the big smoke

and 10 months and 78 episodes later...
yamroll season 1 is officially over.
it says something about the show you work on when you are SAD that a season is over instead of jumping for joy.
but with that said, you wont hear me complaining that it is now also officially my vacation!
3 weeks of nothing to think about other than my next meal
so if anyone out there is from, or currently lives in the big smoke, (i just moved to toronto this week) feel free to send me some directions to the best places in town.
preferably with a food safety inspection sticker that says PASS on the front window,
and just in case you were gonna mention this one,
i already know about the ikea cafeteria.

i guess hes from england?

ya, not too sure bout this one...
but what a bg though huh!!!
im gettin fancy over here!

viewing abstract

i received word today that my lil short called "viewing abstract" has been selected for the ottawa animation festival this year. other than the fact that i am overjoyed it was chosen, what i think is the cool thing about the selection is that i never had any intention of making it at all. it was spawned quite literally from sitting down at my computer after work on a friday night and doodling, until the next thing i knew, it was sunday evening and i had spat out a minutes worth of animation. no preproduction, no designs, no budget, no schedule, and definently no intention of making a short film. when lately everything i am involved with in this industry is solely dependent on such things, i think its neat that this short has been chosen for the festival which was made purely for shits and giggles on a lazy sudbury evening.

i dont remember what day we were on

yamrollio

as izen put it, "now that we are finished our season, we finally have enough time to start a blog about the season"
so feel free to visit our fancy new yamroll blog
enjoy!

humans are played

when was the last time you saw and monkey and a pigeon in the same place at the same time?

cold hard flash

alrighty, my internet at home has been disconnected while i get my move on, so i guess ill be trying to post from work for a lil while. since i gots none of my files at work as of today...ill leave you with a link to an interview i did with coldhardflash that i just found. i think there are some more coming as part of their coldhardcouncil, but in the meantime, enjoy some words about some kind of industry mumbo jumbo that attempts to make me sound like i know what im talking about...
coldhardcouncil

ok, these are beginning to get old

this one is the original image where this run of drawings began...and the final version for that mexican themed art show a few posts down.
just imagine it surrounded by a big brown dusty frame from value village

day 5

and they just keep coming...

day 4

day 3

for some reason the colors on my computer at home are drastically different than what i see on my monitor at work, which makes a lot of these drawings look incredibly odd. so if you lookin at these things thinkin "man, dudes color stylin is wack", its cause my moniter i do these things on needs some obvious tuning.
anyways, day 3...

day 2

day 2 of the world tour