BRANDO BLOGO

Moving!

2007-04-08T19:25:00.001-04:00

From now forward, all the work will be at:

BRANDONJAMESSCOTT.COM

Blogger has been great, and this blog has given me and my art more exposure and opportunities than I could ever imagine... But it's time to expand and have a little more than a blogger account can provide!

The site is still very new, and a lot of it is still under construction, but there's a preliminary gallery up with a portfolio of my work already. Also, the film is done! I'll have plenty of information about it there soon, and will also update everyone of its upcoming web premiere.

Thanks again to everyone who has commented for the support given here. Hope to see you at the new place!

lost note

2007-03-20T23:01:00.000-04:00

Another bit of art done at JibJab

asteroids wars!

2007-03-15T22:05:00.000-04:00

it's coming...

2007-03-08T00:35:00.000-05:00

charge!

2007-03-02T00:39:00.000-05:00

invasion

2007-02-23T01:05:00.001-05:00

pissed off snowmen

2007-02-16T21:21:00.000-05:00

kickin heels

2007-02-13T16:07:00.000-05:00

dinner

2007-02-10T10:35:00.000-05:00

A piece of development art done at JibJab last summer.

hoodoo woods

2007-01-29T22:35:00.000-05:00

Some nearly-finished layouts from the upcoming film.

I've spent some time reworking the art direction and going way back to the simplistic, funky design that I love, through the help of some inspiration from Amid's wonderful Cartoon Modern and more specifically, the work of one Walt Peregoy.

To aid in the process of making this film (which is, to those who haven't done it, a lot of work!), I've spent some time planning and have developed a library of my designs that is constantly growing. I use these libraries of trees and plants and whatnot to go through a "digital cut and paste" process of building my layouts from scratch, mixing in elements of my forest and traditional digital painting as well along the way.

I'd show you the process more specifically if I actually had one, but I usually just confuse the hell out of myself while I'm doing it.

bear, interrupted

2007-01-16T00:40:00.000-05:00

The Cruel Fauna star makes a cameo. Relieving himself in an outhouse. Reading the business section.

12"*16"
Acrylic on Canvas

Hope everyone had a good Festivus. Sorry for the lack of updates recently - holdiays tend to cause this. Thanks for the comments! I will periodically show some updates from the film, but for the most part the rest of the process will remain quiet until it's finished. Instead, expect to see many random images as I frantically paint until my spleen bursts on my quest to create the portfolio before graduation this spring.

The Mighty Reel

2006-12-19T21:42:00.000-05:00

Well, here's the (relatively) final version of the story reel for my final year film at Sheridan. It's pretty ridiculous, though honestly, this is how I see nature when I step off of the road and into the trees. Is that wrong?

So now is the time to take this timed out story and animate it out, throw in some refined backgrounds, and tighten up the sounds a little more. Should be doable in the next 4 months. The recent posts I've been making with the forest paintings resemble a look you may see in the final version. The animation, however, will stay very close to what you see here, but with some added inbetweens and secondary action jazz. I want to keep it as simple as possible.

flying bears with worms stuck in their noses'

2006-11-26T21:16:00.000-05:00

knock knock

2006-11-17T12:57:00.000-05:00

Thanks for all the recent comments about the last batch of images. They have all been exercises in working out the art direction of my final year student film. I'll have a finished leica reel shortly which I'll post up here as well as plenty more concept art seeing as how I still don't feel I've found the final look I'm happy with.

This picture, however, has absolutely nothing to do with the film, as you may have guessed.

death from above

2006-11-14T17:59:00.000-05:00

king of the hill

2006-11-12T12:25:00.000-05:00

spring mountain

2006-11-09T15:54:00.000-05:00

timberland

2006-11-07T20:26:00.000-05:00

noisy bird

2006-10-23T00:01:00.000-04:00

sunbathing

2006-10-20T00:56:00.000-04:00

let the music take over

2006-10-11T00:04:00.000-04:00

evergreen vibrations

2006-10-09T12:19:00.000-04:00

birdie num-num

2006-10-06T14:36:00.000-04:00

smell the pine

2006-10-02T21:38:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the long break.

I had a fantastic summer with JibJab! Keep an eye out for them - if you aren't familiar with the name yet, you will be soon.

I'm back in Canada now, the school year is well underway, and here is the first of many material you'll see relating to this film. I'll post more images every few days.

watchful birds

2006-08-28T00:51:00.000-04:00

global warming

2006-07-18T00:52:00.000-04:00

a fish undone

2006-07-13T00:17:00.000-04:00

morning

2006-07-03T01:32:00.000-04:00

greed

2006-07-02T14:42:00.000-04:00

Wow, some of these pictures arent looking like they belong to the same film don't they? Well, that's true. I ran with the 29 idea for a while and couldn't pull a story together. I'm back on an old story idea I had, maybe you'll figure it out once you see a few more pictures.

concept 3

2006-06-16T02:09:00.000-04:00

concept 2

2006-05-24T23:42:00.000-04:00

concept 1

2006-05-20T22:38:00.000-04:00

arriving next spring...

2006-05-16T22:14:00.000-04:00

So my plane didn't crash, bonus. LA is wild. JibJab is wild.

This blog, I feel, will take a bit of a different turn from now on. I have decided on my concept for my film next year, as you see from the teaser poster above. In the tradition of Hollywood (which resides 20 mins away from me for the rest of the summer), I've released a teaser poster loooong in advance of the film itself. For the next year, expect most of the posts here relating to the film, almost like a production journal. I might stray once in a while though.

But yeah, very busy here! Posts will not be frequent this summer, but they will come.

another year at Sheridan comes to a close

2006-04-21T20:28:00.000-04:00

Prepare for the first long post ever on brando-blogo.... 3rd year at Sheridan College animation is wrapping up, and it has been a crazy year.

First, the BIG news. I will be spending 4 months this summer at an internship with JibJab Media down in Santa Monica, California! This is huge! There some very exciting things happening at their studio right now and I going to be a part of it. And so far the conversations I've had with the people there have been great, they have helped me out so much to make this happen and I couldn't be more grateful. I fly on May 1st and I can't wait!

3rd year at Sheridan was... interesting. We went through a year that had never been done before in the program - a year dedicated to making group films. Next year is our final, personal film year, but this year we were in groups of 5-7 people taking on the task of working together to make a film. Well, as you may guess, the year wasn't perfect. A lot of the classes were confusing and not structured well. My film idea wasn't picked and I spent the year working on someone else's concept. We had plenty of problems with our group not getting together and not getting the work done as we planned. And in the end, after spending over 6 months on a single project, we didn't come close to finishing the thing on time. And yet, I learned more than I had in any other year I think. I learned about the process, from start to finish, and to respect it and devote enough time for each step. I learned about working with others on a film, which is basically what the film industry is all about. And I guess I just learned many things I can't put into words that will help me when I complete my own film next year. We made tons of mistakes, but I'm glad I made them now and they are past me. To those entering 3rd year, next year or in the future, have fun! Mwahahaha!

There's a ton of work our group did this year that will never be seen. Hundreds of sketches, concepts, boards, layouts, and animation drawings that weren't used. This is all part of the deal, and to anyone making an animated film, get used to it!

We'll have the final film finished (well, as finished as it's going to get) with sound soon. Right now I just have a copy of my own sequence on animation, and since I'm making this post now, I'll show this. Here is a sequence of animation I animated this last semester, some cleaned up, most still rough. I didn't finish close to the amount I wanted, but hey, there are only so many hours in the day:

Check the 'friend/classmates' links over the next few weeks too. For one, their work rocks, and two, they're probably going to be posting their films for the world to see. There's some awesome stuff coming out of our year.

And I guess I'll also show the one area of the year I could always rely on to work out, life drawing. Gerry is hands down the best teacher I've had and anyone coming up through the years, you better damn well hope he's teaching when you get to this stage. The class was awesome, and a great break from the rest of the hectic work we've been doing. Some of the final drawings from the year:

Perhaps I could have contributed more to the film if I spent less time on this blog. I mean, how many blogs out there have custom illustrations 2-3 times a week, made only to be displayed on the blog and nothing else? I dunno, making these pictures has become a little bit of an obsession, and I understand sometimes it got in the way of schoolwork. Do I regret it? No! This blog has been one of the greatest things I've done to help my art and let it be seen to the world. To those of you reading who are artists and haven't made one, get started! It's easy and quick and random people will stumble across it every day! Get your work out there!

So yeah. Don't expect another post this size any time soon. My blog has been working pretty well with the pictures outnumbering the words, so I'd like to keep it that way. I'm flying down to LA in just over a week and once that happens, I don't know how often I'll be updating so the summer might be a little quieter than normal. I'll definitely keep updating this blog though. Thanks to everyone for visiting this place with the great comments! And don't worry, the pictures aren't stopping anytime soon!

remote cosmos facility

2006-04-16T23:34:00.000-04:00

uniting the world

2006-04-04T00:17:00.000-04:00

veranda

2006-03-26T22:24:00.000-05:00

silent

2006-03-19T20:59:00.000-05:00

wayne moves on

2006-03-15T00:16:00.000-05:00

Wayne, my goldfish, passed away today. God bless his orange, bubble-eyed soul.

eat your breakfast!

2006-03-10T17:34:00.000-05:00

Here's my illustration for Von Kreep's upcomming "Cereal Killers" book. There's going to be some awesome artists featured in it so keep an eye out for it!

don't... feed... the deer.

2006-03-08T17:05:00.000-05:00

sorry to those who have emailed me, i'm so busy and i hope to get your messages soon

migration

2006-03-06T21:48:00.000-05:00

i saw a yeti once

2006-03-02T23:36:00.000-05:00

lost in space

2006-02-26T23:33:00.000-05:00

batman bewildered

2006-02-26T20:04:00.000-05:00

16"x16" acrylic on canvas board

did some painting at my friend Sam's place this afternoon, didn't really have a plan of what I was going to paint... and somehow Batman happened

fresh air

2006-02-23T21:20:00.000-05:00

more wildness

2006-02-23T01:35:00.000-05:00

Thanks to John and the other folks at Drawn! for the plug! Check out the site if you haven't, great artist finds everyday!

a bag full of idiots

2006-02-20T21:02:00.000-05:00

school

2006-02-16T22:10:00.000-05:00

for a change...

2006-02-16T00:54:00.000-05:00

some recent life drawings from class

bonsai

2006-02-15T01:49:00.000-05:00

the boogeyman is coming

2006-02-12T18:02:00.000-05:00

egyptian sunset

2006-02-09T22:58:00.000-05:00

*edit* wasn't happy with this, so I played with it a bit and ended up here:

it's little more dramatic

dodging pyramids at ludicrous speed

2006-02-09T01:17:00.000-05:00

another concept for next year's film

green dress

2006-02-06T21:29:00.000-05:00

winter plums

2006-02-04T17:17:00.000-05:00

36"x24" - acrylic on canvas

Here's a painting I did for some friends for their new house.

Yes, I'm totally influenced by Eyvind Earle for the tree (hell, you could call it a ripoff), but I tried to put my own spin on it. Besides, it's a personal piece, so I don't care!

over here!

2006-02-03T18:20:00.000-05:00

tomb wall sample

2006-02-02T02:04:00.000-05:00

studying egypt

2006-02-01T00:21:00.000-05:00

Going in an Egyptian direction for my next year film instead. Expect to see many egyptian themed pictures coming up.

she's out of your league

2006-01-29T18:01:00.000-05:00

WILD!

2006-01-26T19:19:00.000-05:00

Wow, this blog has been recommended by the fantastic Cartoon Brew! Thanks Amid and Jerry, and all the new faces popping in here with kind words!

the winner

2006-01-25T00:36:00.000-05:00

After seeing some incredible Vic Haboush images over at the cartoon modern blog , I got so damn inspired I had to do a classy lounge image of my own. I love art from the mid 20th century.

Thanks again for the recent comments! I'd reply individually but this is much easier!

giza

2006-01-23T00:33:00.000-05:00

lets talk evolution

2006-01-19T20:29:00.000-05:00

starting to work on some research for my next year film idea (yes, i reused some earlier illustrations)

politics

2006-01-18T00:19:00.000-05:00

vases

2006-01-16T00:07:00.000-05:00

i come in peace

2006-01-12T01:30:00.000-05:00

wayne

2006-01-06T12:54:00.000-05:00

Hope everyone had a good holidays. So much maxin' and relaxin'... that's why there hasn't been too much posting lately. But let's get this started again. Here's picture of my goldfish, Wayne.

happy holidays

2005-12-24T16:00:00.000-05:00

blizzard in the giant forest

2005-12-21T13:27:00.000-05:00

inspired by Eyvind Earle

paradise tree

2005-12-20T01:20:00.000-05:00

match of the century

2005-12-19T01:05:00.000-05:00

this image was inspired by a recent illustration by denis goulet

thanks to all for the recent kind words, glad you like some of these images

to all the 3rd years in baa that have popped in here, thanks! it's awesome to see so many other blogs with familiar faces. ill be adding all of you to my links

spying on the redapplesaurus

2005-12-15T17:03:00.000-05:00

it's cold out

2005-12-15T01:23:00.000-05:00

bath time

2005-12-14T22:31:00.000-05:00

screwbot fails

2005-12-13T13:12:00.000-05:00

slippery trails

2005-12-13T00:23:00.000-05:00

a western sunset

2005-12-12T17:27:00.000-05:00

poor banana

2005-12-12T01:41:00.000-05:00

suckin' on a saturday

2005-12-10T14:32:00.000-05:00

background painting

2005-12-10T13:02:00.000-05:00

a background for my film that was never meant to be: cave dames and dinosaurs

monster

2005-12-07T01:09:00.000-05:00

Going to try and post more, even if it's just doodles like this angry beast above.

cow sketches from the royal winter fair

2005-12-06T01:00:00.000-05:00

money shot

2005-11-30T00:46:00.000-05:00

concept for the final shot of our film

rock this joint

2005-11-28T22:08:00.000-05:00

film concept painting

2005-11-20T23:03:00.000-05:00

too much castle

2005-11-16T00:32:00.000-05:00

fuzzy rabbits

2005-11-08T00:29:00.000-05:00

happy halloween

2005-10-31T23:50:00.000-05:00

more concept art

2005-10-25T22:00:00.000-04:00

film concept art

2005-10-25T16:23:00.000-04:00

Ok so for whatever reason my film pitch wasn't selected. Whatever. Now I'm working on a friend's film concept instead, and from the few meetings our group has had I can tell it's going to kick ass. It's about rabbits in the sky, and... yeah that's all I'm going to say right now. Here's a piece of concept art I've made for it.

a few more figure studies

2005-10-11T08:40:00.000-04:00

some life drawings

2005-10-06T17:26:00.000-04:00

more story sketches

2005-10-04T23:57:00.000-04:00

cave dames story sketches

2005-10-04T00:11:00.000-04:00

cave dames and dinosaurs

2005-09-26T22:37:00.000-04:00

A couple sketches turned into quick concept paintings for a story pitch I'm working on at school.