OLD stuff done in 1999!!

I wanted to post some old stuff that I did almost ten years ago. Time flies and I have been experimenting with art for years. Here are some of the drawings I did back in the day. I was a very negative person back then and I think you can tell by my drawings and lack of color. That all changed when I met the love of my life.

Year's come to an end

Year's come to an end

I will start working on Monday so I probably won't be putting up new stuff. I still have some older stuff from the past year that I haven't talked about and I think that'll have to do for now.
Here are some of my life drawings that I did in the past 4 weeks of school.
Creature creation and some normal gestures.

Got Myself a "little" something for the summer

The Year is over

My second year is Finally over at Sheridan. Today is my last all I have left is a test this afternoon. I've gotten this series of paintings I've been wanting to post for a bit and I got the last one done this morning. They are all layouts from my story I created about Angelo and the magic paintbrush. SO here are the final 3 paintings.

Sketch

It's very late and I've been sketching for the first time in photoshop. I kind of like what came outand I used this cool style. It took me about half an hour to 45 minutes.
I'm probably going to be working soon after school so I probably won't be doing much personal stuff. I still have tons of things I need to upload. I will soon.

The rough Beak

So here's the rough beak answering the snake..Part 2 of 2 I really am tired at this point in the year and I would love to have refined it more but we have so many things to do that I did this whole animation in about 8 hours... Hope you enjoy, please excuse the language, if I would have had time I would have taken out the swearing.
I have tons of other stuff but I don't have the time to post it. I promise I will soon. Although I doubt there are many people that come regularly to my site, lots of laughs...maybe someone from Disney :)
Dream on Alex...
Oh well you never know.
:D

Rough and Clean Muzzle animation

Got the audio track from the movie Analyze this with Robert Deniro. This is the rough and the cleanup stage, If you look carefully you will notice many changes from one to the other. All fixes to make it look solid. I am currently animating the pigeon. I will be painting this animation when school is done. Hope you like it.

Some new layouts

I decided that I wan't to do a zoom in to the castle for our layout assignment. So this is an initial rough. I'm probably going to break it all up into pieces and move them apart to give the illusion of depth.

Zoo Drawings

Last Friday I got a chance to go out and visit some relatives at Toronto Zoo...
Here's what I drew up.

New Life Drawings

These are some life drawings I did today in class. We had to transform the model into a Gorilla a four armed monster and a centaur. Cool fun. The first drawing is a 2 minute sketch to get warmed up.

Some old layouts from fundies...

Here are some drawings from art fundamentals. My teacher back then was the great Tigh Walker, great guy and very inspirational. As you can see we kept things fun and challenging at the same time designing totally different scenarios. We also had more time for each assignment. The questions comes to mind when analysing the animation program, is it better to have quality or quantity? I'll leave you to answer that one.
Hope you find them fun..

Life Drawings

Here are a few life drawings I got back from Brian last Thursday. There's some stuff that he had kept and a few other drawings I did in class last week.
I'm happy to say that I think I have improved a lot in the past months, probably because we got into shading. I think we all see life and the model in different unique ways. I see it as 3D volumes that occupy a space and they stand out because they contrast with the background there are no lines just shadow and light. The good teachers I've had never tried to change the way I draw they just helped me correct my mistakes, things that I thought were secondary to what needed to be depicted on paper. When I life draw the energy that I have inside is translated on paper. Some times it's hard to control it and soft touches only come out when I'm at peace with myself in that particular moment.
that's my 2 cents...

Hands and Feet

Some of you might be thiking where I got the saying "we're like renaissance artists".
Well it was after I handed these drawings in to Mark Thurman, in 1st year and showed them to Michelle Hannan that I came up with that weird name for us animators. Michelle named me the renaissance artist because I'm italian, love the renaissance art and the artists, and I'm probably not good at anything in particular but like to know how to do a bit of everything. Mark actually said that my hands and feet were very "raphaelian". I put a lot of effort in these drawings.
Hope you like them.