We’ll be puttin’ together a small collection of pics soon and then getting our shop together so you can buy a bunch of our junk. Sound good? Meh! We’ll see. We’ll let you know when and where you can own a bunch of random stuff like this lil’fellow.
3×5 AKA. Dead Files. Pt.5
Last one y’all! Thanks for checkin’ out all our posts over the last five days. Where the previous posts were mostly all projects that never got off the ground or ended up in limbo, we wanted to make our last post about things we might be cookin’ up or more recent/relevant things. So let’s see what’s in the oven.
First up is a little pipe smoking, floating, man/child??? I don’t know.
Then back to the sketchbooks we go for different ways to draw mighty beards.
And then super plasma energy shenanigans.
Thanks to our man D for nominating us and making us reassess old things to see where we’re at now. It was immensely helpful. I suggest doing it every year or two.
3×5 AKA. Dead Files. Pt.4
Alrighty! It’s that time o’day again, where we bombard all your social media with junk that never was or will be. Let’s go!
First up is a page from a comic that’s been done for a while, but haven’t gotten it out to the printers for one reason or another. The plan is to correct that in the next week or two, so you can consider this a very short preview. It’s called The Rooster.
This was a character design we did for our friend Ko. Hopefully he’ll get the funding one day to make his film and we can show you all the other crazy things we designed.
Lastly this was a pitch for Reactine. We didn’t win this job, but it was fun to mix so many styles for one spot.
Last day tomorrow. Maybe we saved the best for last? Maybe we didn’t?
3×5 AKA. The Dead Files. Pt.3
Pew! Pew! Pew! We’re shootin’ straight lasers at these dead files killin’em cold. This is numero trois! Hope you like’em.
This was a little animation test of a much bigger project we were going to do for Havas. It was meant to be an internal thing, but never materialized.
These were some preliminary sketches for a couple of spots we did for some cough syrup. They only aired in doctors offices in Quebec. So I doubt many people have seen them, and we’ve never posted them, because they have no audio…for some reason or another? The final spots had no outlines, but like the stuff we posted yesterday, we prefer the bolder black line of these earlier concepts. Maybe one day we’ll bust out some drum machines and post’em.
Lastly for today we’ve done a few automotive spots over the years and have pitched on even more. These are some rough concepts, styleframes , and early character designs for some of the ones we actually made, which haven’t been released yet. See you tomorrow.
3×5 AKA. Dead Files. Pt.2
Day number two y’all! Three lil’ pics of more process and randomness.
Sketchy sketcherton. I’ve always kept a sketchbook on me at all times, mostly because I tend to forget the ideas I come up with pretty quickly. I’ve now come to realize I need one wherever I go, so I’ve come up with a system of having one at home, one in my book bag which I carry at all times, and several at work. These books are a total mess and are filled with nonsense, math calculations, and mostly just trying to figure out how to do something as opposed to finished pieces.
Here’s the office pile.
At the beginning of last year we did a campaign to remind and inform the people of Ontario it was time to vote. These were the preliminary sketches we had come up with. You can see glimpses of what the project eventually became but I still prefer the bold more stylized line of these characters.
Lastly, this was a rough concept for a project that never got funded. I won’t go into too much detail of what it was, ‘cuz who knows if we’ll just do it one of these days ourselves. But the character is a combination of several techniques including Stop Motion , CG, and 2D animation.
That’s it that’s all! See ya’ tomorrow.
3×5 AKA. The Dead Files. Pt.1
Alright y’all! Our man Pasemko has challenged us to do this thing that artists are doin’ these days where they post 3 pieces of art (old or new) everyday for 5 days, and each day you nominate someone else to do the same thing.
We thought there would be no better time to show all y’all some of our process stuff, and what we commonly refer to as our DEAD FILES! Stuff that never happened for one reason or another or early sketches of finished projects. Not sure if we know enough people to continue the chain since most of our artist friends are already doin’it up posting way more frequently then we do. So we’ll see how this all shakes out.
Here we go:
Unused Self Portrait.
This was a pitch we did for Bedsider a birth control support network. If you look closely on the upper right image I “accidentally” drew two right hands. In the end the project was put on hold and then never revived.
This was an early concept for a pharmaceutical commercial. We eventually did several spots for them, but they don’t look anything like this.
Jutra.
We’re super excited to announce that Migration has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2015 Jutra Awards. The film is currently nominated for three best animated film awards, One Screen Awards, Canadian Screen Awards, and now les Jutra. We’ll be gettin’all fancied up for the events that will be broadcast live on CBC and Radio-Canada on March 1st and 15th.
We’ll probably look something like this.
In the meantime you can catch the film in Brussels at Anima 13th-22nd of February, as well as Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote in the Canary Islands 16th-28th of March.
Canadian Screen Awards.
We’re super excited to announce that we’ve been nominated for Best Animated Short at this years Canadian Screen Awards. The awards will be given out live on CBC this coming March 1st. We have a few more festival dates coming up shortly, so stay tuned for where you can catch the film on the big screen.
Date Night.
FH is headin’ down to New York tomorrow to catch the Hamptons International Film Festival. We’ll be around for the entirety of the fest so swing on by and say hello, you just might receive some Migration swag. Our film will be screening on Friday at noon in the Discovery! Shorts For All Ages screening and at 1:45pm on Monday. Both projections will be at the Regal East Hampton Cinema. Below you’ll find a list of past/upcoming dates and festivals where you can catch the film.
Pictoplasma Apr. 30th-May 4th
Supertoon Jul. 27th- Aug1st
Toronto International Film Festival Sep. 4th-14th
Encounters Short Film Festival Sep. 16th-21st
Berwick Film & Media Festival Sep. 17th-21st
Matsula Nature Film Festival Sep. 17th-21st
Anim’Est Oct. 3rd-12th
Hamptons International Film Festival Oct. 9th-13th
Toronto After Dark Film Festival Oct. 16th-24th
Reggio Film Festival Oct. 23rd-26th
SeeMor Film Festival Oct. 25th-26th
CineAsie Film Fest Oct. 30th-Nov. 2nd
Klik Amsterdam Animation Festival Nov. 4th-9th
AFI Fest Nov. 6th-13th
Flux Nov.10th
CutOut Fest Nov. 13th-16th
St. Louis International Film Festival Nov. 13th-23rd
Animated Dreams Nov. 19th-23rd
Giraffest Nov. 27th-30th
Whistler Film Festival Dec.3rd-7th
