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Valentine's Day!

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

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Santa brought us lightsabers!

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!

Our first vinyl toy is finally here!

Click here to order yours today.

Unhanded

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!!!

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!!

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...

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

sunday night scratch

Portraits

"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

a couple more scribbles

raaaaarrrr!!!

a bit of doodling to loosen up

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

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

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

Thorny Tat

First pass at tat design.

My take on the Thornton family crest.

TDI PREMIERE

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....

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.