Ian Milne

Creatures!!

2011-11-11T18:26:00.000-08:00

Here're two sketches I made while working at VFS. Probably from last year too. Just started going through this years' work/sketches today. Some interesting experiments, more to come!!

Scene Suggestions

2011-11-11T16:35:00.000-08:00

I did a lot of these for the BBC adds. Here are a few. Just brainstorming random scenes to get going. It was fun, people blurting out content and me throwing it into a square on the page haha! Fast and messy!

Thumbnails/Boards

2011-11-11T15:05:00.001-08:00

Here are some thumbnails done for a minute of flash animation I did this May. Tight budget, deadlines, and a small team prevented these from becoming proper boards. And yes there was a planned push in (or something) during the acting, he didn't just grow suddenly : P

BBC Kids_Story Boards

2011-11-11T14:23:00.001-08:00

Busy times. Here are some story boards I did back in April(?) for Motionsoup Studio here in Vancouver http://www.motionsoup.com/.

There were two spots for BBC Kids done in a sketch book cut-out, motion graphic style. The deadline was tight and I didn't get to pose much out for the animators, so the boards were really rough and vauge. Fun times brainstorming.

You can view the finished pieces here:

http://vimeo.com/25219141

http://vimeo.com/25219191

BBC Kids_Story Boards

2011-11-11T13:36:00.000-08:00

2011-11-11T13:21:00.000-08:00

Sketch Book

2011-10-22T14:42:00.000-07:00

Been busy working the last couple months. Finally ,,,, FREE TIME TO DRAW!! woo hoo. here's a couple of experiments done in sketchbook pro. More to come!

Character Animation in Flash

2011-07-24T11:46:00.000-07:00

I did the character animation on this info-mercial for FortisBC a couple months back. Construction worker bacterias! It was around minute of animation in total and done in Flash.

Layout Drawing!

2011-06-30T15:08:00.000-07:00

I'm in between contracts at the mo, and have found myself in Calgary. I'm animating a short hand drawn bit for Quickdraw Animation Studio. Should be done in 3 weeks! Here's a layout drawing !

Pre production illustrations

2011-06-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some pre production illustrations I did for a commercial in March. Been busy doing boards and drawing the last few months! Cooler posts to come I hope!

Some guy

2011-05-04T16:56:00.000-07:00

Been busy doing storyboards for the last couple months. Here's a random character!

Trout Lake

2011-04-07T18:31:00.001-07:00

Went out for a quick sketching sesh at Trout Lake today. This fellow was getting ready for summer.....stick fighting season!

Carnival!

2011-03-28T18:39:00.001-07:00

This weekend I attended a Carnival Party which got me drawing lots of feathered characters. Then this guy appeared.

Spring time is here!

2011-03-27T20:36:00.000-07:00

Another poster for the Puddle City Arts folks! Just in time for spring, which is shaping up to be my best spring so far!

January Poster

2011-03-10T11:45:00.000-08:00

Here's a poster I did for a local open mic night. Always good times with Marc, Nathan and co!

http://www.puddlecityarts.com/

2011-03-07T17:03:00.000-08:00

Here's some design work I was doing for the NFB Hothouse competition. Didn't get in but it was great fun to go through the process as always! : D

Sketches from work....

2011-02-15T13:57:00.000-08:00

Some random sketches from work and a cowboy!

TEDx Georgia Strait

2011-02-10T22:59:00.000-08:00

TEDxGeorgiaStrait - The New Energy 2011 from TEDxGeorgiaStrait on Vimeo.

Here is a 40sec piece I directed for the TEDx Georgia Strait event on FEB 26 here in Vancouver! The theme will be " The New Energy" Good times!

Check it out and attend! http://tedxgeorgiastrait.com/

And and a special thanks to Fiona Rayher for over seeing the production!

Here's the credit list: Thanks so much for the help everyone!

Ian Milne - Direction/Story boards/animation/ Color and Design
Tammy Dubinsky - Background Design
Tzanko Tchankov - Animation
Choom Lam - Cube fx
Michelle Clement- After Effects Compositing
Matt Thomas - Awesome Music!

These fine folks are in my links Check them out!

Run dog Run!

2011-01-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

A rough run cycle I did at work, just for fun. I sure learn a lot at my job! Good times!

2010-12-05T11:45:00.000-08:00

Pose and shape studies done at work

November!

2010-11-17T19:52:00.000-08:00

It's about time to go through the looming pile of paper that's piling up.....in a pile................it's a pile of paper.

Using my other hand..........

2010-11-17T16:43:00.000-08:00

Here is a drawing I did with my left hand. I highly recommend drawing with your "bad" hand, it's great for thinking differently about whatever you're doing. I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that it's not a bad drawing either. The right hand might be a bit jealous. A co worker insisted it looked like OJ Simpson, so I added some gloves. I think it looks a bit like Glen Keane. Go right brain Go! Ramble Ramble Ramble.

New phase of drawing!

2010-11-04T01:52:00.000-07:00

random sketches from work

2010-10-16T23:59:00.000-07:00

MORE MONSTERRRRRRSSSSS!!!!!

2010-10-12T22:09:00.001-07:00

Ooh Dah Llahhhlllleeeeee

MONSTERS!!!

2010-10-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

I need to diversify my monster bonds. They all look the same.

DYNAHSAHHRRRRRSSSS!!!!

2010-09-26T00:51:00.001-07:00

Camouflage wasn't really an issue for these three.
"Eat me! Eat me! Over here!!!"

Cowboy and Monster

2010-09-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

A rough flash experiment. Too bad for Cowboy.

More Stuff out of my head!!! and some people from the beach.

2010-09-15T23:29:00.000-07:00

I want a cintiq.

Screencaps!!!

2010-09-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

Ghostbusters is one of my favorite films. Here are some great Ray Stantz expressions, a great scene of Ray and Peter drinking, and the end of the world exchange with him and Winston.
The trk out at the end of the Ray\Winston scene really emphasizes the dialogue.

http://digitalius.csmalecki.com/ is where I found all these, it's an awesome site!!!! Whoever picks the screen caps there does a good job. Go there now!!!! I brought the shots into P-shop to see them in a more sequential format.

2010-08-31T14:21:00.000-07:00

Here's the second of the Peter Pan illustrations. Not too happy with the line work on this one but it's done now! I do like the color however.

INSPIRATION

2010-08-28T23:42:00.000-07:00

WOW!!!!!!

I spend a fair amount of time checking out artwork of all kinds. This stuff is just plain great.

http://kawaiistudio.blogspot.com/

Lecture!

2010-08-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

Today at work there was an industry lecture given by the recruiter of a local studio. She didn't have the most expressive poses, but given an inch I'll take a mile when it comes to posing. It was a really good lecture too!

Demo Reel

2010-08-24T16:46:00.000-07:00

This is really old stuff but I thought I'd throw it up here anyway just to see some work from Chaotic I did right out of school.

2010-08-05T09:33:00.001-07:00

I love this stuff!

http://www.billdunlap.com/painting/2009.html

Sketchbook .........unload!

2010-07-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

Color Test

2010-07-20T12:51:00.001-07:00

Here's a nice little color test I found.

First time around was 12 (pretty good) then 0 (which is 100%)
I got 100%! Woo!

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

Flash Run Cycle

2010-07-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

Out for a quick jog at lunch.

Contest Submission

2010-06-28T13:14:00.001-07:00

I submitted this leica as part 1 of the Sydney Graphics Animation Competition.

20 sec max

Must contain something 7 yrs

Must have theme of recovery

Must have a yawn.

Needless too say after watching it, the whole thing is on speed. What started out as a whimsical thumbnail sequence turned into a silly 20 sec leica in two days of last minute work. Color would've been nice.

Make sure you vote for me asap! If I win................I get to submit ANOTHER leica of total nonsense that will hopefully explain this ones many lingering questions.

http://play.sydneyoperahouse.com/index.php/graphic/747.html

Life Drawing!

2010-06-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

WHOAAAAA!!!!!

2010-06-14T15:22:00.001-07:00

This is awesome! I think I need to start another blog for cool stuff I find.

http://planetoddity.com/outstanding-lego-steampunk-yacht/

2010-05-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

An illustration I just finished up. It involved Peter Pan.

Color Studies

2010-05-10T18:20:00.000-07:00

Downtime at work.

2010-05-05T08:23:00.001-07:00

This is the USS Macon. It was one of the last air ships built in America that crashed of the coast of California in 1935. Look at the construction scaffolding! AND while in flight it served as a aircraft carrier for smaller bi-planes. Too cool. But huge and impractical. I was amazed by this so I cut it out of the Nat Geo it was in. Ya Airships!

Finally a post!

2010-04-25T17:24:00.000-07:00

Some randoms to keep the blog ......ALIVE!!!!!! : o

: O

2010-01-28T08:46:00.000-08:00

Uh oh! Someone started coloring......
Drawing like your 6 yrs old is awesome.

Merry Christmas?

2010-01-12T09:38:00.000-08:00

Here's a Chrismas card me and some friends from Beard of Moose made at the end of last year. It took a weekend to shoot, good times! A nice little practice peice.

http://bythebeardofmoose.blogspot.com/

People!

2010-01-11T12:00:00.000-08:00

Some Vancouver socialites. Woo.

Monday!

2010-01-11T11:58:00.000-08:00

Some random sketches.

Randoms

2010-01-06T15:26:00.000-08:00

More lines.

REAL people doing REAL things!

2009-11-25T16:52:00.001-08:00

Life drawing from the sea wall and the library. Ya dogs!

Been a while....

2009-11-10T09:44:00.000-08:00

The blog was obviously on hiatus for a wee bit. I've started as a T.A. in the 3D department of the Vancouver Film School, and so far I'm really enjoying it! Here are some recent sketches. Some exploratory thumbnails, and a rendering that somehow materialized during a class. More to come!

Faces!

2009-07-21T18:44:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of portraits out of a National Geographic I had. The older fellow is bigger than my wussy little scanner hence the fragmented result.

Flash Wacky-ness

2009-07-13T13:29:00.000-07:00

Uuuraaaggghhh.

Been a while

2009-07-08T18:24:00.000-07:00

2009-05-22T14:08:00.000-07:00

Playing around in painter a few months ago. Ya lasers.

2009-05-04T10:48:00.000-07:00

There was a protest at the library on Sunday, a good opportunity for observation and life drawing. I spent most of the time just looking but a few drawings came out too. A very interesting situation. I really enjoy watching raw human interaction like this, always inspiring.

Friday Bike Ride...

2009-05-01T17:33:00.000-07:00

Poses from the beach.

2009-04-28T21:52:00.001-07:00

Some drawing I found lying around, and I liked it!

2009-04-20T19:27:00.001-07:00

Thought I'd REALLY try and earn my self assigned blog title.

2009-04-07T21:24:00.000-07:00

Some people from the beach and a dinosaur from my head.

Spring Monsters!

2009-04-04T14:47:00.001-07:00

2009-04-04T09:31:00.001-07:00

Some random sketches from the pool.

2009-04-03T08:07:00.001-07:00

Playing around with spaceship concepts.

Crazy guy!

2009-03-29T14:35:00.000-07:00

Some quick facial expressions I did this morn. Then I drew them. The three with gray hair were some preliminary studies.

Life Drawing Porfolio Update

2009-03-27T08:29:00.000-07:00

A collection of life drawings done over the last 6(ish) months.

Figure Drawing

2009-03-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

Some life drawing from sun/friday. I always like to change my approach when I'm drawing. As a teacher recently told me and I'm para phrasing; "the more ways you have to look at the model, the more tools you have to represent it".Here I was working on being a little more exact with the placement/measurement of things, and, recognizing silhouette by acknowledging under lying structure.

Movie Doodles...

2009-03-22T21:36:00.000-07:00

I was watching the animated version of "Return of the King" today, I really like the design in it, and "The Hobbit". I was drawing randomly as I watched. Some of my favorite drawings are done when you're doing something else at the same time.

Rocks and Stuff!

2009-03-20T18:13:00.001-07:00

Some studies I dug up. Ba-zing.

2009-03-16T22:28:00.000-07:00

A robot drawing from a few months ago.

: o

2009-03-15T22:29:00.000-07:00

Saturday Morning

2009-03-14T09:47:00.001-07:00

Here's a quick one with conte in painter, It's raining out so I think I'll play inside all day. Ya painter!

More Stuff.

2009-03-06T01:00:00.001-08:00

Some hand studies before bed and some thumbnail wackiness from this afternoon.

Characters Galore.

2009-03-04T10:44:00.000-08:00

Before Bed

2009-03-03T23:35:00.000-08:00

Playing in corel painter is my new favorite pass time. There's so many fun tools! Here are couple of tired explorations before bed. Its a shame I can't figure out how to export decent images though. Hooray for computers!

2009-03-03T10:42:00.000-08:00

Sketch Book Randomness.

2009-03-02T18:56:00.000-08:00

Some random faces from a coffee shop and a couple concepts out of the sketch book. I'm thinking it's about time to get all this stuff together into some sort of "portfolio" format.

Sketch Book Stuff

2009-03-02T13:33:00.000-08:00

Some stuff I've done in my spare time. Field studies and tiger/big cat studies. I saw the elephant buying a coffee I swear. It was an americano with 10 000 shots in it. Large mammal strength.

More Random Weirdness...

2009-02-25T18:19:00.001-08:00

More Talking

2009-02-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

Some dialogue done in Flash. The line is from Raiders of the Lost Ark, good times! : D

Shvimming Pool.

2009-02-21T17:55:00.000-08:00

Here are some sketches from the local swimming pool I did today. Shower caps are funny.

Sick at home

2009-02-15T08:39:00.000-08:00

I've had a fever for the last five days.

Keep It Cool Daddy-O

2009-02-10T11:23:00.000-08:00

In regards to the previous post, hooray for felt pens, photoshop and simplicity. On another note (hahahaha) this is for my papa.

2009-02-10T08:17:00.000-08:00

Here's some sea monsters I found lying around. I tried "cleaning them up", which are the smaller drawings, and I think loose their appeal as a result. I find it really difficult to "add" to an idea by defining things like that. I suppose I should just look at what other people have done and learn what aesthetics are.

Morning Monsters!

2009-01-30T11:34:00.000-08:00

There was a rad f-ing dance session at the Cambie last night, I'm pretty sure I saw these folks getting their groove on.

Look!

2009-01-27T18:09:00.001-08:00

I drew this in Corel Painter, super fun.

Ian's Undersea Adventure!.........at the aquarium.

2009-01-27T11:33:00.000-08:00

The Vancouver Aquarium rules!

Phelangarrific.

2009-01-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

These are some hand studies
from the last few months...Good times!

Sunday Life Drawing at VFS

2009-01-12T14:52:00.000-08:00

Filler!

2008-12-11T22:15:00.000-08:00

I felt like putting something on the blog for the sake of putting something on the blog. To quote the Tragically Hip, "No ambition whispering over your shoulder." Yip ee.

Life Drawing

2008-11-23T16:36:00.001-08:00

Here is some work from a life drawing class last week.

Some Animal,

2008-11-17T18:36:00.000-08:00

Here's a gesture out of my head that I liked. Hooray for critters!

Iron Man!

2008-11-12T17:46:00.000-08:00

This ended up as iron man, sort of.

A frustrating last few days.

2008-11-04T22:42:00.000-08:00

It came from the pile.....

2008-10-20T16:10:00.000-07:00

It's Been A While.....

2008-10-15T22:31:00.001-07:00

Well I finally posted something again. Just some random drawings I found. I've been drawing loads but in a lazy "i don't feel like updating my blog so much" sort of way. More to come. : )

Rar!

2008-09-07T21:22:00.000-07:00

Oh ya, it's another one.

Another Monster

2008-09-07T20:59:00.001-07:00

Here's another monster I drew with some color slapped on it. I do mean slapped. Painting and coloring is still a very new concept to me. Yay.

Creature!

2008-08-24T18:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a creature I drew the other day. I forgot how much fun it is to draw from the imagination, something I forget to do sometimes. I used this as a bit of a test for photo shop coloring. More to come, I'm liking the creature concepts.

Exploration.

2008-08-18T23:38:00.000-07:00

Playing with color. Playing helps me learn.