Wendy's Box

Here's an assignment from over a year ago. We had to have Wendy walk on screen with one emotion, notice the box, react to its contents with a contrasting emotion and run off. After completing this assignment I felt I had finally begun to grasp this animation thing.

Wipe and Erase

This was a one hour long pose done in life drawing class. I used a technique we recently learned called wipe and erase, where you begin with a mid-tone (smeared conte) and repeatedly alternate between drawing and erasing until you have a nice balance. The left foot looks small to me here but I think it's the way the paper was rolled during the photo.

Done on a 24" x 36" sheet of newsprint.

Flight of the Steve

My DSi came pre-installed with a handy little animation app called Flipnote Studio. DSs are easy to carry around and the screens are small so I don't get too carried away animating. Here's a little looping animation of my friend Steve flying through the sky.

Note: Steve doesn't actually smoke. I made that part up.

Sidestep Assignment

Here's a simple animation done in digital class, using Toon Boom Harmony. We were given 3 views of the character to manipulate into doing a sidestep.

Film Character Turnarounds

A turnaround for my third year independent film character. For my own visual reference.

Also, the coloured version.

I should have some animation tests to post soonish.

Dog Walk Animation

Here's my dog walk from the first semester of third year. It features Kaltag from the animated film Balto.

Dog Studies

From when we drew dog skeletons (plastic) in life drawing. The next part was adding muscles.

Drawn on top on a sheet of tracing paper using coloured pencil.

Here's the whole shebang.

I'll see if I can figure out how to upload my dog walk animation...

Old Stuff

The following is a comic page written and photographed by my buddies and me in Pre-Animation at Algonquin.

It was heavily Monty Python inspired. (BTW, I'm the fellow on the left)

Featured in the comic is my fantastic pal Rebbecca David. Some time ago I envisioned her as a crab. Here's a link to her blog!

Laboratory 3

Another shot of some science-looking stuff.

More Laboratory

An interior establishing shot for my film.

A Caricature

Caricature of filmmaker Michael Moore, done for design class at the end of second year. I'll render him in my spare time perhaps.

Secret Santa Painting

Our year did a Secret Santa where we had to pull a name and draw that person a picture. Hey, I never got mine.

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I used acrylic paint on an 8" x 10" canvas.

Suburban Laboratory

An establishing shot.

And a quick blue tonal test for an interior BG.

Dr. Calamar E. Decapus

Time for an older piece:

My first design for Decapus and Chum. I really can't look at it anymore. When I decided to make a film with these two I knew I'd need to make lots of revisions. Here are a couple pages I found:

Here he still has the box head but loses the gloves. I thought the mantle would be too annoying to animate.

But I added it and it stuck.

And here he is.

Late Introduction

My name is Scott Lewis. I'm Canadian and midway through my final year of Animation at Algonquin College. This year we've been given the exciting chance to create our own independent films. Mine stars Dr. Decapus, squid mad scientist, and his assistant Chum the fish head.

I'll post more about my film in the coming weeks.

For Julien

Happy Birthday! Even though it was a month and a half ago.

I'll colour it properly when I have some time.

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I don't feel like typing an introduction yet but here's some art:


Painted in Acrylic on a sheet of canvas pad. I forget the size. Given to my friend Dave (featured in the painting) for his birthday. He's supposed to resemble a character from Super Smash Bros. he uses a lot. I hadn't used paint in years so this was very fun.


Edit: This isn't a ranting sort of blog but I need to vent. Websites that forcibly and unexpectedly play music are the most annoying things I can currently imagine. It's quite late and I wasn't expecting music to blast from my speakers. And I doubt the sleeping people were either.