Back to the world of drawing and 2d animation. I started animating this one in flash, and also tried pencil which is a free open source 2d animation program. I had intended to then paint each frame afterwards in photoshop, but i remembered that photoshop can do video layers, basically allowing you to load in image sequences, or animated frame by frame. So i did the final animation outline and then colour layers in photoshop. The result isn’t vector like flash produces, but you get access to all of the photoshop tools. Most of the time i would never need to work vector anyway. The playback was great, because its only 10 frames at 300 x 300 pixels, but I can’t see photoshop being able to handle stuff that was too higher resolution, or playing back long sequences. So, photoshop is great for doing small 2d animation tests, and shading stuff mapped out in other programs. I will definitely use it again for colouring / shading other 2d animation pieces.

Oh and I also figured out how to display pieces like this as a looping swf flash file, with transparent alpha! …check the edges. More stuff like this to come I think!

She skips all day, and never gets tired…

I found these the other day. I recall drawing them to get in tune before i did the skater flash animation piece.

Did some life drawing a while ago to keep the old hand to eye drawing co-ordination up to date.

Road trip adventures, and the first look at photos taken with my new Mini Diana F+ lomography camera.

I created a python script that converts images, giving them the appearance of old school, half tone prints.

Little animated piece of a skater -animated in flash.

I wrote a Python script utility to automate backups of important files.

A Python script to quickly create smaller resolution files. Supports batch processing.

A picture I submitted for the exhibition launching the new Sigma dp2 digital stills camera.

Nelson beer character animated for wall projection.