Apple Pie Monster

I know I promised some Olympic related art but It will have to wait. I've being quite busy with the current show I'm working on. It is a really nice looking show and I am lucky to be working with a collection of such great artist. The shows trailer will be hitting 7500 theaters in the states.

So what does this have to do with the soccer guys, well nothing except I haven't had time do do any art expect this Apple Pie Monster. A few coworkers thought it would be fun to do 30 days of monsters, well that was 3 weeks ago and so far this is all I have to show. (Like I said busy show) I wanted to have him at a family picnic but the perspective didn't match any of the pictures I found so we get this.

Cheers!

Man-Lady

I did this handsome woman on the back of one of my sons drawings by accident. That explains the blue and red. Pencil on paper.

Bird Miner!

Here is another quick sketch done with marker.

I am pretty busy these days wraping up another symester of teaching at VanArts and ramping up on a Dreamworks/Fox show that will air on TBS. Were using Harmony for the production it is new to me and defiantly interesting. I'll hold of any thoughts about what I think at this point... I do miss the familiarity of Flash.

With the Olympics starting tomorrow I should probably draw something on the subject so check back.

Sketchs

It's been a while so once again I'm putting up a quick sketch. I saw the dude on the right when I was picking up sushi.
I was watching the cartoon "Inspector Gadget" the a few weeks ago and I thought the bad guys had a cool body shape. Thats the starting point for the guy on the left. Colours aren't at all final. Thought it would be fun to animate a character with that body type.

Racing Ahead

The new year has defiantly started out with a bang! I've started a part time Maya course at the school I teach at, Van Arts. At first I thought that modeling in 3d would be necessary chore too learn if I was going to make my own 3d stuff. But it is supper fun!

On top of that, I'm teaching my self Toon Booms Animate Pro! Which is going to be rad as well. So you won't be getting anything completely finished for a while.

I don't know what to call the process for how I came up with this guy. I start with shape in mind and start laying down light pencil and see where it take me. At one point early on it was some kind of Mec. Until I put exhaust pipes on, now it is a Racing Chicken!

Platypus

Finally 2010! Things were crazy for the last month so I didn't have time to finish anyting so check out something unfinished.

Often the only time I get to draw purely for fun is with my kids. It is fun to grab one of their giant markers and not worry about any of the "rules" and just go to town.

Usually when I draw like a this I just go at it with the darkest marker I can find. This time I had a short I'm working on in mind so rough these out a bit with yellow first. I'm currently thumbnailing the story so It'll be a while yet.

The one in the middle at the bottom is probably closest too the direction I am going. Not only dose the dude on the right look like duck, he looks like the ones from Kung Fu Panda. (Well a deformed, driven over cousin.) So he gets the moustache.

Animate Pro!

Here is the first thing I've created using Animate Pro. He is the first pass of a design for a little bit of some animation I'd like too do. You get a screen shot because I could not get a decent picture from the learning edition.

I roughed him out on paper, and cleaned him and coloured him in the program. So far I really like Animate pro. After doing some of the tutorials and watching some more advanced examples online I'm pretty excited to learn more.

Just having the colours linked to the swatch was great. Saving gradients! Not having to deal with sync like in flash! And don't forget about Z-depth!

I should have lots of fun animating in it, once I figure out a few more things.

Barber Shop Sketch

My wife had to pick up some fabric for our youngest's stocking. (She has hand quilted one for each of our 3 boys) So I while she was in the store I was in the car and took the opportunity to sketch this Barber Shop. It is actually the one I remember my Dad taking me to when I was a kid.

I spent under five minutes on it. I wish I had a little more time with it. Enjoy!

Happy Holidays!

My eldest son thought that Elves were called Christmas Goblins, so here is my take. I drew this Christmass Goblin in SketchBook Pro and coloured him in Photoshop. The background picture I found on the net and tweaked it in Photoshop to match.

Flamingo with colour!

First finished piece of art for a project I am slowly working on.
More of a concept than anything else. Fun too do.

Goat type of Guy

Drawing with the kids and came up with this guy.

Old Man

We were walking home from picking up my eldest son, and had my youngest tucked away in his buggy. It was raining and had the cover pulled over so he was leaning forward poking his head out and this popped into my head. So enjoy.

Picking Teeth

This was one of the first scenes I tried using Maya. Keeping the finger stuck in the teeth became a problem. I learnt quite a lot, and I think it is kinda funny even if it isn't finished.

Zekes Pad wip.

This is a little work in progress (work not going to be done actually).
Character and what not are from Zekes Pad

Real Live Drawings!!

Here are some good old Pencil drawings. I did these at the kitchen table while teaching
my kids how to draw. The Rhino and the Bird are some early experiments with an idea I'm developing.

New Demo Reel

Here is my new Demo Reel!

For a high res please email me at dennislevesque@gmail.com

I animated everything on the reel. Expect for the "quote buy print" shot,

I was only responsible for the girl on the right with the paint brush.

Stag Shirt

A friend of mine had a stag a few weeks ago. Here is a shirt that I did for him!

Eye Guy

While cleaning up my computer, I found this little diddy. I did it as an example of eye blink and comps for a Van Arts class.

Meeting Sketch

Meeting Sketching. I like to sketch with a black pen when I can, not worry about
all the "how to draw" stuff in my head.

Digital Post It Note

Cintiqs are awesome! Especially with (dare I say) Vista. It has digital yellow post it notes, which are yet just as fun to draw on and equally distracting.

Man and a girl, with a monkey.

Little doodle on real live paper! Through the monkey on as an after thought.
Carry on.

Super Hero

I find that I slow down around 2 o'clock everyday.
So I filled that by doing this quick super hero.

Sketches

These are all done just for fun. They are all digital!

Red Neck

Tired Guy

Under Attack

Have had this image in my head for a couple days now... Now its out!

RED NECK

Another abandoned piece

My First Bonsai

Start and a Finish...

Fun with Photoshop

I was just fooling around in photoshop for 2 or three minutes, here is the result!!!

Not exactly what I was going for but close.

I don't know if I have posted this one or not. But it is awesome so I thought I would post it again.

Esurance

I did some work for WildBrain a little while ago. My producer just sent me an email showing what it looked like on the San Francisco Giants Jumbotron!



Check out the how small the people are on the bottom right!

Fat Dancer

Well, this one I drew a while ago, and then tried some Photoshop to colour it. No Dice. I don't want to look at it anymore. So you can instead.

medieval Year book 2

Here is another Yearbookish photo from the medieval ages.




Thanks David Gangon for the Photoshop help.

Kids Drawings

Erin and the boys came and vissited at work a while ago. I set the boys up on my Cintiq and they loved it.

Top one is Toms, bottom is Noahs.

Year book photo from the Middle Ages

burt tree

After, my soy charade I didn't feel like working so I did this little picture of a burnt tree.

Erins First RAD Animation!!!!

Check out Erins Animation. Pretty cool eh? Good story!

WIP 2

So here is another one. I figured out how to lock the shot camera which was cool because I kept moving it by accident. Once that was locked I decided to tweak the posses and timing a bit. Next step the fun part.

3d work in progress

Bardel is teaching some of us 3d in the evening. Here is a work in progress that I am doing. I am amazed at how much control you have over subtleties of the animation and at the same time how little control (in my limited understanding) you have over the spacing/ timing.

Burning tree. logo idea?

Troll with axe

Quick little sketch that I did, didn't quite get the mood I wanted. But I needed to get back to work.!!!

Here part, a big part why I am the luckiest guy!

Turtle face

bald dude

long neck dude

I am working on little thing here is one of the first drawings, quick one on my fancy Cintiq

blob monster

Fun little sketch, started as some blobs.

Old sketch

Here is an old drawing I found in the depths of
my computer! ewww... depths

Pirate and Bunny

Some drawings I did while I was waiting for work to be handed out!