Underwater volcano

...you never forget your first trip underwater.

Happy Day

Sketchbook pages

Here are a bunch of pages from my sketchbook from this weekend.

Log spirits 2

Log spirits

Thanks to Textureking.com  and BitBox.com for some good quality textures....and thank you to photoshop for Overlay mode.

Yoda has a realization.

Soylent Green Vegetarian Restaurant....NEXT EXIT.

My Brother and I have laughed about this one on more than one occasion. 

Best Teacher Ever Contest for TVOKids.com

Big Escape 3 - Out at Sea.

Here's some logos and screen shots from the 3rd Big Escape Game. You can have some Old-timey fun here.

...the crew

Gouache Paintings

I have been wanting to do something with gouache for a while. These are for Chloe and Isabel.

Opera intermissions.

In the Opera game, there were little intermissions. This one didn't make it into the game but I liked it. Basically the idea was...this old guy is sitting in his chair with his cane propped at his side and the record player goes on. He is transported to different places. In this one, the music rises and crashes as he is zapped with the X-Rays of the sun. I'd love to develop these into longer animations. Although I wasn't conscious of it at the time, this character may be based on my neighbor who used to be a clarinet player for the London Symphony Orchestra. Unfortunately he had a fall and lost a lot of his motor co-ordination. He still loves to read and can enjoy music even if he can't get around like he used to.

Papageno and Tomino leave on their quest.
...the sinister Queen of the Night.
...and here comes Sarastro.

Carmen

When we first see Don Jose, he doesn't eyes. He sniffs the rose that Carmen tosses at his feet and he falls in love.
...But Carmen is in love with Escamillo...oooh that hurts.

...and here is the interloper seen larger than life.
At the end of Carmen, Don Jose is overcome with anger and kills Carmen. We wanted to be true to the story but also didn't want to show this gruesome event to the kiddies. The animation ends with a montage of the bullfight. The bull lunges at the camera, Escamillos red cape flies through the air (red fabric in operas were often used to show blood) and Carmen's rose falls to the stadium floor.

Barber of Seville

Trying to sneak past Dr. Bartolo. Everybody loves a monocle.

Opera stuff

Opera stuff

Hello Greg. Welcome to 2007. I finally have a blog. How exciting. I thought I'd comb through the archives and post some stuff from an Opera project I worked on for TVOKids.com. I worked with Tara Harte to condense 4 operas into one minute animations.

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
...here's Figaro