Music Video Shoot: The Apollo Effect

CLICK HERE FOR GALLERY.Bryan Belanger-Diaz invited me to PA for a day for his new video for the indie rock band The Apollo Effect. Last year he did a video for them and dropped by the shoot and found it fun to be on set with camera and crew. I jumped on the chance to be involved again. With the recent experience with the Aylmer Tomato...

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Reel Asian 09!

Click on HERE for more pictures from Reel Asian!So far so good! Film finally screened, got to meet very talented filmmakers and creative individuals. and I got to walk on a red carpet! So weird! But fun!More pics to come from the rest of the weeke...

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Original Jolly Melancholies!

This was my first foray into old men in animated short film! Made in '06, it was part of my Fine Arts thesis regarding sentimentality and mundanity. My final film was a multi-framed window of various banal activities an retired man would preoccupy himself in his later years... (ex. eating cereal alone, reading a book, pleasing...

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Try the Sauce! Tomato Sauce Campaign

UPDATE:CLICK HERE FOR PRODUCTION PHOTOSThe site is finally up!I did storyboards, motion graphics, concept development and assisted directed for Billie Mintz as the director and main man on this Aylmer Sauce Campaign! It was a crazy fun experience! Hope you enjoy the vids.Click on the image to s...

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See my Short Film at Reel Asian! Nov 13 1pm. NFB Mediatheque!

You can find a gallery of how I made my film HereThe gallery also includes picture of other assignments I worked on with my friends Louis Yeum and Wayne Yum.It's been a long year but an eventful one for sure. Taking time off from computer animation to study film at Ryerson has been one of the most scariest but exciting decisions of my...

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Chicken Jam

Here's another clip of the chicken animation.Working out the kinks of the rig. There has been issues w/ the hair joint, and wing.More to co...

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Chicken Jam

Sorry for the lateness of my post, I've been tied up with film class making a documentary,based on the music group Kaminari, you can check them out here. Their music is a crazy fusion of traditional world folk instruments and electronica.In the meantime right now what I've been meaning to show you is my update on the chicken Jam...

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Bock Kaw! Chicken Jam

So this blog is getting pretty stale with in terms of what the hell I've been doing lately,so I've decided to keep you posted on what I've been doing lately:http://tais.ca/chickenjam.htmlThe Toronto Animated Image Society does yearly animation jams. Last year it was monsters. This year, it's chickens! Bock Kaw! Convenient. I'm born on the...

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OMG It's been 2 years.

Well, save 1 day. Tommorrow would be officially the 2 year anniversary of me posting anything on my blog. It's 2009 now, and what can be said about this Title? The Victory Lap... Not so sure if it should be called that... its original meaning was to imply:A victory lap (also lap of honor) is a term used in motorsports to describe...

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