mike geiger's sketchbook

squished by a tiger from above

collaberation project update

Im willing to bet this fella is reacting to something on the list of suggested props.
Just a hunch...

My poster for the new Toronto Animated Arts Festival International was unveiled today. Pretty excited to be a part of this festival and really honored to be asked to do this inaugural poster.
Thanks to Rich and the rest of the TAAFI staff for the super cool opportunity.

There is also a little blurb on their website about the poster here if you are interested.

Thank you!

A big thanks to everyone that left a comment on the last post.

Production has started and will try to post as regularly as possible throughout the process.

Thanks again!

Collaberation project (help my new film!)

Ive started working on a new little short film and realized that it could use some props. Rather than throw in whatever came to mind, I thought it might be fun to throw in whatever YOU thought came to mind instead.

My idea is to have you, my blog followers, twitter friends etc. etc. choose an item, any item you want (lets please keep it clean), and I will do my best to somehow incorporate it into my next short film starring this guy pictured below.
It can be anything you wish, as long as it is a THING.

I will take suggestions for one week (from now until Sunday April 1st).
Since I'm unsure of how many suggestion I will get, I cant promise to use yours. I think the best method I can think of is to randomly choose 10 (Ill take more if I can fit them in), but not reveal which items I chose until the short is finished. Hopefully giving you a surprise once the film is done to see if your item was chosen, and if so, how it was use.
Call it a Mad Libs animation style.

So please join in my film making process and post an item in the comments below.
Looking forward to working with you!

*note - you don't need to sign up for anything to post in the comments. Just write your suggestion and preferably a name (so I can include it in the credits if chosen) and click "anonymous" which will let you post without signing in.
Thanks!

Zap!

Here's the rest of drawing to a post from a few weeks back.
Rainbow zap!

Toast

I drew this for a little drawing challenge at work last week under the guideline of "unconventional heroes", but before posting remembered that Jessica Borutski had also drawn a character with a toaster for a head (she must eat a lot of toast as well). Nevertheless, Im posting this anyways under the heading of Bortutski "fanart". Surely her drawing was buried deep in my subconscious somewhere before this came out so all credit due to her.

Batman

Posted this a few days ago to Planet Pulp which is a really cool website I am a part of where various artist post to monthly themes. Feel free to check it out if you have the time, I can always seem to find some great inspiration over there.

The Green Care Bear

Here's a little project I was involved with for MAD TV called "The Green Care Bear". I did the animation on Hal (the more realistic looking guy of the bunch), which was meant to replicate a limited 1960's type style.

Star Wars Uncut

It appears the Star Wars Uncut project from back in 2010 has found some new legs thanks to the rights finally being cleared. Here are two links to sites that are featuring my little 15 second section. I cant read the ~~Dutch~~ German comment under my picture but when I ran it through the translator it came up with Animated scene from "Star Wars Uncut": Mike Geiger has filed this 15 seconds. He is a fan of the old "Star Wars" films - the new place he just horrible.

Spiegel Online
Vancouver is Awesome