No Kangaroos in Canada - A Song

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

You can't waste a perfectly good beard #6

Hey guys,
Sorry for two months worth of nothing. Got home early tonight (And by early, I mean on time-ish) and this happened...




SOOooooo... I'm now animation supervisor. The studio I'm working for needed an animation supervisor and asked me if I'd be up for it and I said yes.
I've never worked so hard in my life but everything seems to be going well so far.
Also moved since my last post. Moved twice actually... It's been a busy couple of months.

Anyway, Sorry for the lateness.
I honestly have no idea when (or what) I'll be posting next. Sorry.
Hope everyone's having a great day,
-Daniel

You can't waste a perfectly good beard #5

Heya everyone!
Once again I have de-bearded.



Sorry for the low quality. I recorded this off my phone.
I've been hanging out for a decent slab of snow for sooooo long!
That morning we made a snowman and I did a snow angel and we had a snowball fight! SNOW!!!

Hope you're all having a terrific day,
-Daniel

Dec Daily 18 - Swamp Molusk

Okay, I'm totally cheating on this one, but I can't stay up any longer. This is a mocumentary I made back at university. This was made back in 2007 if I recall. It follows the trials of the rare (and suspicioulys basketball looking) Swamp Mollusk.



Wow... I forgot how prevalent 3:4 aspect ratio was back then... And how crappy the upload was.
And yes, that is me trying to sound like David Attenborough/Stephen Fry.
...sooo very tired....

I give up. This is all I have tonight,
Have a great tomorrow everyone,
-Daniel

Dec Daily 7 - Zoetrope

Hi Diddly dee,
As mentioned before my laptop's getting fixed, so I've had to find alternative ways to animate.


Made from a bin from officeworks suspended from my microphone stand by an old shoelace. And because I used a whiteboard marker I can re-use it.
The great thing is that not only does the bin have the slits pre-made, it also allows for exactly for a 16 frame loop.
Hope everyone's having a great day,
-Daniel

You can't waste a perfectly good beard #4

Heya everyone,
Sorry for the lack of blog updates for the past...month...
Things've been really hectic and I'm only now just reclaiming my life.
Quick rundown of the past 20-ish days: I've moved out of home and into an awesome shoebox in the middle of the city, I'm in the middle of learning new songs on the Ukulele (going as far as trying to put steel strings on a uke. It sounds awesome!) and I'm animating on a kick arse pilot (outside of regular boring/regular-income work)

Oh, and I also grew and shaved off my beard. Which brings us tooooo...

You can't waste a perfectly good beard, Video number 4!



Shot on a Canon 1100 DSLR. Audio recorded on a Behringer Podcasting kit hooked up to Audacity.
Had some real fun adding extra layers of sound effects and actually replacing the whole middle sections audio from scratch. (bathroom fan was on...)

I still haven't posted my animated monster loop from two months ago, so expect that soon. Also spooky loop'll be coming up soon, as well as video's of me covering songs (hopefully well, possibly badly) Also, now that I have my own place, I should get to draw a lot more.

Anyways it's about time for bed.
Hope everyone's having a truly fantastic week!
-Daniel

IF: Reverse

My submission for Illustration Friday. Theme - Reverse




Okay, so for whatever reason, I thought this weeks theme was 'Rewind'. So I started making the following comic based on that theme...
But then I saw a submission, and realised I was very much mistaken...
So yeah, this is the would-be-submission for the imagined theme of 'rewind'!



Tonights blog update comes to you from Beav's Bar in Geelong.
The vibe is great, the staff are friendly, but most importantly the music is AWESOME!!!
I've been here for about half an hour and I've heard 'jeremiah was a bullfrog', "sugar sugar, by the archies" and am currently listening to "10cc - Deadlock holiday". If it were any closer to my iTunes library, the next song'd be 'walking on sunshine' or the theme to dogstar.

Happy Thursday to all, and to all a good Cider!
-Daniel

(edit: The next song was Dizzy, by Tommy Roe! Sweet!)

Beard Video 3

Hey Everyone,
Tracey's coming back from holiday, so I thought removing my face scraggle'd be a good idea.



And now my head hurts, so I'm off to bed.
Should go back and count how many times I slapped myself in the face, but that can wait for another post :)
Hope everyone had a great start to the week,
-Daniel

*Edited using Quicktime Pro and Audacity.

More face de-fuzzying

I'm trying not to make this blog about my beards, but I accidentally let it grow again.
And then I couldn't NOT try another video thing. But then I couldn't think of anything, so it got bigger....
Bottom line is, I've got a new beard video to share. I think this one looks more discomfortable than the previous.
Discomfortable? Surely that's not a word. -shrug-



BONUS DRIVEL! Me being an idiot in front of the camera! Hooray!



Hope you're all having a great evening,
-Daniel

A time almost forgotten

Here we are!
I take you back to a time long ago, when VHS tapes ruled the land, and 16:9 was a crazy-mans fantasy.
Not one, not four, but THREE poorly made animations created by myself and my siblings.
And by animations, I mean there's some animation in it... Anyway, you'll see.


I think that background's meant to make it look like a forrest... Also, we worked out we couldn't animate and talk at the same time, so we improvised.


This is my attempt at some serious animation. I think I tried copying the character design from chicken run. Tried...


Probably the most thought out and containing the most animation. Also, an intentional camera move! Crash zoom ahoy!

Hope you're all having a great day/night/inbetween,
-Daniel

Never let a good beard go to waste.

So, I shaved my beard. I never intentionally grew one, I just got lazy and didn't shave for a couple of months.
Though it was kinda fun, and warm, I got a bit sick of it towards the end. Especially having to double check that food wasn't stuck in it.


At the same time, I couldn't just waste a perfectly good beard, now could I? So I made this... and now my face is cold... especially since it's winter.
I'm planning on making a comic about this. It'll be coming soon.