Costume Life Drawing

So the film is going well I suppose. My new leica is done and it's at a manageable length now. I think it's looking better, but we need a new version for Dec 14th for another screening coming up. So I'll probably post that version instead of the one I have right now.

In the meantime these are some life drawings from the past few classes.

Zoo Trip # 3

More elephants!

Zoo Trip #2

So Amanda and I went to the zoo again yesterday with Ben and Chris. Wasn't as rusty this time around so I did a bit better. The new polar bear exhibit is a lot nicer than it used to be too. They have a pretty big underwater viewing area now, it was awesome being so close to them while they were play-fighting underwater.

Everything below is from life except the elephant in colour. I'm trying to figure out how to anthropomorphize them and make them animatable and expressive.

Also, I should have mentioned that the hunter isn't related to my film. He shan't be hunting elephants anytime soon.

30 Elephants

I'm learning to draw elephants, so I found a bunch of pictures online and drew from them. Can you guess what my 4th year film will be about?

More Sketches

Amanda and I have started going to the mall and zoo more, now that school is closing in on us.
I've also decided on an idea for my 4th year film that I'm getting excited about, it's a brand spanking new fresh-outta-my-head idea so I haven't done any drawing for it yet. Soon though...sooon.
Meanwhile here are some more zoo/cafe sketches... Again.

What I did at School this Week

And hopefully every week.

Action Analysis and Costume

The last two months have been busy with finishing up the action analysis and the holidays.
Thanks to Amanda for helping me finish up my background on time.

Spear Throw Animation from Boris Maras on Vimeo.

We also had our first session of life drawing after coming back from the break yesterday. Started costume this term which is a lot of fun to stylize and make characters of.

Winter fair

Sketches from the Royal Winter Fair




And some old development stuff for an action analysis idea.

Life Drawing and Ottawa

So this is technically the first real post on the new blog. Been busy working on the group film and action analysis, but who hasn't. These are from my first life drawing portfolio. Haven't really gone to extra life at all, Amanda and I are trying to focus a lot more on animation and working in the studio.



Amanda and I also went to Animation Festival this year in Ottawa. A lot of great workshops and lectures this year. We went to see John Canemaker interview Richard Williams, which was great.
And under that is Dei, Hernando, Amanda, and I with Eric Goldberg.



And finally, this guy cut us off on Traflagar. He honestly had his arms up like that and was holding the wheel with his index fingers and thumbs, like he was pinching.

New Blog

Well I've finally moved to using blogger as oppose to using my own site, too expensive to keep it going. It's too much work to transfer all of my posts, so I'll just include some stuff from my last few.