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Testing 123

2009-09-06T11:23:00.000-07:00

A mobile blog update test

Valentine's Day!

2008-02-09T08:02:00.000-08:00

Our CRUSH figure is still available. Why not CRUSH on someone this Valentine's Day?

www.neptoonstudios.com

Santa brought us lightsabers!

2008-01-06T06:38:00.000-08:00

Actually, I've been tinkering with AfterEffects again. Some great tutorials by Andrew Kramer can be found on http://www.videocopilot.net .Thanks to him, my nephews think they've got a pretty cool uncka munk.

Click here to see my son battle his cousin to the death.

MERRY "CRUSH"MAS!

2007-12-21T10:10:00.000-08:00

Our first vinyl toy is finally here!

Click here to order yours today.

Unhanded

2007-10-15T07:38:00.000-07:00

Saturday night, our long-time pal Joey So had a gallery opening downtown Toronto. Kauf and I went to check it out.

His work is wonderful: a blend of watercolours, guaches and inks that he layers through a process he calls "reverse masking". Using all sorts of substrates to mask and apply the colours, he creates very organic and structured pieces.

I was incredibly impressed and inspired.

I took a bunch of photos of the growing crowd of minglers -- but no close-ups of the work!

I'm a genious!

Joey and Todd

Owwww!!!

2007-09-26T10:01:00.001-07:00

Well I got the tat --. Even though he wasn't there, Paul Watling seems to know exactly how it went down. The pic is mere moments after the ink was done -- and seconds before the hair grew back in and covered it over.

wow -- new software is fun!!

2007-08-27T21:24:00.000-07:00

Was recently exposed to art rage 2, it looks & feels pretty good. Here's my first sketch with it. Great -- as if i needed another reason to stay up all night.

Sunday Scribbles...

2007-07-30T04:21:00.000-07:00

Doing lots of development this weekend. Here are some scribbles that kept coming after I was done.

sunday night scratch

2007-07-22T19:53:00.000-07:00

Portraits

2007-07-16T15:30:00.000-07:00

"Daddy Without Cofee(sic)" -- ballpoint on pink construction paper -- 2007

My 10-yr-old daughter is constantly drawing. Her latest creation is a portrait of me. I'm flattered that she made me so thin -- I'm a little heavy in the eye-liner department, but it's definitely me.

"Johnny Depp" -- pencil on bond paper -- 2007

The latest pic on our fridge is a drawing she did for my wife. Good ol' Johnny Depp.

more scribbles

2007-07-14T18:43:00.001-07:00

a couple more scribbles

raaaaarrrr!!!

2007-07-14T18:03:00.000-07:00

a bit of doodling to loosen up

Uh-oh --- here we go...

2007-07-11T08:11:00.000-07:00

Well she's started early.

Emma has already begun her red-carpet stalking ways. On Monday she heard that her absolutely favourite-est movie-star, Zac Efron was in town for the Canadian Premiere of Hairspray. So she and her mom went to see if they could get a glimpse of him at a taping of Much on Demand downtown. Only being able to get a few far-away snapshots through the crowds of screaming girls, they went to the Elgin Theatre to try for a better look on the red carpet.

No luck there either.

After a quick bite to eat they went back and sat out behind the theatre to wait for the film to finish -- and sure enough out walked Zac! He stopped and posed for this pic -- and even called her "sweetie".

I'm sure the smile will last a few more weeks.

Tat -- modified

2007-07-08T05:25:00.000-07:00

I've worked in the heraldic cat from the old Thornton family crest -- and tried to put a tiki spin on it.

Thorny Tat

2007-07-07T09:14:00.000-07:00

First pass at tat design.

My take on the Thornton family crest.

TDI PREMIERE

2007-07-07T06:38:00.001-07:00

Sunday night is the premiere of the series I'm co-directing.

8:00 pm -- on TELETOON

TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND

Click above to see our production blog.

Here we go again....

2007-06-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

After dozens of failed attempts at maintaining a blog, I've started up again. Here are some old Flash designs I did a few years back -- The pig and snail were for a Dr. Dolittle series that never went anywhere...

the astronaut ... just a doodle.