Advent Drawings

Granted it is winter, but I'm seeing a distinct lack of strong, warm colours. Maybe that's something I should experiment with next year.

I didn't get a chance to draw a Christmas picture on Christmas Eve or Day, sadly, but I shall try and do something on Boxing day to cap this off. Would that be too late?

Advent Drawing 24

Advent Drawing 23

Advent Drawing 22

Advent Drawing 21: "Christmas in the year 2525"

Heading home for the holidays and the socialising this brings pushed me a little behind. So here's a bonus alternate version!

Advent Drawing 20

Santos and Snowman: Toyz n the Hood

Happy Holidays! from axisanimation on Vimeo.
Santos and Snowman treat us to their 'Toyz n the Hood' story!

Season's Greetings from everyone at Axis and Flaunt!

Producer & Director - Lucy Teire
Layout & Animation - Mark Haldane
Character Design & Compositing - Weerawat Mungkung
Background Painting - Reza Dolatabadi
Sound Design - Audiojigsaw
Voices - Jeremy Hitchen
Music - Deff Syndicate

[EDIT: see it here: http://www.markhaldane.com/index2.php?view=anim_xmas]

Advent Drawing 19

Advent Drawing 18

Advent Drawing 17

Advent Drawing 16

Advent Drawings...

...Are coming soon! Just finished a job I was doing which took up all my time. It was meant to be released today but there was some issue that needed resolving so it looks like it'll be out on Monday. More on this, on... Monday.

Advent Drawing 15

Advent Drawing 14

Advent Drawing 13

Advent Drawing 12

Advent Drawing 11

It's going straight to the patent office once I figure out the return journey.

Advent Drawing 10

0.1mm pen tip proved too big and the paper was a little too absorbent.

Advent Drawing 9: "Relative Heat"

Advent Drawing 8: "Where Cadavers Come From"

Advent Drawing 7: "Whisky"

Advent Drawing 6

Advent Drawing 5

If I have time, I'll do two tomorrow.

Advent Drawing 4

There's so much more I would like to do to this picture, but alas I haven't the time.

Advent Drawing 3

Be sure to check out Lynsey's Game Advent drawings too!

Advent Drawing 2

Other Advent Artists

I'm not alone in this art advent task! Be sure to check out Sarah's 'Madvent' (one picture made from 24 daily drawings) and Tom's 'Advent of Game'.

Advent Drawing 1

Here's my latest challenge: I'm going to do a picture a day chronicling the run up to Christmas as I experience it.

Elwood in the Kitchen

A rough first test for an effect I'm going to be using for my Masters project. There's a lot wrong with it but I discuss it all on my other blog: upsidethebox.blogspot.com/2010/11/first-compositing-test.html

Stepping Back

I just made a new banner for this blog, and at the same time changed the name from "my sketch blog", one I only kept because I liked how the words fitted together. I've had it for four years now, time for a change. Remember when the blog used to look like this? Simpler times...

Sunday Sketchgroup - 14-11-10

Miniatures

Something I started a while ago and realised I'd never posted online...

I made these by imitating a very shallow depth of field (along with a few other effects). It was inspired by this video:

gottardo nord from fb1 visuals on Vimeo.

I don't think I'm going to invest in any tilt shift equipment, but I'm interesting in trying it out with video using the same digital effects I used for these photos.

None of these photos were taken with this effect in mind so some work better than others. I need to do some research & experimentation, but I thiiink telephoto shots work better than wide ones when it comes to reducing the perceived scale. Or the position of the camera might be more important - shots looking down rather than straight on.

Time Displacement

Playing around with time displacement effects on a flat piece of footage. No compositing.

Life Drawing 12-11-10

Making of Trooper

A behind the scenes look my degree film Trooper. As part of the submission we had to produce a 'making of' film documenting the production process. A few folk have expressed interest in seeing it so I've uploaded it.

This was made right at the end of production when I was pretty worn out, so much as I tried, I don't sound very alive. Maybe I'll hire a narrator to re-do it...


Making of Trooper from Mark Haldane on Vimeo.

Some More Life Drawing

Sunday Sketchgroup

Most of my drawings from today. The first two pages didn't scan right (ink/contrast issue) and weren't good enough to warrant a redo.