Happy Valentines Day!

Did this after work today...with not a minute to spare!
Happy V-day To my Gillian xoxo!

Story Stuff

Here are a few boards I've done over the past few months. The first 2 are some personal projects that have been shelved (which means deadend!) and the last one is a commercial I did for a new Ipad App.
I hope you enjoy, I'd love some feedback!
Hope everyone is doing swell.

Zooooo Sketches

Some new Zoo sketches...except for the elephant, he's a repeat offender. So the Vancouver Zoo slightly trumps the "Ottawa Zoo" (which is a farm, with no more than pigs and cows ect.) Although the Vancouver Zoo is like a low security prison. The Rhino enclosure consists of nothing but a road barrier, and the cheetah is surrounded by a common chain link fence, meant to keep children safe in their backyards.
Anybody going to CTN? Drop me a line if you are!
Thanks for all the feedback, very much appreciated!!

Sketches!

The first drawing is for an awesome charity book called BHRR Charity Art BOOK. Check it out!

The others are the latest of my cafe sketches! All pen on paper, the 2 were coloured in PS.

I've recently discovered 2 amazing sites...the first being my pal Megans, her site is called
http://animationbits.tumblr.com/- She updates constantly and it's a great source of inspiration!

The other is http://www.onanimation.com/, it's a very cool site!

Check them out!

Thanks again for all the comments, and feedback...they keep me going!

Africa

A sketch I did this morning for my girlfriends' sisters Birthday, based on a picture of her in Africa. Thanks for all the great feedback and comments, have a good weekend!!

July 11 Second Club

Last month I decided to attempt the 11 Second club again...here is a scanned version of the one I submitted. I received a first place and was asked by Steven Hawthorne to be interviewed! Beware it's pretty lengthy, you can read it on his amazing blog, HERE. I also received an eCritique from Disney Veteran and Pixar animator Anthony Wong...lots to fix...you can watch it HERE. Thank you for all your wonderful comments, they're always appreciated.

Demo Reel 2011

Here is an updated demo reel, and some old/new coloured cafe sketches to keep this blog moving!! Any feedback is much appreciated, thanks for all your kind words. My updated portfolio can be found at: http://trentportfolio.blogspot.com/

Character Sketch

Thanks everyone for all your great comments on my last post! I've just started week 1 of the Stephen Silver character design course, in this assignment we had to create a character based off of a description. Here are some concepts and a coloured version. All feedback is definately welcome! Thanks

Back on the BLOG wagon!

Long time no post! Here are some cafe gestures and some concept/character drawings for this months 11 second club...Lets hope I finish!

All feedback is most definately welcome and appreciated.

The Smurfs

I've Been busy finishing up work on The Smurfs movie at Sony Animation. I've had such a great experience on this film, the crew is fantastic, I'm learning so much everyday and I am disappointed it's coming to an end in a few weeks! I came onto the project in late November about half way through production, with very little 3d knowledge and I feel fortunate to have learned and worked with the super talented folks here in Vancouver! Check out the trailer HERE

On another note, I just signed up for the Stephen Silver character design course and start in early June, I am very excited! Here are some Cafe scribbles and a character I've recently begun to flesh out for a dialogue test! All feedback is most definately welcome!