New T8 Illustration

This one took a little longer than I thought it would. I made it entirely in photoshop using a tablet and found images (the bike tire is a squished tractor tire for example) i'm pretty happy with how it came out but want to try and get back to using physical media in my next projects.

creator's blog

http://www.thecreatorsblog.com/ is an offshoot of my tower 8 project. I'm posting a making of vid for one of my recent animations "Prelude" there which sadly just might be more interesting than the video itself.

Portfolio Site!

I finished making a portfolio site that has a lot of the work I've been doing recently. It's at
www.dannycannizzaro.com

illustrations

concepts for a short ad:

Prelude

Tower 8 has a new video up here. It's a mix of live action video with ink and stop motion animation.

Tower8 animation #2

I'm still gathering props and scouting locations for my second animation for tower 8. This one's gonna use a lot more film and stop motion animation as a base with subtler effects and compositing. here's a couple of concepts from a scene that takes place inside a classroom desk's book space.

tower8 at last!

Finaly finished my animation and launched the website. check it out at www.tower8.net

"an expanding narrative told through animation, music, comics and art. In the future the oceans recede leaving the world with too many inhabitants and too little watter. Adding to the chaos is the appearance of new powers among the people: creativity has become a physical force"

My partners and I also have a blog devoted to just the making of this project at www.thecreatorsblog.com

eat pes

www.eatpes.com has some of the best stop motion shorts i've ever seeen. amazingly inventive. I really want to try and incorporate more out of context objects in my work. whimsy whimsy whimsy

buenos aires collages

I've gone away from photographic collages like these ones from a couple years ago in my work recently. I think its poorer for it. I want to work from material and collage rather than create images out of nothing like i've been doing for the characters in my recent animation. next animation i do i'm gonna film people and puppets and go from there

eggies

the big one pt.2

still from when the roadie falls. I cobbled together a swimming animation from the hand drawn dive bit and some cutout motions then mixed them with the 3d bunny and water effects.


last still from roadie falling sequence.

the big one

Its been a long time coming, but these are the latest from my ALMOST finished animation. look for tower 8 to go live early august. These images are collaged from hand drawn ink, paint, photoshop, 3d maya renders, video, photos... you name it

meowp

these were sketched out with pen and ink then scanned and colored with a tablet. They're of the characters from my animated band, tower 8.

more posts coming!

been hard at work on a lot of new art and animation. check back for much more frequent updates

layouts!

back in gear

I spent this weekend working on a new scene in the animation (brief clip here) and Gavin got a plugin working that helps sync movement to the beat. Next stop, rotoscoping.

Animation Update

Here's one more piece of concept art from the animation I'm working on with Gavin Brown, Mike Ashton, and Sadie Barchini. We're all back at school now so we're starting in earnest. We'll be getting credit for it as an independent study. Check out Gavin's fabulous newest mix of one of the band's songs.

Skyrocket Post Mortem

I just realized that the website I designed for the band Skyrocket has gone off the air. I'm putting it here for posterity and to showcase the nifty mechanical design. This was the first flash website i ever made. You can still also see their purevolume page (which 30,000 people have visited to hear the music) at www.purevolume.com/skyrocket. Gavin, the lead singer from Skyrocket, is writing and producing the music for my current animation project.

more concept art

concept art

now to make it move pt.3

it moves! quicktime file here

bouncy sony commercial

My modern culture and media class just introduced me to a great blog www.boingboing.net where i found this ad.
keep in mind, I've always loved bouncy balls, I tried this on a much smaller scale at six flags magic mountain. I think I had around 150 though, instead of the 250,000 of them were used to make this. atleast people got to wander through my creation. http://www.bravia-advert.com/

now to make it move pt.2

I've simplified the layers and added some color...tonight i'll tighten it up some more and begin to make the ship walk through the scene.

now to make it move

finished a bunch of pen and ink art and am now attempting to animate it, I'll post the results next week

concept sketches

Two quick drawings of ideas for an animation I'm just starting using children's rhymes and sampled video...more to follow

skyrocket album art

made for the band skyrocket's new cd, secrets.
I also designed the website here.

old site

The previous version of this site was my first big foray into flash...so here's a link to it in all its glory: www.dannyuncanny.com/oldsite.html

saint me

A couple of photocollaged self portraits. Yay for religious iconagraphy!

animation to be pt. 2

more pics of the same character

playing with maya

these are my maya women...a bit lumpy and strange. I did manage to get them rigged and posable... I might make a short with one in the future. I cant quite get the arms and helmet to flow in the way I'd like

animation to be

I know there's a story with this character and the world I've built for him... still trying to sort it all out.