...]
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 are adding the opportunity to create a commercial [...]
This week I took a quick hike up the Stawamus Chief that overlooks the town of Squamish, BC and did some timelapse photography. The hike was enjoyable, and I went early enough it wasn’t crowded and my dog and I had the summit to ourselves for about two hours. Here’s a 360-view I took from [...]
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 [...]
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 that’s playing. I [...]
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 with my school assignments so I didn’t [...]
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 a break and scale back how many I was entering. But, with [...]
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 hour class [...]
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 done [...]
Seven years ago I was in a digital arts class, which I think was renamed to something else the next year, and probably no longer exists as quick as things move in that field. Anyways, I was determined to get something productive done. Since the instructor was struggling to teach us Flash, I grabbed a [...]
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