Hi Guys,
Got a new song up. Well it's an old song, I wrote it about 6 months ago, but I've only just gotten around to recording it.
I tried to write it with both Aussie and Canadian jokes in mind. Outside of those two demographics I'm not sure how much of it makes sense...
Eh.. I like it anyways!
Hope you're all having a great day,
-Daniel
I'm an Australian animator from Melbourne living and working in Halifax, Canada.
Currently Animation Supervisor for Copernicus Studio Inc., I amuse myself by terrifying the locals with ukulele fuelled spontaneous sing-alongs and using snow as shaving equipment.
If you want to see more you can check out webbot15.com, and we've also got a nice bunch of links below that'll take you wherever you want to go.
Currently Animation Supervisor for Copernicus Studio Inc., I amuse myself by terrifying the locals with ukulele fuelled spontaneous sing-alongs and using snow as shaving equipment.
If you want to see more you can check out webbot15.com, and we've also got a nice bunch of links below that'll take you wherever you want to go.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Sep 3, 2012
Jul 23, 2012
...and then music happend?
Sooo... updates huh...
Just not a thing that happens much these days. And I'm sorry for that.
But I did write a song a little while back. It's about animation.
Inspired by @KtShy's tweet about working on a Friday night and suggested by @Fluxfoxphoto.
Think of this not as a polished song, but a sketch of one. A rough draft, mostly keys and breakdowns. A pencil test. Still needs to go through cleanup. Get some compositing done to it.
...except the sound version of all of that...
OH! OH OH OH!!!
I was featured in the Shanahanigans Travel Show: TCAF 2012!!!
Inspired by @KtShy's tweet about working on a Friday night and suggested by @Fluxfoxphoto.
Think of this not as a polished song, but a sketch of one. A rough draft, mostly keys and breakdowns. A pencil test. Still needs to go through cleanup. Get some compositing done to it.
...except the sound version of all of that...
OH! OH OH OH!!!
I was featured in the Shanahanigans Travel Show: TCAF 2012!!!
I'm not sure if I ever got around to gushing about how totally amazing TCAF was. Got to spend the weekend with my good friend Laura (Who totally has an awesome FB page. You should check it out)
Met up with many of the Aussie folk, 'specially the Squishface Studio mob and Caravan of Comics.
And I met the Siblings Shanahan! Who are totally half the reason I wanted to ever come to Canada!
There were so many awesome artists and wonderful people and awesome and how freaking long does Younge Street need to be!? I mean seriously!?
Hope everyone's having a great day and are sleeping at some point,
-Daniel
Met up with many of the Aussie folk, 'specially the Squishface Studio mob and Caravan of Comics.
And I met the Siblings Shanahan! Who are totally half the reason I wanted to ever come to Canada!
There were so many awesome artists and wonderful people and awesome and how freaking long does Younge Street need to be!? I mean seriously!?
Hope everyone's having a great day and are sleeping at some point,
-Daniel
Mar 21, 2012
A weekend of Drinking: THE MUSICAL!
Hey howdey hey awesome guys and gals!
Sorry for a bit of a slow upload lately. Insert the regular excuses here.
But hey! You get a song! That's worth the wait, yeah?
There's a weekly drawing challenge going on at the studio, where every week we get a new theme and draw up a bunch of drawings to that theme.
So this is that, except instead of doing a drawing, I'm attempting to write a song to that theme...
Week one's theme was: John in a tree.
Head's up, This song Contains a swear word. The 'F' one...
The theme was inspired by a 'got drunk on the weekend' story one of the fine respectable fellows here told us. I then elaborated on this story.
Honestly, I'm quite proud of this song. It's a bit Piano Man and a bit Home for a Rest (a common bar song in Halifax it would seem)
I'll eventually do a nicer recording with stuff like drums and bass, but that'll be a long way off.
I'm going to spend tonight chucking a bunch of time delay posts up that should last a little while.
And I've already written a song for this weeks theme (Zombie Apocalypse) So there's that to look forward to. As well as a song titled "there's no Kangaroos in Canada". I just need to learn the 'French' bit.
So, till next time, hope you're all having a fantastic day,
-Daniel
Sorry for a bit of a slow upload lately. Insert the regular excuses here.
But hey! You get a song! That's worth the wait, yeah?
There's a weekly drawing challenge going on at the studio, where every week we get a new theme and draw up a bunch of drawings to that theme.
So this is that, except instead of doing a drawing, I'm attempting to write a song to that theme...
Week one's theme was: John in a tree.
Head's up, This song Contains a swear word. The 'F' one...
Honestly, I'm quite proud of this song. It's a bit Piano Man and a bit Home for a Rest (a common bar song in Halifax it would seem)
I'll eventually do a nicer recording with stuff like drums and bass, but that'll be a long way off.
I'm going to spend tonight chucking a bunch of time delay posts up that should last a little while.
And I've already written a song for this weeks theme (Zombie Apocalypse) So there's that to look forward to. As well as a song titled "there's no Kangaroos in Canada". I just need to learn the 'French' bit.
So, till next time, hope you're all having a fantastic day,
-Daniel
Jan 5, 2012
Happy 2012! (Or: what happened to you doing something a day for December?)
Hey everyone,
Welp, guess it goes without saying that I, in fact, did NOT complete a post for every day of December.
I made 18 posts and then... well.. stopped.
I made 18 posts and then... well.. stopped.
OH! Happy new year, by the way! It being 2012 now 'n' all. Hope everyone hand a splendid Christmas/Holiday/End of year break/Whatever. It being summer here the wether went really blisteringly rubbish for a couple of days, but it's quite pleasant now.
Oh, I got an iPhone recently. As a christmas/going away present to myself.
I did a terrible thing to it though...
I installed Garageband onto it...
And then this happened... In all it's multitrack reverb-heavy stereophonic goodness...
Dream a little Dream of me - original by Mamma Cass
So yeah... that's me singing (I call it singing because that what it most resembles) and playing the uke.
There's also a feature that lets you have the audio run through a virtual amp, so my uke sounded like an electric guitar for parts.
Anywhoosle, I'm going to try for some sort of regularity to posting, but it seems every time I define a timeframe it all falls apart.
So yeah, expect stuff, but don't expect when. But soon. Hopefully...
Hope you're all having a great day,
Hope you're all having a great day,
-Daniel
Nov 30, 2011
Pollenatin 'n' Penetratin'
Hey howdey hey!
This month, Loop De Loop teamed up with YEAH (Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS) and celebrated with the theme of Condoms. This is my submission. A musical Public Service Announcement about the benefits of wearing a condom. It has sock puppets, awkward pauses and references to 'junk'.
And yes, I both wrote and sung the song. The drummer from Rise from Ruin was kind enough let me record his drumming for this. Also, he's my little brother, so I would've told on him to Mum if he didn't.
In similarly related news, it's Spring. And the trees near my apartment are spreading their seed.
In other other news, I'll be attempting a blog post every day for the month of December. Whether it be a drawing or animation or something else, I don't know. But it'll be something.
Hope you're all having a grand day,
-Daniel
This month, Loop De Loop teamed up with YEAH (Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS) and celebrated with the theme of Condoms. This is my submission. A musical Public Service Announcement about the benefits of wearing a condom. It has sock puppets, awkward pauses and references to 'junk'.
And yes, I both wrote and sung the song. The drummer from Rise from Ruin was kind enough let me record his drumming for this. Also, he's my little brother, so I would've told on him to Mum if he didn't.
In similarly related news, it's Spring. And the trees near my apartment are spreading their seed.
In other other news, I'll be attempting a blog post every day for the month of December. Whether it be a drawing or animation or something else, I don't know. But it'll be something.
Hope you're all having a grand day,
-Daniel
Nov 6, 2011
Scribbles, Ukulele and a LOT of text
I've just come back from watching the Back to the Future Trilogy on the big screen. And as well as revelling in how arse-kickingly awesome those movies are (Seriously, Robert Zemekis used to make cinema. Unlike the whatever it is he tries to make now), it really took me back to the childhood roots of who I am. (This is gonna be a text heavy flashback, so feel free to scroll down to the pictures and video. Seriously, don't feel bad. I'm guilty of it too.)
Growing up the chubby asthmatic kid I was (and continue to be) I wanted to be Doctor Emmett L. Brown. He made soooo many cool things out of his garage and was always so enthusiastic about everything. He could do anything, and science was his tools to creation. In grade three I was rocking up to school with solar kits and crystal radio sets, by grade six I'd fixed and revamped a rotary style phone in a classy classy wooden box case. And who has two thumbs and used to sit behind the portables tinkering with a radio he disassembled and re-assembled into his lunchbox? Yo...
Oh it was great fun. I even went on a two day science camp thing in year nine where we learned about robots and made borax based slime (No more crummy cornstarch based gunk for us!) Then something interesting happened. All the while as I'd been sciencing it up I'd been drawing and doodling and at some point I realised a fantastic truth. Leaving it on paper is SO much easier than actually making it work. Even looking back at it now, animating a frog turning into a hair-dryer is infinitely simpler than getting ti to happen with science. Even on ONES it's be easier.
Long story short, Back to the Future I, II and II plus laziness equals the animator you see today. Oh, here's a sketch dump before I bury you in text again.
I dunno... I guess I've been thinking a lot about myself lately. As it turns out I've been making banner ads for a full year now and the void of creativity that comes with it has been taking its toll. A fantastically wise person pointed out to me recently that I brighten up when I talk about animation, and I do. I really do. The high point of my Friday at work was when one of my colleagues who's recently become a dad didn't know what the 'ladybugs picnic' animation from sesame street was. At which point I found a link to it, wrote a short speil on Bud Luckey and concluded the email with a link to Pixar's Boundin'. (which he also did)
Following that high I (well, once work ended) I rode around until I was good and lost, found a park and recorded the following:
Uke's bring their own sunshine to things. I've been practising a lot more lately, especially walking up and down Chapel Street. Anyways, my venting seems to be loosing momentum and direction. Both very good things for a vent to loose. I'll end tonight with an image I've had on my drive for a while now. When I first made this I was too scared to post it anywhere, not for fear of criticism, but for darker and more ridiculous reasons. Reasons that've been ranted about enough in other forums. Enjoy that those reasons are gone! I certainly do :D
Hope everyone's having a great weekend, I promise, next post'll be back to regular scribbly drivel. -Daniel
Growing up the chubby asthmatic kid I was (and continue to be) I wanted to be Doctor Emmett L. Brown. He made soooo many cool things out of his garage and was always so enthusiastic about everything. He could do anything, and science was his tools to creation. In grade three I was rocking up to school with solar kits and crystal radio sets, by grade six I'd fixed and revamped a rotary style phone in a classy classy wooden box case. And who has two thumbs and used to sit behind the portables tinkering with a radio he disassembled and re-assembled into his lunchbox? Yo...
Oh it was great fun. I even went on a two day science camp thing in year nine where we learned about robots and made borax based slime (No more crummy cornstarch based gunk for us!) Then something interesting happened. All the while as I'd been sciencing it up I'd been drawing and doodling and at some point I realised a fantastic truth. Leaving it on paper is SO much easier than actually making it work. Even looking back at it now, animating a frog turning into a hair-dryer is infinitely simpler than getting ti to happen with science. Even on ONES it's be easier.
Long story short, Back to the Future I, II and II plus laziness equals the animator you see today. Oh, here's a sketch dump before I bury you in text again.
I dunno... I guess I've been thinking a lot about myself lately. As it turns out I've been making banner ads for a full year now and the void of creativity that comes with it has been taking its toll. A fantastically wise person pointed out to me recently that I brighten up when I talk about animation, and I do. I really do. The high point of my Friday at work was when one of my colleagues who's recently become a dad didn't know what the 'ladybugs picnic' animation from sesame street was. At which point I found a link to it, wrote a short speil on Bud Luckey and concluded the email with a link to Pixar's Boundin'. (which he also did)
Following that high I (well, once work ended) I rode around until I was good and lost, found a park and recorded the following:
Uke's bring their own sunshine to things. I've been practising a lot more lately, especially walking up and down Chapel Street. Anyways, my venting seems to be loosing momentum and direction. Both very good things for a vent to loose. I'll end tonight with an image I've had on my drive for a while now. When I first made this I was too scared to post it anywhere, not for fear of criticism, but for darker and more ridiculous reasons. Reasons that've been ranted about enough in other forums. Enjoy that those reasons are gone! I certainly do :D
Hope everyone's having a great weekend, I promise, next post'll be back to regular scribbly drivel. -Daniel
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