Facebook page is up

Hey all. Just wanted to announce the Facebook page is up for my animation studio “Crazy Canuck Animations”. There you will be able to contact me or get further updates on what stuff I’m working on. Please check it out if you are interested and feel free to comment. Thanks all…later.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hamilton-ON/Crazy-Canuck-Animations/156429187724927

 

Finally

Completed the first draft of the script for my first animated short film, “May Result In Death”. Finished writing it on my wife’s laptop while watching Baby Neptune with my 7 month old daughter.

Just need to get back to work on designing the visuals and then starting work on the storyboards. Not sure if anyone is reading this but I’m having fun writing it

Back to work…will post again soon.

Found it!

Thank goodness I found it. With my main camera (Logitech QuickCam Pro 6000) still missing I had decided to use my digital still camera but could not find the important piece to attach the camera to the tripod.

As is usually goes that lost things are found when you stop looking for them, during some late night “nesting” (as my wife calls it) I found the elusive missing piece for the tripod.

Woohoo! Now I will be able to start playing around again and start trying my hands at some animation tests.

Hoping all goes well and I will soon be posting new stuff online that I will of course link to this site.

Coming along

Making slow progress to reclaim space in the basement to set up my animation area while my computer is in the shop. Good news is that it’s just the video card. Will be setting up Carbonite account soon to make sure I don’t take any chances on losing any important files when I get back to work on my animations.

Since acquiring official logo for my “studio” I will also be getting a high-quality print out done to post on wall for inpiration on getting the grunt work done.

That is all for now, especially when I have a 1 month old baby girl who waking up and requires my attention. Family first…animation second

Say hello to my little friend

The new face of Crazy Canuck Animations, created for me by the amazing Scott Johnson of podcast/web comics fame. You can see more of Scott’s stuff at his site Frogpants Studios

More work to do

Work in basement is coming along nicely, during which I can continue taking inventory on what animation supplies I need to re-stock on.

Will need to make a trip to local Home Depot soon to check prices on wood and other materials I will need for set building.

So excited that I’m making any process in getting my animation space setup

Logo for Animation Studio

Hard to believe that in less than a month I will have an official logo for my little animation studio.

The best part is I’ve got my favourite podcaster/illustrator Scott Johnson of Frogpants Studios creating it for me. He has been so awesome and very helpful during the entire creative process.

Will post the completed logo as soon as I can, but in the meantime you can see the rest of Scott’s amazing work at his site Frogpants Studios

A lot has happened

Well it’s been a while since my last post and a lot has happened. While still in the pre-production phase of my first animated short film, will soon be welcoming another member of the family.

With this happening funds will be absent for animation related stuff, but shouldn’t be a problem for certain aspects of pre-production (such as character design, set design and storyboarding).

As things balance out and materials can be purchased, work will proceed with the construction of the set(s).

With the good fortune of getting an iPod touch 32gig for Christmas and the purchase of the WordPress app from iTunes, I should be able to keep active with posts and updates.

Happy Birthday to me

As the title suggests my birthday is coming up and even though I’m 25 (turning 26) I still receive birthday money from my mother, who by the way lives in the beautiful state of Minnesota. I’m telling you this because with this extra cash I can afford to restock some of my current animation supplies and get a few I’ll be buying for the first time.

One of these supplies I’ll be buying is a product called epoxy putty which I will be using to build a few wire armatures (or puppet skeletons) to do some animation tests. I will of course be posting them (for those who wish to view them) in this blog.

I’d also like to let you know that not all of my shorts will be made using puppets with armatures, I’m hoping to make a few using construction paper. In animation you should really use what medium best suits the story your telling, and don’t feel you have to stick to one type of animation. I’m also thinking of making some hand drawn pencil tests so I can get the basic animation principles down.

Well that’s all for today, I’d like to end this with a few book recommendations. The first is “The Art of Stop-Motion Animation” by Ken A. Priebe who teaches stop-motion animation at VanArts in Canada. The other is “The Animator’s Survival Kit” by Richard Willams who if you don’t know is the Oscar-winning animation force who directed the animation for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, and director of the far too often overlooked but amazing animated film “The Thief and the Cobbler”.

Hello world!

It’s official…I’m a blogger. Thanks for reading my first post, let me introduce myself. My name is Shaun and I’m a stop-motion animator/filmmaker live in Hamilton, Ontario. I’m 25, married and have two kids. The main focus of this blog will be the beginnings of my career as stop-motion animator/filmmaker and interesting things that happen in my life during that time. I have a long journey ahead….feel free to tag along for the ride.