cool and weird

hello from annecy

here i am in Annecy for the international animation festival, which kicks off tommorrow. Its a very beautifull little town nestled near the Swiss Alps. I'm excited to se some of the films here... i just got my festival package and it's 3 huge thick books that we had to hoof all the way across town back to the hotel .. the festival tote bags were'nt ready yet... damn them! Gonna see a pre-view of cars.. lookin forward to that ... but there's tons of films that look really good... i'll let you know which ones i thought were best.

venice-like canalspedal boatsdalla, kirsten, and greg pondering if we should rent a boat... it's quite warm.

dallas in our hotel room... "Hotel de Paris" small but quaint

frum the skeetchbook

strange little toy

here's a neat little fellow i found at the richmond night market. i have no idea what it is or who made it or where it comes from. but i like it.

chubbydee

yummy chocloate dee!

OH HAAAAA!!!

this is totally messed up! a grown man in a pretty pink dress dancing and singing with a bunch of children and people in various costumes in a happy rainbow land. shingo is this guy from the Japanese pop boy band "Smap" they're so popular they have their own variety show. he has this character that he plays called "shingo mama" which i suppose either represents his mother or himself as a mom. he does a segment on the show and i think this is the music video that accompanies it. Enjoy the weird wonderful over the top saccharine!

SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM

OMG you have to watch this! I'm a huge fan of Takeshi Murakami's Superflat movement, and it seems as though they made a crazy short film/ad for Louis Vuitton. I am totally inspired by this stuff.

Cintiq!!!

it's finally here! our 21 inch wacom Cintiq monitor arrived today. i love it! it's like drawing on digital paper. so here's my first drawing on it.. done in sketchbook.

doods

sum girly doodle doos ... i don't like the face on the second one so much.. oh well. *sigh*

COWBOY DOY-YOY

Well. I thought i would try my hand at a little photoshop "painting" of one of my drawings of a cowboy. It's pretty novice I know...but it is my first attempt so that being said.. let me have it! don't hold back! i've got my criticism helmet on.. so i can take it.


i often draw wonky cowboys like this in my doodles. I'd like to do a cowboy show. The thing is... i really have no intrest in westerns.. so i have no idea why i like to cartoon them. maybe its the very fact that i don't like them.

Doooooodles

here's a couple pages of doodles from todays music spot. thats where we sit with the composer and go through each episode and figure out the music and score... it can take several hours.



this is Dallas (fellow co-director) saying "phenomenal" its a good word to say when you think something is very good. It's a word I have heard him say. That's Greg (the main director) on his head. it's not a very good likeness of him... he has a curling rock in his hand (how canadian). the guy screaming in the bottom corner is the composer Hal Foxton Beckett... he gets upset when we make changes to his music.. but thats because he cares. I'm the one saying "poo". it's something i often say...and if i'm not saying it... i'm probably thinking it.


here's some very warbled doodles of pucca characters... i like to draw them off model on purpose.. probably because their actual model is so perfect and symetrical. sometimes i wish the show was that warped.

Mo Peanart

see how confidently he serenades you with his ukelele. It seems as though it's aimed in the wrong direction. Does he not notice the maiden in the distance? How she pains to be near his... nut?

Chubby Dee

Greeting Cards

here's a bunch of greeting cards i made a few years ago and sold them in a local art store. I sold about half of the batch i printed.. but i never continued it. so i got a bunch left over if anyone wants one... i'd rather people used them then have them sit here in a box. they are all blank inside.

Draw-ins

a few excerpts from the sketchbook.


this guy's listening to his mini-disk player. He's feeling embarrassed that he's using such old technology... and that he actually paid for his music.
I'm sure the government has experimented with this kind of thing. As much as it's bad for the planet.... i'd really like to see some genetically altered freakaziod creatures.


Here is Monsieur Oyster. He is a solitary creature, though he seems to enjoy going for the occasional drive. Prized possession? his pearl of course!

Cute musselooom

I made this at work while i had some free moments. one of the character designers on Pucca saw me working on it and flipped out. "oh my god thats sooooo cuute!" she said. so i sent her the image. she printed it out and hung it up at her desk. i felt kind of honored.

Oh Peanut

here's some cute peanut characters i wanna make into toys and stuff. I tried messing with the texture to make it look more hand made. now that i look at it.. that blue was a bad choice.

The Rival

Pucca nominated!

For the past year i've been slaving away, co-directing PUCCA the series for Jetix europe (at Studio B Productions) and now the show has been nominated for several awards. the show doesn't even have an air date yet! so look for Pucca at the Prix Jeunesse International festival in Munich Germany, Annecy International Animation fest in France (which I and the other 2 directors as well as the producer will be attending) and now, just today, the Leo awards here in BC canada. because the show hasn't aired yet, i can't show anything from the series... but until then you can see the original Korean web shorts at the official Puccal website http://www.puccaclub.com the shorts are under the heading "amusement"

article on coldhardflash.com

Hey today i'm being featured on coldhardflash.com for a little promo i made a while ago with some friends. It was for a tv series pitch for young children. We had a whole 7 minute short planned out but due to time constraints and "life" type issues we never were able to finish it. Its called Maigo.
so one day Aaron Simpson from coldhardflash caught it on my website goldenrusset.com and asked me if he could feature it. I always really liked these characters and the story, and i'm glad finially someone will get to see our work. It would have been nice to have actually finished the short at least. maybe this will generate enough intrest to make it happen. check it out.
http://www.coldhardflash.com/