The Art of RoR

Glue Splash Page

2011-10-22T20:49:00.000-07:00

Lars the Caveman Lineup for my short

2011-05-11T16:08:00.000-07:00

A little experiment with color

2011-03-22T19:25:00.001-07:00

This was originally going to be the beginning of one of my shorts from my time at Vanarts but I ended up using a different story instead. Anyway I still liked this thumbnail so I figured I would try a little color experiment with it and see how it would turn out.

Alien Sketch

2011-03-06T11:30:00.001-08:00

2011-02-28T21:44:00.001-08:00

Cloud testing

2011-02-17T21:37:00.000-08:00

Short scene from BBB

2011-02-14T18:22:00.000-08:00

Comic sketches.

2010-11-19T20:41:00.000-08:00

Experiment with mood and story

2010-10-17T17:22:00.001-07:00

Fort Steele Brewery

2010-09-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

This is an independent study that I was working on while at the UofL with Professor Jim Wills. This is a miniature model of the Fort Steel Brewery. It isn't finished yet but I just put on the first coat of paint and wanted to post something. I will post again when I tidy it up and put in the window details and some more weathering.

Lars coming soon!

2010-09-12T17:58:00.000-07:00

Goofy Assignment

2010-09-06T20:50:00.000-07:00

Here is an old assignment that I found going through my stuff from Vanarts. We were supposed to create three poses for Goofy on model, with reference to a Goofy model sheet of course.

Lars sneek peek

2010-09-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

Hey,
This is one of the backgrounds for my up and coming online comic of Lars. I thought I would post it to see if I get any reaction to the style.

Hockey

2010-05-24T23:13:00.000-07:00

I have been working as an animator and the long hours really make me miss the sports that I used to play. It is always hard to try and balance anything else with animation because it is such a time consuming art. Here are a few pictures of me when I used to play hockey. I must say I miss it a lot.

(I am) Nobody's Lunch

2010-04-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

I got to do this poster for the senior Acting class at Vanarts. It is my first poster I have made for someone, so I am really please I got the opportunity to create it. It was really fun and can't wait for the next one I get to make.

Greasy Boxer

2010-04-22T22:49:00.000-07:00

I did this little sketch at work while I was waiting for my scene to render. Then after work I decided to do something with it, so here you go. This will be the start of a group of vector drawings I am planing on posting soon.

Facial expressions from term 3

2010-03-19T17:11:00.000-07:00

It is funny how your character progresses and changes over time.

A new line of cereal brought to you by Dr. Heckleberg

2010-03-09T01:05:00.001-08:00

For Moniquita!

Work while I was at Glue Solutions

2010-03-06T14:00:00.000-08:00

This is a screen shot of some internal work I did for Glue Solutions. It was an interactive guide to one of Glue's interactive products. (All work was done while working at Glue Solutions)

2D27 Class

2010-03-06T13:50:00.000-08:00

This is the vanarts 2D27 class list I snatched at the end of the year. Everyone did a self portrait of themselves and placed them over their picture. I think it was Francesco that started it but correct me if I am wrong. Ben is the only angry one.

Highlight reel

2010-02-22T11:15:00.001-08:00

This is my highlight reel of work accumulated throughout the year at Vanarts. I am hoping to change a few things just to tighten up some of my work and maybe add some things from outside Vanarts. I am really happy with how everything turned out and learned a lot. Thank you to all my teachers, and friends I met at school. Most importantly I would like to thank my family I love you guys. Wow, feels like an acceptance speech but oh wait I haven't won anything and now the real work begins. Also thank you to Adam Larue for doing the voice of Dr. Heckleberg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFlg08j

Animation is confusing

2010-02-19T09:02:00.000-08:00

Lars

2010-01-19T22:25:00.000-08:00

Here is a turnaround of the character Lars. I created him for my short film that I am currently making in my last term at Vanarts. I have included some quick sketches and thumbnails of him as well below. I might post some of the scenes in the near future or wait till the short is completed.

Sketches

2010-01-14T22:39:00.000-08:00

These are some quick sketches I did in-between working on my flash short and cursing because of it. Hope you enjoy.

Models

2010-01-05T22:13:00.000-08:00

The following are some models I made back when I was in Lethbridge in my University days. The models are made from mat-board, polystyrene and a little bit of glue. Painted with acrylics. I really enjoyed working on these and got to work with my Uncle Jim Wills who teaches at the UofL. I hope I will get the chance to work with him in the future.

Stop Motion Dialogue

2009-12-11T11:50:00.000-08:00

The Stop Motion course I'm taking has come to a close. Our final project we created was a dialogue in the theme of Aardaman's Creature Comforts (interviewing animals).

Thanks Francesco for giving me a good voice to work with. Thank you Ken for helping me. Couldn't have done it without you.

Enjoy!

The track was broken down by Ken and my ugly thumbnails make it look that much more confusing.

Hands

2009-12-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

Here are some hands that I was working on in term two.

Expressions

2009-12-08T12:51:00.001-08:00

2009-12-08T12:46:00.001-08:00

Here are some short 2 -3 minute gestures as well as a few longer poses of some torso studies. I am starting to get looser and getting more life in my gestures, so improvement is always a plus. Hope you like.

2009-12-04T22:59:00.000-08:00

This was a animal caricature assignment that followed our zoo trip in the third term. Inspirations were Ronald Searle and Stephen Silver.

2009-12-04T22:01:00.001-08:00

I did a bunch of sketches of some animals that interested me a while ago. I wish I could tell you I did these from life, but that would be lying and that would be bad! These were drawn from photo reference… sigh.

2009-12-04T21:54:00.001-08:00

This was a sketch I did from one of Joe Cockers CD covers.

2009-12-02T16:19:00.000-08:00

In our fourth term we had to pitch three different stories for our final short in Flash. This is one of the stories I did and the one I chose for my final. We had to use 8 - 12 panels to tell our story. It is a tale of man's evolution, in which each successive triumph over his environment/situation only leads to new problems to solve. I think that this story would be more suited for Flash and will be more appropriate for a demo reel.

2009-11-29T01:18:00.000-08:00

For our final in stop motion we recorded a track of one of our class mates in the style of Aardman's creature comforts. This is the character I constructed to suit the dialogue we recorded. I just have to finish all the different mouth positions and then I will be ready to animate to the track.

These are some quick and dirty shots from Francesco's i-phone.

Stop Motion

2009-11-28T15:03:00.000-08:00

I have been taking a part time stop motion class at VANarts under Ken Priebe. It is a 12 week, once a week course where we cover the basics in stop motion. The last couple classes we were focusing on takes. Here is the test of the character I made I think it turned out alright and I had fun doing it.

Hey here is a morph I did. I kept it very simple because it was the very first morph I did. I think it turned out kind of funny.

2009-11-28T14:28:00.000-08:00

We are still learning to animate with flash and we were given a different build this week.

The build was created by Vanarts and Animated and modified by myself.

Blog has moved!

2009-08-27T19:54:00.000-07:00

blog moved to http://theartofror.wordpress.com/

Random

2009-07-15T17:35:00.000-07:00

Hello I have been really busy in term two at VanAarts and I haven’t posted anything for a very long time. I am just posting a few things here hope you like. There are some pieces from a skeletal anatomy study as well as some random drawings from life.

The Jumping Sack

2009-04-26T16:07:00.000-07:00

This was an introductory assignment that I worked on. I was to animate a jumping sack in semi rough which sounded simple enough. Now I know a lot of people might say "that's it" after they watch it but it took a lot of time and frustration during the learning process.

Deck O Cards

2009-03-22T21:24:00.000-07:00

These three cards are from a deck that I designed a few months ago but I haven't done anything with them yet. I plan on getting them printed but funds are a little tight right now. Hopefully you will enjoy.

House Hold Sketches

2009-03-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some fairly quick sketches of house hold things.

Life Drawing

2009-03-21T14:01:00.000-07:00

One of the classes that I am taking is Life Drawing. We have been going over some of the basics and had a lot of technical talking. Theses sketches are some negative space sketches taken from life.

I have always hated negative space drawings and did not think they were at all relevant, but since I am not famous yet I think that I was wrong and that it really helps in keeping the proportions of whatever you are drawing.

2009-03-02T17:09:00.000-08:00

Today I had my first look at The Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts). It was orientation day and I got to meet some really interesting people. I was happy to see the cultural diversity of my classmates and can't wait to start working tomorrow.

VanArts is located on West Pender in between Seymour and Granville St in downtown Vancouver. The school is in a very beautiful old tall build and I took a few fast shots of the school before grabbing the bus.

Tomorrow I hope I will start posting some Art.

Ror

Shot of the outside main entrance of the building.

A little higher up.

One of the workstations.

Alnoor Sketches

2009-02-10T13:33:00.000-08:00

Hello this was a few sketches I did for Alnoor Kassam's personal website. Not sure when it will go live, if it does because he has been away on a Journey. Regardless I wanted to get these flash drawings up.

2009-02-07T16:13:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

This is my first post I am just finishing setting up my new blog.

I am on my way to Vancouver to go to school at the Vancouver institute of media arts (VanArts).
So this is just a quick intro to more blogs to come I hope you enjoy.

Thanks
Rory