Raging Bull is coming along...

There you go, a little update on the Ice Rage stuff.

John did a nice job again :)

We've got new guys who are helping with the modeling process now. Welcome on board friends!

It is coming along...

Ice Rage. In Progress...

Hi everyone! Here we go, we've been busy making this Crazy Rooster's sculpture. Thanks to John Silander, good job! Now, can't wait to get it modeled in 3D. Our next collaborator is Tracey Hayes. Thanks Tracey! Meanwhile, John's working on one of the Bulls. Exiting!..
More pictures [here]

ICE RAGE: we're looking for collaboration!

Hey, Super Guys out there!
Here is the deal. We'd pitched this "Ice Rage" concept (click it) into the network about 10 months ago... And we've got lots of very cool and supportive feedbacks from different guys, including credited animation professionals, hockey journalists/TV-hosts, NHL media-executives and players, artists, designers etc. We (my partner Andrey Brotzky and myself) wanna get a CGI animation test done (45-60-90 sec?), and are going to find a few Cool-Talents-Crazy-About-Hockey volunteers to set a Team up. So if there're some of you interested in participating, who are preferably live in/around Vancouver, BC and very good at:
– rigging, modeling
– texturing, lighting, comping
– animation
– sound, music
– editing
send us your e-mails to boris[at]andreev[dot]ca, with your CVs, portfolios attached . We can't wait to discuss the matter with you now.

As soon as the test animation's done, we're gonna use it as a second step in pitching the project. All committed collaborators are to be credited in the final pitch. You could use the pitch as a promo of yourself (as a part of the team). What ever happens afterwards, any serious deal appears... we'd like to negotiate it with you later.

Well, feel free to contact me what ever you feel you wanna say. Just let's make a very cool Canadian hockey-animation happen! Finally...

Techno doodle...

Well, I don't know... it's a bio-futuro-tech-something...

How about a pint of beer?..

WoooShooo Bird....

Well, again, it's all started with a few "warm ups"— speed calligraphy lines.
And then,.. something had just clicked in my head...

Same technique...

Hey there!
Here is the same stuff -- Corel Painter and it's cloning/painting trick. Just couldn't stand it :) This technique is kinda fun. If you use it smart, it'll give you some sort of feeling that you are a real Painter :o) Haha...

Creating a Chalk Underpainting...

Hello Patrick and everyone! As promised, I'll show how to get that effect you can see below at the "Here we are..." post. So, first, you'll need Corel Painter on your computer. Then, visit this link, please, http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Content/1170190221936 and watch the video named "Creating the Chalk Underpainting". Using this technique and some very basic painting skills, you will get something like this:
Then, what I've done, I created another layer at the very bottom and did one more underpainting using one of the oil brushes. What Painter does, it delivers all these oily bumps through the whole bunch of layers up to the very top one. So here we go:
Hmmm... Not very impressive, eh? :) I did it very fast. It could be done better, sure thing. But, anyways, even this messy underpainting does its' work in this case. So, having these two layers done, you'll get this:
The last touch, if you want to add some fine details quickly. What I did, I just put the original photo image in between, applied a mask on the top Chalk Underpainting layer. I just slightly revealed a few "important" spots.
That's it!

It's fast and pretty fun to do.

Best regards,
Boris

Kids...

Hi there!
Here's a little update, a couple of sketches I did today.

My son, he has lost his first tooth. And, sure thing, he is very excited about this fact.

Here we are...

Blooop... blooop...

Well, if there's anybody who interested in to know about how this happened that I came up with the picture above... Spontaneously :)
Anyways, take a look from the bottom.


Then, some idea appeared in my head... And the work started...
I was playing with the linework... I like this sort of calligraphy-wise work when you do draw a "fast curve" with one quick one-touch movement... and lots of Ctrl+Z, untill you actually got that nice line. Well, you know :o)
So... At the beginning there was nothing, just a few "speed lines" I'd done as a little "hand-warm-up" as I use to do from time to time.

Spooky time...

Yeah... Hallowww... everybody!.. We did this kinda Spooky Singing Ghost together with my 4 y.o. son Nikita. He did the drawing (for a few seconds), I did the rest (spent some 40 min playing around). If you think that his part looks definitely better than mine – I do agree :o) Yes, son, you did a very cool ghost! I can't do that...
Have a scary one folks!
BwaaHaaaHaaaa.....haaa...

Testing a Bot-Pet...

Hey there... Well, this is a preliminary sketch I did digitally. I'd like to make a water color illustration about this "Deep Forest Expedition" later on... But, shhh...

Autumn voyage...

Something new...

See ya later!

Lookin' for new wheels?..

Here we go...

Please, welcome my blue eyed Train Engineer... He just jumped out of my head where he'd been living for a while.

People around me...

Here comes Thomas The Little Tank Engine...

Hi there,

Well, I'm totally in steam. I'm art-directing on Thomas & Friends now.
This painting I did, as my little work-out, was a bad quality small screen shot from Youtube at the beginning. There was almost no sky etc.. I repainted the picture, added a little bit of details, added the sky and painted a helicopter in it. Why? Because it's just a cute happy helicopter zipping around. We need one. Sure thing!
P.S. And just in case, there's nothing about the actual upcoming episode here. Just a little bit of fun.

Cheers,
Chuff... Chuff... I steamed away...
:o)

For my daughter Masha...