Snow Buck

My 2012 Christmas Card for my family. I had to speed-paint this awfully quick to get it done for the 15th. The theme was in reference to my awesome grandparents who's love of nature and animals rubbed off on me while very young.

Inklings via Inkmaster

I loooove the show Inkmaster. I was watching the second season marathon while my son had a nap and made these:

Materials: Pencil, Printer Paper and a little Photoshop for the first dragon's stars.

Co-Op Caricatures

More 2011 Co-Op stuff. Found these again in the depths of my terabyte.

 (I remember redrawing Parker a lot hence the scribbles above lol.)

Mermaid Week

My sketches for mermaid week! I took these with my phone but I'll scan them properly later (my sig is just a stamp btw lol).

Tree Princess Sketches

I found these floating around my terabyte and thought it'd be fun to post them. I had an idea for a story about a Tree Princess and here are the ideas for the characters Brynn, the cursed princess and the farmboy who finds her named Morgan. Brynn has a pet squirrel I haven't named yet lol.

Wendat Village Women

I opened my 1TB drive to find this fairly unfinished from the "Big Turtle" co-op and descided to salvage what I could since it was a pretty messy drawing. I drew a fair amount of village women concepts back when our little studio group went to the Huronia Museum and the Midland Marsh (I wish I had gotten more that were post-worthy).

Catformity HD on Vimeo

I exported the video in a better quality (I had lost my original HD file)...So now Catformity can be seen in its awesome Hi-Def goodness. :D

Click Here to See Catformity on Vimeo

Happy Birthday Kyle Cahill~!

Since Kyle wouldn't let me get him a gift I drew him one. Now enjoy your present Kyle, it has an Yamask with a party hat!

Sihl - Costume Idea

I drew a costume concept for Sihl after I was done with Biter. Sihl originally hails from a frozen wasteland before her indentured servititude as a stablegirl in a rather regular-seasoned kingdom. (This is what makes her so valuable in keeping a rather sheltered princess alive in the wilderness lol.)

Backbiter Model Sheet

I did a handful of poses of Biter for the last image I did...And made a Model Sheet-ish thing of him despite the slight anatomy differences. (I thought it'd be a waste just to chuck them away/hide them in the depths of my computer.)

Sketching Away

Welp, still getting used to the Cintiq and it's been a pretty nice transition at that. I've been writing a story about a girl named Sihl (think Sill from Windowsill) and her wolf-dog Backbiter aka Biter...So I doodled a rough idea of what they'd look like. I need to start drawing dogs/wolves more, I feel like I could've cartooned Biter to match Sihl better.

Cintiq Flapper

My 22HD Cintiq finally came in (RIP Doodles, my Wacom Graphire 4) and I'm so utterly happy to be drawing digitally again! Here's my test doodle, the Cintiq Flapper.

Short Film: Catformity

Here it is folks...My final film as a student at Sheridan College. I have to say I'm really happy with the end results. :)

Demo Reel 2012

Here's my Demo Reel for 2012.

My full portfolio website is at: http://animation.sheridanc.on.ca/portfolio/2012/francoet

Portfolio

Samples of my work below:

Catformity Poster

Yay I've roughed out my Catformity poster! This is all I could think of in order to sum my film up without giving too much away.

Doodles of My Daily Life

I wanted to practice drawing myself and this is what I got. A timmy's-addicted me with my character Sam Liang and random funny (and sadly true) incidences with my one-year-old son Jack.

All doodles above are true stories lol.

This was supposed to just be Sam...But I had to have someone for her to look at.



Her Portrait- Sua Phoslux

A 30 min sketch and speedpaint. I felt like playing more with the colour more than lineart in the end lol.

Lady Undina

It was fun trying a semi-line and shape-based style :D However, I might have to go back and darken those lines...They seem a bit lost against the texture. (Thinks deeply about it.)

Just Another Dragon

Clean-up and background painting is coming along slowly but surely. I find if I do a sketch to warm-up my hand, everything I do afterwards goes a lot smoother. I draw these saber-feline-faced dragons a lot so I descided to name the whole breed the Silfanes (From Smilodon (saber-tooth cats) and Fane (Old English meaning "Joyful"). I used one of my salt-watercolour scans for my film's texture and basically went crazy on the cintiq lol.

1st and 2nd Year Character Design

I was going through my hardrive and found a few memories from my pervious years. Baa was my first animal character design in 1st year and I was satisfied with his overall result. Sir Edmund and Percibel the Enchanted Horse were for Nancy Beiman's "Time Period-TV Boards" assignment in 2nd year. I'm very happy to say I can see an improvement in how I go about designing things now compared to then.

(I wish I had the psd file to remove that watermark lol.)

(That running pose in the upper right corner O.o)

(Percibel is still my favorite pony.)

For the New Year

My film is coming along rather nicely and I managed to get some time to do some personal art. I tend to get very wrapped up in my school work (or employments) so it was time to have some fun. I'm posting both versions, the black and white I like significantly better because Lorovos the gold/white dragon came out looking a little silly. Rethnak the black/blue dragon was pretty much how I wanted him to be.

You can find this image on deviantart under "Kings of the Eternal Return". Sounds dungeon boss-battlely no?

(Lorovos looks like Rethnak ate his cookies :S )